Editing Paul Scofield (section)

== Personal life and death ==
[[File:Paul Scofield's gravestone.JPG|thumb|Paul and Joy Scofield's gravestone in St Mary's churchyard, [[Balcombe]], West Sussex]]
Scofield married actress Joy Mary Parker on 15 May 1943.<ref name="ODNB"/> They had met while he played Hamlet to her Ophelia.<ref>O'Connor (2002), p. 38.</ref> Scofield later said "Joy and I simply decided to be married. We were both of age and were determined. Any doubts from our families were overruled, and they were the usual ones – too young, etc. We had a week out at the end of ''[[The Moon Is Down]]'' tour, married during that week, and went straight into the [[Whitehall Theatre]]."<ref>O'Connor (2002), p. 39.</ref>

Paul and Joy Scofield had two children: Martin (born 1945) who became a senior lecturer in English and American literature at the University of Kent<ref name="seasons">O'Connor, Garry. [https://www.amazon.com/dp/1557834997 ''Paul Scofield: An Actor for All Seasons''.] Applause Theatre Book Publishers. February 2002. {{ISBN|1-55783-499-7}}.</ref> and Sarah (born 1951). When asked by Garry O'Connor how he wished to be remembered, Scofield responded "If you have a family, that is how to be remembered."<ref>O'Connor (2002), p. 150.</ref> When O'Connor asked about his seventieth birthday, Scofield replied, "Birthdays are a bore, really. It's true, I do like my fallow times... I hate missing anything that might be happening outside on a summer evening, something in the garden."<ref> Garry O'Connor, ''Paul Scofield: An Actor for All Seasons'', Applause Books (2002), p. 301.</ref> Filmmaker [[Michael Winner]] accordingly described Paul and Joy Scofield as "one of the few very happily married couples I've ever met."<ref>O'Connor (2002), p. 250.</ref>

Scofield died from [[leukemia|leukaemia]]<ref>{{cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7306378.stm | title=Oscar-winning actor Scofield dies | work=[[BBC News Online]] | date=20 March 2008 | access-date=20 March 2008 }}</ref> on 19 March 2008 at the age of 86 at the [[Royal Sussex County Hospital]]<ref name="ODNB"/> in [[Brighton]], [[East Sussex]], [[England]]. His memorial service was held at [[Westminster Abbey]] on the first anniversary of his death.<ref name="ODNB"/> His wife Joy died four years later on 7 November 2012, aged 90.