Posted on 10/17/2017 8:00:20 AM PDT by EveningStar
Roy Dotrice, a British stage, film and television actor who began performing as a prisoner of war in Germany and worked in Britain and America for six decades, notably in one-man shows portraying Abe Lincoln, the diarist John Aubrey and other historical figures, died on Monday at his home in London. He was 94...
While he kept a home in London, Mr. Dotrice lived in Los Angeles and worked mostly in the United States after 1980. He appeared in New York stage productions of Ibsens An Enemy of the People (1985) and Harold Pinters The Homecoming (1991). On film, he portrayed Mozarts father in Milos Formans Amadeus (1984) and a skating coach in Paul M. Glasers The Cutting Edge (1992).
On television, he played Charles Dickens in Masterpiece Theaters 13-part Dickens of London (1976); a British monarch in the mini-series Shaka Zulu (1986); the father of the beast on the CBS crime series Beauty and the Beast (1987-90); and a priest on the CBS dramatic series Picket Fences (1993-96). In recent years he recorded many audiobooks, creating voices for hundreds of characters in the saga adapted for Game of Thrones. ...
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Vincent is weeping....
He was amazing. I think he set the record for total number of characters in a single audio-book. RIP
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