LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Paul Scofield: Man For All Seasons
built 199 days ago
Paul Scofield is an Academy Award-winning actor, for his portrayl of Sir Thomas More in the 1966 film A Man for All Seasons (having previously played the part on stage). Scofield supplied the voice of Boxer in the Creature Shop TV movie Animal Farm.
Source:
Paul Scofield has made a distinguished contribution to film, stage and television with a series of hallmark performances over some six decades. These include his original appearance as King Lear in Peter Brook’s production in the 1960s which toured widely, was filmed and recorded; the role of Sir Thomas More in the film of The Man for All Seasons, and the title role of Martin Chuzzlewit in the BBC television adaptation.
Source:
Paul Scofield (1922-) played Lear in Peter Brooks' 1971 filmed production. Scofield is well known to audiences as an 1966 Best Actor Oscar winner for "A Man for All Seasons" and Ralph Fiennes' father in "Quiz Show."
Source:
While his rough facial features prevented him from becoming a movie matinee idol along the lines of Laurence Olivier, Scofield has always been welcome in his extremely infrequent film appearances. His first picture was That Lady (1955), for which he won a Most Promising Newcomer British Academy Award for his portrayal of King Philip II of Spain. In 1966, Scofield gained international film stardom -- and won an Academy Award -- for recreating his Tony-winning Broadway portrayal of Sir Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons. Further acclaim greeted the actor for his work in films such as Kenneth Branagh's Henry V (1989) and Franco Zeffirelli's Hamlet (1990). In 1994, at the age of seventy-two, Scofield was once again nominated for an Oscar, this time for his performance as American poet Mark Van Doren in director Robert Redford's Quiz Show. Two years later, audiences could see him in The Crucible, lending somber authority to the role of Judge Danforth.
Source:
A classically trained actor who first appeared onstage at the age of 14, Scofield has made very few films during his long career. He first played the part of the martyr Sir Thomas More in the original London stage production of A Man for All Seasons (1960) and then reprised the role on Broadway in 1961, winning a Tony award for his dramatic performance. Although most of the performers in the film version of the play were stage-trained, Scofield was one of the few to be re-creating his role. The movie cast includes such accomplished screen scene-stealers as Orson Welles, Robert Shaw, and John Hurt (in one of his first films), but Scofield's quiet dignity and subtle, introspective performance are mesmerizing. He was nominated for an Oscar a second time for his supporting role in Quiz Show (1994).
Source:
Scofield won the Academy Award for Best Actor for A Man for All Seasons and was nominated as Best Supporting Actor for Quiz Show. Theatrical accolades include a Tony Award for A Man for All Seasons . In 2004 a poll of actors of the Royal Shakespeare Company, including Ian McKellen, Donald Sinden, Janet Suzman, Ian Richardson, Anthony Sher and Corin Redgrave, acclaimed his Lear as the greatest Shakespearean performance ever.[4]
Source:
MORE ABOUT
Man For All Seasons