In 1951, Doyle was accepted into the Sadler's Wells Ballet, under the direction of Ninette de Valois, and was promoted to soloist in 1953.
MacMillan often cast him in "cruel, overbearing roles because of his height and narrow face, as lethal as a knife blade.
He danced many roles in classical and romantic works already in the active repertory, including Les Sylphides, Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, Coppélia, and Sylvia, and took prominent roles in such important ballets as de Valois's The Rake's Progress, Ashton's 'Symphonic Variations, and Alfred Rodrigues's The Miraculous Mandarin.
His reason for being in Maricá, a small city about forty miles north of Rio de Janeiro, is not known.
If he had traveled from Cape Town, directly across the South Atlantic from Brazil, he had possibly gone there in search of work.