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David Paul Scofield (born January 21, 1922) is an
English actor who was born in Sussex.  

Scofield is not well-known to cinema-goers,
despite having won the Academy Award for Best
Actor for his role in A Man for All Seasons
(1966). He began his stage career in 1940, and was
soon being compared with Laurence Olivier. 
Although his range is considerable, he has tended
to be selective, preferring classical roles to
those which might have won him more popular
acclaim. He has won several awards for his stage
appearances, including a Tony for the original
stage version of A Man for All Seasons, and was
Salieri in the original stage production of
Amadeus in 1979.  

In 1994 he starred in Quiz Show, a film directed
by Robert Redford about the quiz show scandal in
the United States in the 1950s. Scofield played
Mark Van Doren, father of Charles Van Doren, the
man at the center of the scandal, and received a
nomination for Academy Award for Best Supporting
Actor. He has rejected the offer of a knighthood
on three occasions, but was appointed British
honours system|CBE in 1956, and became a Order of
the Companions of Honour|Companion of Honour in
2001.