After playing Mozart's disapproving father in Amadeus (1984), played similar roles of disapproving fathers on the science fiction shows "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys" (1995) (in which he played Hercules' father, "Zeus") and "Angel" (1999) (in which he played Wesley Windham-Price's father).
Began acting when he was a Prisoner of War in World War II.
Both he and his former son-in-law Alex Hyde-White made guest appearances in "Babylon 5" (1994) whereas another of his sons-in-law, Edward Woodward, appeared in its spin-off series "Crusade" (1999). Furthermore, the latter son's Peter Woodward, the stepson of his daughter Michele Dotrice, played the regular character of the Technomage Galen in "Crusade" (1999).
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 O'Toole (Shylock); Charles Laughton (Lear) plate umpire and Albert Finney his catcher.
Daughters with Kay Dotrice are actress Michele Dotrice who is married to the actor Edward Woodward, actress Karen Dotrice and actress Yvette Dotrice.
Dubbed Harvey Keitel's voice in the movie Saturn 3 (1980)
Ex-father-in-law of Alex Hyde-White.
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.
He was awarded the O.B.E. (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2008 Queen's New Years Honors List for his services to drama.
Introduced American baseball to the cricket playing Royal Shakespeare Company.
Reunited with 1980s TV series "Beauty and the Beast" (1987) "son", Ron Perlman, in Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008). Roy played the "Elven King".
Roy was entered into the Guinness Book of World Records a second time for his voice work on the audio book version of George RR Martin's "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.
Served in the Royal Air Force as a fighter pilot for two years during World War II.
Spent his early childhood in The Channel Islands off the coast of Great Britian.
Won a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play (A Moon for the Misbegotten) [2000]
Won Broadway's 2000 Tony Award as Best Actor (Featured Role - Play) for a revival of Eugene O'Neill's "A Moon for the Misbegotten." He had previously been nominated as Best Actor (Play) in 1981 for "A Life."