Paul Scofield

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1922 age 0

   Born

2. 1958 age 36

   CreditCarve Her Name with Pride

3. 1964 age 42

   CreditThe Train

4. 1966 age 44

   CreditA Man for All Seasons

5. 1973 age 51

   CreditScorpio

6. 1985 age 63

   CreditAnna Karenina

7. 1989 age 67

   CreditHenry V

8. 1990 age 68

   CreditHamlet

9. 1994 age 72

   CreditGenesis: The Creation and the Flood

   CreditQuiz Show

10. 1996 age 74

    CreditThe Crucible

    CreditThe Little Riders

11. 2008 age 86

    Died

• IHIan Holm2 titles
• EMEnnio Morricone2 titles
• PDPhyllis Dalton2 titles
• MMMichael Maloney2 titles
• BLBurt Lancaster2 titles
• SDStephen Dillane1 title
• PVPeter Vaughan1 title
• KRKali Rocha1 title
• DJDerek Jacobi1 title
• CBChristian Bale1 title

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• If you want a title, what's wrong with Mr? If you have always been that, then why lose your title? <br> I have a title, which is the same one that I have always had.<br>But it's not political. I have a CBE, which I accepted very gratefully.

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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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• 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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• 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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• Oh, I suppose my wife and I will open a bottle of champagne with another couple.

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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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