Roy Dotrice

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 late eighties, 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.

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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

Origin

Guernsey

Occupation

stage actor / film actor / audiobook narrator / screenwriter / television actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Boar

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

• Official sitehttps://www.roydotrice.com
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy%20Dotrice
• 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
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q929933

Tags

• stage actor
• film actor
• audiobook narrator

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.