Vernon Dobtcheff
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.
Known For
Credits
- 2023 · The Gold as Matteo Constantino
- 2022 · Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba as Self
- 2021 · Burning Casablanca as Corny
- 2020 · The Haunting of Margam Castle as
- 2019 · The Witcher as Older Elf
- 2018 · The Violet Hour as M. Audran
- 2018 · The Romanoffs as M. Audran
- 2018 · L'hypothèse de la reine rouge as Sherlock Holmes
- 2017 · The Man with the Iron Heart as Emile Hacha
- 2016 · The Durrells as Mr. Kralefsky
- 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 · Another Woman's Life as Dimitri Speranski
- 2012 · Zarafa as Le vieux sage (voice)
- 2011 · Le passage as Vieil homme
- 2011 · The Borgias as
- 2011 · The Borgias as Cardinal Versucci
- 2010 · Undisputed III: Redemption as Rezo
- 2010 · Godforsaken as The Surgeon
- 2009 · Changing Climates, Changing Times as Lucas
- 2009 · The Little Murders of Agatha Christie as Anatole Deschanel
- 2008 · The Joy of Singing as Le lecteur du bar
- 2008 · Apparitions as
- 2008 · Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1 as Self
- 2007 · La Légende des 3 clefs as The anthropologist Gilles Clément
- 2006 · Priceless as Jacques
- 2006 · Courts mais Gay : Tome 12 as Anthony
- 2006 · For the Time Being as Anthony
- 2006 · Surviving Disaster as
- 2005 · An American Haunting as Elder #1
- 2005 · Empire of the Wolves as Kudseyi
- 2004 · Thank You, Doctor Rey as François
- 2004 · Before Sunset as Bookstore Manager
- 2004 · Evilenko as Bagdasarov
- 2004 · Pontormo - Un amore eretico as Riccio
- 2003 · Brocéliande as Brennos
- 2002 · White Teeth as Devil of Dachau
- 2002 · The Red Siren as Vitali
- 2002 · The Falklands Play as Nicanor Costa Méndez (Argentine Minister of External Relations)
- 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
- 2000 · Le Prof as Patte Folle
- 2000 · The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization as Cleisthenes
- 2000 · The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization as Cleisthenes
- 1999 · Dreaming of Joseph Lees as Italian Doctor
- 1999 · Relic Hunter as Anthony Cureton
- 1999 · The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka as Art Gallery Lecturer
- 1998 · Hilary and Jackie as Professor Bentley
- 1998 · Jinnah as Lord Willingdon
- 1998 · 30 Years to Life as Sandler
- 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 · The Wonderland Experience as Vincent
- 1998 · St. Ives as
- 1997 · Anna Karenina as Pestov
- 1997 · The Hunchback as Father Michel
- 1996 · Die Eisprinzessin as
- 1996 · The Ogre as Lawyer
- 1996 · Surviving Picasso as Diaghilev
- 1996 · Catherine the Great as Naryshkin
- 1996 · Jude as Curator
- 1995 · Father Ted as Old Nazi
- 1995 · Jefferson in Paris as King's Translator
- 1995 · The House that Mary Bought as
- 1995 · The Ice Princess as
- 1994 · Mademoiselle O as Rouka
- 1993 · Frankenstein as Chancellor
- 1993 · M. Butterfly as Agent Etancelin
- 1993 · Temptation of Sainthood as Freud
- 1993 · Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher as Un Héraut / Un prêtre / Un clerc
- 1992 · Highlander: The Series as Carlo Luchesi
- 1992 · Highlander: The Series as Hamad
- 1992 · Venice/Venice as Alexander
- 1992 · Obiettivo indiscreto as Primo editore
- 1992 · Sweetheart as Thurson
- 1992 · As Time Goes By as Dr. Stoker
- 1991 · Let Him Have It as Clerk of Court
- 1991 · Strauss Dynasty as Hirsch
- 1991 · Mel Gibson Goes Back to School as Reynaldo (archive footage)
- 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 · Flight from Paradise as Merrill
- 1989 · The Hostage of Europe as Hudson Lowe
- 1989 · Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade as Butler
- 1989 · Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story as Jules Glaenzer
- 1989 · Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story as Doctor Webber
- 1989 · Natalia as Alfred Grabner
- 1989 · Splendor as
- 1989 · Berlin-Jerusalem as Editor
- 1989 · Agatha Christie's Poirot as Simeon Lee
- 1989 · The Sweet House of Horrors as The Exorcist
- 1988 · Testimony as Gargolovsky
- 1988 · Pascali's Island as Pariente
- 1988 · Catacombs as Brother Timothy
- 1988 · Maigret as Gannett
- 1987 · Fortunes of War as
- 1986 · The Name of the Rose as Hugh of Newcastle
- 1986 · Caravaggio as Art Lover
- 1985 · Mussolini: The Untold Story as Sebastiani
- 1985 · Mata Hari as Prosecutor
- 1985 · A.D. as Flavius Sabinus
- 1985 · Morenga as Lohmann
- 1985 · Morenga as Lohmann
- 1984 · Much Ado About Nothing as Don John
- 1984 · L'Homme de Suez as Konya, le Colonel turque, espion au service des Anglais
- 1984 · Sherlock Holmes as Mendelstam
- 1984 · Gwendoline as Shirko
- 1984 · The Devil's Lieutenant as Dr. Goldschmiedt
- 1984 · Night Patrol as
- 1984 · Mon Ami Washington as
- 1983 · An Englishman Abroad as Guildenstern
- 1983 · Dramarama as
- 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 · Goldene Zeiten - Bittere Zeiten as M. Bernard
- 1981 · Sredni Vashtar as Dr. Russell
- 1981 · Condorman as Russian Agent
- 1981 · Le Beau Monde as Pablo
- 1981 · San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça as Un tueur russe
- 1981 · Private Schulz as
- 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
- 1978 · BBC Television Shakespeare as Apothecary
- 1978 · Romeo & Juliet as Apothecary
- 1978 · Question of Love as Peter
- 1978 · Lillie as
- 1978 · Last In, First Out as Le réceptionniste
- 1978 · Little Girl in Blue Velvet as Lamberti
- 1978 · The Devil's Crown as
- 1978 · Holocaust as Karp
- 1978 · Blake's 7 as The Chairman
- 1978 · The Roads of Exile as Le peintre Ramsay
- 1977 · 1990 as
- 1977 · March or Die as Mean Corporal
- 1977 · The Spy Who Loved Me as Max Kalba
- 1977 · Joseph Andrews as Fop Two
- 1977 · The Achurch Letters as Eugene
- 1976 · Police Commissioner Moulin as Astman
- 1976 · French Without Tears as Monsieur Maingot
- 1975 · Michael Strogoff as Blount
- 1975 · Rumpole of the Bailey as
- 1975 · Rumpole of the Bailey as Magnus Piecan
- 1975 · Lovers Like Us as Coleman
- 1975 · Des Christoffel von Grimmelshausen abenteuerlicher Simplizissimus as Dr. Canard
- 1975 · Operation: Daybreak as Pyotr
- 1975 · The Messiah as Samuel
- 1975 · Cat and Mouse as le complice de Germain
- 1975 · India Song as Georges Crawn
- 1975 · Playing with Fire as A messenger
- 1975 · The Venturers as
- 1975 · The Sweeney as Harry Kretchmar
- 1974 · Scent of a Woman as Don Carlo (uncredited)
- 1974 · Murder on the Orient Express as Concierge
- 1974 · À vous de jouer Milord as N° 2
- 1974 · Father Brown as
- 1974 · The Marseille Contract as Lazar
- 1974 · Fall of Eagles as Count Stookau
- 1974 · Cartesius as Astronomo Ciprus
- 1974 · Soft Beds, Hard Battles as Padre
- 1973 · Story of a Love Story as
- 1973 · The Day of the Jackal as Interrogator
- 1973 · Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em as
- 1973 · An Echo of Theresa as Bannerheim
- 1972 · The Edwardians as
- 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 · Far from Dallas as
- 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 Rivals of Sherlock Holmes as Molbech
- 1971 · The Horsemen as Zam Hajji
- 1971 · The Married Couple of the Year Two as le pasteur
- 1970 · Them as
- 1970 · Play for Today as
- 1970 · The Beast in the Cellar as Newsmith
- 1970 · Ace of Wands as
- 1970 · Codename as Herman Voss
- 1969 · Anne of the Thousand Days as Mendoza
- 1969 · Doctor Who: The War Games as Chief Scientist
- 1969 · The Assassination Bureau as Baron Muntzof
- 1968 · The Champions as Manager
- 1968 · The Name of the Game as Dedushko
- 1967 · The Taming of the Shrew as Pedant
- 1966 · Breaking Point (UK) as
- 1966 · Mystery and Imagination as
- 1965 · The World of George Orwell: 1984 as Goldstein
- 1965 · Thirty-Minute Theatre as
- 1965 · Out of the Unknown as
- 1965 · Darling as Art Critic at Ralph Riggs Exposure (uncredited)
- 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 Debussy Film as The Actor
- 1964 · The Life of Galileo as Philosopher
- 1964 · Martin Chuzzlewit as
- 1963 · Doctor Who as Scientist
- 1962 · The Saint as Vogel
- 1962 · The Scales of Justice as Mr. Strang
- 1961 · The Avengers as Spencer
- 1961 · The Avengers as Stenson
- 1955 · Dixon of Dock Green as Counsel for Defence