Roy Dotrice
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Roy Dotrice (1923-26 May 1923 – October 16, 2017) was a British stage, television, and film actor who received a Tony Award for his role in the 2000 Broadway revival of A Moon for the Misbegotten.
He appeared in Amadeus (1984), Charles Dickens in Dickens of London (1984), and Jacob Wells/Father in Beauty and the Beast.
George R. R. R. narrated the audiobooks.
Martin's epic fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire, for which he held the Guinness World Record for the most character voices for an audiobook by an individual.
Personal life and death
Dotrice was married to Kay Newman (1929-2007), a television and stage actress, from 1947 to her death in 2007. They had three children: Michele, Yvette, and Karen, all of whom had appeared at various times in their lives. He was the father-in-law of actors Edward Woodward (Michele) and Alex Hyde-White (Karen).
He loved baseball, fishing, and football, and was a stalwart of the Garrick Club. In 2008, he was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).
Dotrice died in London on October 16, 2017 at the age of 94; no reason was given. His body was cremated.
Life and career
Dotrice was born in Guernsey, Bailiwick of Guernsey, on May 26, 1923, to Neva (née Wilton; 1897–1981) and Louis Dotrice (1896–1991). He served as a wireless operator/air gunner with the Royal Air Force during the Second World War and was jailed in a German war camp from 1942 to 1945, and the crew's seven airmen were captured in Avro Manchester R5840, the crew's prisoners were captured in Prisoner of War.
In the early episodes of BBC Radio's long-running comedy "The Men from the Ministry," Dotrice appeared. Ronald Baddiley took over the position after being surpassed in the role. He appeared alongside Patricia Hayes in the Radio 2 sitcom Know Your Place.
In Brief Lives, Dotrice was part of John Aubrey, a one-man show devised and directed by Patrick Garland that saw Dotrice hold the stage for more than two and a half hours (not including the interval, during which he'd feign sleep). The performance later toured England before two excellent productions on Broadway in 1967. It moved to the Criterion Theatre in the West End in 1968, where it appeared on for 400 performances before transferring to the Mayfair Theatre. In 2008, he returned to the role, this time under Patrick Garland's leadership.
These shows, as well as extensive overseas touring, earned Dotrice a spot in the Guinness World Records for the most solo performances (1,782). He appeared opposite Rosemary Harris in a production of No.l Coward's Hay Fever in 1984. From November 2009 to January 2010, he appeared in the stage production of Irving Berlin's White Christmas at The Lowry Theatre in Salford.
Dotrice was the title character in the television mini-series Dickens of London in the 1970s. Albert Haddock appeared in the BBC television version of A. P. Herbert's Misleading Cases in 1971. In 1972, he appeared as Curé Ponosse in the BBC2 TV version of Clochemerle (1972).
In the 1980s American television series Beauty and the Beast, Dotrice was known as "Father" in the United States, but Father Gary Barrett, a Catholic priest, appeared in the 1990s film Picket Fences, was also known to North American audiences as "Father" in the 1980s American television series Picket Fences. His acting career began in 1945 in a revue named Back Home, which was performed by ex-POWs in aid of the Red Cross. He appeared in an episode of Angel (1999), a Buffyverse plot, as Roger Wyndam-Pryce, the overbearing father of the character Wesley Wyndam-Pryce. Commissioner Simmonds appeared in two episodes of the 1970s series Space: 1999, a former science fiction writer. Dotrice appeared in three episodes of The Legendary Journeys as Zeus in 1998.
When he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at Pinewood Studios in 1974, Dotrice was the subject of This Is Your Life.
In June 2010, Dotrice would play Grand Maester Pycelle in HBO's Game of Thrones, George R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire books, and Fire will be published. Dotrice withdrew from the role due to health complications, and Julian Glover was cast in his place.
Dotrice would be back to perform "Wisdom Hallyne the Pyromancer," which is included in the films "The Ghost of Harrenhal" and "Blackwater."
In 1982, BBC Radio 4 broadcast Dotrice's reading of fellow Guernseyman G.B. The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, Edwards' most popular book, has been released in twenty-eight 15-minute segments on its Women's Hour segment. "Without doubt the most famous serial I have ever created in the 500 or so I've produced in the last 21 years," the producer wrote.
He then performed "The Islander," a stage adaptation of Ebenezer Le Page's Book of Ebenezer Le Page, to critical success at the Theatre Royal Lincoln. Ebenezer Le Page's complete and unbridged recording was released by AudioGO in 2012, which is available on Audible.
In George R. Martin's book A Song of Ice and Fire, Dotrice recorded audiobooks for each book. In 2011, he was given the world's most human voices in an audiobook for his album A Game of Thrones, which contained 224 people.
Besides that, Dotrice narrated several Disney-based storybooks, including The Little Mermaid and Pooh's Heffalump, for which he was nominated for a Grammy Award.