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Jun 7, 2011 · In 2004 The Daily Telegraph published a survey in which RSC actors voted for the greatest Shakespeare performance in history. It wasn’t exactly a scientific poll, but the result was clear, and not unexpected. The winner was Paul Scofield in King Lear.
Scofield established a reputation as one of the greatest Shakespearean performers. He declined the honour of a knighthood, but was appointed CBE in 1956 and became a CH in 2001. Scofield received the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for portraying Sir Thomas More in the Broadway production of A Man for All Seasons (1962).
Mar 20, 2008 · In 2004, Scofield's portrayal of King Lear in 1962 was voted the greatest performance in a Shakespeare play by a panel of Royal Shakespeare Company actors, including Sir Ian McKellen, Ian...
Mar 21, 2008 · Paul Scofield, one of the giants of the British stage who won an Academy Award for his portrayal of Sir Thomas More in the 1966 film “A Man for All Seasons,” has died. He was 86.
May 6, 2020 · The leading classical actor of his generation, Paul Scofield CH CBE (21 January 1922 – 19 March 2008) is most widely remembered for his Academy, Golden Globe, and BAFTA Award- winning performance as Sir Thomas More in the 1966 film A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS.
Through the 1980s, Scofield did a mix of TV and film on both sides of the Atlantic. But he was drawn back to Shakespeare and filming efforts, though in humbler parts, first in the Henry V (1989) of ambitious Kenneth Branagh , as the French king, and, the next year, in the Franco Zeffirelli , Hamlet (1990) , as "The Ghost" - with the real buzz ...
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Scofield declined the honour of a knighthood on three occasions, [32] [60] but was appointed CBE in 1956 and became a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour in 2001. [61] In 1972, the Hamburg-based Alfred Toepfer Foundation awarded Scofield its annual Shakespeare Prize.
