Paul Scofield, Oscar-winning actor, has died – Times Online
Sorry to have another obit but this is an actor I’ve always admired from when I first saw A Man For All Seasons to Martin Chuzzlewit and The Crucible.
Scofield’s presence was described as “monumental but reassuring” and his voice compared variously to a Rolls-Royce being started up and a sound rumbling up from an antique crypt.In his private life he avoided both the limelight and the party circuit, preferring instead to walk, ride and cycle around the area where he lived in Balcombe, West Sussex.He also savoured the wind and rain in his holiday home on a Scottish island. As the headlines once put it, he was “a very private actor”.
My kind of actor, my kind of person.
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Musings from Sumigirl 
March 28, 2008 at 8:21 pm
I loved Scofield. I was saddened that every obit I saw mentioned Quiz Show almost as an aside. He was nominated for an Oscar in that role and there’s one bit of dialogue near the end, when his son, Charles Van Doren, reveals he got the answers.
Scofield’s finesse was in the delivery of the same line twice:
“They gave you the answers?” (pause) “They gave you the answers?”
Wow. So much said in 10 words.
Thanks for the post.