Roy Dotrice, OBE (May 25, 1923 – October 16, 2017) Actor who appeared on stage in films and television.
In the 1970s, Dotrice played the title role in the television mini-series Dickens of London. He also appeared as Albert Haddock in the BBC television adaptation of A. P. Herbert’s Misleading Cases in 1971. In 1972 he played the Curé Ponosse in the BBC2 TV adaptation of Clochemerle (1972). He was known to North American audiences as Father in the 1980s American TV series Beauty and the Beast and Father Gary Barrett, a Catholic priest, in the 1990s series Picket Fences, although his acting career dates from 1945 in a revue called Back Home, performed by ex-POWs in aid of the Red Cross. In an episode of Angel (1999), part of the Buffyverse, he played as Roger Wyndam-Pryce, the overbearing father of the character Wesley Wyndam-Pryce. 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.
Other TV series he appeared in were
Shaka Zulu,
The Wizard,
Going to Extremes,
Children of the Dark,
Babylon 5,
Mr. & Mrs. Smith,
Sliders,
Madigan Men,
Life Beginsand
Game of Thronesamong others. (Wikipedia)
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