David Paul Scofield CH CBE (21 January 1922 – 19 March 2008) was an English actor. During a seven-decade career, Scofield achieved the Triple Crown of Acting, winning an Academy Award, Emmy, and Tony for his work. He won the three awards in a seven-year span, the fastest of any performer to accomplish the feat.
Scofield received Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play at the 1962 Tony Awards for portraying Sir Thomas More in the Broadway production of A Man for All Seasons. Four years later, he won the Academy Award for Best Actor when he reprised the role in the 1966 film adaptation, making him one of nine to receive a Tony and Academy Award for the same role. His Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie was achieved for the 1969 television film Male of the Species.
Preferring the stage to the screen and putting his family before his career, Scofield nonetheless established a reputation as one of the greatest Shakespearean performers. Among other accolades, his performance as Mark Van Doren in Quiz Show (1994) earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor and he won Best Actor in a Supporting Role at the BAFTA Awards for portraying Thomas Danforth in The Crucible (1996). Scofield declined the honour of a knighthood, but was appointed CBE in 1956 and became a Companion of Honour in 2001.
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Paul Scofield Biography / Wiki
| Name | Paul Scofield |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Hurstpierpoint, West Sussex, England, UK |
| Date of Birth | 1922-01-21 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 86 |
| Deathday | 2008-03-19 |
Paul Scofield Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| A Man for All Seasons | Thomas More | 1966-12-13 | A depiction of the conflict between King Henry VIII of England and his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas More, who refuses to swear the Oath of Supremacy de… |
| King Lear | King Lear | 1971-02-04 | King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youn… |
| Robinson in Space | Narrator (voice) | 1997-01-10 | Robinson is commissioned to investigate the unspecified “problem of England.” The narrator describes his seven excursions, with the unseen Robinson, a… |
| A Kind of Alaska | Dr. Hornby | 1984-12-16 | A masterly study of a middle-aged woman waking up after 30 years passed in a coma induced by sleeping sickness. In her mind she is still 16, and her a… |
| When the Whales Came | The Birdman | 1989-03-28 | A pair of children befriend an eccentric old man, who lives isolated on the far shore of their island home. But it turns out that the old man knows a … |
| Bartleby | The Accountant | 1970-10-30 | An asocial and enigmatic office clerk refuses to do his work, leaving it up to his boss to decide what should be done with him…. |
| The Little Riders | Grandpa Roden | 1996-03-23 | Young American Joanne Hunter is stranded in the German-occupied Holland with her Dutch grandparents. The German CO, Captain Kessel begins to wage war … |
| Mr. Corbett’s Ghost | Mr. Corbett | 1987-12-31 | Mr Corbett is a cruel employer to Ben Partridge. One night on New Years Eve Ben is sent out to deliver some medicine. Along the way he wishes his mast… |
| Nineteen Nineteen | Alexander Scherbatov | 1985-11-14 | Two former patients of Sigmund Freud meet again and discuss their psychiatric treatment 65 years earlier…. |
| Come Into The Garden Maud | Verner Conklin | 1982-07-07 | A henpecked American visiting Europe is able to throw off his ghastly wife and find love…. |
| London | Narrator (voice) | 1994-06-03 | A psycho-geographic journey through London and its history, as undertaken by an unseen narrator and his companion, Robinson, at the time of the 1992 g… |
| The Train | von Waldheim | 1964-09-24 | As the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, German Colonel Von Waldheim is desperate to take all of France’s greatest paintings to Germany. He… |
| Carve Her Name with Pride | Tony Fraser | 1958-02-18 | London, England, during World War II. After living a tragic life experience, young Violette Szabo joins the Special Operations Executive and crosses t… |
| A Delicate Balance | Tobias | 1973-11-12 | In their nice Connecticut home, Agnes and Tobias have grown used to the imperfection and fragility of their marriage. Quietly nursing their grief over… |
| The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank | Otto Frank | 1988-04-17 | During the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam, Otto Frank decides to hide his family, who are Jewish, after his daughter Margot is called to appear for tran… |
| Summer Lightning | Old Robert Clarke | 1985-05-30 | Sir Robert Clarke looks back on his life and the summer when as a 16-year-old he first fell in love with Louise St. Leger…. |
| Quiz Show | Mark Van Doren | 1994-08-25 | Lawyer Richard Goodwin discovers that ‘Twenty-One’, a successful TV quiz show, is rigged and decides to expose the team behind the show…. |
| Scorpio | Sergei Zharkov | 1973-04-11 | Cross is an old hand at the CIA who often teams up with Frenchman Jean “Scorpio†Laurier, a gifted freelance operative. After their last mission t… |
| Kurosawa | Kurosawa (voice) | 2000-12-24 | Documentary on film maker Akira Kurosawa… |
| That Lady | King Philip II of Spain | 1955-05-11 | In 1570, widowed Princess Ana de Mendoza becomes the love object of a deadly rivalry between her cousin Don Inigo, King Philip II of Spain and his sec… |
| Anna Karenina | Karenin | 1985-01-01 | Tragic Anna leaves her cold husband for dashing Count Vronsky in 19th-century Russia…. |
| A Song At Twilight | Hugo Latymer | 1982-07-09 | A writer’s past comes to haunt him when his ex-mistress visits…. |
| Rashi: A Light After The Dark Ages | Narrator (voice) | 1999-01-01 | A winemaker overcomes the ignorance and illiteracy of his era to become a Torah commentator who defends the right to spiritual choice and freedom in t… |
| Male of the Species | Sir Emlyn Bowen, Q. C. | 1969-01-03 | Never trust a man whoever he is. This is the bitter lesson learned by Mary MacNeil in her relationships with three different men: her father, a mendac… |
| Hamlet | The Ghost | 1990-12-19 | Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the throne, and plans revenge…. |
| Utz | Dr. Vaclav Orlik | 1992-03-15 | Hugh Whitemore adapted Bruce Chatwin’s novel for this tale of a New York antique dealer who travels to Prague to buy the porcelain collection of the l… |
| The Crucible | Judge Thomas Danforth | 1996-11-27 | A Salem resident attempts to frame her ex-lover’s wife for being a witch in the middle of the 1692 witchcraft trials…. |
| The Hotel in Amsterdam | 1971-01-02 | Three couples planning their secret weekend away are exposed…. | |
| Henry V | French King | 1989-10-05 | Gritty adaption of William Shakespeare’s play about the English King’s bloody conquest of France…. |
| Animal Farm | Boxer (voice) | 1999-10-03 | An animated film from 1999 based on the famous novel by George Orwell. Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in… |
| Genesis: The Creation and the Flood | Der alte Mann | 1994-09-16 | An all-enveloping darkness. Suddenly, a child’s voice, frightened, questioning, pierces the darkness… The first flickering rays of light begin to sc… |
| Tell Me Lies | 1968-02-02 | Adapted and directed by Peter Brook from the Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘production-in-progress US’, this long-unseen agitprop drama-doc – sh… | |
| The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel | Narrator (voice) | 1983-10-26 | Made a year after Luis Buñuel’s death in 1983 this is an illuminating portrait of the surreal and visionary director, featuring clips, archival inter… |
| The Red Tent | Main Judge (uncredited) | 1969-12-23 | Torn by personal guilt, Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic expedition aboard the airship Italia…. |
| The Curse of King Tut’s Tomb | Narrator (voice) | 1980-05-08 | After an archeological expedition discovers the tomb of the Egyptian king Tutankhamen, many of the scientists, engineers and workmen begin mysteriousl… |
| Discovering Hamlet | The Ghost (Archival Footage) | 2011-11-01 | Journey into “Hamlet”-the play and the man-through the experiences of some of the major actors and directors who have brought Shakespeare’s great trag… |
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