Editing Roy Dotrice (section)

===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"/>