Cast & creator
Paul Scofield
Best known for BBC Play of the Month, Playhouse, Playhouse
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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film credits
9
television credits
48
1951–2011 · acting roles
6.5
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (48)
Showing 48 of 48 credits
BBC Play of the Month
Lewis Lambert Strether
1965
Playhouse
Verner Conklin
1974Playhouse
Sir Hugo Latymer
1974
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Sir Emlyn Bowen, Q.C.
1969ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Laurie
1969
A Man for All Seasons
Thomas More
1966
The Crucible
Judge Thomas Danforth
1996
Martin Chuzzlewit
Old Martin Chuzzlewit / Anthony Chuzzlewit
1994
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Narrator (voice)
1951
Quiz Show
Mark Van Doren
1994
King Lear
King Lear
1970
Mister Corbett's Ghost
Mr. Corbett
1987
Henry V
French King
1989Celebrity Playhouse
James Callifer
1981
The Train
von Waldheim
1964
Hamlet
The Ghost
1990
Animal Farm
Boxer (voice)
1999
Male of the Species
Sir Emlyn Bowen, Q.C.
1969
Scorpio
Sergei Zharkov
1973
The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
Narrator (voice)
1980
Carve Her Name with Pride
Tony Fraser
1958
The Red Tent
Main Judge (uncredited)
1969
Bartleby
The Accountant
1970
A Song At Twilight
Hugo Latymer
1982
Kurosawa
Kurosawa (voice)
2000
Genesis: The Creation and the Flood
Narrator (voice)
1994
When the Whales Came
The Birdman
1989
The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank
Otto Frank
1988
That Lady
King Philip II of Spain
1955
Tell Me Lies
1968
Come Into The Garden Maud
Verner Conklin
1982
Male of the Species
Sir Emlyn Bowen, Q. C.
1969
A Kind of Alaska
Dr. Hornby
1984
Discovering Hamlet
The Ghost (archive footage)
2011
The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel
Narrator (voice)
1984
A Delicate Balance
Tobias
1973
Utz
Dr. Vaclav Orlik
1992
Nineteen Nineteen
Alexander Scherbatov
1985
The Ambassadors
Lewis Lambert Strether
1977Rashi: A Light After The Dark Ages
Narrator (voice)
1999
The Hotel in Amsterdam
1971
Anna Karenina
Karenin
1985
The Potting Shed
James Califer
1981
Surrender To Everest
Narrator
1971The Little Riders
Grandpa Roden
1996
Robinson in Space
Narrator (voice)
1997
London
Narrator (voice)
1994Summer Lightning
Old Robert Clarke
1985