Charles Van Doren , son of Mark and Dorothy Van Doren , is featured in the Quiz Show .
Enright and Freedman are surprised when Columbia University instructor Charles Van Doren ( Ralph Fiennes ) , son of the renowned poet and intellectual Mark Van Doren ( Paul Scofield ) and the novelist Dorothy Van Doren ( Elizabeth Wilson ) , visits their office to audition .
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