Vernon Dobtcheff
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- August 14, 1934 (age 92)
- Birthplace
- Nimes, France
Biography
Vernon Alexandre Dobtcheff (born 14 August 1934) is a French-British character actor, who has appeared in over 300 film, television, and stage productions in a career spanning six decades. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Vernon Dobtcheff, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Filmography
Parlez-nous de l'Amour
Movie
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
Movie · as self
Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour
Movie · as The Scientist (archive footage)
The Gold
TV · as Matteo Constantino · 3 eps
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
Movie · as Self
Burning Casablanca
Movie · as Corny
The Haunting of Margam Castle
Movie · as Enos
The Witcher
TV · as Older Elf · 1 ep
The Violet Hour
Movie · as M. Audran
L'hypothèse de la reine rouge
Movie · as Sherlock Holmes
The Romanoffs
TV · as M. Audran · 1 ep
The Man with the Iron Heart
Movie · as Emile Hacha
Emerald City
TV · as High Born Man · 2 eps
The Durrells
TV · as Mr. Kralefsky · 3 eps
Killing Jesus
Movie · as Isaiah
Horsehead
Movie · as George
Seven Lucky Gods
Movie · as Lawrence
The Invisible Boy
Movie · as Artiglio
The Great Beauty
Movie · as Arturo
Zarafa
Movie · as Le vieux sage (voice)
Another Woman's Life
Movie · as Dimitri Speranski
The Passage
Movie · as Vieil homme
The Borgias
TV · as Cardinal Versucci · 18 eps
Undisputed III: Redemption
Movie · as Rezo
Godforsaken
Movie · as The Surgeon
Changing Climates, Changing Times
Movie · as Lucas
The Little Murders of Agatha Christie
TV · as Anatole Deschanel · 1 ep
Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
Movie · as Self
The Joy of Singing
Movie · as Le lecteur du bar
Accordez-moi
Movie · as Joseph Von Stieglitz
Apparitions
TV · 1 ep
La Légende des 3 clefs
TV · as The anthropologist Gilles Clément · 3 eps
Priceless
Movie · as Jacques
Courts mais Gay : Tome 12
Movie · as Anthony
For the Time Being
Movie · as Anthony
Surviving Disaster
TV · 1 ep
An American Haunting
Movie · as Elder #1
Empire of the Wolves
Movie · as Kudseyi
Before Sunset
Movie · as Bookstore Manager
Evilenko
Movie · as Bagdasarov
Pontormo - Un amore eretico
Movie · as Riccio
Brocéliande
Movie · as Brennos
Thank You, Doctor Rey
Movie · as François
The Red Siren
Movie · as Vitali
The Falklands Play
Movie · as Nicanor Costa Méndez (Argentine Minister of External Relations)
The Body
Movie · as Monsignor
The Order
Movie · as Oscar
Revelation
Movie · as Curé at Rennes-le-Chateau
Festival in Cannes
Movie · as Millie's Escort
David Copperfield
Movie · as Quinion
Largo Winch
TV · as Maurice de Beliveau · 1 ep
Le Prof
Movie · as Patte Folle
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
Movie · as Cleisthenes
Falling Through
Movie · as Father
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
TV · as Cleisthenes · 3 eps
David Copperfield
TV · as Quinion · 2 eps
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
Movie · as Italian Doctor
The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
Movie · as Art Gallery Lecturer
Relic Hunter
TV · as Anthony Cureton · 1 ep
Hilary and Jackie
Movie · as Professor Bentley
St. Ives
Movie · as Bonnefoy
Spanish Fly
Movie · as Carl's Friend
30 Years to Life
Movie · as Sandler
Déjà Vu
Movie · as Konstantine
Jinnah
Movie · as Lord Willingdon
The Wonderland Experience
Movie · as Vincent
Vigo
Movie · as Papa Lozinska
Highlander: The Raven
TV · as Count Van Der Meer · 1 ep
Merlin
TV · as 1st Physician · 2 eps
Anna Karenina
Movie · as Pestov
The Hunchback
Movie · as Father Michel
The Odyssey
TV · as Aegyptius · 2 eps
Surviving Picasso
Movie · as Diaghilev
Jude
Movie · as Curator
Catherine the Great
Movie · as Naryshkin
The Ice Princess
Movie · as Chancellor
The Ogre
Movie · as Lawyer
Jefferson in Paris
Movie · as King's Translator
The House that Mary Bought
Movie
Le fils de Paul
Movie · as Duval
Sharpe's Sword
Movie · as Don Felipe
Father Ted
TV · as Old Nazi · 1 ep
Mademoiselle O
Movie · as Rouka
M. Butterfly
Movie · as Agent Etancelin
Frankenstein
Movie · as Chancellor
Temptation of Sainthood
Movie · as Freud
Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher
Movie · as Un Héraut / Un prêtre / Un clerc
The Hour of the Pig
Movie · as Apothecary
Sharpe
TV · as Don Felipe · 1 ep
Obiettivo indiscreto
Movie · as Primo editore
Venice/Venice
Movie · as Alexander
Sweetheart
Movie · as Thurson
The First Circle
Movie · as Riyumin
As Time Goes By
TV · as Dr. Stoker · 1 ep
Highlander: The Series
TV · as Carlo Luchesi, Hamad · 1 ep
Let Him Have It
Movie · as Clerk of Court
The Strauss Dynasty
TV · as Hirsch · 1 ep
Meridian
Movie · as Priest
Vincent and Me
Movie · as Dr Winkler
The Krays
Movie · as Teacher
Hamlet
Movie · as Reynaldo
Flight from Paradise
Movie · as Merrill
The Garden
Movie · as Old Man at Sauna
The Plot to Kill Hitler
Movie · as Fellgiebel
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Movie · as Butler
The Sweet House of Horrors
Movie · as The Exorcist
The Hostage of Europe
Movie · as Hudson Lowe
Natalia
Movie · as Alfred Grabner
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
Movie · as Doctor Webber
Berlin-Jerusalem
Movie · as Editor
Splendor
Movie
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
TV · as Jules Glaenzer · 6 eps
Agatha Christie's Poirot
TV · as Simeon Lee · 1 ep
Judith Krantz's Till We Meet Again
TV · as Felix Penroux · 2 eps
Catacombs
Movie · as Brother Timothy
Maigret
Movie · as Gannett
Testimony
Movie · as Gargolovsky
Pascali's Island
Movie · as Pariente
Le due croci
Movie · as Bischof de Jong
War and Remembrance
TV · as Henri Bulle · 1 ep
Fortunes of War
TV · as Prince Hadjimoscos · 3 eps
Crossbow
TV · 1 ep
Caravaggio
Movie · as Art Lover
The Name of the Rose
Movie · as Hugh of Newcastle
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
TV · as Mendelstam · 1 ep
If Tomorrow Comes
TV · as Boris Melnikov · 1 ep
Mata Hari
Movie · as Prosecutor
A.D.
TV · as Flavius Sabinus · 5 eps
Mussolini: The Untold Story
TV · as Sebastiani · 4 eps
Morenga
TV · as Lohmann · 3 eps
Tender Is the Night
TV · as Luis Campion · 1 ep
Gwendoline
Movie · as Shirko
Mon Ami Washington
Movie
Night Patrol
Movie · as James
The Devil's Lieutenant
Movie · as Dr. Goldschmiedt
Much Ado About Nothing
Movie · as Don John
Sherlock Holmes
TV · as Mendelstam · 1 ep
L'Homme de Suez
TV · as Konya, Turkish Colonel, spy in the service of the English · 1 ep
An Englishman Abroad
Movie · as Guildenstern
The Scarlet and the Black
Movie · as Count Langenthal
Dramarama
TV · as Mr. Rolyat · 1 ep
Enigma
Movie · as Minister
Nutcracker
Movie · as Markovitch
That Night of Varennes
Movie · as Judge at the confiscation
Marco Polo
TV · as Pietro De Abano · 2 eps
Condorman
Movie · as Russian Agent
Troilus & Cressida
Movie · as Agamemnon
L'Amour nu
Movie · as John, le patron de Claire
Sredni Vashtar
Movie · as Dr. Russell
San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça
Movie · as Un tueur russe
Le Beau Monde
Movie · as Pablo
Goldene Zeiten - Bittere Zeiten
TV · as M. Bernard · 1 ep
Peter and Paul
TV · as High Priest of Herod · 2 eps
Masada
TV · as Chief Priest · 4 eps
Private Schulz
TV · as Sturmer · 1 ep
Nijinsky
Movie · as Sergei Grigoriev
Ike
Movie · as Gen. Charles DeGaulle
A Question Of Faith
Movie · as Mikhail Mikhailovich
Ike
TV · as Gen. Charles DeGaulle · 2 eps
Turning Year Tales
TV · as Bailiff · 1 ep
Little Girl in Blue Velvet
Movie · as Lamberti
The Roads of Exile
Movie · as Le peintre Ramsay
Question of Love
Movie · as Peter
Romeo and Juliet
Movie · as Apothecary
Last In, First Out
Movie · as Le réceptionniste
Blake's 7
TV · as The Chairman · 1 ep
Holocaust
TV · as Karp · 2 eps
Mazarin
TV · as Pimentel · 2 eps
The Spy Who Loved Me
Movie · as Max Kalba
March or Die
Movie · as Mean Corporal
Joseph Andrews
Movie · as Fop Two
The Achurch Letters
Movie · as Eugene
1990
TV · 1 ep
French Without Tears
Movie · as Monsieur Maingot
Police Commissioner Moulin
TV · as Astman · 1 ep
Dickens of London
TV · as Legal Gentleman · 1 ep
Killers
TV · as Clerk of the Assizes · 1 ep
The Messiah
Movie · as Samuel
Lovers Like Us
Movie · as Coleman
Cat and Mouse
Movie · as Germain's accomplice
India Song
Movie · as Georges Crawn
Playing with Fire
Movie · as A messenger
Operation: Daybreak
Movie · as Pyotr
Rumpole of the Bailey
Movie · as Magnus Piecan
Van der Valk and the Scapegoat
Movie · as Reinders
The Secret Agent
Movie · as Karl Yundt
The Sweeney
TV · as Harry Kretchmar · 1 ep
Rumpole of the Bailey
TV · as Edward Gandolphini · 1 ep
Michael Strogoff
TV · as Blount · 4 eps
Des Christoffel von Grimmelshausen abenteuerlicher Simplizissimus
TV · as Dr. Canard · 1 ep
Murder on the Orient Express
Movie · as Concierge
Soft Beds, Hard Battles
Movie · as Padre
Scent of a Woman
Movie · as Don Carlo (uncredited)
The Marseille Contract
Movie · as Lazar
Fall of Eagles
TV · as Count Stookau · 1 ep
À vous de jouer Milord
TV · as N° 2 · 6 eps
Playhouse
TV · as Eugene · 1 ep
Churchill's People
TV · as De Reynes · 1 ep
Cartesius
TV · as Astronomo Ciprus · 2 eps
Father Brown
TV · as Simon Vesty · 1 ep
Impossible Object
Movie · as Private Investigator
An Echo of Theresa
Movie · as Bannerheim
The Day of the Jackal
Movie · as Interrogator
Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
TV · as Henry · 1 ep
Nobody Is Norman Wisdom
TV · as Proshnik · 6 eps
The Canterbury Tales
Movie · as The Franklin
Far from Dallas
Movie
Up the Front
Movie · as Muller
The Protectors
TV · as Joe Flynn · 1 ep
Van der Valk
TV · as Sebastian Jonge · 1 ep
Crown Court
TV · as John Maitland-Wilson · 3 eps
The Edwardians
TV · as Benjamin Disraeli · 1 ep
New Scotland Yard
TV · as Jacob Harmann · 1 ep
The Married Couple of the Year Two
Movie · as le pasteur
Mary, Queen of Scots
Movie · as Duc De Guise
Fiddler on the Roof
Movie · as Russian Official
The Horsemen
Movie · as Zam Hajji
The Beast in the Cellar
Movie · as Newsmith
Nicholas and Alexandra
Movie · as Dr. Lazovert
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
TV · as Molbech · 1 ep
Them
Movie · as Brisbane
Darling Lili
Movie · as Otto Kraus
Codename
TV · as Herman Voss · 1 ep
Play for Today
TV · 1 ep
Ace of Wands
TV · as Sandor Zandar · 4 eps
Anne of the Thousand Days
Movie · as Mendoza
The Assassination Bureau
Movie · as Baron Muntzof
Doctor Who: The War Games
Movie · as Chief Scientist
Baby Love
Movie · as Man in Cinema
Beach Head
Movie · as N.G. Waldron
A Dandy in Aspic
Movie
The Champions
TV · as Manager · 2 eps
The Name of the Game
TV · as Dedushko · 1 ep
The Taming of the Shrew
Movie · as Pedant
The Further Adventures of the Musketeers
TV · as Msgr. de Gondy · 6 eps
Breaking Point
TV · 5 eps
The Three Musketeers
TV · as Commissary · 2 eps
Mystery and Imagination
TV · as Dr Lutz · 1 ep
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
Movie · as Member of the French Team
The Debussy Film
Movie · as The Actor
Darling
Movie · as Art Critic at Ralph Riggs Exposure (uncredited)
The World of George Orwell: 1984
Movie · as Goldstein
Out of the Unknown
TV · as N.G. Waldron · 1 ep
The Mask of Janus
TV · as Colonel Valenkov · 1 ep
BBC Play of the Month
TV · as Monsieur Maingot · 1 ep
The World of Wooster
TV · as Music Store Assistant · 1 ep
Thirty-Minute Theatre
TV · as Carpenter · 1 ep
The Troubleshooters
TV · as Peebles · 1 ep
The Life of Galileo
Movie · as Philosopher
Martin Chuzzlewit
TV · 3 eps
Theatre 625
TV · as Priest, Emmanuel Goldstein · 1 ep
The Protectors
TV · as Cherni · 1 ep
The Count of Monte Cristo
TV · as Prison Inspector · 1 ep
Doctor Who
TV · as Scientist · 3 eps
Festival
TV · as Philosopher · 1 ep
Espionage
TV · as Captain of Police · 1 ep
The Scales of Justice
TV · as Mr. Strang · 1 ep
The Saint
TV · as Vogel · 1 ep
The Avengers
TV · as Spencer, Stenson · 2 eps
Dixon of Dock Green
TV · as Counsel for Defence · 1 ep