Paul Scofield
Biography
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Paul Scofield, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Personal Details
Movies (38)
Discovering Hamlet
as The Ghost (archive footage)
2011
Kurosawa
as Kurosawa (voice)
2000
Animal Farm
as Boxer (voice)
1999
Rashi: A Light After The Dark Ages
as Narrator (voice)
1999
Robinson in Space
as Narrator (voice)
1997
The Crucible
as Judge Thomas Danforth
1996
The Little Riders
as Grandpa Roden
1996
Genesis: The Creation and the Flood
as Narrator (voice)
1994
Quiz Show
as Mark Van Doren
1994
London
as Narrator (voice)
1994
Utz
as Dr. Vaclav Orlik
1992
Hamlet
as The Ghost
1990
Henry V
as French King
1989
When the Whales Came
as The Birdman
1989
The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank
as Otto Frank
1988
Mr. Corbett's Ghost
as Mr. Corbett
1987
Nineteen Nineteen
as Alexander Scherbatov
1985
Summer Lightning
as Old Robert Clarke
1985
Anna Karenina
as Karenin
1985
A Kind of Alaska
as Dr. Hornby
1984
The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel
as Narrator (voice)
1984
A Song At Twilight
as Hugo Latymer
1982
Come Into The Garden Maud
as Verner Conklin
1982
The Potting Shed
as James Califer
1981
The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
as Narrator (voice)
1980
The Ambassadors
as Lewis Lambert Strether
1977
A Delicate Balance
as Tobias
1973
Scorpio
as Sergei Zharkov
1973
The Hotel in Amsterdam
1971
Bartleby
as The Accountant
1970
King Lear
as King Lear
1970
The Red Tent
as Main Judge (uncredited)
1969
Male of the Species
as Sir Emlyn Bowen, Q. C.
1969
Tell Me Lies
1968
A Man for All Seasons
as Thomas More
1966
The Train
as von Waldheim
1964
Carve Her Name with Pride
as Tony Fraser
1958
That Lady
as King Philip II of Spain
1955
