Vernon Dobtcheff
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1934-08-14 (90 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)
The Invisible Boy
as Artiglio
(2014)
Horsehead
as George
(2014)
Seven Lucky Gods
as Lawrence
(2013)
The Great Beauty
as Arturo
(2012)
Zarafa
as Le vieux sage (voice)
(2012)
Another Woman's Life
as Dimitri Speranski
(2011)
Le 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)
For the Time Being
as Anthony
(2006)
Courts mais Gay : Tome 12
as Anthony
(2005)
An American Haunting
as Elder #1
(2005)
Empire of the Wolves
as Kudseyi
(2004)
Before Sunset
as Bookstore Manager
(2004)
Evilenko
as Bagdasarov
(2004)
Pontormo - Un amore eretico
as Riccio
(2004)
Thank You, Doctor Rey
as François
(2003)
Brocéliande
as Brennos
(2002)
The Red Siren
as Vitali
(2002)
The Falklands Play
as Nicanor Costa Méndez (Argentine Minister of External Relations)
(2001)
The Order
as Oscar
(2001)
The Body
as Monsignor
(2001)
Revelation
as Curé at Rennes-le-Chateau
(2001)
Festival in Cannes
as Millie's Escort
(2000)
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
as Cleisthenes
(2000)
Le Prof
as Patte Folle
(2000)
Falling Through
as Father
(1999)
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
as Italian Doctor
(1999)
The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
as Art Gallery Lecturer
(1998)
Hilary and Jackie
as Professor Bentley
(1998)
Jinnah
as Lord Willingdon
(1998)
Vigo
as Papa Lozinska
(1998)
(1998)
Spanish Fly
as Carl's Friend
(1998)
Déjà Vu
as Konstantine
(1998)
30 Years to Life
as Sandler
(1998)
The Wonderland Experience
as Vincent
(1997)
Anna Karenina
as Pestov
(1997)
The Hunchback
as Father Michel
(1996)
Jude
as Curator
(1996)
Surviving Picasso
as Diaghilev
(1996)
The Ogre
as Lawyer
(1996)
Catherine the Great
as Naryshkin
(1996)
(1995)
Jefferson in Paris
as King's Translator
(1995)
(1994)
Mademoiselle O
as Rouka
(1993)
M. Butterfly
as Agent Etancelin
(1993)
The Hour of the Pig
as Apothecary
(1993)
Frankenstein
as Chancellor
(1993)
Temptation of Sainthood
as Freud
(1993)
Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher
as Un Héraut / Un prêtre / Un clerc
(1992)
Sweetheart
as Thurson
(1992)
Venice/Venice
as Alexander
(1992)
Obiettivo indiscreto
as Primo editore
(1991)
Let Him Have It
as Clerk of Court
(1991)
Mel Gibson Goes Back to School
as Reynaldo (archive footage)
(1990)
Hamlet
as Reynaldo
(1990)
The Krays
as Teacher
(1990)
Meridian
as Priest
(1990)
The Garden
as Old Man at Sauna
(1990)
Flight from Paradise
as Merrill
(1990)
Vincent and me
as Dr Winkler
(1989)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
as Butler
(1989)
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
as Doctor Webber
(1989)
(1989)
The Sweet House of Horrors
as The Exorcist
(1989)
Berlin-Jerusalem
as Editor
(1989)
Natalia
as Alfred Grabner
(1989)
The Hostage of Europe
as Hudson Lowe
(1988)
Pascali's Island
as Pariente
(1988)
Testimony
as Gargolovsky
(1988)
Catacombs
as Brother Timothy
(1988)
Maigret
as Gannett
(1988)
Le due croci
as Bischof de Jong
(1986)
The Name of the Rose
as Hugh of Newcastle
(1986)
Caravaggio
as Art Lover
(1985)
Mata Hari
as Prosecutor
(1984)
Gwendoline
as Shirko
(1984)
Night Patrol
as James
(1984)
Much Ado About Nothing
as Don John
(1984)
The Devil's Lieutenant
as Dr. Goldschmiedt
(1984)
(1983)
The Scarlet and the Black
as Count Langenthal
(1983)
An Englishman Abroad
as Guildenstern
(1982)
Enigma
as Minister
(1982)
The Night of Varennes
as Judge at the confiscation
(1982)
Nutcracker
as Markovitch
(1981)
Condorman
as Russian Agent
(1981)
L'Amour nu
as John, le patron de Claire
(1981)
Troilus & Cressida
as Agamemnon
(1981)
Le Beau Monde
as Pablo
(1981)
San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça
as Un tueur russe
(1981)
Sredni Vashtar
as Dr. Russell
(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)
Joseph Andrews
as Fop Two
(1977)
The Achurch Letters
as Eugene
(1976)
French Without Tears
as Monsieur Maingot
(1975)
Playing with Fire
as A messenger
(1975)
India Song
as Georges Crawn
(1975)
Lovers Like Us
as Coleman
(1975)
The Messiah
as Samuel
(1975)
Operation: Daybreak
as Pyotr
(1975)
Cat and Mouse
as Germain's accomplice
(1975)
Van der Valk and the Scapegoat
as Reinders
(1975)
Rumpole of the Bailey
as Magnus Piecan
(1974)
Murder on the Orient Express
as Concierge
(1974)
Scent of a Woman
as Don Carlo (uncredited)
(1974)
Soft Beds, Hard Battles
as Padre
(1974)
Cartesius
as Astronomo Ciprus
(1974)
The Marseille Contract
as Lazar
(1973)
The Day of the Jackal
as Interrogator
(1973)
Impossible Object
as Private Investigator
(1973)
An Echo of Theresa
as Bannerheim
(1972)
The Canterbury Tales
as The Franklin
(1972)
(1971)
Fiddler on the Roof
as Russian Official
(1971)
Nicholas and Alexandra
as Dr. Lazovert
(1971)
Mary, Queen of Scots
as Duc De Guise
(1971)
The Horsemen
as Zam Hajji
(1971)
The Married Couple of the Year Two
as le pasteur
(1970)
The Beast in the Cellar
as Newsmith
(1970)
Them
as Brisbane
(1969)
Anne of the Thousand Days
as Mendoza
(1969)
Baby Love
as Man in Cinema
(1969)
The Assassination Bureau
as Baron Muntzof
(1969)
Doctor Who: The War Games
as Chief Scientist
(1968)
(1967)
The Taming of the Shrew
as Pedant
(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)
Darling
as Art Critic at Ralph Riggs Exposure (uncredited)
(1965)
The World of George Orwell: 1984
as Goldstein
(1965)
The Debussy Film
as The Actor
(1964)
The Life of Galileo
as Philosopher