Portrait of Vernon Dobtcheff

Vernon Dobtcheff

Acting

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Vernon Dobtcheff, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Born: August 14, 1934

Place of Birth: Nimes, France

Filmography

2024
Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour

as The Scientist (archive footage)

2023
The Gold

as Matteo Constantino

2021
2019
The Witcher

as Older Elf

2018
The Romanoffs

as M. Audran

2018
2017
2017
Emerald City

as High Born Man

2016
The Durrells

as Mr. Kralefsky

2015
Killing Jesus

as Isaiah

2014
2014
Horsehead

as George

2014
Seven Lucky Gods

as Lawrence

2013
2012
Another Woman's Life

as Dimitri Speranski

2012
Zarafa

as Le vieux sage (voice)

2011
The Passage

as Vieil homme

2011
The Borgias

as Cardinal Versucci

2010
Godforsaken

as The Surgeon

2008
The Joy of Singing

as Le lecteur du bar

2007
La Légende des 3 clefs

as The anthropologist Gilles Clément

2006
Priceless

as Jacques

2005
2005
2004
2004
Before Sunset

as Bookstore Manager

2004
Evilenko

as Bagdasarov

2003
Brocéliande

as Brennos

2002
The Red Siren

as Vitali

2002
The Falklands Play

as Nicanor Costa Méndez (Argentine Minister of External Relations)

2001
2001
Festival in Cannes

as Millie's Escort

2001
The Order

as Oscar

2001
The Body

as Monsignor

2001
Revelation

as Curé at Rennes-le-Chateau

2001
Largo Winch

as Maurice de Beliveau

2000
Le Prof

as Patte Folle

2000
1999
Dreaming of Joseph Lees

as Italian Doctor

1999
Relic Hunter

as Anthony Cureton

1999
1998
Hilary and Jackie

as Professor Bentley

1998
Jinnah

as Lord Willingdon

1998
1998
Highlander: The Raven

as Count Van Der Meer

1998
Vigo

as Papa Lozinska

1998
Spanish Fly

as Carl's Friend

1998
Merlin

as 1st Physician

1998
Déjà Vu

as Konstantine

1998
St. Ives

as Bonnefoy

1997
Anna Karenina

as Pestov

1997
The Hunchback

as Father Michel

1996
The Ice Princess

as Chancellor

1996
The Ogre

as Lawyer

1996
Surviving Picasso

as Diaghilev

1996
1996
Jude

as Curator

1995
1995
Father Ted

as Old Nazi

1995
Jefferson in Paris

as King's Translator

1994
1993
Frankenstein

as Chancellor

1993
M. Butterfly

as Agent Etancelin

1993
The Hour of the Pig

as Apothecary

1992
Highlander: The Series

as Carlo Luchesi

1992
Venice/Venice

as Alexander

1992
Obiettivo indiscreto

as Primo editore

1992
Sweetheart

as Thurson

1992
1992
As Time Goes By

as Dr. Stoker

1991
1991
Let Him Have It

as Clerk of Court

1990
Hamlet

as Reynaldo

1990
Vincent and me

as Dr Winkler

1990
Meridian

as Priest

1990
The Garden

as Old Man at Sauna

1990
The Krays

as Teacher

1990
1989
The Hostage of Europe

as Hudson Lowe

1989
Natalia

as Alfred Grabner

1989
1989
1988
Testimony

as Gargolovsky

1988
Pascali's Island

as Pariente

1988
Catacombs

as Brother Timothy

1988
Le due croci

as Bischof de Jong

1988
Maigret

as Gannett

1987
Fortunes of War

as Prince Hadjimoscos

1986
The Name of the Rose

as Hugh of Newcastle

1986
Caravaggio

as Art Lover

1985
Tender Is the Night

as Luis Campion

1985
Mata Hari

as Prosecutor

1985
A.D.

as Flavius Sabinus

1985
Morenga

as Lohmann

1984
1984
L'Homme de Suez

as Konya, Turkish Colonel, spy in the service of the English

1984
Sherlock Holmes

as Mendelstam

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
Nutcracker

as Markovitch

1982
Marco Polo

as Pietro De Abano

1982
Enigma

as Minister

1982
The Night of Varennes

as Judge at the confiscation

1981
Troilus & Cressida

as Agamemnon

1981
L'Amour nu

as John, le patron de Claire

1981
Sredni Vashtar

as Dr. Russell

1981
Condorman

as Russian Agent

1981
1981
1981
Peter and Paul

as High Priest of Herod

1981
Masada

as Chief Priest

1980
Nijinsky

as Sergei Grigoriev

1979
Ike

as Gen. Charles DeGaulle

1979
Ike

as Gen. Charles DeGaulle

1978
Romeo and Juliet

as Apothecary

1978
1978
1978
Last In, First Out

as Le réceptionniste

1978
Holocaust

as Karp

1978
Blake's 7

as The Chairman

1978
The Roads of Exile

as Le peintre Ramsay

1977
1977
March or Die

as Mean Corporal

1977
1977
Joseph Andrews

as Fop Two

1977
1976
Dickens of London

as Legal Gentleman

1976
French Without Tears

as Monsieur Maingot

1975
1975
Rumpole of the Bailey

as Edward Gandolphini

1975
Rumpole of the Bailey

as Magnus Piecan

1975
Lovers Like Us

as Coleman

1975
The Messiah

as Samuel

1975
Cat and Mouse

as Germain's accomplice

1975
India Song

as Georges Crawn

1975
Playing with Fire

as A messenger

1975
The Sweeney

as Harry Kretchmar

1974
Churchill's People

as De Reynes

1974
Scent of a Woman

as Don Carlo (uncredited)

1974
Fall of Eagles

as Count Stookau

1974
Playhouse

as Eugene

1974
Cartesius

as Astronomo Ciprus

1973
Impossible Object

as Private Investigator

1973
The Day of the Jackal

as Interrogator

1973
An Echo of Theresa

as Bannerheim

1972
The Edwardians

as Benjamin Disraeli

1972
Crown Court

as John Maitland-Wilson

1972
The Protectors

as Joe Flynn

1972
Van der Valk

as Sebastian Jonge

1972
The Canterbury Tales

as The Franklin

1972
Up the Front

as Muller

1971
Mary, Queen of Scots

as Duc De Guise

1971
Nicholas and Alexandra

as Dr. Lazovert

1971
Fiddler on the Roof

as Russian Official

1971
The Horsemen

as Zam Hajji

1970
Them

as Brisbane

1970
Ace of Wands

as Sandor Zandar

1969
Doctor Who: The War Games

as Chief Scientist

1969
Baby Love

as Man in Cinema

1969
The Assassination Bureau

as Baron Muntzof

1968
The Champions

as Manager

1968
1966
1965
BBC Play of the Month

as Monsieur Maingot

1965
Darling

as Art Critic at Ralph Riggs Exposure (uncredited)

1965
The Debussy Film

as The Actor

1964
Theatre 625

as Priest

1964
Theatre 625

as Emmanuel Goldstein

1963
Doctor Who

as Scientist

1962
The Saint

as Vogel

1962
1961
The Avengers

as Spencer

1961
The Avengers

as Stenson

1955
Dixon of Dock Green

as Counsel for Defence

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