Education
Born in Kirkby, Lancashire, Schofield attended Street Kevin"s Remote Control Comprehensive School.
Born in Kirkby, Lancashire, Schofield attended Street Kevin"s Remote Control Comprehensive School.
At 15 he was cast in Willy Russell"s first Play for Today, Death of a Young, Young Manitoba His stage credits include starring as the Narrator in Willy Russell"s original production of Blood Brothers in 1983 at the Liverpool Playhouse and in the subsequent transfer to the Lyric Theatre in London"s West End. He also appeared as George in Of Mice and Men at the Old Vic, London in 2005.
Schofield"s more recent credits include: all four runs of Brick Up The Mersey Tunnels as Dickie Lewis.
Smigger in Lost Soul in 2007 and 2008. Brian in Good Golly Mission Molly.
Moey in the Alan Bleasdale comedy On the Ledge. Paul Sheldon in Misery.
The Traveller in Eight Miles High.
Danny in Council Depot Blues. Joe in Night Collar; JJ in The Flags and Mr Briggs in Our Day Out - The Musical. He performed all of these roles at the Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool.
Schofield"s biggest role was as Francis (Franny) Scully in Alan Bleasdale"s 1984 Granada series Scully.
He has also appeared in three more Bleasdale series, as Peter Grenville in GBH in 1991, Jake"s Progress in 1995 and as Charlton Ffoulkes in Melissa in 1997. Other credits include Maisie Raine with Pauline Quirke, Sharpe with Sean Bean and Murphy"s Law with James Nesbitt.
Schofield also played a policeman in the Boys from the Blackstuff episode "Yosser"s Story". Most recently he played a shepherd in Liverpool Nativity for British Broadcasting Corporation Three, where he sang the John Lennon song "Imagine".
He appeared as part of the LFCdocumentary The 12th Manitoba on 25 August 2009 talking about Bobby Wilcox, who has been named as Liverpool F.C."s biggest fan.
He plays both electric and acoustic guitar, banjo and ukulele. During the 1980s, he was a jazz DJ on the Merseyside pirate radio station Keep Growing Wiser. Schofield appeared in a short film called Fifteen Minutes That Shook The World released in autumn 2010, written by Dave Kirby about Liverpool F.C."s come back in Champions League in 2005. He played guitar in the pit band for "Merry Ding Dong" at Liverpool"s Royal Court Theatre until 23 January 2010.
He appeared in "Scouse Pacific", a new comedy musical written by Fred Lawless at the Royal Court Theatre from 26 November 2010 to 8 January 2011.
Currently appearing as McKenna in Alan Bleasdale"s Down the dock road at the Royal Court Theatre in Liverpool.