Robert Bolt

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1924 age 0

   Born

2. 1962 age 38

   CreditLawrence of Arabia

   CreditLawrence of Arabiascreenwriter

3. 1965 age 41

   CreditDoctor Zhivagoscreenwriter

4. 1966 age 42

   CreditA Man for All Seasonsscreenwriter

5. 1970 age 46

   CreditRyan's Daughterscreenwriter

6. 1986 age 62

   CreditThe Missionscreenwriter

7. 1995 age 70

   Died

• MJMaurice Jarre3 titles
• DLDavid Lean3 titles
• FYFreddie Young3 titles
• AGAlec Guinness2 titles
• OSOmar Sharif2 titles
• JGJack Gwillim2 titles
• RRRobert Riettii2 titles
• PDPhyllis Dalton2 titles
• NSNorman Savage2 titles
• LMLeo McKern2 titles

• Spouse

  • SMSarah Miles

Nothing recorded for: Partner, Parents, Children, Siblings, Influenced by, Studied under, Taught.

• Roper: So now you&rsquo;d give the Devil benefit of law?<br>More: Yes.&ensp;What would you do?&ensp;Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?<br>Roper: I&rsquo;d cut down every law in England to do that!<br>More: Oh?&ensp;And, when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you&thinsp;&ndash;&thinsp;where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat?&ensp;This country&rsquo;s planted thick with laws from coast to coast&thinsp;&ndash;&thinsp;man&rsquo;s laws, not God&rsquo;s&thinsp;&ndash;&thinsp;and, if you cut them down&thinsp;&ndash;&thinsp;and you&rsquo;re just the man to do it&thinsp;&ndash;&thinsp;d&rsquo;you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then?&ensp;Yes, I&rsquo;d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety&rsquo;s sake.

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• Roper: This was not practical; this was moral!<br>More: Oh, now I understand you, Will. Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learned from books.

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• Cromwell: You brought yourself to where you are now.<br>More: Yes. Still, in another sense, I was brought.

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• Cromwell: The King's a man of conscience and he wants either Sir Thomas More to bless his marriage or Sir Thomas More destroyed.<br>Rich: They seem odd alternatives, Secretary.<br>Cromwell: Do they? That's because you're not a man of conscience. If the King destroys a man, that's proof to the King that it must have been a bad man, the kind of man a man of conscience ought to destroy — and of course a bad man's blessing's not worth having. So either will do.

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• More: I will not take the oath. I will not tell you why I will not.<br>Norfolk: Then your reasons must be treasonable!<br>More: Not "must be;" may be.<br>Norfolk: It's a fair assumption!<br>More: The law requires more than an assumption; the law requires a fact.

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• Norfolk: I'm not a scholar, as Master Cromwell never tires of pointing out, and frankly I don't know whether the marriage was lawful or not. But damn it, Thomas, look at those names... You know those men! Can't you do what I did, and come with us for friendship?<br>More: And when we stand before God, and you are sent to Paradise for doing according to your conscience, and I am damned for not doing according to mine, will you come with me, for friendship?<br>Cranmer: So those of us whose names are there are damned, Sir Thomas?<br>More: I don't know, Your Grace. I have no window to look into another man's conscience. I condemn no one.<br>Cranmer: Then the matter is capable of question?<br>More: Certainly.<br>Cranmer: But that you owe obedience to your King is not capable of question. So weigh a doubt against a certainty — and sign.<br>More: Some men think the Earth is round, others think it flat; it is a matter capable of question. But if it is flat, will the King's command make it round

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