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Known For
Acting
Birthday
January 21, 1922
Died
March 19, 2008
Place of Birth
Hurstpierpoint, West Sussex, England, UK
Paul Scofield
0.4 Popularity
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.
Known For
7.0
The Ghost (archive footage)
Discovering Hamlet
2011
6.7
Kurosawa (voice)
Kurosawa
2000
5.7
Boxer (voice)
Animal Farm
1999
🎬
1.0
Narrator (voice)
Rashi: A Light After The Dark Ages
1999
6.9
Narrator (voice)
Robinson in Space
1997
6.6
Judge Thomas Danforth
The Crucible
1996
🎬
0.0
Grandpa Roden
The Little Riders
1996
7.5
Old Martin Chuzzlewit
Martin Chuzzlewit
1994
6.2
Narrator (voice)
Genesis: The Creation and the Flood
1994
7.3
Mark Van Doren
Quiz Show
1994
Credits
Discovering Hamlet
as The Ghost (archive footage)
2011
7.0
Kurosawa
as Kurosawa (voice)
2000
6.7
Animal Farm
as Boxer (voice)
1999
5.7
🎬
Rashi: A Light After The Dark Ages
as Narrator (voice)
1999
1.0
Robinson in Space
as Narrator (voice)
1997
6.9
The Crucible
as Judge Thomas Danforth
1996
6.6
🎬
The Little Riders
as Grandpa Roden
1996
0.0
Martin Chuzzlewit
as Old Martin Chuzzlewit
1994
7.5
Genesis: The Creation and the Flood
as Narrator (voice)
1994
6.2
Quiz Show
as Mark Van Doren
1994
7.3
London
as Narrator (voice)
1994
6.6
Utz
as Dr. Vaclav Orlik
1992
5.4
Mel Gibson Goes Back to School
as The Ghost (archive footage)
1991
0.0
Hamlet
as The Ghost
1990
6.6
Henry V
as French King
1989
7.1
When the Whales Came
as The Birdman
1989
6.4
The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank
as Otto Frank
1988
6.5
Mr. Corbett's Ghost
as Mr. Corbett
1987
5.0
Nineteen Nineteen
as Alexander Scherbatov
1985
1.0
🎬
Summer Lightning
as Old Robert Clarke
1985
2.0
Anna Karenina
as Karenin
1985
6.0
A Kind of Alaska
as Dr. Hornby
1984
6.0
The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel
as Narrator (voice)
1984
7.0
A Song At Twilight
as Hugo Latymer
1982
7.0
Come Into The Garden Maud
as Verner Conklin
1982
0.0
The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
as Narrator (voice)
1980
4.3
The Ambassadors
as Lewis Lambert Strether
1977
0.0
A Delicate Balance
as Tobias
1973
6.3
Scorpio
as Sergei Zharkov
1973
6.1
The Hotel in Amsterdam
1971
0.0
Bartleby
as The Accountant
1970
6.1
King Lear
as King Lear
1970
6.6
The Red Tent
as Main Judge (uncredited)
1969
5.9
Male of the Species
as Sir Emlyn Bowen, Q.C.
1969
1.0
Male of the Species
as Sir Emlyn Bowen, Q. C.
1969
5.5
Tell Me Lies
1968
6.3
A Man for All Seasons
as Thomas More
1966
7.3
The Train
as von Waldheim
1964
7.5
Carve Her Name with Pride
as Tony Fraser
1958
5.8
That Lady
as King Philip II of Spain
1955
6.0
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Narrator (voice)
1951
8.6