Paul Scofield died this week.

One of the great actors of our time died this week. Paul Scofield was 86. Readers of this weblog might know I normally stick to science, but his death seems like the passing of an era to me. Many may know him from his performance as the King of France in Kenneth Branagh's film version of "Henry V" (a film I really like, in which Scofield is wonderfully melancholy).
I was never lucky enough to see him perform, but he was rated as having given the greatest Shakespeare performance of all in Peter Brook's 1962 production of of King Lear at Stratford:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/08/22/nbard22.xml.
Surely Scofield is last of the great British (pre-Hollywood) acting titans to die?