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Roy Dotrice

1923 - 2017

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Roy Dotrice (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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Roy Dotrice is the 5,198th most popular actor (up from 5,341st in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from Guernsey and the 2nd most popular Actor.

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Among actors, Roy Dotrice ranks 5,198 out of 13,578. Before him are Dooley Wilson, Dietmar Schönherr, Richard Egan, Murat Yıldırım, Carol Cheng, and Daniel Wu. After him are Vera Vasilyeva, Joseph Grimaldi, Greta Lee, Sebastian Roché, Art LaFleur, and Margaret Colin.

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Among people born in 1923, Roy Dotrice ranks 348. Before him are Donald Nicol, Sulamith Goldhaber, Elizabeth Jane Howard, Adãozinho, Bernard Clavel, and Max Jakobson. After him are Medea Japaridze, Alina Janowska, Elizabeth Hawley, Gustaw Holoubek, Piero D'Inzeo, and Thea Beckman. Among people deceased in 2017, Roy Dotrice ranks 408. Before him are Andrey Zaliznyak, Cécile DeWitt-Morette, Buchi Emecheta, Santiago Vernazza, Friedel Rausch, and Yambo Ouologuem. After him are Pancho Segura, Alina Janowska, Armand Gatti, Dina Merrill, Paavo Lonkila, and Vinod Khanna.

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Among people born in Guernsey, Roy Dotrice ranks 5 out of 8. Before him are Matt Le Tissier (1968), Percy Hodge (1890), Karen Dotrice (1955), and Warren De la Rue (1815). After him are Isaac Brock (1769), Andy Priaulx (1974), Heather Watson (1992), and Cameron Chalmers (1997).

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Among actors born in Guernsey, Roy Dotrice ranks 2. Before him are Karen Dotrice (1955).

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