First took notice of him as Burt Lancaster's nemesis in director John Frankenheimer's 'The Train, 1964.' Under Fred Zinnemann in 'A Man For All Seasons, 1966,' the movie-going world suddenly took notice of his exceptional talent, which earned him an Academy Award (as did the movie). The movies found little use of him so that rare opportunities such as in Kenneth Branagh's 'Henry V, 1989' or in Robert Redford's 'Quiz Show, 1994' went largely unnoticed. His title role performance in Peter Brook's 'King Lear, 1971' (only on VHS), is one to rival his own as Sir Thomas More - as it does Laurence Olivier's own Lear for television, from 1983.
