Roy Dotrice

Roy Dotrice
Dotrice in 2014
Born(1923-05-26)26 May 1923
Died16 October 2017(2017-10-16) (aged 94)
London, England
CitizenshipBritish
OccupationActor
Years active1957–2012
Known forBrief Lives
A Moon for the Misbegotten
Spouse
(m. 1947; died 2007)
Children3; including Michele and Karen
Awards1 Tony Award
1 Drama Desk Award
1 British Academy Television Award
Websitewww.roydotrice.com
Dotrice in 1981

Roy Dotrice OBE (26 May 1923 – 16 October 2017) was a British stage and screen actor. He played the antiquarian John Aubrey in the solo play Brief Lives. He won a Tony Award for his performance in the 2000 Broadway revival of A Moon for the Misbegotten, also appearing as Leopold Mozart in the film version of Amadeus (1984), Charles Dickens in Dickens of London (1976), and Jacob Wells/Father in Beauty and the Beast.

Late in life, he narrated a series of audiobooks for George R. R. Martin's epic fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire, for which he holds the Guinness World Record for the most character voices by an individual for an audiobook.


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