Paul Scofield
Nascimento : 1922-01-21, Hurstpierpoint, West Sussex, England, UK
Morte : 2008-03-19
História
David Paul Scofield CH CBE (21 January 1922 – 19 March 2008) was an English actor. During a seven-decade career, Scofield achieved the Triple Crown of Acting, winning an Academy Award, Emmy, and Tony for his work. He won the three awards in a seven-year span, the fastest of any performer to accomplish the feat.
Scofield received Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play at the 1962 Tony Awards for portraying Sir Thomas More in the Broadway production of A Man for All Seasons. Four years later, he won the Academy Award for Best Actor when he reprised the role in the 1966 film adaptation, making him one of nine to receive a Tony and Academy Award for the same role. His Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie was achieved for the 1969 television film Male of the Species.
Preferring the stage to the screen and putting his family before his career, Scofield nonetheless established a reputation as one of the greatest Shakespearean performers. Among other accolades, his performance as Mark Van Doren in Quiz Show (1994) earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor and he won Best Actor in a Supporting Role at the BAFTA Awards for portraying Thomas Danforth in The Crucible (1996). Scofield declined the honour of a knighthood, but was appointed CBE in 1956 and became a Companion of Honour in 2001.
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The Ghost (archive footage)
Journey into "Hamlet"-the play and the man-through the experiences of some of the major actors and directors who have brought Shakespeare's great tragedy to life. Christopher Plummer, David Tennant, John Nettles, John Simm, Sir Trevor Nunn, Franco Zeffirelli, Philip Saville, and others explore the enduring appeal of the Prince of Denmark more than 400 years after his stage debut.
Kurosawa (voice)
Documentary on film maker Akira Kurosawa
Boxer (voice)
Os animais de uma fazenda se revoltam com sucesso contra seu dono humano, apenas para deslizar para uma tirania mais brutal entre eles.
Narrator (voice)
A winemaker overcomes the ignorance and illiteracy of his era to become a Torah commentator who defends the right to spiritual choice and freedom in the 11th century.
Narrator (voice)
Robinson is commissioned to investigate the unspecified "problem of England." The narrator describes his seven excursions, with the unseen Robinson, around the country. They mainly concentrate on ports, power stations, prisons, and manufacturing plants, but they also bring in various literary connections, as well as a few conventional landscapes.
Judge Thomas Danforth
Em Salem, Massachusetts, 1692, algumas jovens fazem "feitiços". Uma delas, Abigail Williams, tinha se envolvido com seu patrão John Proctor, mas após o fim do caso foi despedida. Assim, desejava a morte de Elizabeth Proctor, a esposa deste. Elas são descobertas no seu "ritual" e, acusadas de bruxaria, provocam uma histeria coletiva que atinge várias pessoas, sendo que Abby, a jovem desprezada por John, faz várias acusações até ver Elizabeth ser atingida.
Grandpa Roden
Young American Joanne Hunter is stranded in the German-occupied Holland with her Dutch grandparents. The German CO, Captain Kessel begins to wage war on the village's morale, and Joanne's house must quarter another German officer, Lt. Braun, who finds himself torn between his duty and distaste of Kessel's methods. When Kessel threatens the lead statues of 16th-century freedom fighters in the town clock, Joanne and her grandparents rally the villagers to save Kirkendam's "little riders".
Der alte Mann
Uma escuridão envolvente. De repente, a voz de uma criança, assustada, perguntando, projeta-se na escuridão...Raios enfraquecidos de luz começam a esculpir formas misteriosas no meio da escuridão... Entre eles, um ancião. Ele conforta a criança, exortando-a a ver as maravilhas da terra. E é com os olhos desta criança que testemunhamos a criação do Mundo.A natureza se faz viva com o primeiro raio de luz do amanhecer, recriando os sete dias da Criação. Seguindo cada passo de seus primeiros personagens Adão e Eva e seus filhos Caim e Abel, que causaram a ira de Deus levando-o a começar tudo outra vez. O sol novamente nasce. Uma pomba carrega um galho de oliveira. Noé traz em sua arca a esperança de uma nova vida, sinal de aliança com Deus.
Mark Van Doren
Programa de perguntas e respostas na TV, nos anos 1950, é investigado e se descobre que, visando a audiência, produtores passam a dar as respostas a um jovem de família rica, que passa a ganhar de um rapaz judeu muito mais inteligente.
Narrator (voice)
A psycho-geographic journey through London and its history, as undertaken by an unseen narrator and his companion, Robinson, at the time of the 1992 general election.
Dr. Vaclav Orlik
Hugh Whitemore adapted Bruce Chatwin's novel for this tale of a New York antique dealer who travels to Prague to buy the porcelain collection of the late Baron Utz, only to become embroiled in the wreckage of the dead man's unusual life history after he discovers that the collection is missing.
The Ghost
Hamlet (Mel Gibson), Príncipe da Dinamarca, retorna ao seu país-natal quando seu pai, o rei, morre. Ao chegar, já encontra sua mãe (Glenn Close) casada com seu tio (Alan Bates), que se tornara rei. Mas logo o fantasma do pai de Hamlet surge e conta ao filho que seu tio e sua mãe o tinham assassinado. Hamlet passa então a ser atormentado pela decisão de vingar a morte do pai ou ter uma atitude passiva em relação ao fato.
French King
O Rei Henrique V da Inglaterra é insultado pelo Rei da França. Por consequência, ele lidera seu exército contra os franceses, o que faz com que ele tenha que estar em constante atenção para deixar suas tropas motivadas e unidas.
The Birdman
A pair of children befriend an eccentric old man, who lives isolated on the far shore of their island home. But it turns out that the old man knows a terrible secret about the island and the whales who sometimes come. Meanwhile WWI is making life hard in the village.
Otto Frank
During the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam, Otto Frank decides to hide his family, who are Jewish, after his daughter Margot is called to appear for transport to a Nazi labour camp. Miep Gies, Otto Frank's office assistant hides them in the attic above the office. The film tells the true story of Gies' struggle to keep the family hidden and safe, as the Nazis turn Amsterdam upside-down. Based upon Gies' memoirs and Anne Frank's famous diary.
Mr. Corbett
Mr Corbett is a cruel employer to Ben Partridge. One night on New Years Eve Ben is sent out to deliver some medicine. Along the way he wishes his master was dead, little knowing that the man he is delivering to is the Collector of Souls.
Alexander Scherbatov
Two former patients of Sigmund Freud meet again and discuss their psychiatric treatment 65 years earlier.
Old Robert Clarke
Sir Robert Clarke looks back on his life and the summer when as a 16-year-old he first fell in love with Louise St. Leger.
Karenin
Tragic Anna leaves her cold husband for dashing Count Vronsky in 19th-century Russia.
Dr. Hornby
A masterly study of a middle-aged woman waking up after 30 years passed in a coma induced by sleeping sickness. In her mind she is still 16, and her attempts to fathom the changed world into which she re-emerges is not only poignant and emotionally charged but, in the end, devastatingly brilliant theatre as well.
Narrator (voice)
Made a year after Luis Buñuel's death in 1983 this is an illuminating portrait of the surreal and visionary director, featuring clips, archival interviews, and commentary from scholars and contemporaries including Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey, and Jeanne Moreau. Directed by Anthony Wall with readings from Buñuel's autobiography by Paul Scofield. Six trims to meet copyright restrictions.
Hugo Latymer
A writer's past comes to haunt him when his ex-mistress visits.
Verner Conklin
A henpecked American visiting Europe is able to throw off his ghastly wife and find love.
Narrator (voice)
Egyptologist Robin Ellis and American reporter Eva Marie Saint uncover King Tut's burial site but wealthy profiteer Raymond Burr tries to make sure that the valuable artifacts in its chambers never leave the country.
Tobias
Uma família abastada de Connecticut é derrubada quando os padrinhos da filha adulta, tomados por um terror inominável, decidem vir morar com eles. Em Connecticut, Agnes e Tobias são um casal de classe alta, cuja relação tem sido desconfortável por muitos anos, desde pelo menos o tempo em que seu filho morreu; mas eles conseguiram encontrar um certo padrão confortável de inquietação. A irmã de Agnes, Claire, mora com eles e insiste que seu costume de sempre beber não é alcoolismo, mas obstinação. Sua filha, Julia, prestes a ter seu quarto divórcio, voltou para casa. Inesperadamente, seu quarto foi tomado por Harry e Edna, melhores amigos de Tobias e Agnes que assolados por um terror sem nome que os expulsou de sua própria casa, decidiram ficar com os amigos. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
Sergei Zharkov
Cross is an old hand at the CIA who often teams up with Frenchman Jean “Scorpio” Laurier, a gifted freelance operative. After their last mission together, the CIA orders Scorpio to eliminate Cross, leaving him no choice but to obey.
King Lear
King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear's loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar. Madness and tragedy befall both ill-starred fathers.
Three couples planning their secret weekend away are exposed.
The Accountant
An asocial and enigmatic office clerk refuses to do his work, leaving it up to his boss to decide what should be done with him.
Main Judge (uncredited)
Dilacerado por culpa pessoal o general italiano Umberto Nobile relembra sua fracassada expedição ao Ártico, em 1928, a bordo do avião Itália, do acidente e dos esforços de resgate subsequentes. Os 'fantasmas' de pessoas envolvidas nos eventos aparecem em suas memórias para ajudá-lo a determinar sua culpa no caso. As reminiscências são misturadas com a ação real: o voo do 'Itália', a operação de resgate aéreo do aeródromo de Kings Bay e a expedição do quebra-gelo 'Krassin'. (e 10 - Estimado 10 Anos)
Sir Emlyn Bowen, Q. C.
Never trust a man whoever he is. This is the bitter lesson learned by Mary MacNeil in her relationships with three different men: her father, a mendacious womanizer; a smooth-talking office flirt, Cornelius; and an aging barrister, Emlyn, who is enchanted by Mary's youthful vitality and charm.
Adapted and directed by Peter Brook from the Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘production-in-progress US’, this long-unseen agitprop drama-doc – shot in London in 1967 and released only briefly in the UK and New York at the height of the Vietnam War – remains both thought-provoking and disturbing. A theatrical and cinematic social comment on US intervention in Vietnam, Brook’s film also reveals a 1960s London where art, theatre and political protest actively collude and where a young Glenda Jackson and RSC icons such as Peggy Ashcroft and Paul Scofield feature prominently on the front line. Multi-layered scenarios staged by Brook combine with newsreel footage, demonstrations, satirical songs and skits to illustrate the intensity of anti-war opinion within London’s artistic and intellectual community.
Thomas More
Na Inglaterra do século XVI, Henrique VIII (Robert Shaw) planeja se separar de sua primeira esposa para se casar com Ana Bolena (Vanessa Redgrave), mas não recebe a aprovação de Thomas More (Paul Scofield), um fervoroso católico que se tornou Lord Chanceler, um altíssimo posto que ele preferiu renunciar a trair suas convicções. Entretanto, a importância de Sir Thomas é tão grande que mesmo após sua renúncia o rei continua lhe perseguindo. Até que surgem “provas” que o incriminam como alta traição, um crime punido com a morte.
von Waldheim
Em 1944, um coronel alemão carrega um trem com tesouros de arte francesa para enviar para a Alemanha. A resistência deve pará-lo sem danificar a carga. Quando as forças aliadas se aproximam de Paris em agosto de 1944, o coronel alemão von Waldheim está desesperado para levar todas as maiores pinturas da França para a Alemanha. Ele consegue um trem para transportar as valiosas obras de arte, mesmo com o caos da retirada. A resistência francesa, no entanto, quer impedi-los de roubar seus tesouros nacionais, mas receberam ordens de Londres de que não devem ser destruídas. O chefe da estação, Labiche, tem a tarefa de agendar o trem e fazer tudo acontecer sem problemas, mas ele também faz parte de um grupo cada vez menor de combatentes da resistência encarregados de impedir o roubo. Ele e outros armam um estratagema elaborado para impedir que o trem saia do território francês.
Tony Fraser
Londres, Inglaterra, durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Após uma trágica experiência de vida, a jovem Violette Szabo se junta ao Executivo de Operações Especiais e atravessa as linhas inimigas alemãs como agente secreto para ajudar um grupo da Resistência francesa.
King Philip II of Spain
In 1570, widowed Princess Ana de Mendoza becomes the love object of a deadly rivalry between her cousin Don Inigo, King Philip II of Spain and his secretary of state Antonio Perez.
