Editing Roy Dotrice (section)

==Life and career==
Dotrice was born in [[Guernsey]], [[Bailiwick of Guernsey]] on 26 May 1923<ref>{{cite news|last=Coveney|first=Michael|title=Roy Dotrice obituary|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/oct/16/roy-dotrice-obituary|access-date=17 October 2017|work=The Guardian|date=16 October 2017}}</ref> to Neva (née Wilton; 1897–1984) and Louis Dotrice (1896–1991).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/86/Roy-Dotrice.html|title=Roy Dotrice Biography (1925–)|website=Filmreference.com|access-date=24 February 2016}}</ref> He served as a wireless operator/air gunner with the [[Royal Air Force]] during the [[Second World War]], and was imprisoned in a German [[prisoner of war]] camp from 1942 to 1945, after being shot down in an Avro Manchester R5840 of No.106 Squadron based at Coningsby, all seven airmen of the crew being taken Prisoner of War.<ref name="BBC">{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-guernsey-41638573|title=Roy Dotrice: Guernsey actor dies aged 94|work=BBC News |date=16 October 2017|access-date=16 October 2017}}</ref>

===Radio===
Dotrice was the voice of "Permanent Under-Secretary Sir Gregory Pitkin" in the early episodes of BBC Radio's long-running comedy ''[[The Men from the Ministry]]''.<ref name="BBC"/> He was succeeded by [[Ronald Baddiley]] in the role. He also played the [[Janitor|caretaker]] Ramsay alongside [[Patricia Hayes]] in the Radio 2 sitcom [[Know Your Place (radio series)|''Know Your Place'']].<ref name="Fox"/>

===Theatre===
Dotrice was a member of the [[Royal Shakespeare Company]] and in the early 1960s played a variety of roles, including [[Caliban]] in ''The Tempest'', opposite Tom Fleming's [[Prospero]] (dir: [[Peter Brook]]), John of Gaunt and Hotspur opposite [[David Warner (actor)|David Warner]]'s Richard II, and Justice Shallow, opposite [[Hugh Griffith]] as Falstaff in ''Henry IV'', and then Edward IV in the Hall/Barton-adapted Shakespeare cycle ''The Wars of the Roses'', later broadcast by the BBC.

Dotrice played the part of John Aubrey in ''Brief Lives'', a one-man play devised and directed by [[Patrick Garland]] in which he held the stage for almost three hours (including the interval, during which he would feign sleep).<ref name="BBC"/> Premiering in 1967 at the [[Hampstead Theatre]] in London, the play later toured England, before two productions on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]].<ref name="NYD">{{cite news|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/game-thrones-amadeus-actor-roy-dotrice-dies-94-article-1.3567298|title='Game of Thrones' and 'Amadeus' actor Roy Dotrice dies at 94|newspaper=[[New York Daily News]]|date=16 October 2017|access-date=16 October 2017}}</ref> In 1968 it moved to the [[Criterion Theatre]] in the [[West End of London|West End]], where it ran for 400 performances before transferring to the [[Sony Hall|Mayfair Theatre]].<ref name="WPobit">{{cite news |title=Veteran British actor Roy Dotrice dies aged 94 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater_dance/veteran-british-actor-roy-dotrice-dies-aged-94/2017/10/16/b6abdd56-b269-11e7-9b93-b97043e57a22_story.html |url-status=dead |access-date=16 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171017042104/https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater_dance/veteran-british-actor-roy-dotrice-dies-aged-94/2017/10/16/b6abdd56-b269-11e7-9b93-b97043e57a22_story.html |archive-date=17 October 2017}}</ref> He revived the role in 2008, again under Patrick Garland's direction.<ref>Brief Lives revival{{cite web|url=http://www.cinemind.com/aubrey/index2.html| title=Aubrey|access-date=18 October 2017}}</ref>

These runs, combined with extensive international touring, earned Dotrice a place in the [[Guinness World Records]] for the greatest number of solo performances (1,782).<ref name="Fox"/> 

His other one-man productions included ''Mister Lincoln'' in 1979, and ''Churchill'' in 1982, both premiering in Washington, D.C. at [[Ford's Theatre]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Kempley |first=Rita |date=1982-10-15 |title='Churchill': A Game Try |language=en-US |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1982/10/15/churchill-a-game-try/c32b82fe-84c9-40f6-bef0-af6e3469d5c3/ |access-date=2023-07-17 |issn=0190-8286}}</ref>

In 1984 he starred opposite [[Rosemary Harris]] in a production of [[Noël Coward]]'s ''[[Hay Fever (play)|Hay Fever]]''.<ref name="SFC"/> He appeared in the stage production of [[Irving Berlin]]'s ''[[White Christmas (song)|White Christmas]]'' at [[The Lowry]] theatre in [[City of Salford|Salford]] from November 2009 to January 2010.<ref name="BBC"/>

===Television===
In the 1970s Dotrice played [[Charles Dickens]] in the television mini-series ''[[Dickens of London]]''.<ref name="SFC">{{cite news|url=http://www.sfchronicle.com/news/world/article/Veteran-British-actor-Roy-Dotrice-dies-aged-94-12280966.php|title=Veteran British actor Roy Dotrice dies aged 94|newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle|date=16 October 2017|access-date=16 October 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171017045022/http://www.sfchronicle.com/news/world/article/Veteran-British-actor-Roy-Dotrice-dies-aged-94-12280966.php|archive-date=17 October 2017|df=dmy-all}}</ref> He also appeared as Albert Haddock in the [[BBC]] television adaptation of [[A. P. Herbert]]'s ''[[Uncommon Law|Misleading Cases]]'' in 1971.<ref name="Fox">{{cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/british-actor-roy-dotrice-dead-at-94|title=British actor Roy Dotrice dead at 94|publisher=[[Fox News]]|date=16 October 2017|access-date=16 October 2017}}</ref> In 1972 he played the Curé Ponosse in the BBC2 TV adaptation of ''[[Clochemerle (TV series)|Clochemerle]]'' (1972).<ref name="NYTobit">{{cite news |last=Binding |first=Lucia |date=16 October 2017 |title=Game of Thrones star Roy Dotrice dies aged 94 |website=ibtimes.co.uk |url=https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/game-thrones-star-roy-dotrice-dies-aged-94-1643327 |access-date=31 October 2023}}</ref>

Dotrice played "Father" in the 1980s TV series ''[[Beauty and the Beast (1987 TV series)|Beauty and the Beast]]'' and Father Gary Barrett, a Catholic priest, in the 1990s series ''[[Picket Fences]]''. His acting career dates from 1945 in a revue called ''Back Home'', performed by former prisoners-of-war in aid of the [[International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement|Red Cross]].<ref name="Fox"/> In an episode of ''[[Angel (1999 TV series)|Angel]]'', part of the [[Buffyverse]], he played the role of [[Lineage (Angel)|Roger Wyndam-Pryce]], the overbearing father of the character [[Wesley Wyndam-Pryce]].<ref name="WPobit"/> An earlier science-fiction role was Commissioner Simmonds in two episodes of the 1970s series ''[[Space: 1999]]''. In 1998 Dotrice appeared in three episodes of the series ''[[Hercules: The Legendary Journeys]]'' as [[Zeus]].<ref name="SFC"/>

===''Game of Thrones''===
In June 2010 it was announced that Dotrice would be playing the role of Grand Maester Pycelle in the [[HBO]] television series ''[[Game of Thrones]]'', an adaptation of [[George R. R. Martin]]'s ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' books.<ref name="NYD"/> He later withdrew from the part for medical reasons and [[Julian Glover]] was cast in his place.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://grrm.livejournal.com/168109.html|title=A Change on the Small Council|access-date=24 February 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307150744/http://grrm.livejournal.com/168109.html|archive-date=7 March 2016}}</ref>

Shortly after filming for the second season commenced it was confirmed that Dotrice would be returning to play "Wisdom Hallyne the Pyromancer",<ref name="Blackwater">{{cite web|url=http://winter-is-coming.net/2011/08/roy-dotrice-is-pyromancer-hallyne|title=Roy Dotrice is Pyromancer Hallyne |publisher=WinterIsComing.net|date=7 August 2011|access-date=12 April 2012}}</ref> who is featured in the installments "[[The Ghost of Harrenhal]]" and "[[Blackwater (Game of Thrones)|Blackwater]]".<ref name="Blackwater"/>

===Radio and audiobooks===
In 1982 [[BBC Radio 4]] broadcast Dotrice's reading of [[Gerald Basil Edwards|G.B. Edwards]]' novel ''[[The Book of Ebenezer Le Page]]'' in twenty-eight 15-minute parts on its ''[[Woman's Hour]]'' segment.<ref name="EW">{{cite web|url=http://ew.com/tv/2017/10/16/game-of-thrones-dead-roy-dotrice/|title=Game of Thrones actor dies: Set world record for narrating the show's audiobooks|publisher=EW|date=16 October 2017|access-date=16 October 2017}}</ref> The producer subsequently wrote that the serialisation was "without question the most popular serial I have ever done in the 500 or so I have produced in the last 21 years&nbsp;...".<ref name="auto">[[Edward Chaney]], ''Genius Friend: G.B. Edwards and The Book of Ebenezer Le Page'' ([https://www.blueormer.gg/ Blue Ormer Publishing], 2015)</ref>

He subsequently performed "The Islander", a stage version of ''The Book of Ebenezer Le Page'', to critical success at the [[New Theatre Royal Lincoln|Theatre Royal Lincoln]].<ref name="WPobit"/> In 2012 [[AudioGO]] produced a complete and unabridged recording of ''Ebenezer Le Page'', which is available on [[Audible (store)|Audible]].<ref name="auto"/>

Dotrice recorded audiobooks for each book in [[George R. R. Martin]]'s series ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.westeros.org/GoT/News/Entry/Roy_Dotrice_is_Pycelle_and_More/|title=Game of Thrones: News – Roy Dotrice is Pycelle and More|website=Westeros.org|access-date=24 February 2016}}</ref> In 2011 he was awarded the world record for most character voices in an audiobook for his recording of ''A Game of Thrones'', which contained 224.<ref name="EW"/><ref name="Guinness-MostVoices">{{cite web|url=http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/records-2000/most-character-voices-for-an-audio-book-individual/|title=Most character voices for an audio book – individual|website=Guinnessworldrecords.com|access-date=16 October 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150131150819/http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/most-character-voices-for-an-audio-book-individual|archive-date=31 January 2015}}</ref><ref name=GRRM-Dotrice>{{cite web|last=Martin|first=George R. R.|author-link=George R. R. Martin|url=http://grrm.livejournal.com/200399.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140908160906/http://grrm.livejournal.com/200399.html |url-status=live |archive-date=2014-09-08 |title=Not A Blog - Roy Sets a Record |work=livejournal.com|date=11 March 2011 |access-date=21 September 2019}}</ref>

Dotrice also narrated many storybook adaptations for Disney Records, including ''[[The Little Mermaid (franchise)|The Little Mermaid]]'' and ''Pooh's Heffalump Movie'', for which he was nominated for a [[Grammy Award]].<ref name="NYD"/>