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.
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- Born:
- Aug 14, 1934 In Nimes, France
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 183
- First Appeared:
- In the series Dixon of Dock Green 1955-07-09
- Latest Project:
- Movie The Haunting of Margam Castle 2020-09-01
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | The Haunting of Margam Castle | 2020-09-01 | |
| Movie | The Man with the Iron Heart | Emile Hacha | 2017-05-25 |
| Movie | Killing Jesus | Isaiah | 2015-04-05 |
| Movie | Seven Lucky Gods | Lawrence | 2014-04-04 |
| Movie | Horsehead | George | 2014-09-07 |
| Movie | The Invisible Boy | Artiglio | 2014-12-18 |
| Movie | The Great Beauty | Arturo | 2013-05-21 |
| Movie | Zarafa | Le vieux sage (voice) | 2012-01-25 |
| Movie | Another Woman's Life | Dimitri Speranski | 2012-02-14 |
| Series | The Borgias | Cardinal Versucci | 2011-04-03 |
| Movie | Le passage | Vieil homme | 2011-10-15 |
| Movie | Godforsaken | The Surgeon | 2010-04-10 |
| Movie | Undisputed III: Redemption | Rezo | 2010-05-22 |
| Movie | Changing Climates, Changing Times | Lucas | 2009-02-04 |
| Series | The Little Murders of Agatha Christie | Anatole Deschanel | 2009-01-09 |
| Movie | An Englishman Abroad | Guildenstern | 2009-09-21 |
| Movie | Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1 | Self | 2008-03-06 |
| Series | Apparitions | Unknown | 2008-11-13 |
| Series | La Légende des 3 clefs | The anthropologist Gilles Clément | 2007-12-20 |
| Movie | Priceless | Jacques | 2006-12-13 |
| Series | Surviving Disaster | Unknown | 2006-01-10 |
| Movie | Empire of the Wolves | Kudseyi | 2005-04-20 |
| Movie | An American Haunting | Elder #1 | 2005-05-05 |
| Movie | Pontormo - Un amore eretico | Riccio | 2004-01-01 |
| Movie | Evilenko | Bagdasarov | 2004-04-16 |
| Movie | Before Sunset | Bookstore Manager | 2004-06-16 |
| Movie | Brocéliande | Brennos | 2003-01-08 |
| Movie | The Falklands Play | Nicanor Costa Méndez (Argentine Minister of External Relations) | 2002-04-10 |
| Movie | The Red Siren | Vitali | 2002-08-21 |
| Movie | Thank You, Doctor Rey | François | 2002-10-13 |
| Movie | Revelation | Curé at Rennes-le-Chateau | 2001-04-12 |
| Movie | The Body | Monsignor | 2001-04-13 |
| Movie | The Order | Oscar | 2001-05-05 |
| Movie | Festival in Cannes | Millie's Escort | 2001-11-03 |
| Series | The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization | Cleisthenes | 2000-02-09 |
| Movie | Le Prof | Patte Folle | 2000-04-12 |
| Movie | The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization | Cleisthenes | 2000-02-09 |
| Series | Relic Hunter | Unknown | 1999-09-25 |
| Movie | Dreaming of Joseph Lees | Italian Doctor | 1999-10-29 |
| Series | Merlin | 1st Physician | 1998-04-26 |
| Movie | The Wonderland Experience | Vincent | 1998-02-01 |
| Movie | St. Ives | 1998-01-01 | |
| Movie | Spanish Fly | Carl's Friend | 1998-09-10 |
| Movie | Déjà Vu | Konstantine | 1998-04-22 |
| Movie | Jinnah | Lord Willingdon | 1998-11-07 |
| Movie | 30 Years to Life | Sandler | 1998-10-15 |
| Movie | Hilary and Jackie | Professor Bentley | 1998-12-30 |
| Series | Highlander: The Raven | Unknown | 1998-09-26 |
| Movie | Vigo | Papa Lozinska | 1998-09-14 |
| Movie | The Hunchback | Father Michel | 1997-03-16 |
| Movie | Anna Karenina | Pestov | 1997-04-04 |
| Movie | Jude | Curator | 1996-02-06 |
| Movie | Catherine the Great | Naryshkin | 1996-04-28 |
| Movie | Surviving Picasso | 1996-09-04 | |
| Movie | Die Eisprinzessin | 1996-12-12 | |
| Movie | The Ogre | Lawyer | 1996-09-12 |
| Movie | Jefferson in Paris | King's Translator | 1995-03-31 |
| Series | Father Ted | Unknown | 1995-04-21 |
| Movie | Mademoiselle O | Rouka | 1994-12-05 |
| Movie | Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher | Un Héraut / Un prêtre / Un clerc | 1993-01-01 |
| Movie | M. Butterfly | Agent Etancelin | 1993-10-01 |
| Movie | Frankenstein | Chancellor | 1993-12-02 |
| Series | As Time Goes By | Unknown | 1992-01-12 |
| Movie | Sweetheart | Thurson | 1992-04-07 |
| Movie | Venice/Venice | Alexander | 1992-04-10 |
| Series | Strauss Dynasty | Hirsch | 1991-01-01 |
| Movie | Let Him Have It | Clerk of Court | 1991-10-04 |
| Movie | The Krays | Teacher | 1990-04-27 |
| Movie | Flight from Paradise | Merrill | 1990-01-01 |
| Movie | The Garden | Old Man at Sauna | 1990-09-06 |
| Movie | Vincent and me | Dr Winkler | 1990-12-13 |
| Movie | Hamlet | Reynaldo | 1990-12-19 |
| Movie | Meridian | Priest | 1990-11-10 |
| Movie | Berlin-Jerusalem | Editor | 1989-02-03 |
| Movie | The Sweet House of Horrors | The Exorcist | 1989-01-01 |
| Movie | Splendor | 1989-02-16 | |
| Movie | Natalia | Alfred Grabner | 1989-04-12 |
| Movie | The Hostage of Europe | Hudson Lowe | 1989-09-29 |
| Movie | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | Butler | 1989-05-24 |
| Series | Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story | Jules Glaenzer | 1989-04-30 |
| Movie | Maigret | Gannett | 1988-02-22 |
| Movie | Catacombs | Brother Timothy | 1988-05-14 |
| Movie | Pascali's Island | Pariente | 1988-07-22 |
| Movie | Testimony | Gargolovsky | 1988-11-01 |
| Series | Fortunes of War | 1987-10-11 | |
| Movie | Caravaggio | Art Lover | 1986-08-29 |
| Movie | The Name of the Rose | Hugh of Newcastle | 1986-09-24 |
| Series | A.D. | Flavius Sabinus | 1985-03-31 |
| Series | Mussolini: The Untold Story | Sebastiani | 1985-11-24 |
| Movie | Mata Hari | Prosecutor | 1985-09-05 |
| Movie | Night Patrol | 1984-01-11 | |
| Movie | Mon Ami Washington | 1984-01-01 | |
| Movie | The Devil's Lieutenant | Dr. Goldschmiedt | 1984-01-11 |
| Series | Sherlock Holmes | Mendelstam | 1984-04-24 |
| Movie | Gwendoline | Shirko | 1984-02-08 |
| Movie | Much Ado About Nothing | Don John | 1984-12-22 |
| Movie | The Scarlet and the Black | Count Langenthal | 1983-02-02 |
| Series | Dramarama | Unknown | 1983-09-12 |
| Movie | The Night of Varennes | Judge at the confiscation | 1982-05-15 |
| Movie | Enigma | Minister | 1982-10-15 |
| Series | Marco Polo | Prosecutor | 1982-12-05 |
| Movie | Nutcracker | Markovitch | 1982-12-17 |
| Series | Private Schulz | Unknown | 1981-05-06 |
| Series | Peter and Paul | High Priest of Herod | 1981-04-12 |
| Series | Masada | Chief Priest | 1981-04-05 |
| Movie | San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça | Un tueur russe | 1981-05-20 |
| Movie | Sredni Vashtar | Dr. Russell | 1981-09-01 |
| Movie | L'Amour nu | John, le patron de Claire | 1981-10-07 |
| Movie | Condorman | Russian Agent | 1981-07-02 |
| Series | Goldene Zeiten - Bittere Zeiten | M. Bernard | 1981-09-29 |
| Movie | Troilus & Cressida | Agamemnon | 1981-11-07 |
| Movie | Nijinsky | Sergei Grigoriev | 1980-03-20 |
| Movie | Ike | Gen. Charles DeGaulle | 1979-05-03 |
| Series | The Devil's Crown | Unknown | 1978-04-30 |
| Series | Holocaust | Karp | 1978-04-16 |
| Series | Blake's 7 | The Chairman | 1978-01-02 |
| Movie | The Roads of Exile | Le peintre Ramsay | 1978-01-01 |
| Movie | Little Girl in Blue Velvet | Lamberti | 1978-08-23 |
| Series | BBC Television Shakespeare | Unknown | 1978-12-03 |
| Movie | Romeo & Juliet | Apothecary | 1978-12-03 |
| Movie | Last In, First Out | Le réceptionniste | 1978-08-30 |
| Movie | Question of Love | Peter | 1978-10-18 |
| Series | Lillie | Unknown | 1978-09-24 |
| Movie | Joseph Andrews | Fop Two | 1977-03-09 |
| Movie | The Spy Who Loved Me | Max Kalba | 1977-07-07 |
| Series | 1990 | Unknown | 1977-09-18 |
| Movie | March or Die | Mean Corporal | 1977-09-08 |
| Movie | French Without Tears | Monsieur Maingot | 1976-05-16 |
| Movie | The Messiah | Samuel | 1975-10-24 |
| Movie | Cat and Mouse | le complice de Germain | 1975-09-03 |
| Movie | Operation: Daybreak | Pyotr | 1975-11-01 |
| Movie | Playing with Fire | A messenger | 1975-02-19 |
| Movie | India Song | Georges Crawn | 1975-06-04 |
| Series | The Venturers | Unknown | 1975-01-07 |
| Series | Des Christoffel von Grimmelshausen abenteuerlicher Simplizissimus | Dr. Canard | 1975-11-19 |
| Series | Michael Strogoff | Blount | 1975-12-23 |
| Series | Rumpole of the Bailey | Unknown | 1975-12-17 |
| Movie | Lovers Like Us | Coleman | 1975-11-26 |
| Movie | Rumpole of the Bailey | Magnus Piecan | 1975-12-16 |
| Series | Fall of Eagles | Unknown | 1974-03-15 |
| Movie | Soft Beds, Hard Battles | Padre | 1974-01-24 |
| Movie | The Marseille Contract | Lazar | 1974-09-04 |
| Movie | Cartesius | Astronomo Ciprus | 1974-02-21 |
| Movie | Scent of a Woman | Don Carlo (uncredited) | 1974-12-20 |
| Series | Father Brown | Unknown | 1974-09-26 |
| Movie | Murder on the Orient Express | Concierge | 1974-11-22 |
| Series | À vous de jouer Milord | N° 2 | 1974-11-04 |
| Movie | An Echo of Theresa | Bannerheim | 1973-01-15 |
| Series | Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em | Unknown | 1973-02-15 |
| Movie | The Day of the Jackal | Interrogator | 1973-05-16 |
| Movie | Story of a Love Story | 1973-05-24 | |
| Movie | The Canterbury Tales | The Franklin | 1972-09-02 |
| Movie | Far from Dallas | 1972-01-01 | |
| Series | Van der Valk | Unknown | 1972-09-13 |
| Series | The Edwardians | Unknown | 1972-11-21 |
| Movie | The Horsemen | Zam Hajji | 1971-08-16 |
| Movie | The Married Couple of the Year Two | le pasteur | 1971-04-07 |
| Series | The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes | Unknown | 1971-09-20 |
| Movie | Fiddler on the Roof | Russian Official | 1971-11-03 |
| Movie | Mary, Queen of Scots | Duc De Guise | 1971-12-22 |
| Movie | Nicholas and Alexandra | Dr. Lazovert | 1971-11-29 |
| Series | Ace of Wands | Unknown | 1970-07-29 |
| Series | Codename | Unknown | 1970-04-07 |
| Movie | The Beast in the Cellar | Newsmith | 1970-08-01 |
| Series | Play for Today | Unknown | 1970-10-15 |
| Movie | The Assassination Bureau | Baron Muntzof | 1969-03-09 |
| Movie | Doctor Who: The War Games | Chief Scientist | 1969-06-21 |
| Movie | Anne of the Thousand Days | Mendoza | 1969-12-18 |
| Series | The Champions | Unknown | 1968-09-25 |
| Movie | The Taming of the Shrew | Pedant | 1967-03-08 |
| Series | Mystery and Imagination | Unknown | 1966-01-29 |
| Series | Breaking Point (UK) | 1966-10-22 | |
| Movie | Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes | Member of the French Team | 1965-06-16 |
| Movie | The World of George Orwell: 1984 | Goldstein | 1965-11-28 |
| Movie | Darling | Art Critic at Ralph Riggs Exposure (uncredited) | 1965-08-03 |
| Movie | The Debussy Film | The Actor | 1965-05-18 |
| Series | Out of the Unknown | Unknown | 1965-10-04 |
| Series | Thirty-Minute Theatre | Unknown | 1965-10-07 |
| Series | Martin Chuzzlewit | Unknown | 1964-01-19 |
| Series | Doctor Who | Unknown | 1963-11-23 |
| Series | The Saint | Unknown | 1962-10-04 |
| Series | The Avengers | Unknown | 1961-01-07 |
| Series | Dixon of Dock Green | Unknown | 1955-07-09 |