Vernon Dobtcheff
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1934-08-14 (91 years old)
Place of Birth
Nimes, France
Vernon Dobtcheff
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dobtcheff was born in Nîmes, France, to a British mother (Vernon) and a father of Bulgarian descent (Dobtcheff). He attended Ascham Preparatory School in Eastbourne, Sussex, England, in the 1940s, where he won the Acting Cup. One of his many television roles was as the Chief Scientist in the Doctor Who story The War Games in 1969.
In his 2006 memoir Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins, British actor Rupert Everett describes an encounter with Dobtcheff on the boat train to Paris, and reveals his extraordinary reputation as the "patron saint" of the acting profession, stating that Dobtcheff "was legendary not so much for his acting as for his magical ability to catch every first night in the country". Widely travelled and prone to pop up in the most unlikely of locales, if unable to attend an opening night, Dobtcheff will still endeavour to send the cast a card wishing the production good luck.
Dobtcheff is set to appear in the upcoming Doctor Who audio drama The Children of Seth where he'll be playing the role of Shamur, set for release in December 2011.
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Known For
Acting
(2024)
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
as self
(2024)
Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour
as The Scientist (archive footage)
(2022)
(2021)
Burning Casablanca
as Corny
(2020)
(2018)
The Violet Hour
as M. Audran
(2018)
L'hypothèse de la reine rouge
as Sherlock Holmes
(2017)
The Man with the Iron Heart
as Emile Hacha
(2015)
Killing Jesus
as Isaiah
(2014)
Seven Lucky Gods
as Lawrence
(2014)
The Invisible Boy
as Artiglio
(2014)
Horsehead
as George
(2013)
The Great Beauty
as Arturo
(2012)
Zarafa
as Le vieux sage (voice)
(2012)
Another Woman's Life
as Dimitri Speranski
(2011)
The Passage
as Vieil homme
(2010)
Undisputed III: Redemption
as Rezo
(2010)
Godforsaken
as The Surgeon
(2009)
(2008)
(2008)
The Joy of Singing
as Le lecteur du bar
(2006)
Priceless
as Jacques
(2006)
Courts mais Gay : Tome 12
as Anthony
(2006)
For the Time Being
as Anthony
(2005)
An American Haunting
as Elder #1
(2005)
Empire of the Wolves
as Kudseyi
(2004)
Before Sunset
as Bookstore Manager
(2004)
Pontormo - Un amore eretico
as Riccio
(2004)
Evilenko
as Bagdasarov
(2004)
Thank You, Doctor Rey
as François
(2003)
Brocéliande
as Brennos
(2002)
The Falklands Play
as Nicanor Costa Méndez (Argentine Minister of External Relations)
(2002)
The Red Siren
as Vitali
(2001)
David Copperfield
as Quinion
(2001)
Revelation
as Curé at Rennes-le-Chateau
(2001)
The Order
as Oscar
(2001)
The Body
as Monsignor
(2001)
Festival in Cannes
as Millie's Escort
(2000)
Falling Through
as Father
(2000)
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
as Cleisthenes
(2000)
Le Prof
as Patte Folle
(1999)
The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
as Art Gallery Lecturer
(1999)
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
as Italian Doctor
(1998)
Spanish Fly
as Carl's Friend
(1998)
Vigo
as Papa Lozinska
(1998)
30 Years to Life
as Sandler
(1998)
Déjà Vu
as Konstantine
(1998)
Hilary and Jackie
as Professor Bentley
(1998)
Jinnah
as Lord Willingdon
(1998)
The Wonderland Experience
as Vincent
(1998)
St. Ives
as Bonnefoy
(1997)
Anna Karenina
as Pestov
(1997)
The Hunchback
as Father Michel
(1996)
Surviving Picasso
as Diaghilev
(1996)
(1996)
Jude
as Curator
(1996)
The Ogre
as Lawyer
(1996)
Catherine the Great
as Naryshkin
(1995)
Jefferson in Paris
as King's Translator
(1995)
(1994)
Mademoiselle O
as Rouka
(1993)
Frankenstein
as Chancellor
(1993)
M. Butterfly
as Agent Etancelin
(1993)
The Hour of the Pig
as Apothecary
(1993)
Temptation of Sainthood
as Freud
(1993)
Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher
as Un Héraut / Un prêtre / Un clerc
(1992)
Venice/Venice
as Alexander
(1992)
The First Circle
as Riyumin
(1992)
Sweetheart
as Thurson
(1992)
Obiettivo indiscreto
as Primo editore
(1991)
Let Him Have It
as Clerk of Court
(1990)
Meridian
as Priest
(1990)
Hamlet
as Reynaldo
(1990)
The Krays
as Teacher
(1990)
Vincent and me
as Dr Winkler
(1990)
The Garden
as Old Man at Sauna
(1990)
Flight from Paradise
as Merrill
(1989)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
as Butler
(1989)
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
as Doctor Webber
(1989)
Berlin-Jerusalem
as Editor
(1989)
(1989)
Natalia
as Alfred Grabner
(1989)
The Hostage of Europe
as Hudson Lowe
(1989)
The Sweet House of Horrors
as The Exorcist
(1988)
Testimony
as Gargolovsky
(1988)
Pascali's Island
as Pariente
(1988)
Le due croci
as Bischof de Jong
(1988)
Catacombs
as Brother Timothy
(1988)
Maigret
as Gannett
(1986)
The Name of the Rose
as Hugh of Newcastle
(1986)
Caravaggio
as Art Lover
(1985)
Mata Hari
as Prosecutor
(1984)
(1984)
Much Ado About Nothing
as Don John
(1984)
The Devil's Lieutenant
as Dr. Goldschmiedt
(1984)
Gwendoline
as Shirko
(1984)
Night Patrol
as James
(1983)
An Englishman Abroad
as Guildenstern
(1983)
The Scarlet and the Black
as Count Langenthal
(1982)
Enigma
as Minister
(1982)
The Night of Varennes
as Judge at the confiscation
(1982)
Nutcracker
as Markovitch
(1981)
Le Beau Monde
as Pablo
(1981)
Sredni Vashtar
as Dr. Russell
(1981)
Condorman
as Russian Agent
(1981)
L'Amour nu
as John, le patron de Claire
(1981)
Troilus & Cressida
as Agamemnon
(1981)
San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça
as Un tueur russe
(1980)
Nijinsky
as Sergei Grigoriev
(1979)
Ike
as Gen. Charles DeGaulle
(1978)
Romeo and Juliet
as Apothecary
(1978)
Little Girl in Blue Velvet
as Lamberti
(1978)
Last In, First Out
as Le réceptionniste
(1978)
The Roads of Exile
as Le peintre Ramsay
(1978)
Question of Love
as Peter
(1977)
The Spy Who Loved Me
as Max Kalba
(1977)
March or Die
as Mean Corporal
(1977)
The Achurch Letters
as Eugene
(1977)
Joseph Andrews
as Fop Two
(1976)
French Without Tears
as Monsieur Maingot
(1975)
Lovers Like Us
as Coleman
(1975)
Operation: Daybreak
as Pyotr
(1975)
Playing with Fire
as A messenger
(1975)
The Messiah
as Samuel
(1975)
Rumpole of the Bailey
as Magnus Piecan
(1975)
India Song
as Georges Crawn
(1975)
Cat and Mouse
as Germain's accomplice
(1975)
The Secret Agent
as Karl Yundt
(1975)
Van der Valk and the Scapegoat
as Reinders
(1974)
Murder on the Orient Express
as Concierge
(1974)
Cartesius
as Astronomo Ciprus
(1974)
Scent of a Woman
as Don Carlo (uncredited)
(1974)
The Marseille Contract
as Lazar
(1974)
Soft Beds, Hard Battles
as Padre
(1973)
The Day of the Jackal
as Interrogator
(1973)
An Echo of Theresa
as Bannerheim
(1973)
Impossible Object
as Private Investigator
(1972)
(1972)
Up the Front
as Muller
(1972)
The Canterbury Tales
as The Franklin
(1971)
The Married Couple of the Year Two
as le pasteur
(1971)
Fiddler on the Roof
as Russian Official
(1971)
The Horsemen
as Zam Hajji
(1971)
Nicholas and Alexandra
as Dr. Lazovert
(1971)
Mary, Queen of Scots
as Duc De Guise
(1970)
The Beast in the Cellar
as Newsmith
(1970)
Them
as Brisbane
(1969)
Anne of the Thousand Days
as Mendoza
(1969)
The Assassination Bureau
as Baron Muntzof
(1969)
Baby Love
as Man in Cinema
(1969)
Doctor Who: The War Games
as Chief Scientist
(1969)
Beach Head
as N.G. Waldron
(1968)
(1967)
The Taming of the Shrew
as Pedant
(1965)
Darling
as Art Critic at Ralph Riggs Exposure (uncredited)
(1965)
The Debussy Film
as The Actor
(1965)
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
as Member of the French Team
(1965)
The World of George Orwell: 1984
as Goldstein
(1964)
The Life of Galileo
as Philosopher