Schofield appeared as Chief Bast, an Imperial Officer aboard the doomed
Death Star, in
George Lucas's original
Star Wars (1977) film. He also appeared in
Star Wars Holiday Special (1978), as the producers used deleted scenes and
stock footage from it. His other film appearances included
The Body Stealers (1969),
Twinky (1969),
Villain (1971),
The Ruling Class (1972),
The Glitterball (1977),
The Wild Geese (1978),
Force 10 from Navarone (1978),
Silver Dream Racer (1980) and ''
Dead Man's Folly'' (1986). Schofield's television appearances in science fiction include two
Doctor Who stories,
The War Games (1969) and
The Face of Evil (1977), and as prison ship officer Raiker in the ''
Blake's 7 episode "Spacefall" (1978). He appeared in an episode of Midsomer Murders entitled "Vixen’s Run" and an episode of Minder'', "
You Lose Some, You Win Some". Schofield also played Reginald Perrin's son-in-law, Tom, in the third series of
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, Len in
The Smoking Room, the father in the BBC children's drama
Jonny Briggs, and appeared in the CBBC comedy show
ChuckleVision. In 1997, Schofield was cast as
Jeff Healy in the
soap opera EastEnders, a role he played until 2000. His character unsuccessfully proposed to
Pauline Fowler (played by
Wendy Richard). He had appeared in
EastEnders briefly in 1988 and 1989 playing a different character,
Brian Wicks, ex-husband of established character
Pat (
Pam St Clement). ==Filmography==