Vernon Dobtcheff
Acting • Born 1934-08-14
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.
Filmography
245 credits
Before Sunset
Movie • 2004
Bookstore Manager
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Movie • 1989
Butler
M. Butterfly
Movie • 1993
Agent Etancelin
The Spy Who Loved Me
Movie • 1977
Max Kalba
An American Haunting
Movie • 2005
Elder #1
Frankenstein
Movie • 1993
Chancellor
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
Movie • 1965
Member of the French Team
Murder on the Orient Express
Movie • 1974
Concierge
Enigma
Movie • 1982
Minister
The Married Couple of the Year Two
Movie • 1971
le pasteur
Empire of the Wolves
Movie • 2005
Kudseyi
Brocéliande
Movie • 2003
Brennos
Caravaggio
Movie • 1986
Art Lover
The Canterbury Tales
Movie • 1972
The Franklin
Hilary and Jackie
Movie • 1998
Professor Bentley
Priceless
Movie • 2006
Jacques
Anne of the Thousand Days
Movie • 1969
Mendoza
The Messiah
Movie • 1975
Samuel
March or Die
Movie • 1977
Mean Corporal
The Taming of the Shrew
Movie • 1967
Pedant
Burning Casablanca
Movie • 2021
Corny
The Body
Movie • 2001
Monsignor
Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
Movie • 2008
Self
Obiettivo indiscreto
Movie • 1992
Primo editore
Soft Beds, Hard Battles
Movie • 1974
Padre
Undisputed III: Redemption
Movie • 2010
Rezo
Changing Climates, Changing Times
Movie • 2009
Lucas
Mary, Queen of Scots
Movie • 1971
Duc De Guise
Evilenko
Movie • 2004
Bagdasarov
The Sweet House of Horrors
Movie • 1989
The Exorcist
Condorman
Movie • 1981
Russian Agent
The Assassination Bureau
Movie • 1969
Baron Muntzof
Mata Hari
Movie • 1985
Prosecutor
Meridian
Movie • 1990
Priest
Zarafa
Movie • 2012
Le vieux sage (voice)
Lovers Like Us
Movie • 1975
Coleman
Cat and Mouse
Movie • 1975
Germain's accomplice
Nutcracker
Movie • 1982
Markovitch
Catacombs
Movie • 1988
Brother Timothy
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
Movie • 1999
Italian Doctor
Gwendoline
Movie • 1984
Shirko
Another Woman's Life
Movie • 2012
Dimitri Speranski
Godforsaken
Movie • 2010
The Surgeon
The Hostage of Europe
Movie • 1989
Hudson Lowe
Vincent and Me
Movie • 1990
Dr Winkler
Nijinsky
Movie • 1980
Sergei Grigoriev
Venice/Venice
Movie • 1992
Alexander
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
Movie • 2022
Self
The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
Movie • 1999
Art Gallery Lecturer
Impossible Object
Movie • 1973
Private Investigator
Surviving Picasso
Movie • 1996
Diaghilev
Joseph Andrews
Movie • 1977
Fop Two
St. Ives
Movie • 1998
Bonnefoy
Spanish Fly
Movie • 1998
Carl's Friend
The Red Siren
Movie • 2002
Vitali
Little Girl in Blue Velvet
Movie • 1978
Lamberti
Anna Karenina
Movie • 1997
Pestov
Courts mais Gay : Tome 12
Movie • 2006
Anthony
Horsehead
Movie • 2014
George
India Song
Movie • 1975
Georges Crawn
The Violet Hour
Movie • 2018
M. Audran
30 Years to Life
Movie • 1998
Sandler
Déjà Vu
Movie • 1998
Konstantine
Jinnah
Movie • 1998
Lord Willingdon
Mon Ami Washington
Movie • 1984
Far from Dallas
Movie • 1972
Temptation of Sainthood
Movie • 1993
Freud
Jude
Movie • 1996
Curator
Natalia
Movie • 1989
Alfred Grabner
The Hunchback
Movie • 1997
Father Michel
The Roads of Exile
Movie • 1978
Le peintre Ramsay
The Debussy Film
Movie • 1965
The Actor
Night Patrol
Movie • 1984
James
Maigret
Movie • 1988
Gannett
The Krays
Movie • 1990
Teacher
Ike
Movie • 1979
Gen. Charles DeGaulle
The Wonderland Experience
Movie • 1998
Vincent
Them
Movie • 1970
Brisbane
The Life of Galileo
Movie • 1964
Philosopher
Playing with Fire
Movie • 1975
A messenger
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
Movie • 1989
Doctor Webber
Operation: Daybreak
Movie • 1975
Pyotr
Hamlet
Movie • 1990
Reynaldo
Fiddler on the Roof
Movie • 1971
Russian Official
The Horsemen
Movie • 1971
Zam Hajji
An Englishman Abroad
Movie • 1983
Guildenstern
The Joy of Singing
Movie • 2008
Le lecteur du bar
The Beast in the Cellar
Movie • 1971
Newsmith
Le Prof
Movie • 2000
Patte Folle
Berlin-Jerusalem
Movie • 1989
Editor
The Great Beauty
Movie • 2013
Arturo
Sweetheart
Movie • 1992
Thurson
Catherine the Great
Movie • 1996
Naryshkin
Thank You, Doctor Rey
Movie • 2004
François
The Scarlet and the Black
Movie • 1983
Count Langenthal
Seven Lucky Gods
Movie • 2014
Lawrence
Killing Jesus
Movie • 2015
Isaiah
Question of Love
Movie • 1978
Peter
Flight from Paradise
Movie • 1990
Merrill
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
Movie • 2000
Cleisthenes
Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher
Movie • 1993
Un Héraut / Un prêtre / Un clerc
Troilus & Cressida
Movie • 1981
Agamemnon
The Garden
Movie • 1990
Old Man at Sauna
The Name of the Rose
Movie • 1986
Hugh of Newcastle
The Invisible Boy
Movie • 2014
Artiglio
Rumpole of the Bailey
Movie • 1975
Magnus Piecan
Pontormo - Un amore eretico
Movie • 2004
Riccio
The Devil's Lieutenant
Movie • 1984
Dr. Goldschmiedt
Scent of a Woman
Movie • 1974
Don Carlo (uncredited)
An Echo of Theresa
Movie • 1973
Bannerheim
Mademoiselle O
Movie • 1994
Rouka
Testimony
Movie • 1988
Gargolovsky
The Ice Princess
Movie • 1996
Chancellor
The Man with the Iron Heart
Movie • 2017
Emile Hacha
Let Him Have It
Movie • 1991
Clerk of Court
Romeo and Juliet
Movie • 1978
Apothecary
L'Amour nu
Movie • 1981
John, le patron de Claire
The Marseille Contract
Movie • 1974
Lazar
Nicholas and Alexandra
Movie • 1971
Dr. Lazovert
The Ogre
Movie • 1996
Lawyer
Darling
Movie • 1965
Art Critic at Ralph Riggs Exposure (uncredited)
The Passage
Movie • 2011
Vieil homme
The Order
Movie • 2001
Oscar
Revelation
Movie • 2001
Curé at Rennes-le-Chateau
Pascali's Island
Movie • 1988
Pariente
Much Ado About Nothing
Movie • 1984
Don John
The Day of the Jackal
Movie • 1973
Interrogator
That Night of Varennes
Movie • 1982
Judge at the confiscation
L'hypothèse de la reine rouge
Movie • 2018
Sherlock Holmes
The World of George Orwell: 1984
Movie • 1965
Goldstein
Sredni Vashtar
Movie • 1981
Dr. Russell
Jefferson in Paris
Movie • 1995
King's Translator
Doctor Who: The War Games
Movie • 1969
Chief Scientist
The Haunting of Margam Castle
Movie • 2020
Enos
The Falklands Play
Movie • 2002
Nicanor Costa Méndez (Argentine Minister of External Relations)
French Without Tears
Movie • 1976
Monsieur Maingot
For the Time Being
Movie • 2006
Anthony
Splendor
Movie • 1989
Festival in Cannes
Movie • 2001
Millie's Escort
San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça
Movie • 1981
Un tueur russe
Le Beau Monde
Movie • 1981
Pablo
Vigo
Movie • 1998
Papa Lozinska
The Achurch Letters
Movie • 1977
Eugene
The House that Mary Bought
Movie • 1995
The Hour of the Pig
Movie • 1993
Apothecary
Van der Valk and the Scapegoat
Movie • 1975
Reinders
Falling Through
Movie • 2000
Father
A Dandy in Aspic
Movie • 1968
Le due croci
Movie • 1988
Bischof de Jong
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
Movie • 2024
self
Last In, First Out
Movie • 1978
Le réceptionniste
Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour
Movie • 2024
The Scientist (archive footage)
Baby Love
Movie • 1969
Man in Cinema
The Secret Agent
Movie • 1975
Karl Yundt
David Copperfield
Movie • 2001
Quinion
The First Circle
Movie • 1992
Riyumin
Up the Front
Movie • 1972
Muller
Beach Head
Movie • 1969
N.G. Waldron
Le fils de Paul
Movie • 1995
Duval
The Plot to Kill Hitler
Movie • 1990
Fellgiebel
Parlez-nous de l'Amour
Movie
As Time Goes By
TV • 1992
Dr. Stoker
Out of the Unknown
TV • 1965
N.G. Waldron
Father Ted
TV • 1995
Old Nazi
Doctor Who
TV • 1963
Scientist
Blake's 7
TV • 1978
The Chairman
Dramarama
TV • 1983
The Sweeney
TV • 1975
Harry Kretchmar
The Protectors
TV • 1972
Joe Flynn
The Avengers
TV • 1961
Spencer
Relic Hunter
TV • 1999
Anthony Cureton
Rumpole of the Bailey
TV • 1975
Edward Gandolphini
The Scales of Justice
TV • 1962
Mr. Strang
The Saint
TV • 1962
Vogel
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
TV • 1989
Jules Glaenzer
Highlander: The Raven
TV • 1998
Count Van Der Meer
Dixon of Dock Green
TV • 1955
Counsel for Defence
Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
TV • 1973
The Champions
TV • 1968
Manager
Apparitions
TV • 2008
Van der Valk
TV • 1972
Sebastian Jonge
Codename
TV • 1970
Herman Voss
Play for Today
TV • 1970
1990
TV • 1977
Fall of Eagles
TV • 1974
Count Stookau
Breaking Point
TV • 1966
The Gold
TV • 2023
Matteo Constantino
Martin Chuzzlewit
TV • 1964
Father Brown
TV • 1974
The Borgias
TV • 2011
Cardinal Versucci
La Légende des 3 clefs
TV • 2007
The anthropologist Gilles Clément
The Little Murders of Agatha Christie
TV • 2009
Anatole Deschanel
Michael Strogoff
TV • 1975
Blount
The Witcher
TV • 2019
Older Elf
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
TV • 2000
Cleisthenes
Des Christoffel von Grimmelshausen abenteuerlicher Simplizissimus
TV • 1975
Dr. Canard
Sherlock Holmes
TV • 1984
Mendelstam
À vous de jouer Milord
TV • 1974
N° 2
A.D.
TV • 1985
Flavius Sabinus
The Name of the Game
TV • 1968
Dedushko
Merlin
TV • 1998
1st Physician
Mussolini: The Untold Story
TV • 1985
Sebastiani
Goldene Zeiten - Bittere Zeiten
TV • 1981
M. Bernard
Surviving Disaster
TV • 2006
Holocaust
TV • 1978
Karp
Agatha Christie's Poirot
TV • 1989
Simeon Lee
Highlander: The Series
TV • 1992
Carlo Luchesi
Highlander: The Series
TV • 1992
Hamad
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
TV • 1971
Molbech
Morenga
TV • 1985
Lohmann
Peter and Paul
TV • 1981
High Priest of Herod
The Romanoffs
TV • 2018
M. Audran
Police Commissioner Moulin
TV • 1976
Astman
Marco Polo
TV • 1982
Pietro De Abano
Crown Court
TV • 1972
John Maitland-Wilson
L'Homme de Suez
TV • 1984
Konya, Turkish Colonel, spy in the service of the English
The Durrells
TV • 2016
Mr. Kralefsky
The Avengers
TV • 1961
Stenson
The Mask of Janus
TV • 1965
Colonel Valenkov
Playhouse
TV • 1974
Eugene
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
Monsieur Maingot
Dickens of London
TV • 1976
Legal Gentleman
Festival
TV • 1963
Philosopher
Nobody Is Norman Wisdom
TV • 1973
Proshnik
Ace of Wands
TV • 1970
Sandor Zandar
The World of Wooster
TV • 1965
Music Store Assistant
The Three Musketeers
TV • 1966
Commissary
The Further Adventures of the Musketeers
TV • 1967
Msgr. de Gondy
Fortunes of War
TV • 1987
Prince Hadjimoscos
The Edwardians
TV • 1972
Benjamin Disraeli
Tender Is the Night
TV • 1985
Luis Campion
Theatre 625
TV • 1964
Priest
Masada
TV • 1981
Chief Priest
Theatre 625
TV • 1964
Emmanuel Goldstein
Largo Winch
TV • 2001
Maurice de Beliveau
Largo Winch
TV • 2001
Churchill's People
TV • 1974
De Reynes
Emerald City
TV • 2017
High Born Man
Ike
TV • 1979
Gen. Charles DeGaulle
Mystery and Imagination
TV • 1966
Dr Lutz
Private Schulz
TV • 1981
Sturmer
Crossbow
TV • 1987
Cartesius
TV • 1974
Astronomo Ciprus
Thirty-Minute Theatre
TV • 1965
Carpenter
The Strauss Dynasty
TV • 1991
Hirsch