http://blogs.whatsonstage.com/2008/03/23/remembering-paul-scofield-at-the-globe/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:06:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 http://blogs.whatsonstage.com/2008/03/23/remembering-paul-scofield-at-the-globe/#comment-6688 Mark Shenton Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:53:57 +0000 http://blogs.whatsonstage.com/2008/03/23/remembering-paul-scofield-at-the-globe/#comment-6688 ...and in today's SUNDAY EXPRESS, I filed a full-page obit appreciation.... one tabloid that did better than the broadsheets! …and in today’s SUNDAY EXPRESS, I filed a full-page obit appreciation…. one tabloid that did better than the broadsheets!

]]> http://blogs.whatsonstage.com/2008/03/23/remembering-paul-scofield-at-the-globe/#comment-6676 Gore-Langton Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:32:10 +0000 http://blogs.whatsonstage.com/2008/03/23/remembering-paul-scofield-at-the-globe/#comment-6676 v intersting that .... and Strachan's obit is brilliant but he doesn't mention the Train. It's his best stage performance on film he ever gave, as a Nazi officer obsessed with saving crates full of Cezannes. The slightly sweating, curdled quality of both his physog and voice (which in another life would have suited him to a career in schoolmastering which is essentially what his Thomas More performance is all about, I think, and why the play is such a favourite with the old history beaks who taught me) makes the Frankenheimer film into a masterpieceeven though it's today used mostly as porn for trainspotters. Someone should get actors who loved Scofield to talk about his voice on radio. If you ask him nicely, Roger Allam does the best ever Scofield impression from Savages - I've got it on tape. R v intersting that …. and Strachan’s obit is brilliant but he doesn’t mention the Train. It’s his best stage performance on film he ever gave, as a Nazi officer obsessed with saving crates full of Cezannes. The slightly sweating, curdled quality of both his physog and voice (which in another life would have suited him to a career in schoolmastering which is essentially what his Thomas More performance is all about, I think, and why the play is such a favourite with the old history beaks who taught me) makes the Frankenheimer film into a masterpieceeven though it’s today used mostly as porn for trainspotters. Someone should get actors who loved Scofield to talk about his voice on radio. If you ask him nicely, Roger Allam does the best ever Scofield impression from Savages - I’ve got it on tape. R

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