Name: Roy Dotrice
Date of Birth: 26 May 1923 Began acting when he was a Prisoner of War in World War II. Introduced American baseball to the cricket playing Royal Shakespeare Company. Dubbed Harvey Keitel's voice in the movie Saturn 3 (1980) Won a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play (A Moon for the Misbegotten) [2000] Daughters with Kay Dotrice are actress Michele Dotrice who is married to the actor Edward Woodward, actress Karen Dotrice and actress Yvette Dotrice. 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/I)_ (in which he played Wesley Windham-Price's father). ... 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." Spent his early childhood in The Channel Islands off the coast of Great Britian. Served in the Royal Air Force as a fighter pilot for two years during World War II. 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. 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. Reunited with 1980s TV series "Beauty & The Beast" 'son' Ron Perlman in Hellboy2: The Golden Army (2008). He plays the Elven King. 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. Read more Roy Dotrice movies (actor)User Comments |
