Salieri was portrayed in the award-winning play at London's National Theatre by Paul Scofield.

In 1966, the play was made into the successful film A Man for All Seasons directed by Fred Zinnemann, adapted for the screen by the playwright himself, and starring Paul Scofield in an Oscar-winning performance.

** Paul Scofield, English actor ( d. 2008 )

Amadeus was first presented at the Royal National Theatre, London in 1979, directed by Sir Peter Hall and starring Paul Scofield as Salieri, Simon Callow as Mozart, and Felicity Kendal as Constanze.

Among his acting stars were Jeanne Moreau, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard, David Hemmings, Nicol Williamson, Marianne Faithfull, Richard Burton, Anthony Hopkins, Mick Jagger, Katharine Hepburn, Paul Scofield and Judi Dench.

" Suddenly, Richard Burton had fulfilled his guardian's wildest hopes and was admitted to the post-War British acting circle which included Anthony Quayle, John Gielgud, Michael Redgrave, Hugh Griffith and Paul Scofield.

At Stratford-upon-Avon in 1962, Peter Brook ( who would later film the play with the same Lear, Paul Scofield ) set the action simply, against a huge, empty white stage.

Matthau was visibly banged up during the Oscar telecast, having been involved in a bicycle accident, nonetheless he scolded actors who had not bothered to come to the ceremony, especially the other major award winners that night: Elizabeth Taylor, Sandy Dennis and Paul Scofield.

The film was to be directed by Tony Richardson and star Rudolf Nureyev as Nijinsky, Claude Jade as Romola and Paul Scofield as Diaghilev, but producer Harry Saltzman canceled the project.

Twentieth century revivals include Robert B. Mantell's 1915 production ( the last production to be staged on Broadway ) and Peter Brook's 1945 staging, featuring Paul Scofield as the Bastard.

Cast: Paul Scofield, Thea Holme, Robert Marsden, Ernest Milton, others.

David Paul Scofield CH CBE ( 21 January 1922 – 19 March 2008 ), better known as Paul Scofield, was an English actor of stage and screen.

According to the DVD extras documentary for the movie The Shooting Party ( 1985 ), in the very first shot of the very first day of filming, all the male lead actors, including Paul Scofield who was playing Sir Randolph Nettleby, were to come into shot on a horse-drawn shooting brake driven by the well-known film horse-master George Mossman.

He then noticed that Paul Scofield was lying very still on the ground " and I saw that his shin-bone was sticking out through his trousers ".

In England, Paul Scofield, who played it at the Old Vic in 1952, was considered the definitive Richard of more modern times.

Lean assembled an all-star cast for this film, including Marlon Brando, Paul Scofield, Anthony Quinn, Peter O ' Toole, Christopher Lambert, Isabella Rossellini and Dennis Quaid, with Georges Corraface as the title character.

* In May 2008, BBC Radio 7 broadcast Dionysos, a ninety-minute drama based on The Bacchae written by Andrew Rissik and starring Paul Scofield as " Cadmus " and Diana Rigg as " Agave ".

" She received a third Oscar nomination for her performance as the simple, unrefined, but dignified Lady Alice More, opposite Paul Scofield as Thomas More, in A Man for All Seasons ( 1966 ).

The original run starred Paul Scofield as Thomas More, as well as Keith Baxter as Henry VIII, George Rose as the Common Man, Leo McKern as the Common Man in the West End production and Thomas Cromwell in the Broadway show ( a role originated in London by Andrew Keir and later taken over by Thomas Gomez ), and Albert Dekker as the Duke of Norfolk.

Paul Scofield provided a voice recording for the dragon.

Nineteen actors appearing in Zinnemann's films received Academy Award nominations for their performances: among that number are Frank Sinatra, Audrey Hepburn, Glynis Johns, Paul Scofield, Robert Shaw, Wendy Hiller, Jason Robards, Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Fonda, Gary Cooper and Maximilian Schell.

Other water colourists include: William Gilpin, Thomas Rowlandson, William Blake, John Sell Cotman, Paul Sandby, William Mulready, Edward Lear, James Abbott McNeill Whistler and Paul Cézanne.

* King Lear directed by Peter Brook with Paul Scofield as Lear ( 1962 )

Following the success of Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Paul Terry considered doing an animated feature film adaptation of King Lear starring Farmer Al Falfa.

* 1962 King Lear with Paul Scofield

His funeral mass was celebrated at St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Church in Westwood, Los Angeles, California and was attended by All in the Family cast members Rob Reiner, Sally Struthers and Danielle Brisebois, as well as producer Norman Lear.

Lear traded his Radio Coil business for a third interest in Paul Galvin's Galvin Manufacturing Company.

Other than Guys and Dolls, his most noted theatre productions are of Hamlet ( twice ), with Jonathan Pryce at the Royal Court in 1980 and Daniel Day-Lewis in 1989 ; Richard III with Ian McKellen ; King Lear with Ian Holm ; Tennessee Williams ' Night of the Iguana and Sweet Bird of Youth ; Eduardo De Filippo's Napoli Milionaria and Le Grande Magia ; John Gabriel Borkman with Paul Scofield, Vanessa Redgrave and Eileen Atkins ; Hedda Gabler with Eve Best, and numerous new plays by David Hare, Tom Stoppard, Trevor Griffiths, Howard Brenton, Alan Bennett, Christopher Hampton and Nicholas Wright.

He joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in September 1962, appearing at Stratford-upon-Avon playing Antipholus of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors and the Fool to Paul Scofield's King Lear, subsequently appearing in both plays at the Aldwych Theatre in December 1962 — performing these roles again for a British Council tour of the USSR, Europe and the US from February to June 1964.

* 1962 – Paul Scofield for King Lear

Melodiya also released some of the most successful western pop, jazz and rock records which included ABBA, Paul McCartney, Boney M., Dave Grusin, Amanda Lear, and Bon Jovi.

These productions included a Pericles, Prince of Tyre with Paul Scofield in 1947 ; Cymbeline at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in 1946 ; and King Lear in London in 1953.

After Columbia, McGrath started up Act III Communications in partnership with famed TV writer Norman Lear, Bert Ellis, Scott Wallace and Paul Schaeffer.

" Paul Adams of Webmonkey describes its eclectic style as resembling a " collaboration between Stan Lem and Ed Lear ".

When asked in 2001 to contribute a new version of Minuet in Hell for Big Finish Productions ' range of audio dramas featuring Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor, Lear extensively rewrote the play but due to the demands of the recording schedule producer Gary Russell completed the final episodes of the script and took a co-writer's credit.

By demanding that leaders of the Church be a one woman man, Paul excluded remarried widowers from having influence.

However, the text could also be interpreted as indicating that Paul was demanding the legal freedom of Onesimus and, as an act of both trust and reconciliation, holding Philemon accountable in the higher court of God to accomplish this change himself.

The fact that Paul makes the expectation of his own temporal freedom explicit by demanding that Philemon prepare for his literal return is thus a poetic reinforcement of the fact that he expects Onesimus ' temporal freedom to be granted as well.

Venice passed two laws obnoxious to Paul, one forbidding the alienation of real estate in favour of the clergy, the second demanding approval of the civil power for the building of new churches ( in essence, a Venetian stance that the powers of the church must remain separate from those of the state ).

His boss, Paul Power ( known as PP ), is loud, rude and demanding ; he has demoted Eric from Assistant Manager to a low-level clerk in an office sandwiched between the janitor's closet and the men's toilets.

In December 1918, Schleicher delivered an ultimatum to Friedrich Ebert on behalf of Paul von Hindenburg demanding that the German provisional government either allow the Army to crush the Spartacus League or the Army would do that task themselves.

" And to Paul Dukas, he confessed that Rodrigue was " totally at odds with all that I dream about, demanding a type of music that is alien to me.

" It has been suggested that Pope John Paul II did this to remind everyone that the ordinary and universal magisterium is also infallible, and that an extraordinary definition is not necessary to make a teaching irrevocably binding and demanding of supernatural faith.

Paul also describes the Christian life as that of an athlete, demanding practice and training for the sake of the prize ; later writers will see in this image a call to ascetical practices.

" It has been suggested that Pope John Paul II did this to remind everyone that the ordinary and universal magisterium is also infallible, and that an extraordinary definition is not necessary to make a teaching irrevocably binding and demanding of supernatural faith.

After demanding Orbison play for double the time he was scheduled, the audience then screamed for a fifteenth encore, which Lennon and Paul McCartney refused to allow by holding Orbison back from re-entering the stage.

They deliver fake goods to Leong, who accepts them at first, but then holds Ben, Paul and Frank at gunpoint, demanding that they drink urine.

Paul, Weiss attorneys filed an emergency application demanding that the government immediately provide defense lawyers with information about the condition of the detainees.

After dowsing himself with gasoline and threatening to set himself afire, Downey ordered the Boeing 737 to fly to the French city of Le Touquet and held the 113 people on board hostage, demanding publication of his manifesto, and for Pope John Paul II to disclose the third secret.