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My Take
Roy Dotrice is the kind of actor I deeply respect, the sort who never chased the spotlight yet earned every honor going. A Guernsey man who conquered stage, screen and even the audiobook booth, he proved a voice alone can build whole worlds. His Tony, his OBE, his BAFTA all matter, but what stays with me is the quiet authority he carried into roles like Leopold Mozart in Amadeus. Working into his nineties, he treated craft as a lifelong vow rather than a young person's game. To me he embodies the unglamorous nobility of the working actor, and that earns my genuine admiration.
Overview
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 the TV series Beauty and th…
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1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Roy Dotrice
- Name (Japanese)
- ロイ・ドートリス
- Reading
- ろい・どーとりす
- Born
- May 26, 1923 – October 16, 2017
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Gemini / Boar
- Origin
- Guernsey, United Kingdom
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- stage actor / film actor / audiobook narrator / screenwriter / television actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
Awards & achievements
- 2000 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play
- Drama Desk Awards
- British Academy Television Awards
- Officer of the Order of the British Empire
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Official sitehttps://www.roydotrice.com
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BB%E3%83%89%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.