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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Nimes, France, 1934-08-14

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1964	The Life of Galileo	Philosopher	0
2	1965	The Debussy Film	The Actor	76
3	1965	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	68
4	1965	Darling	Art Critic at Ralph Riggs Exposure (uncredited)	67
5	1965	The World of George Orwell: 1984	Goldstein	0
6	1967	The Taming of the Shrew	Pedant	69
7	1968	A Dandy in Aspic		68
8	1969	The Assassination Bureau	Baron Muntzof	64
9	1969	Doctor Who: The War Games	Chief Scientist	96
10	1969	Anne of the Thousand Days	Mendoza	71
11	1970	The Beast in the Cellar	Newsmith	47
12	1970	Them		20
13	1971	The Married Couple of the Year Two	le pasteur	66
14	1971	The Horsemen	Zam Hajji	65
15	1971	Fiddler on the Roof	Russian Official	77
16	1971	Nicholas and Alexandra	Dr. Lazovert	69
17	1971	Mary, Queen of Scots	Duc De Guise	67
18	1972	Far from Dallas		60
19	1972	The Canterbury Tales	The Franklin	63
20	1973	An Echo of Theresa	Bannerheim	0
21	1973	The Day of the Jackal	Interrogator	75
22	1973	Story of a Love Story	Private Investigator	49
23	1974	Soft Beds, Hard Battles	Padre	41
24	1974	Cartesius	Astronomo Ciprus	66
25	1974	The Marseille Contract	Lazar	58
26	1974	Murder on the Orient Express	Concierge	71
27	1974	Scent of a Woman	Don Carlo (uncredited)	75
28	1975	Playing with Fire	A messenger	56
29	1975	India Song	Georges Crawn	64
30	1975	Pas de frontières pour l'inspecteur - Le bouc émissaire	Reinders	0
31	1975	Cat and Mouse	Germain's accomplice	57
32	1975	The Messiah	Samuel	64
33	1975	Operation: Daybreak	Pyotr	68
34	1975	Lovers Like Us	Coleman	66
35	1975	Rumpole of the Bailey	Magnus Piecan	90
36	1976	French Without Tears	Monsieur Maingot	0
37	1977	The Achurch Letters	Eugene	0
38	1977	Joseph Andrews	Fop Two	47
39	1977	The Spy Who Loved Me	Max Kalba	68
40	1977	March or Die	Mean Corporal	58
41	1978	The Roads of Exile	Le peintre Ramsay	0
42	1978	Little Girl in Blue Velvet	Lamberti	45
43	1978	Last In, First Out	Le réceptionniste	34
44	1978	Question of Love	Peter	64
45	1978	Romeo & Juliet	Apothecary	74
46	1979	Ike	Gen. Charles DeGaulle	62
47	1980	Nijinsky	Sergei Grigoriev	53
48	1981	San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça	Un tueur russe	20
49	1981	Le Beau Monde	Pablo	0
50	1981	Condorman	Russian Agent	55
51	1981	Sredni Vashtar	Dr. Russell	66
52	1981	L'Amour nu	John, le patron de Claire	40
53	1981	Troilus & Cressida	Agamemnon	80
54	1982	The Night of Varennes	Judge at the confiscation	68
55	1982	Enigma	Minister	56
56	1982	Nutcracker	Markovitch	20
57	1983	The Scarlet and the Black	Count Langenthal	70
58	1983	An Englishman Abroad	Guildenstern	59
59	1984	Mon Ami Washington		0
60	1984	Night Patrol		47
61	1984	The Devil's Lieutenant	Dr. Goldschmiedt	0
62	1984	Gwendoline	Shirko	49
63	1984	Much Ado About Nothing	Don John	63
64	1985	Morenga	Lohmann	0
65	1985	Mata Hari	Prosecutor	40
66	1986	Caravaggio	Art Lover	61
67	1986	The Name of the Rose	Hugh of Newcastle	75
68	1988	Maigret	Gannett	0
69	1988	Le due croci	Bischof de Jong	0
70	1988	Catacombs	Brother Timothy	50
71	1988	Pascali's Island	Pariente	64
72	1988	Testimony	Gargolovsky	57
73	1989	The Sweet House of Horrors	The Exorcist	49
74	1989	Berlin-Jerusalem	Editor	52
75	1989	Splendor		65
76	1989	Natalia	Alfred Grabner	65
77	1989	Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story	Doctor Webber	66
78	1989	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade	Butler	78
79	1989	The Hostage of Europe	Hudson Lowe	60
80	1990	Flight from Paradise	Merrill	70
81	1990	The Krays	Teacher	60
82	1990	The Garden	Old Man at Sauna	56
83	1990	Meridian	Priest	46
84	1990	Vincent and me	Dr Winkler	50
85	1990	Hamlet	Reynaldo	66
86	1991	Mel Gibson Goes Back to School	Reynaldo (archive footage)	0
87	1991	Let Him Have It	Clerk of Court	66
88	1992	Sweetheart	Thurson	63
89	1992	Obiettivo indiscreto	Primo editore	0
90	1992	Venice/Venice	Alexander	80
91	1993	Temptation of Sainthood	Freud	0
92	1993	Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher	Un Héraut / Un prêtre / Un clerc	0
93	1993	The Hour of the Pig	Apothecary	62
94	1993	M. Butterfly	Agent Etancelin	66
95	1993	Frankenstein	Chancellor	65
96	1994	Mademoiselle O	Rouka	0
97	1995	The House that Mary Bought		50
98	1995	Jefferson in Paris	King's Translator	52
99	1996	Jude	Curator	63
100	1996	Catherine the Great	Naryshkin	57
101	1996	Surviving Picasso	Diaghilev	58
102	1996	The Ogre	Lawyer	64
103	1996	The Ice Princess		40
104	1997	The Hunchback	Father Michel	59
105	1997	Anna Karenina	Pestov	60
106	1998	St. Ives		57
107	1998	The Wonderland Experience	Vincent	0
108	1998	Déjà Vu	Konstantine	55
109	1998	Spanish Fly	Carl's Friend	20
110	1998	Vigo	Papa Lozinska	48
111	1998	30 Years to Life	Sandler	50
112	1998	Jinnah	Lord Willingdon	71
113	1998	Hilary and Jackie	Professor Bentley	67
114	1999	The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka	Art Gallery Lecturer	0
115	1999	Dreaming of Joseph Lees	Italian Doctor	60
116	2000	Falling Through	Father	30
117	2000	The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization	Cleisthenes	0
118	2000	Le Prof	Patte Folle	40
119	2001	Revelation	Curé at Rennes-le-Chateau	48
120	2001	The Body	Monsignor	55
121	2001	The Order	Oscar	51
122	2001	Festival in Cannes	Millie's Escort	60
123	2002	The Falklands Play	Nicanor Costa Méndez (Argentine Minister of External Relations)	74
124	2002	The Red Siren	Vitali	52
125	2003	Brocéliande	Brennos	37
126	2004	Pontormo - Un amore eretico	Riccio	60
127	2004	Evilenko	Bagdasarov	58
128	2004	Before Sunset	Bookstore Manager	78
129	2004	Thank You, Doctor Rey	François	57
130	2005	Empire of the Wolves	Kudseyi	57
131	2005	An American Haunting	Elder #1	56
132	2006	For the Time Being	Anthony	0
133	2006	Courts mais Gay : Tome 12	Anthony	0
134	2006	Priceless	Jacques	64
135	2008	Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1	Self	60
136	2008	The Joy of Singing	Le lecteur du bar	36
137	2009	Changing Climates, Changing Times	Lucas	64
138	2010	Godforsaken	The Surgeon	0
139	2010	Undisputed III: Redemption	Rezo	75
140	2011	Le passage	Vieil homme	0
141	2012	Zarafa	Le vieux sage (voice)	68
142	2012	Another Woman's Life	Dimitri Speranski	62
143	2013	The Great Beauty	Arturo	75
144	2014	Seven Lucky Gods	Lawrence	61
145	2014	Horsehead	George	53
146	2014	The Invisible Boy	Artiglio	63
147	2015	Killing Jesus	Isaiah	63
148	2017	The Man with the Iron Heart	Emile Hacha	65
149	2018	L'hypothèse de la reine rouge	Sherlock Holmes	80
150	2018	The Violet Hour	M. Audran	0
151	2020	The Haunting of Margam Castle		51
152	2021	Burning Casablanca	Corny	59
153	2022	Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba	Self	76

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1955	Dixon of Dock Green	Counsel for Defence	53
2	1961	The Avengers	Spencer	77
3	1961	The Avengers	Stenson	77
4	1962	The Scales of Justice	Mr. Strang	67
5	1962	The Saint	Vogel	73
6	1963	Doctor Who	Scientist	79
7	1964	Martin Chuzzlewit		0
8	1965	Out of the Unknown		68
9	1966	Mystery and Imagination		55
10	1966	Breaking Point		0
11	1968	The Name of the Game	Dedushko	68
12	1968	The Champions	Manager	61
13	1970	Codename	Herman Voss	0
14	1970	Ace of Wands		55
15	1970	Play for Today		61
16	1971	The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes	Molbech	73
17	1972	Van der Valk	Sebastian Jonge	58
18	1972	The Protectors	Joe Flynn	56
19	1972	Crown Court	John Maitland-Wilson	54
20	1972	The Edwardians		57
21	1973	Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em		76
22	1974	Fall of Eagles	Count Stookau	68
23	1974	Father Brown		66
24	1974	À vous de jouer Milord	N° 2	60
25	1975	The Sweeney	Harry Kretchmar	77
26	1975	The Venturers		0
27	1975	Des Christoffel von Grimmelshausen abenteuerlicher Simplizissimus	Dr. Canard	67
28	1975	Rumpole of the Bailey		71
29	1975	Rumpole of the Bailey	Magnus Piecan	71
30	1975	Michael Strogoff	Blount	68
31	1976	Police Commissioner Moulin	Astman	58
32	1977	1990		60
33	1978	Blake's 7	The Chairman	72
34	1978	Holocaust	Karp	74
35	1978	The Devil's Crown		75
36	1978	Lillie		82
37	1978	The BBC Television Shakespeare	Apothecary	52
38	1981	Masada	Chief Priest	72
39	1981	Peter and Paul	High Priest of Herod	70
40	1981	Private Schulz		58
41	1981	Goldene Zeiten - Bittere Zeiten	M. Bernard	0
42	1982	Marco Polo	Pietro De Abano	68
43	1983	Dramarama		67
44	1984	Sherlock Holmes	Mendelstam	81
45	1984	L'Homme de Suez	Konya, Turkish Colonel, spy in the service of the English	60
46	1985	Morenga	Lohmann	0
47	1985	A.D.	Flavius Sabinus	49
48	1985	Mussolini: The Untold Story	Sebastiani	52
49	1987	Fortunes of War		64
50	1989	Agatha Christie's Poirot	Simeon Lee	81
51	1989	Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story	Jules Glaenzer	45
52	1991	Strauss Dynasty	Hirsch	0
53	1992	As Time Goes By	Dr. Stoker	76
54	1992	Highlander: The Series	Carlo Luchesi	74
55	1992	Highlander: The Series	Hamad	74
56	1995	Father Ted	Old Nazi	81
57	1998	Merlin	1st Physician	69
58	1998	Highlander: The Raven	Count Van Der Meer	51
59	1999	Relic Hunter	Anthony Cureton	67
60	2000	The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization	Cleisthenes	74
61	2002	White Teeth	Devil of Dachau	70
62	2006	Surviving Disaster		67
63	2007	La Légende des 3 clefs	The anthropologist Gilles Clément	68
64	2008	Apparitions		72
65	2009	The Little Murders of Agatha Christie	Anatole Deschanel	74
66	2011	The Borgias		75
67	2011	The Borgias	Cardinal Versucci	75
68	2016	The Durrells	Mr. Kralefsky	75
69	2018	The Romanoffs	M. Audran	65
70	2019	The Witcher	Older Elf	80
71	2023	The Gold	Matteo Constantino	72