He has been in more than a dozen films, including A Man For All Seasons in 1966, for which he won an Oscar.

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In recent seasons he's done the dirty in "Cyrano de Bergerac, " "A Man for All Seasons" and "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, " in which he played, of all things, the Green Goblin.

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To paraphrase Sir Thomas More, Robert Bolt's excellent play "A Man For All Seasons, " the laws of this country are the great barriers that protect the citizens from the winds of evil and tyranny.

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Picard is a man for all seasons.

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Some of the weeks incorporate both history and fiction, for example the reading of "A Man for All Seasons, " Robert Bolt's 1954 play -- later reworked into a famous 1966 film - about the life of Sir Thomas More, Lord Chancellor to England's mercurial King Henry VIII in the 16th century.

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