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:
- 181
- First Appeared:
- In the series Dixon of Dock Green 1955-07-09
- Latest Project:
- Movie Burning Casablanca 2021-06-21
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Burning Casablanca | Corny | 2021-06-21 |
| 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 | The Invisible Boy | Artiglio | 2014-12-18 |
| Movie | Horsehead | George | 2014-09-07 |
| 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 | 2010-04-17 |
| Series | The Little Murders of Agatha Christie | Anatole Deschanel | 2009-01-09 |
| Movie | Changing Climates, Changing Times | Lucas | 2009-02-04 |
| Movie | Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1 | Self | 2008-03-06 |
| Series | Apparitions | Unknown | 2008-11-13 |
| Movie | The Joy of Singing | Le lecteur du bar | 2008-11-26 |
| Series | La Légende des 3 clefs | The anthropologist Gilles Clément | 2007-12-20 |
| Movie | For the Time Being | Anthony | 2006-02-06 |
| Movie | Priceless | Jacques | 2006-12-13 |
| Movie | Courts mais Gay : Tome 12 | Anthony | 2006-11-16 |
| 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 | 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 |
| Movie | The Red Siren | Vitali | 2002-08-21 |
| Series | White Teeth | Devil of Dachau | 2002-09-17 |
| 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 | Déjà Vu | Konstantine | 1998-04-22 |
| Movie | Spanish Fly | Carl's Friend | 1998-09-10 |
| Movie | The Wonderland Experience | Vincent | 1998-02-01 |
| Movie | St. Ives | 1998-01-01 | |
| Movie | 30 Years to Life | Sandler | 1998-10-15 |
| Movie | Vigo | Papa Lozinska | 1998-09-14 |
| Movie | Jinnah | Lord Willingdon | 1998-11-07 |
| Movie | Hilary and Jackie | Professor Bentley | 1998-12-30 |
| Series | Highlander: The Raven | Unknown | 1998-09-26 |
| Movie | The Hunchback | Father Michel | 1997-03-16 |
| Movie | Anna Karenina | Pestov | 1997-04-04 |
| Movie | Jude | Curator | 1996-02-06 |
| Movie | Surviving Picasso | Diaghilev | 1996-09-04 |
| Movie | Catherine the Great | Naryshkin | 1996-04-28 |
| Movie | The Ogre | Lawyer | 1996-09-12 |
| Movie | Die Eisprinzessin | 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 | 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 |
| Movie | Mel Gibson Goes Back to School | Reynaldo (archive footage) | 1991-01-01 |
| Series | Strauss Dynasty | Hirsch | 1991-01-01 |
| Movie | Let Him Have It | Clerk of Court | 1991-10-04 |
| Movie | Flight from Paradise | Merrill | 1990-01-01 |
| Movie | The Garden | Old Man at Sauna | 1990-09-06 |
| Movie | The Krays | Teacher | 1990-04-27 |
| Movie | Vincent and me | Dr Winkler | 1990-12-13 |
| Movie | Hamlet | Reynaldo | 1990-12-19 |
| Movie | Meridian | Priest | 1990-11-10 |
| Movie | Splendor | 1989-02-16 | |
| Movie | The Sweet House of Horrors | The Exorcist | 1989-01-01 |
| Movie | Natalia | Alfred Grabner | 1989-04-12 |
| Movie | Berlin-Jerusalem | Editor | 1989-02-03 |
| Series | Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story | Jules Glaenzer | 1989-04-30 |
| 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 |
| Movie | Maigret | Gannett | 1988-02-22 |
| Movie | Catacombs | Brother Timothy | 1988-05-14 |
| Movie | Testimony | Gargolovsky | 1988-11-01 |
| Movie | Pascali's Island | Pariente | 1988-07-22 |
| 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 | Morenga | Lohmann | 1985-03-13 |
| 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 | The Devil's Lieutenant | Dr. Goldschmiedt | 1984-01-11 |
| Movie | Night Patrol | 1984-01-11 | |
| Movie | Mon Ami Washington | 1984-01-01 | |
| Movie | Gwendoline | Shirko | 1984-02-08 |
| Movie | Much Ado About Nothing | Don John | 1984-12-22 |
| Series | Sherlock Holmes | Mendelstam | 1984-04-24 |
| Movie | The Scarlet and the Black | Count Langenthal | 1983-02-02 |
| Movie | An Englishman Abroad | Guildenstern | 1983-11-29 |
| Series | Dramarama | Unknown | 1983-09-12 |
| Movie | The Night of Varennes | Judge at the confiscation | 1982-05-15 |
| Movie | Enigma | Minister | 1982-10-15 |
| Movie | Nutcracker | Markovitch | 1982-12-17 |
| Series | Marco Polo | Prosecutor | 1982-12-05 |
| Series | Peter and Paul | High Priest of Herod | 1981-04-12 |
| Series | Private Schulz | Unknown | 1981-05-06 |
| Series | Masada | Chief Priest | 1981-04-05 |
| Movie | San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça | Un tueur russe | 1981-05-20 |
| Movie | L'Amour nu | John, le patron de Claire | 1981-10-07 |
| Movie | Sredni Vashtar | Dr. Russell | 1981-09-01 |
| Movie | Condorman | Russian Agent | 1981-07-02 |
| Movie | Troilus & Cressida | Agamemnon | 1981-11-07 |
| Movie | Nijinsky | Sergei Grigoriev | 1980-03-20 |
| Movie | Ike | Gen. Charles DeGaulle | 1979-05-03 |
| Series | Blake's 7 | The Chairman | 1978-01-02 |
| Movie | Little Girl in Blue Velvet | Lamberti | 1978-08-23 |
| Movie | The Roads of Exile | Le peintre Ramsay | 1978-01-01 |
| Series | Holocaust | Karp | 1978-04-16 |
| 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 | Romeo & Juliet | Apothecary | 1978-12-03 |
| 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 | Operation: Daybreak | Pyotr | 1975-11-01 |
| Movie | The Messiah | Samuel | 1975-10-24 |
| Movie | Playing with Fire | A messenger | 1975-02-19 |
| Movie | India Song | Georges Crawn | 1975-06-04 |
| Movie | Cat and Mouse | le complice de Germain | 1975-09-03 |
| Series | Des Christoffel von Grimmelshausen abenteuerlicher Simplizissimus | Dr. Canard | 1975-11-19 |
| Movie | Lovers Like Us | Coleman | 1975-11-26 |
| Series | Rumpole of the Bailey | Unknown | 1975-12-17 |
| Series | Michael Strogoff | Blount | 1975-12-23 |
| Movie | Rumpole of the Bailey | Magnus Piecan | 1975-12-16 |
| Series | Fall of Eagles | Unknown | 1974-03-15 |
| Movie | Cartesius | Astronomo Ciprus | 1974-02-21 |
| Movie | The Marseille Contract | Lazar | 1974-09-04 |
| Movie | Soft Beds, Hard Battles | Padre | 1974-01-24 |
| Series | Father Brown | Unknown | 1974-09-26 |
| Movie | Scent of a Woman | Don Carlo (uncredited) | 1974-12-20 |
| Movie | Murder on the Orient Express | Concierge | 1974-11-22 |
| Series | À vous de jouer Milord | N° 2 | 1974-11-04 |
| Series | Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em | Unknown | 1973-02-15 |
| Movie | An Echo of Theresa | Bannerheim | 1973-01-15 |
| Movie | The Day of the Jackal | Interrogator | 1973-05-16 |
| Movie | Story of a Love Story | 1973-05-24 | |
| Movie | Far from Dallas | 1972-06-28 | |
| 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 | Nicholas and Alexandra | Dr. Lazovert | 1971-11-29 |
| Movie | Fiddler on the Roof | Russian Official | 1971-11-03 |
| Movie | Mary, Queen of Scots | Duc De Guise | 1971-12-22 |
| Movie | The Beast in the Cellar | Newsmith | 1970-08-01 |
| Series | Ace of Wands | Unknown | 1970-07-29 |
| 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 | Breaking Point (UK) | 1966-10-22 | |
| Movie | The Debussy Film | The Actor | 1965-05-18 |
| Movie | Darling | Art Critic at Ralph Riggs Exposure (uncredited) | 1965-08-03 |
| 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 |
| Series | Out of the Unknown | Unknown | 1965-10-04 |
| 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 |