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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So many great roles as the pretty much perfect supporting actor.
Although the movie was hardly great in any way, really enjoyed his role as the figure skating coach in The Cutting Edge. Even appeared all the way back in The Heroes of Telemark.
RIP
Never heard of him
Would love to feel sad, but I never heard of him.
-PJ
He also played the role of ‘Father’ on the TV series Beauty and the Beast, with Ron Perlman and Linda Hamilton.
I think he is one of those character actors whose face, or voice, you would remember; but, not his name.
He was the bad guy bureaucrat Simmonds in SPACE:1999.
Wonderful actor; wonderful guy. He often hosted events at my private club in the 80s and 90s. Hilarious storyteller!
I remember him well in that role.
I loved him in Amadeus!
When you read an obituary like this, all that comes to mind is: “Congratulations on a life well lived.”
RIP.
He narrated all of the Game of Thrones audiobooks. He did quite a good job too.
He was excellent on that tv series Beauty and the Beast. I will always remember him for that role. He was a consummate character actor, earning him the title: “Order of the British Empire”.
One of his daughters, Karen, played “Jane Banks” in “Mary Poppins” and, years later, played a maid on the original “Upstairs, Downstairs” series. His other daughter, Michele, married another good actor, Edward Woodward OBE, known for the tv series “The Equalizer”.
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