Garry O'Connor highly respected for his theatrical biographies presents a richly drawn fully dimensional portrait of the great actor Paul Scofield. He interviewed the intensely private Scofield himself as well as many of the actors and directors he has worked with including Simon Callow Trevor Nunn Richard Eyre and Peter Hall. The result is a masterly biography that paints a revealing portrait of a man who for the serious film and theatre-goer is more of an icon than any other living actor.