A Corpse For All Seasons
Or
No More Sir Thomas
Paul Scofield, one of the greatest Shakespearean actors of our time, bard none, has died at the age of 86. In the lineage of great British actors, he was the link from Laurence Olivier and John Gielgud to Hugh Grant and Orlando Bloom. In his distinguished career, he acted with some of the giants of the 20th century: Olivia De Haviland, Katherine Hepburn, Daniel Day Lewis, and George Gaynes, Police Academy’s Commandant Lassard. Scofield won both the Best Actor Tony in 1962 and the Best Actor Oscar in 1968 as Sir Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons, and became the 6th man to win acting’s Triple Crown with the Best Actor Emmy for Male of the Species. Scofield trod the stage as Henry V, Othello, Hamlet and King Lear, in a performance considered the greatest in any Shakespeare play in a poll of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He also created the role of Salieri in the stage production of Amadeus. More recently, he played Mark Van Doren, father of disgraced game show boy Charles Van Doren in 21, scoring a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination, the ghost in Franco Zefferelli’s Hamlet and Judge Thomas Danforth in The Crucible.
Ern’s Closing Soon at a Theater Near You stages a rally with the solo hit and moves into 8th place.
March 19 marked the 4th double hit day of the 2007-08 GHI.
No More Sir Thomas
Paul Scofield, one of the greatest Shakespearean actors of our time, bard none, has died at the age of 86. In the lineage of great British actors, he was the link from Laurence Olivier and John Gielgud to Hugh Grant and Orlando Bloom. In his distinguished career, he acted with some of the giants of the 20th century: Olivia De Haviland, Katherine Hepburn, Daniel Day Lewis, and George Gaynes, Police Academy’s Commandant Lassard. Scofield won both the Best Actor Tony in 1962 and the Best Actor Oscar in 1968 as Sir Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons, and became the 6th man to win acting’s Triple Crown with the Best Actor Emmy for Male of the Species. Scofield trod the stage as Henry V, Othello, Hamlet and King Lear, in a performance considered the greatest in any Shakespeare play in a poll of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He also created the role of Salieri in the stage production of Amadeus. More recently, he played Mark Van Doren, father of disgraced game show boy Charles Van Doren in 21, scoring a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination, the ghost in Franco Zefferelli’s Hamlet and Judge Thomas Danforth in The Crucible.
Ern’s Closing Soon at a Theater Near You stages a rally with the solo hit and moves into 8th place.
March 19 marked the 4th double hit day of the 2007-08 GHI.
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