DENCH LEADS TRIBUTES TO LATE ACTOR SCOFIELD

Last updated: Friday, March 21, 2008

DENCH LEADS TRIBUTES TO LATE ACTOR SCOFIELD

DAME JUDI DENCH has led the tributes to late Oscar-winning actor PAUL SCOFIELD who died on Thursday (20Mar08).

DAME JUDI DENCH and PAUL SCOFIELD

The English star of screen and stage - who won an Academy-Award in 1966 for his portrayal of Sir Thomas More in A Man For All Seasons - died after a long battle with leukaemia. He was 86.

Dench - who starred with Scofield in Kenneth Branagh's 1989 Oscar-winning film Henry V - was shocked to hear the news, stating, "He was a great friend and a great man."

Revered British actor Simon Callow has described Schofield as "one of the greatest actors in the world".

He adds, "He had a charisma, a hypnotism, a kind of spell that he cast on an audience, which was an extraordinary thing to negotiate as a young actor. He was an absolutely towering actor."

Famed for his distinctive voice, Scofield rejected the offer of a knighthood on three occasions, but was awarded a CBE (Commander of the Order of The British Empire) in 1956 and became a Companion of Honour in 2001.

Source: WENN

| Friday, March 21, 2008

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