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Roy Dotrice

1923 - 2017

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Roy Dotrice (26 May 1923 – 16 October 2017) was a British actor. He played the antiquarian John Aubrey in the solo play Brief Lives. He won a Tony Award for his performance in the 2000 Broadway revival of A Moon for the Misbegotten, also appearing as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's father Leopold in Amadeus (1984), Charles Dickens in Dickens of London (1976), and Jacob Wells/Father in Beauty and the Beast. Late in life, he narrated a series of audiobooks for George R. R. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Roy Dotrice has received more than 1,584,013 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Roy Dotrice is the 4,441st most popular actor (down from 4,403rd in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from Guernsey and the most popular Actor.

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  • 1.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.49

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.15

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.60

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Roy Dotrice ranks 4,441 out of 9,996Before him are Junko Takeuchi, Mark Damon, Nigel Terry, Mort Sahl, Ben McKenzie, and Louise Lasser. After him are Richard Herd, Michael Beck, Barbara Windsor, Nathalia Timberg, Stanley Holloway, and Katherine Moennig.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Roy Dotrice ranks 295Before him are Jaroslav Pelikan, Peter Gay, Mother Angelica, Eduardo Lourenço, Louise Brough, and Cyril M. Kornbluth. After him are Gösta Löfgren, Bernard Clavel, Aleksandra Chudina, Lygia Fagundes Telles, Eric Wolf, and N. T. Rama Rao. Among people deceased in 2017, Roy Dotrice ranks 332Before him are Peter Sarstedt, Paul J. Weitz, Kjell Grede, Márta Rudas, Robert Guillaume, and Danuta Szaflarska. After him are Josef Musil, Míriam Colón, Ely Ould Mohamed Vall, Yambo Ouologuem, Lola Albright, and Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann.

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In Guernsey

Among people born in Guernsey, Roy Dotrice ranks 3 out of 8Before him are Warren De la Rue (1815) and Percy Hodge (1890). After him are Karen Dotrice (1955), Isaac Brock (1769), Matt Le Tissier (1968), Andy Priaulx (1974), and Heather Watson (1992).

Among ACTORS In Guernsey

Among actors born in Guernsey, Roy Dotrice ranks 1After him are Karen Dotrice (1955).

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