Roy Dotrice

Began acting when he was a Prisoner of War in World War II.

Introduced American baseball to the cricket playing Royal Shakespeare Company.

Dubbed Harvey Keitel s voice in the movie Saturn 3 .

Won a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play (A Moon for the Misbegotten).

Daughters with Kay Dotrice are actress Michele Dotrice who is the widow of the actor Edward Woodward , actress Karen Dotrice and actress Yvette Dotrice.

After playing Mozarts disapproving father in Amadeus , played similar roles of disapproving fathers on the science fiction shows "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys" (in which he played Hercules father, "Zeus") and "Angel" (in which he played Wesley Windham-Prices father).

Won Broadways 2000 Tony Award as Best Actor (Featured Role - Play) for a revival of Eugene ONeill s "A Moon for the Misbegotten." He had previously been nominated as Best Actor (Play) in 1981 for "A Life."

Spent his early childhood in The Channel Islands off the coast of Great Britian.

Served in the Royal Air Force as a fighter pilot for two years during World War II.

Considers one of his greatest achievements as introducing baseball to the Royal Shakespeare Company into what had been a cricket stronghold. In 1959 the actor pitched for his classically-trained team that included at first base, Paul Robeson (Othello); second base, Sam Wanamaker (Iago); third base, Laurence Olivier (Coriolanus), short stop, Peter OToole (Shylock); Charles Laughton (Lear) plate umpire and Albert Finney his catcher.

He was awarded the O.B.E. (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2008 Queens New Years Honors List for his services to drama.

Reunited with 1980s TV series "Beauty and the Beast" "son", Ron Perlman , in Hellboy II: The Golden Army . Roy played the "Elven King".

He was awarded the 2000 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actor in a Supporting Role in a Play for "A Moon for the Misbegotten" at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.

Both he and his former son-in-law Alex Hyde-White made guest appearances in "Babylon 5" whereas another of his sons-in-law, Edward Woodward , appeared in its spin-off series "Crusade" . Furthermore, the latter sons Peter Woodward , the stepson of his daughter Michele Dotrice , played the regular character of the Technomage Galen in "Crusade" .

He was entered into the Guinness Book of World Records a second time for his voice work on the audio book version of George R.R. Martin s novel "A Game of Thrones." The project was cited as having the greatest number of characters (224) voiced by a single person in an audio book. He later appeared on the TV series "Game of Thrones" as Hyllene.

His wife Kay Dotrice died six days before their 60th wedding anniversary.

(April 2006) Played George Bernard Shaw in "The Best of Friends" at the Hampstead Theatre, London, UK.

Currently in a revival of his world-famous, one-man play "Brief Lives."

(December 2007) London WC2N, England

Considered for the roles of Fallanda, Sir Percy, Dr. Armstong and Bukovsky in Lifeforce .

He was awarded the 1984 Drama Logue Award for Outstanding Performance for "Genius" at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California.