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Paul Scofield
David Paul Scofield was an English actor. During a six-decade career, Scofield achieved the Triple Crown of Acting, winning an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Tony Award for his work. Completing the feat in just seven years, no actor has achieved the Triple Crown faster than Scofield. He is celebrated for his reputation as one of the greatest Shakespearean performers. He declined the…
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entertainment · English actor (1922–2008) · voice actor · stage actor · film actor · television actor · actor · theatre manager · director · also Paul Scofield, David Paul Scofield, David Scofield, Scofield
Born 21 January 1922 · Died 19 March 2008 · Q223988
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2026· 5 entries
“Connor, that his upbringing was divided. His father was an Anglican and his mother a Roman Catholic. Baptised into his mother”
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“some days we were little Protestants and, on others, we were all devout little Catholics.”
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Public attention spiked: 3,599 Wikipedia readers in one day, 9.4× the usual 384, with 0 article edits.
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The New York Times: Paul Scofield
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2019· 1 entry
BroadwayWorld: Paul Scofield News
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2008· 12 entries
The Hollywood Reporter: Oscar-winning actor Paul Scofield dies
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AV Club: Paul Scofield RIP
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Digital Spy: Paul Scofield dies, aged 86
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seattlepi.com: Paul Scofield was 'A Man for All Seasons'
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The Hour: Paul Scofield, Oscar-winning film, stage actor, 86
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Died 2008-03-19.
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“It isn't difficult to leave King Lear or Macbeth, but once you have gone back to yourself, you want it to be the same self you have always been.”
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“As you get older, the more you know, so the more nervous you become. The risks are much bigger.”
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“I decided a long time ago I didn’t want to be a star personality and live my life out in public. I don’t think it’s a good idea to wave personality about like a flag and become labeled.”
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“King Lear is undoubtedly the greatest play ever written by Shakespeare — or anybody else for that matter. Hamlet is certainly great, but it doesn't contain as many elements of humanity as we see in Lear.”
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“I found at this point that effective acting wasn't what I wanted to do, that I didn't want to make effects, that I wanted, as it were, to leave an impression of a particular kind of human being.”
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“As an actor I don't admit to any limitations. In rehearsal one comes up against apparently insuperable barriers, but if one can imaginatively get past them, overreach one's natural reach, it is astonishing how elastic one can become. I've got to go not so far as I can, but as far as is needed. It's up to somebody else to say if I've made a fool of myself.”
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2004· 1 entry
A poll of actors of the Royal Shakespeare Company, including Ian McKellen, Donald Sinden, Janet Suzman, Ian Richardson, Antony Sher and Corin Redgrave, acclaimed Scofield's Lear as the greatest Shakespearean performance
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1997· 1 entry
Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for The Crucible (1997).
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1972· 1 entry
The Hamburg-based Alfred Toepfer Foundation awarded Scofield its annual Shakespeare Prize
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1969· 2 entries
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie (1969).
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Scofield became the sixth performer to win the Triple Crown of Acting, winning an Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for Male of the Species
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1968· 1 entry
1974, and 1987), but was appointed CBE in 1956 and became a CH in 2001
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1967· 4 entries
Awarded Academy Award for Best Actor for A Man for All Seasons (1967).
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for A Man for All Seasons (1967).
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Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for A Man for All Seasons (1967).
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“On being told that he had won an Oscar for Best Actor (1967)”
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1965· 1 entry
And enthusiastically agreed, the studio did not wish to cast Scofield as the lead
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1964· 1 entry
Scofield acted in the John Frankenheimer war film The Train alongside Burt Lancaster
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1962· 1 entry
Awarded Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play (1962).
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1961· 2 entries
Scofield explained, "Output in the theatre requires greater energy than anything else I know
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Scofield wrote, "I don't have a psychological approach to acting; fundamentally, I have an intuitive approach
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1948· 1 entry
Scofield appeared as Hamlet at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford alongside a then unknown Claire Bloom as Ophelia
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1943· 1 entry
“Joy and I simply decided to be married. We were both of age and were determined. Any doubts from our families were overruled, and they were the usual ones – too young, etc. We had a week out at the end of The Moon Is Down tour, married during that week, and went straight into the Whitehall Theatre.”
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1940· 1 entry
With a debut performance in American playwright Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms at the Westminster Theatre, and was soon being compared to Laurence Olivier
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1939· 1 entry
Scofield left school at the age of seventeen and began training at the Croydon Repertory Theatre
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1922· 1 entry
Born 1922-01-21.
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