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Paul Scofield
Born David Paul Scofield 21 January 1922(1922-01-21) Sussex, England
Died 19 March 2008 (aged 86)
Spouse(s) Joy Parker (1943-2008)
Awards won
Academy Awards
Best Actor 1966 A Man for All Seasons
BAFTA Awards
Best Newcomer 1955 That Lady Best Actor 1967 A Man for All Seasons Best Supporting Actor 1996 The Crucible
Emmy Awards
Outstanding Leading Actor - Miniseries/Movie 1969 Male of the Species
Golden Globe Awards
Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama 1967 A Man for All Seasons
Tony Awards
Best Leading Actor in a Play 1962 A Man for All Seasons
David Paul Scofield, CH, CBE (21 January 1922 – 19 March 2008) was an award-winning English actor of stage and screen. Noted for his distinctive voice and delivery, Scofield won both an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for his role as Sir Thomas More in the 1966 film A Man for All Seasons. He had previously originated the role in the stage version both in the West End and on Broadway, winning a Tony Award.
Contents
1 Biography
1.1 Early life 1.2 Career 1.3 Personal life
2 Filmography 3 Television 4 Discography 5 References 6 External links
Biography
Early life David Paul Scofield was born in Hurstpierpoint, Sussex, He went up to Oxford in 1939 where he famously shared digs with Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin
Career An actor of extraordinary intelligence, Scofield was noteworthy for his striking presence and distinctive voice, and for the clarity and unmannered intensity of his delivery. His versatility at the height of his career is exemplified by his starring roles in theatrical productions as diverse as the musical Expresso Bongo (1958) and Peter Brook's celebrated production of King Lear (1962). In a career mainly devoted to the classical theatre, he starred in many plays by Shakespeare and played the title role in Ben Jonson's Volpone in Peter Hall's production for the Royal National Theatre (1977). Highlights of his career in modern theatre include the roles of Sir Thomas More in Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons (1960), Charles Dyer in Dyer's play Staircase, staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1966, the definitive Laurie in John Osborne's A Hotel in Amsterdam (1968), and Antonio Salieri in the original stage production of Peter Shaffer's Amadeus (1979). He was subsequently the voice of the Dragon in another play by Robert Bolt, a children's drama The Thwarting of Baron Bolligrew. Expresso Bongo, Staircase and Amadeus were filmed with other actors, but Scofield starred in the screen versions of A Man for All Seasons (1966) and King Lear (1971). Other major screen roles include Strether in a 1977 TV adaptation of Henry James's novel The Ambassadors, Professor Moroi in the film of János Nyíri's If Winter Comes (1980), for BBC Television, Mark Van Doren in Robert Redford's film Quiz Show (1994), and Thomas Danforth in Nicholas Hytner's film adaptation (1996) of Arthur Miller's The Crucible. Scofield was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1956 New Year Honours. Scofield also appeared in many radio dramas for BBC Radio 4, including in later years plays by Peter Tinniswood - On the Train to Chemnitz (2001) and Anton in Eastbourne (2002). The latter was Tinniswood's last work and was written especially for Scofield, an admirer of Anton Chekhov.
Personal life Scofield married actress Joy Parker in 1943. and Sarah (born 1951). He declined the offer of a knighthood on three occasions, but was appointed CBE in 1956 and became a Companion of Honour in 2001. Scofield died on 19 March 2008 at the age of 86 at a hospital near his home in Sussex, England from leukemia.
Filmography
Year Title Role Notes
1955 That Lady King Philip II of Spain
1958 Carve Her Name with Pride Tony Fraser
1964 The Train Col. von Waldheim
1966 A Man for All Seasons Sir Thomas More Academy Award for Best Actor BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
1970 Bartleby The Accountant
1971 King Lear King Lear
1973 A Delicate Balance Tobias
Scorpio Zharkov
1983 Ill Fares the Land voice
1984 Summer Lightning Old Robert Clarke
1985 Anna Karenina Karenin TV role
1919 Alexander Scherbatov
1989
Henry V Charles VI of France
1990 Hamlet The Ghost
1992 Utz Doctor Vaclav Orlik
1994 Quiz Show Mark Van Doren Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination
1996 The Crucible Judge Thomas Danforth BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
1997 Robinson in Space Narrator
1999 Animal Farm Boxer voice
Television
Year Title Role Notes
1969 Male of the Species
Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
1980 If Winter Comes Professor Moroi
1981 The Potting Shed James Callifer
1985 Anna Karenina Karenin
1987 Mister Corbett's Ghost Mr. Corbett
1988 The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank Otto Frank
1989 When the Whales Came The Birdman
1994 Genesis: The Creation and the Flood
Martin Chuzzlewit Old Martin Chuzzlewit/Anthony Chuzzlewit BAFTA TV Award Best Actor nomination
1999 The Disabled Century
Discography Paul Scofield led the cast in the Shakespeare Recording Society versions of King Lear, Hamlet and A Midsummer Night's Dream, and in other dramas issued by Caedmon Records:
King Lear, directed by Howard Sackler (Text edited by G.B. Harrison), with Pamela Brown (Goneril), Rachel Roberts (Regan), Ann Bell (Cordelia); Wallace Eaton (France), John Rogers (Burgundy), Trevor Martin (Cornwall), Michael Aldridge (Albany), Andrew Keir (Kent), Cyril Cusack (Gloucester), Robert Stephens (Edgar), John Stride (Edmund), Ronnie Stevens (Fool); Arthur Hewlett (Curan, Doctor), Ronald Ibbs (Gentleman, Knight), Willoughby Goddard (Oswald). Eight sides, SRS 233 (first published 1965). Hamlet, directed by Howard Sackler, (Unabridged), with Diana Wynyard (Queen), Roland Culver (Claudius), Donald Houston (Laertes), Zena Walker (Ophelia), Wilfrid Lawson. Eight sides, SRS 232 (first published 1963). A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Howard Sackler, with Barbara Jefford, Joy Walker, John Stride, etc. Six sides, SRS 208 (first published 1964). T.S. Eliot, The Family Reunion, with Flora Robson, Sybil Thorndike, Alan Webb. Six sides, TRS 308. Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, with Ralph Richardson. (Caedmon)
Also:
King Lear, with Harriet Walter (Goneril), Sara Kestelman (Regan), Emilia Fox (Cordelia), Alec McCowen (Gloucester), Kenneth Branagh (Fool), David Burke, Richard A. McCabe, Toby Stephens, etc. Released 2002 to concide with Scofield's 80th birthday. (Naxos Audiobooks, 3CD set). Vergil, The Aeneid, Paul Scofield (narrator), Jill Balcon and Toby Stephens (readers). (Naxos Audiobook CD). T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land and Four Quartets (BBC Radiobooks CD). Sandor Marai, Embers (Penguin Audiobooks) - Narrator With David Suchet and Ron Moody, Scofield led the cast of a radio dramatization of the Narnia books by C.S. Lewis, which are available as CD issues. (Tynedale Entertainment) Scofield recorded abridged readings of Dickens's A Christmas Carol and Bleak House (Blackstone Audiobooks). Façade (Sitwell-Walton), performed by Paul Scofield and Peggy Ashcroft, with London Sinfonietta conducted by William Walton. (Argo Records, 1972)
References
^ a b c Film Reference biography. Access date: 16 November 2007.
External links
Paul Scofield at the Internet Movie Database Paul Scofield Websites at Filmbug BBC News Interview-Paul Scofield, A Man For All Seasons Obituary in The Times, 20 March 2008
Awards
Preceded by Zero Mostel for Rhinocéros Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play 1962 for A Man for All Seasons Succeeded by Arthur Hill for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Preceded by Lee Marvin for Cat Ballou Academy Award for Best Actor 1966 for A Man for All Seasons Succeeded by Rod Steiger for In the Heat of the Night
Preceded by Oskar Werner for Ship of Fools NYFCC Award for Best Actor 1966 for A Man for All Seasons Succeeded by Rod Steiger for In the Heat of the Night
Preceded by Richard Burton for The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role 1967 for A Man for All Seasons Succeeded by Spencer Tracy for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Preceded by Melvyn Douglas for Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role 1969 for Male of the Species Succeeded by Peter Ustinov for A Storm in Summer
Preceded by Tim Roth for Rob Roy BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role 1997 for The Crucible Succeeded by Tom Wilkinson for The Full Monty
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