Veteran British actor Roy Dotrice,Sarah Shevon Archives best known in the U.S. for roles in Game of Thrones, Beauty and the Beast, and Picket Fences, has died at age 94, per BBC News.
The thesp won a Tony in 2000 for his role in the Broadway revival of A Moon for the Misbegotten, and played Leopold Mozart in Oscar-winning film Amadeus, but his storied career also included plenty of genre roles on the small screen, according to his official site.
Dotrice played Zeus in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Roger Wyndam-Price inAngel and Jacob Wells in CBS' Beauty and the Beast, a job that would be the first of several collaborations with George R. R. Martin, who was a writer and producer on the show.
He would then go on to provide the narration for all of the audiobooks in Martin's A Song of Ice and Fireseries, up to the most recently published novel, A Dance With Dragons, which was released in 2011. Dotrice currently holds the Guinness World Record for the most characters voiced in a single audiobook, for tackling a whopping 224 characters in Martin's first ASOIAFnovel,A Game of Thrones, which runs 33 hours and 36 minutes long in its narrated form.
Dotrice then brought his Game of Thrones expertise to the HBO TV series, playing Hallyne the Pyromancer in two Season 2 episodes, "The Ghost of Harrenhal" and "Blackwater," in which he instructed Tyrion and Bronn about the uses for wildfire.
Before he was an actor, Dotrice was a member of Britain's Royal Air Force during World War II; after his plane was shot down behind enemy lines, according to The Guardian, he spent the rest of the war as a POW, which was where he discovered his love of theater, performing in plays for other prisoners.
Ron Perlman, who starred alongside Dotrice in Beauty and the Beast, tweeted a tribute to his costar Monday:
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Dotrice's wife died in 2007, but the actor is survived by three daughters and seven grandchildren, per The Guardian.
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