Roy Dotrice in 2000, after winning a Tony Award for his role in “A Moon for the Misbegotten.”
British actor
Roy Dotrice, who narrated the
A Song of Ice and Fire audiobooks and appeared as Pyromancer Hallyne in two episodes of Season 2 of
Game of Thrones, died today at age 94, according to the BBC.
Thrones was Dotrice’s last television role before his death.
Dotrice — a multifaceted actor who had roles in film, television and
theater, winning a Tony Award in 2000 for the Broadway revival of
A Moon for the Misbegotten — earned
a Guinness World Record for the most characters ever voiced by a single
actor when recording the audiobook for “A Game of Thrones” in 2004, and
went on to narrate all of the published novels in
George R.R. Martin‘s
A Song of Ice and Fire
series. He was originally cast as Grand Maester Pycelle in 2010, but he
fell ill before filming began and instead appeared in two episodes of
Season 2 as Pyromancer Hallyne — who, viewers recall, gleefully watched
his wildfire oblierate Stannis Baratheon’s fleet during the Battle of
the Blackwater.
Dotrice and Martin had a long-running relationship, beginning with their work together on the television series
Beauty and the Beast,
which ran from 1987-90 and on which Dotrice played Jacob “Father” Wells
and Martin was a writer and producer. It was because of that long
relationship that Dotrice reportedly accepted the cameo as Hallyne after
recovering from his illness as a favor to Martin. Dotrice will be
missed as a longtime member of the
Thrones world, especially
when “The Winds of Winter” is (finally) published and someone will have
to take up the mantle of narrator. We know those will be big shoes to
fill.
Rest in peace, Roy.
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