Paul Scofield

...the good of the arts world, and over the years the winners have included Michael Tippett, Dame Ninette de Valois, David Lean, Paul Scofield, Harold Pinter, Alfred Brendel, Judi Dench, Tom Stoppard, Mike Leigh, Helen Mirren and Peter...

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...Ben Kingsley and Patrick Stewart. He introduced Glenda Jackson to the theatre in 1962. His famous productions include Hamlet with Paul Scofield, Marat/Sade, Oedipus with John Gielgud, and The Mahabharata. His book The Empty Space about...

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...I have seen since the war. Immediately I must add that it carries in it a defect which seems to me personally a serious one; Mr Paul Scofield does not touch my heart through my ear. What a musician would call phrasing is largely absent, and...

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..."The King and I" (featured Tony in 1952, lead Oscar in 1956), Rex Harrison for "My Fair Lady" (Tony in 1957, Oscar in 1964), Paul Scofield for "A Man for All Seasons" (Tony in 1962, Oscar in 1966), Jack Albertson for "The Subject Was Roses"...

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Good examples are Robert Bolt's 1960 play, "A Man for All Seasons," and the 1966 movie that Fred Zinnemann based on it, both with Paul Scofield, as a saintly More, and Leo McKern, as Cromwell, the very picture of skulking evil. Shortly...

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All anyone really knows about him now is that he was a good egg, put God before his king and bore a striking resemblance to Paul Scofield. But this is not the real issue. For while these novels are unreliable sources of history they can be...

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...will switch to Maida Vale for the night. BBC Radio 7 will play archive recordings from the studios such as Don Quixote starring Paul Scofield and Bob Hoskins and a Doctor Who drama starring Jon Pertwee. Tim Davie, director of BBC audio...

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...from that immortal trio, but no. I'm reasonably confident that I worded it, "Do you have a personal favorite? " "Yes," he said. "Paul Scofield. " He was not alone in that. Many, lucky enough to have seen the superb Scofield in his great...

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In 2001, however, he was named a Companion of Honor, one of the country's top honors and limited to 65 living people. David Paul Scofield was born Jan. 21, 1922, the son of a village schoolmaster in Hurstpierpoint, eight miles from the...

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...director of Britain's National Theatre. "All the pride he has is channeled through the thing that he does brilliantly." David Paul Scofield was born Jan. 21, 1922, son of the village schoolmaster in Hurstpierpoint, 8 miles from the south...

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