Biography
Born on the island of Guernsey, Dotrice served as an air gunner in the Royal Air Force during World War II. He was shot down, captured and spent three and a half years in a German POW camp, where he began acting in make-shift plays to amuse his fellow prisoners. Repatriated after the war, Dotrice studied acting at RADA and then began more than 15 years of repertory work in Liverpool, Manchester, and finally, in London with the forerunner of …
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Career Milestones
2000 | Reteamed with Byrne as co-stars of the short-lived ABC sitcom "Madigan Men" | |
2000 | Co-starred on stage in "A Moon for the Misbegotten", featuring Cherry Jones and Gabriel Byrne; earned Tony as Featured Actor in a Play | |
1996 | Had recurring role of Mr. Big on the short-lived CBS spy series "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" | |
1995 | Acted in the ill-fated remake of "The Scarlet Letter" | |
| Played recurring role of a Catholic priest on the award-winning CBS drama series "Pickett Fences" | ||
| Starred as a maverick doctor who founded his own medical school in the Caribbean in the short-lived ABC series "Going to Extremes" | ||
1992 | Portrayed the coach of skaters training for the Olympics in "The Cutting Edge" | |
| Was series regular on the cult CBS drama "Beauty and the Beast", portraying the recluse who raised Vincent, the titular beast | ||
1987 | Cast as Arthur Conan Doyle in the ABC biopic "Young Harry Houdini" | |
1986 | Portrayed British monarch George IV in the syndicated miniseries "Shaka Zulu" | |
1984 | Cast as Mozart's father in the Oscar-winning "Amadeus" | |
1983 | Starred in the title role of "Churchill", performed in L.A. | |
| Appeared with American Shakespeare Festival | ||
1981 | Starred in "A Life" at Broadway's Morosco Theatre; earned Tony nomination | |
1980 | Appeared on Broadway in the one-person drama "Mr. Lincoln" at the Morosco Theater; reprised on NBC's "Hallmark Hall of Fame" the following year | |
1977 | Played Charles Dickens in "Dickens in London", a biographical drama aired on PBS' "Masterpiece Theater" | |
1971 | Played featured role of a Russian general in the epic "Nicholas and Alexandra" | |
1969 | Starred in "Lock Up Your Daughters" | |
1968 | Headlined TV production of "Brief Lives" (BBC) | |
1967 | Starred in one-person show, "Brief Lives," Hempstead Theatre Club, London; reprised show on Broadway in 1968 | |
1965 | Starred in acclaimed TV special "The Caretaker" | |
1964 | Film debut, "Heroes of Telemark" | |
| Was a member of the acting company of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, which became Royal Shakespeare Company in 1961 | ||
1955 | Founded Guernsey Repertory Theatre; left in 1957 | |
| Was a member of the Liverpool Repertory, Manchester Repertory and Oldham Repertory theatres | ||
1945 | London stage debut, "Back Home Revue", a benefit for the Red Cross performed by former prisoners of war | |
1942 | Was held in a prisoner of war camp in Germany; inmates put on plays | |
| Served as an air gunner in the Royal Air Force during WWII; shot down and captured by the Germans | ||
| Raised in Guernsey, The Channel Islands | ||
Awards
2000 | Tony Award for Actor (Featured Role--Play) |