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Paul Scofield
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21 January 1922 - 19 March 2008
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Paul Scofield was born in Hearstpierpoint, England. He appeared on the stage at the age of fourteen, but made his professional debut in 1944 in Birmingham. Since then, Scofield has become one of the finest and most revered actors in the classical repertoire, preferring an in-depth intellectual introspection and noble restraint to a declamation style. He played film roles a little, as a rule, “suits” or in the film adaptations of his plays. Nevertheless, his German officer from Frankenheimer's film
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Paul Scofield was born in Hearstpierpoint, England. He appeared on the stage at the age of fourteen, but made his professional debut in 1944 in Birmingham. Since then, Scofield has become one of the finest and most revered actors in the classical repertoire, preferring an in-depth intellectual introspection and noble restraint to a declamation style.
He played film roles a little, as a rule, “suits” or in the film adaptations of his plays. Nevertheless, his German officer from Frankenheimer's film The Train (1964) is remembered.
His main role in the film was Thomas More from the adaptation of the play by R. Bolt “A Man for All Seasons” (A Man for All Seasons, 1966), restrained, noble, subtly sensitive, but unusually firm when it comes to loyalty to the principles of life for which he is ready to die. This role earned Scofield an Oscar.
Captured on film and his “King Lear” (King Lear, 1969-1971), created in the epochal play of Peter Brook, where the protagonist is represented by the hero of an existential tragic grotesque.
The once unforgettable stage Hamlet himself, in the 1990 film of the same name Zefirelli, he already played the role of a ghost.
Died March 19, 2008