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:
- 201
- First Appeared:
- In the series Dixon of Dock Green 1955-07-09
- Latest Project:
- Movie Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour 2024-12-23
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour | The Scientist (archive footage) | 2024-12-23 |
| Movie | Burning Casablanca | Corny | 2021-06-21 |
| Movie | The Haunting of Margam Castle | Enos | 2020-09-01 |
| Movie | L'hypothèse de la reine rouge | Sherlock Holmes | 2018-03-27 |
| 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 | The Passage | Vieil homme | 2011-10-15 |
| Movie | Godforsaken | The Surgeon | 2010-04-10 |
| Movie | Undisputed III: Redemption | Rezo | 2010-04-17 |
| Series | The Little Murders of Agatha Christie | Anatole Deschanel | 2009-01-09 |
| Movie | Changing Climates, Changing Times | Lucas | 2009-02-04 |
| Movie | The Joy of Singing | Le lecteur du bar | 2008-11-26 |
| 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 | Courts mais Gay : Tome 12 | Anthony | 2006-11-16 |
| Series | Surviving Disaster | Unknown | 2006-01-10 |
| Movie | Priceless | Jacques | 2006-12-13 |
| Movie | Empire of the Wolves | Kudseyi | 2005-04-20 |
| Movie | An American Haunting | Elder #1 | 2005-05-05 |
| Movie | Evilenko | Bagdasarov | 2004-04-16 |
| Movie | Pontormo - Un amore eretico | Riccio | 2004-01-01 |
| Movie | Before Sunset | Bookstore Manager | 2004-06-16 |
| Movie | Thank You, Doctor Rey | François | 2004-08-20 |
| Movie | Brocéliande | Brennos | 2003-01-08 |
| Movie | The Falklands Play | Nicanor Costa Méndez (Argentine Minister of External Relations) | 2002-04-10 |
| Series | White Teeth | Devil of Dachau | 2002-09-17 |
| Movie | The Red Siren | Vitali | 2002-08-21 |
| Movie | Revelation | Curé at Rennes-le-Chateau | 2001-04-12 |
| Movie | The Body | Monsignor | 2001-04-13 |
| Movie | Festival in Cannes | Millie's Escort | 2001-11-03 |
| Movie | The Order | Oscar | 2001-05-05 |
| Movie | David Copperfield | Quinion | 2001-12-25 |
| 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 |
| Movie | Déjà Vu | Konstantine | 1998-04-22 |
| Movie | The Wonderland Experience | Vincent | 1998-02-01 |
| Movie | St. Ives | Bonnefoy | 1998-01-01 |
| Movie | Spanish Fly | Carl's Friend | 1998-09-10 |
| Series | Merlin | 1st Physician | 1998-04-26 |
| Movie | Jinnah | Lord Willingdon | 1998-11-07 |
| Movie | 30 Years to Life | Sandler | 1998-10-15 |
| Series | Highlander: The Raven | Unknown | 1998-09-26 |
| Movie | Hilary and Jackie | Professor Bentley | 1998-12-30 |
| Movie | Vigo | Papa Lozinska | 1998-09-14 |
| Movie | The Hunchback | Father Michel | 1997-03-16 |
| Movie | Anna Karenina | Pestov | 1997-04-04 |
| Movie | Catherine the Great | Naryshkin | 1996-04-28 |
| Movie | Jude | Curator | 1996-02-06 |
| Movie | Surviving Picasso | Diaghilev | 1996-09-04 |
| Movie | The Ogre | Lawyer | 1996-09-12 |
| Movie | The Ice Princess | 1996-12-12 | |
| 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 | Frankenstein | Chancellor | 1993-12-02 |
| Movie | The Hour of the Pig | Apothecary | 1993-09-25 |
| Movie | M. Butterfly | Agent Etancelin | 1993-10-01 |
| Series | As Time Goes By | Unknown | 1992-01-12 |
| Movie | The First Circle | Riyumin | 1992-02-25 |
| Movie | Sweetheart | Thurson | 1992-04-07 |
| Movie | Venice/Venice | Alexander | 1992-04-10 |
| Movie | Mel Gibson Goes Back to School | Reynaldo (archive footage) | 1991-01-01 |
| Movie | Let Him Have It | Clerk of Court | 1991-10-04 |
| Series | The Strauss Dynasty | Hirsch | 1991-12-16 |
| Movie | The Krays | Teacher | 1990-04-27 |
| Movie | The Garden | Old Man at Sauna | 1990-09-06 |
| Movie | Flight from Paradise | Merrill | 1990-01-01 |
| Movie | Hamlet | Reynaldo | 1990-12-19 |
| Movie | Vincent and me | Dr Winkler | 1990-12-13 |
| Movie | Meridian | Priest | 1990-11-10 |
| Movie | Splendor | 1989-02-16 | |
| Movie | Berlin-Jerusalem | Editor | 1989-02-03 |
| Movie | The Sweet House of Horrors | The Exorcist | 1989-01-01 |
| Movie | Natalia | Alfred Grabner | 1989-04-12 |
| Movie | Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story | Doctor Webber | 1989-04-22 |
| 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 | James | 1984-01-11 |
| Movie | The Devil's Lieutenant | Dr. Goldschmiedt | 1984-01-11 |
| Movie | Mon Ami Washington | 1984-01-01 | |
| Movie | Much Ado About Nothing | Don John | 1984-12-22 |
| Movie | Gwendoline | Shirko | 1984-02-08 |
| Series | Sherlock Holmes | Mendelstam | 1984-04-24 |
| Movie | The Scarlet and the Black | Count Langenthal | 1983-02-02 |
| Series | Dramarama | Unknown | 1983-09-12 |
| Movie | An Englishman Abroad | Guildenstern | 1983-11-29 |
| 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 |
| Series | Goldene Zeiten - Bittere Zeiten | M. Bernard | 1981-09-29 |
| Movie | L'Amour nu | John, le patron de Claire | 1981-10-07 |
| Movie | Troilus & Cressida | Agamemnon | 1981-11-07 |
| Movie | Sredni Vashtar | Dr. Russell | 1981-09-01 |
| Movie | Condorman | Russian Agent | 1981-07-02 |
| Movie | Nijinsky | Sergei Grigoriev | 1980-03-20 |
| Movie | Ike | Gen. Charles DeGaulle | 1979-05-03 |
| 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 |
| Series | The Devil's Crown | Unknown | 1978-04-30 |
| Movie | Little Girl in Blue Velvet | Lamberti | 1978-08-23 |
| Series | The BBC Television Shakespeare | Unknown | 1978-12-03 |
| Movie | Romeo and Juliet | Apothecary | 1978-12-03 |
| Movie | Question of Love | Peter | 1978-10-18 |
| Movie | Last In, First Out | Le réceptionniste | 1978-08-30 |
| Series | Lillie | Unknown | 1978-09-24 |
| Movie | The Achurch Letters | Eugene | 1977-01-12 |
| Movie | Joseph Andrews | Fop Two | 1977-03-09 |
| Movie | The Spy Who Loved Me | Max Kalba | 1977-07-07 |
| Movie | March or Die | Mean Corporal | 1977-09-08 |
| Series | 1990 | Unknown | 1977-09-18 |
| Movie | French Without Tears | Monsieur Maingot | 1976-05-16 |
| Movie | Cat and Mouse | Germain's accomplice | 1975-09-03 |
| Movie | India Song | Georges Crawn | 1975-06-04 |
| Series | The Venturers | Unknown | 1975-01-07 |
| Movie | The Messiah | Samuel | 1975-10-24 |
| Movie | Playing with Fire | A messenger | 1975-02-19 |
| Series | Rumpole of the Bailey | Unknown | 1975-12-17 |
| Series | Michael Strogoff | Blount | 1975-12-23 |
| Movie | Operation: Daybreak | Pyotr | 1975-11-01 |
| Movie | Rumpole of the Bailey | Magnus Piecan | 1975-12-16 |
| Series | Des Christoffel von Grimmelshausen abenteuerlicher Simplizissimus | Dr. Canard | 1975-11-19 |
| Movie | Lovers Like Us | Coleman | 1975-11-26 |
| Movie | Cartesius | Astronomo Ciprus | 1974-02-21 |
| Series | Fall of Eagles | Unknown | 1974-03-15 |
| Movie | The Marseille Contract | Lazar | 1974-09-04 |
| Movie | Soft Beds, Hard Battles | Padre | 1974-01-24 |
| Movie | Murder on the Orient Express | Concierge | 1974-11-22 |
| Series | Father Brown | Unknown | 1974-09-26 |
| Movie | Scent of a Woman | Don Carlo (uncredited) | 1974-12-20 |
| 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 | Impossible Object | Private Investigator | 1973-05-24 |
| Series | Nobody Is Norman Wisdom | Proshnik | 1973-06-26 |
| Movie | The Day of the Jackal | Interrogator | 1973-05-16 |
| Movie | Far from Dallas | 1972-06-28 | |
| Movie | Up the Front | Muller | 1972-07-14 |
| Movie | The Canterbury Tales | The Franklin | 1972-09-02 |
| 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 |
| Movie | The Beast in the Cellar | Newsmith | 1970-08-01 |
| Series | Codename | Unknown | 1970-04-07 |
| Series | Ace of Wands | Unknown | 1970-07-29 |
| Series | Play for Today | Unknown | 1970-10-15 |
| Movie | Them | Brisbane | 1970-11-18 |
| Movie | The Assassination Bureau | Baron Muntzof | 1969-03-09 |
| Movie | Baby Love | Man in Cinema | 1969-03-19 |
| Movie | Doctor Who: The War Games | Chief Scientist | 1969-06-21 |
| Movie | Anne of the Thousand Days | Mendoza | 1969-12-18 |
| Movie | A Dandy in Aspic | 1968-04-02 | |
| 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 | 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 | Darling | Art Critic at Ralph Riggs Exposure (uncredited) | 1965-08-03 |
| Movie | The Debussy Film | The Actor | 1965-05-18 |
| Movie | The World of George Orwell: 1984 | Goldstein | 1965-11-28 |
| Series | Thirty-Minute Theatre | Unknown | 1965-10-07 |
| Series | Out of the Unknown | Unknown | 1965-10-04 |
| Series | Martin Chuzzlewit | Unknown | 1964-01-19 |
| Movie | The Life of Galileo | Philosopher | 1964-04-29 |
| 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 |