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.

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.

" 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.

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.

Pre-tribulation rapture theology was developed in the 1830s by John Nelson Darby and the Plymouth Brethren, and popularized in the United States in the early 20th century by the wide circulation of the Scofield Reference Bible.

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

Scofield was born in Birmingham, England, the son of Mary and Edward Harry Scofield.

When Scofield was a few weeks old, his family moved to Hurstpierpoint, Sussex, where his father served as the headmaster at the Hurstpierpoint

Scofield began his stage career in 1940 with a debut performance in Desire Under the Elms at the Westminster Theatre, and was soon being compared to Laurence Olivier.

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 ".

Scofield was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( CBE ) in the 1956 New Year Honours.

The latter was Tinniswood's last work and was written especially for Scofield, an admirer of Anton Chekhov.

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

The Bible colleges prepared ministers who lacked college or seminary experience with intense study of the Bible, often using the Scofield Reference Bible of 1909, which was the King James version with detailed notes explaining how to interpret Dispensationalist passages.

Scofield was once an incorporated village and contained its own post office, although it no longer holds any legal autonomy as a village.

It was settled in the winter of 1766-1767 by John Scofield, who arrived with all his belongings on a hand sled.

The community was named for General Charles W. Scofield, a timber contractor and local mine official.

Guitarists such as Pat Martino, Al Di Meola, Larry Coryell, John Abercrombie, John Scofield and Mike Stern ( the latter two both alumni of the Miles Davis band ) fashioned a new language for the guitar which introduced jazz to a new generation of fans.

Paul Scofield, as Lear, eschews sentimentality: this demanding old man with a coterie of unruly knights provokes audience sympathy for the daughters in the early scenes, and his presentation explicitly rejects the tradition ( as Daniel Rosenthal describes it ) of playing Lear as " poor old white-haired patriarch ".

Noted for his distinctive voice and delivery, Scofield received an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for his performance as Sir Thomas More in the 1966 film A Man for All Seasons, a reprise of the role he played in the stage version at the West End and on Broadway for which he received a Tony Award.

In a career mainly devoted to the classical theatre, Scofield starred in many Shakespeare plays and played the title role in Ben Jonson's Volpone in Peter Hall's production for the Royal National Theatre ( 1977 ).

Expresso Bongo, Staircase and Amadeus were filmed with other actors, but Scofield starred in the screen versions of A Man for All Seasons ( 1966 ) and King Lear ( 1971 ).

In 1969, Scofield became the sixth performer to win the Triple Crown of Acting, winning an Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for Male of the Species.

Scofield appeared in many radio dramas for BBC Radio 4, including in later years plays by Peter Tinniswood: On the Train to Chemnitz ( 2001 ) and Anton in Eastbourne ( 2002 ).

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.

" 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 ).

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.

Zinnemann's fortunes changed once again with A Man for All Seasons ( 1966 ), scripted by Robert Bolt from his own play and starring Paul Scofield as Sir Thomas More, portraying him as a man driven by conscience to his ultimate fate.

* 1890-Central American Mission founded by C. I. Scofield, editor of the Scofield Reference Bible ; Methodist Charles Gabriel writes missionary song " Send the Light "; John Livingston Nevius of China visits Korea to outline his strategy for missions: 1 ) Each believer should be a productive member of society and active in sharing his faith ; 2 ) The church in Korea should be distinctly Korean and free of foreign control ; 3 ) The leaders of the Korean church will be selected and trained from its members ; 4 ) Church buildings will be built by Koreans with their own resources

* 1843 – C. I. Scofield, American theologian, minister, and writer ( d. 1921 )

Cyrus Scofield further promoted the influence of this theology through his Scofield Reference Bible.

* May 1 – An explosion of blasting powder in a coal mine in Scofield, Utah kills 200.

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

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.

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.

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.