The ever-impressive, chameleon-like British character actor Roy Dotrice was born on the Island of Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands off the coast of France, which is part of the United Kingdom. He was the first-born child of Louis and Neva Dotrice who prospered as bakers. The Germans occupied the island in 1940 and he and his mother and brother ...
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Parents
Louis Dotrice and Neva Wilton
Awards
Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play, British Academy Television Award for Best Actor, Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play
Nominations
Tony Award for Best Lead Actor in a Play, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play, Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre
Movies
Amadeus, The Cutting Edge, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, The Scarlet Letter, Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers, Swimming with Sharks, Suburban Commando, Saturn 3, Tales from the Crypt, Eliminators, Go Go Tales, Alien Hunter, La Femme Musketeer, Nicholas and Alexandra, Toomorrow, The Buttercup Ch...
TV Shows
Shaka Zulu, Beauty and the Beast, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Madigan Men, Dickens of London, Going to Extremes, The Ascent of Man, BBC-3, Brief Lives, Misleading Cases, Clochemerle
Star Sign
Gemini
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Fact
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He was awarded the 1984 Drama Logue Award for Outstanding Performance for "Genius" at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
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Considered for the roles of Fallanda, Sir Percy, Dr.Armstong and Bukovsky in Lifeforce (1985).
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London WC2N, England [December 2007]
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Currently in a revival of his world-famous, one-man play "Brief Lives." [February 2008]
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Played George Bernard Shaw in "The Best of Friends" at the Hampstead Theatre, London, UK. [April 2006]
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His wife Kay Dotrice died six days before their 60th wedding anniversary.
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He was entered into the Guinness Book of World Records a second time for his voice work on the audio book version of George R.R. Martin's "A Game of Thrones." The project was cited as having the greatest number of characters (224) voiced by a single person in an audio book.
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Both he and his former son-in-law Alex Hyde-White made guest appearances in Babylon 5 (1994) whereas another of his sons-in-law, Edward Woodward, appeared in its spin-off series Crusade (1999). Furthermore, the latter son's Peter Woodward, the stepson of his daughter Michele Dotrice, played the regular character of the Technomage Galen in Crusade (1999).
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He was awarded the 2000 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actor in a Supporting Role in a Play for "A Moon for the Misbegotten" at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
He was awarded the O.B.E. (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2008 Queen's New Years Honors List for his services to drama.
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Considers one of his greatest achievements as introducing baseball to the Royal Shakespeare Company into what had been a cricket stronghold. In 1959 the actor pitched for his classically-trained team that included at first base, Paul Robeson (Othello); second base, Sam Wanamaker (Iago); third base, Laurence Olivier (Coriolanus), short stop, Peter O'Toole (Shylock); Charles Laughton (Lear) plate umpire and Albert Finney his catcher.
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Served in the Royal Air Force as a fighter pilot for two years during World War II.
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Spent his early childhood in The Channel Islands off the coast of Great Britian.
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Won Broadway's 2000 Tony Award as Best Actor (Featured Role - Play) for a revival of Eugene O'Neill's "A Moon for the Misbegotten." He had previously been nominated as Best Actor (Play) in 1981 for "A Life."
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After playing Mozart's disapproving father in Amadeus (1984), played similar roles of disapproving fathers on the science fiction shows Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1995) (in which he played Hercules' father, "Zeus") and Angel (1999) (in which he played Wesley Windham-Price's father).
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