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Paul Scofield
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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 Outs…
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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.
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Paul Scofield's Filmography
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Discovering Hamlet
as The Ghost (archive footage)
Kurosawa
as Kurosawa (voice)
Animal Farm
as Boxer (voice)
No Poster
Rashi: A Light After The Dark Ages
as Narrator (voice)
Robinson in Space
as Narrator (voice)
The Crucible
as Judge Thomas Danforth
No Poster
The Little Riders
as Grandpa Roden
Genesis: The Creation and the Flood
as Narrator (voice)
Quiz Show
as Mark Van Doren
London
as Narrator (voice)
Utz
as Dr. Vaclav Orlik
Hamlet
as The Ghost
Henry V
as French King
When the Whales Came
as The Birdman
The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank
as Otto Frank
Mister Corbett's Ghost
as Mr. Corbett
Nineteen Nineteen
as Alexander Scherbatov
No Poster
Summer Lightning
as Old Robert Clarke
Anna Karenina
as Karenin
A Kind of Alaska
as Dr. Hornby
The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel
as Narrator (voice)
A Song At Twilight
as Hugo Latymer
Come Into The Garden Maud
as Verner Conklin
The Potting Shed
as James Califer
The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
as Narrator (voice)
The Ambassadors
as Lewis Lambert Strether
A Delicate Balance
as Tobias
Scorpio
as Sergei Zharkov
Surrender To Everest
as Narrator
The Hotel in Amsterdam
Bartleby
as The Accountant
King Lear
as King Lear
The Red Tent
as Main Judge (uncredited)
Male of the Species
as Sir Emlyn Bowen, Q. C.
Tell Me Lies
A Man for All Seasons
as Thomas More
The Train
as von Waldheim
Carve Her Name with Pride
as Tony Fraser
That Lady
as King Philip II of Spain