Vernon Dobtcheff

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

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	66
9	1969	Baby Love	Man in Cinema	53
10	1969	Doctor Who: The War Games	Chief Scientist	96
11	1969	Anne of the Thousand Days	Mendoza	71
12	1970	The Beast in the Cellar	Newsmith	47
13	1970	Them	Brisbane	20
14	1971	The Married Couple of the Year Two	le pasteur	66
15	1971	The Horsemen	Zam Hajji	65
16	1971	Fiddler on the Roof	Russian Official	77
17	1971	Nicholas and Alexandra	Dr. Lazovert	69
18	1971	Mary, Queen of Scots	Duc De Guise	67
19	1972	Far from Dallas		60
20	1972	The Canterbury Tales	The Franklin	62
21	1973	An Echo of Theresa	Bannerheim	0
22	1973	The Day of the Jackal	Interrogator	75
23	1973	Impossible Object	Private Investigator	49
24	1974	Soft Beds, Hard Battles	Padre	44
25	1974	Cartesius	Astronomo Ciprus	66
26	1974	The Marseille Contract	Lazar	59
27	1974	Murder on the Orient Express	Concierge	71
28	1974	Scent of a Woman	Don Carlo (uncredited)	75
29	1975	Playing with Fire	A messenger	54
30	1975	India Song	Georges Crawn	64
31	1975	Van der Valk and the Scapegoat	Reinders	0
32	1975	Cat and Mouse	Germain's accomplice	57
33	1975	The Secret Agent		0
34	1975	The Messiah	Samuel	65
35	1975	Operation: Daybreak	Pyotr	69
36	1975	Lovers Like Us	Coleman	66
37	1975	Rumpole of the Bailey	Magnus Piecan	80
38	1976	French Without Tears	Monsieur Maingot	0
39	1977	The Achurch Letters	Eugene	0
40	1977	Joseph Andrews	Fop Two	47
41	1977	The Spy Who Loved Me	Max Kalba	68
42	1977	March or Die	Mean Corporal	58
43	1978	The Roads of Exile	Le peintre Ramsay	0
44	1978	Little Girl in Blue Velvet	Lamberti	45
45	1978	Last In, First Out	Le réceptionniste	34
46	1978	Question of Love	Peter	64
47	1978	Romeo and Juliet	Apothecary	74
48	1979	Ike	Gen. Charles DeGaulle	62
49	1980	Nijinsky	Sergei Grigoriev	50
50	1981	San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça	Un tueur russe	20
51	1981	Le Beau Monde	Pablo	0
52	1981	Condorman	Russian Agent	55
53	1981	Sredni Vashtar	Dr. Russell	66
54	1981	L'Amour nu	John, le patron de Claire	46
55	1981	Troilus & Cressida	Agamemnon	80
56	1982	The Night of Varennes	Judge at the confiscation	69
57	1982	Enigma	Minister	56
58	1982	Nutcracker	Markovitch	20
59	1983	The Scarlet and the Black	Count Langenthal	70
60	1983	An Englishman Abroad	Guildenstern	61
61	1984	Mon Ami Washington		0
62	1984	Night Patrol	James	49
63	1984	The Devil's Lieutenant	Dr. Goldschmiedt	0
64	1984	Gwendoline	Shirko	49
65	1984	Much Ado About Nothing	Don John	63
66	1985	Mata Hari	Prosecutor	40
67	1986	Caravaggio	Art Lover	61
68	1986	The Name of the Rose	Hugh of Newcastle	75
69	1988	Maigret	Gannett	60
70	1988	Le due croci	Bischof de Jong	0
71	1988	Catacombs	Brother Timothy	49
72	1988	Pascali's Island	Pariente	64
73	1988	Testimony	Gargolovsky	45
74	1989	The Sweet House of Horrors	The Exorcist	49
75	1989	Berlin-Jerusalem	Editor	52
76	1989	Splendor		64
77	1989	Natalia	Alfred Grabner	61
78	1989	Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story	Doctor Webber	66
79	1989	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade	Butler	79
80	1989	The Hostage of Europe	Hudson Lowe	60
81	1990	Flight from Paradise	Merrill	70
82	1990	The Krays	Teacher	60
83	1990	The Garden	Old Man at Sauna	56
84	1990	Meridian	Priest	46
85	1990	Vincent and me	Dr Winkler	50
86	1990	Hamlet	Reynaldo	66
87	1991	Mel Gibson Goes Back to School	Reynaldo (archive footage)	0
88	1991	Let Him Have It	Clerk of Court	66
89	1992	Sweetheart	Thurson	63
90	1992	Obiettivo indiscreto	Primo editore	0
91	1992	Venice/Venice	Alexander	65
92	1993	Temptation of Sainthood	Freud	0
93	1993	Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher	Un Héraut / Un prêtre / Un clerc	0
94	1993	The Hour of the Pig	Apothecary	62
95	1993	M. Butterfly	Agent Etancelin	66
96	1993	Frankenstein	Chancellor	66
97	1994	Mademoiselle O	Rouka	0
98	1995	The House that Mary Bought		50
99	1995	Jefferson in Paris	King's Translator	51
100	1996	Jude	Curator	63
101	1996	Catherine the Great	Naryshkin	57
102	1996	Surviving Picasso	Diaghilev	58
103	1996	The Ogre	Lawyer	64
104	1996	The Ice Princess		40
105	1997	The Hunchback	Father Michel	59
106	1997	Anna Karenina	Pestov	60
107	1998	St. Ives	Bonnefoy	57
108	1998	The Wonderland Experience	Vincent	0
109	1998	Déjà Vu	Konstantine	55
110	1998	Spanish Fly	Carl's Friend	20
111	1998	Vigo	Papa Lozinska	48
112	1998	30 Years to Life	Sandler	50
113	1998	Jinnah	Lord Willingdon	68
114	1998	Hilary and Jackie	Professor Bentley	66
115	1999	The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka	Art Gallery Lecturer	0
116	1999	Dreaming of Joseph Lees	Italian Doctor	60
117	2000	Falling Through	Father	30
118	2000	The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization	Cleisthenes	0
119	2000	Le Prof	Patte Folle	25
120	2001	Revelation	Curé at Rennes-le-Chateau	48
121	2001	The Body	Monsignor	55
122	2001	The Order	Oscar	51
123	2001	Festival in Cannes	Millie's Escort	55
124	2001	David Copperfield	Quinion	62
125	2002	The Falklands Play	Nicanor Costa Méndez (Argentine Minister of External Relations)	74
126	2002	The Red Siren	Vitali	51
127	2003	Brocéliande	Brennos	37
128	2004	Pontormo - Un amore eretico	Riccio	60
129	2004	Evilenko	Bagdasarov	57
130	2004	Before Sunset	Bookstore Manager	78
131	2004	Thank You, Doctor Rey	François	57
132	2005	Empire of the Wolves	Kudseyi	57
133	2005	An American Haunting	Elder #1	55
134	2006	For the Time Being	Anthony	0
135	2006	Courts mais Gay : Tome 12	Anthony	0
136	2006	Priceless	Jacques	64
137	2008	Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1	Self	60
138	2008	The Joy of Singing	Le lecteur du bar	36
139	2009	Changing Climates, Changing Times	Lucas	64
140	2010	Godforsaken	The Surgeon	0
141	2010	Undisputed III: Redemption	Rezo	75
142	2011	Le passage	Vieil homme	0
143	2012	Zarafa	Le vieux sage (voice)	68
144	2012	Another Woman's Life	Dimitri Speranski	62
145	2013	The Great Beauty	Arturo	75
146	2014	Seven Lucky Gods	Lawrence	61
147	2014	Horsehead	George	53
148	2014	The Invisible Boy	Artiglio	63
149	2015	Killing Jesus	Isaiah	63
150	2017	The Man with the Iron Heart	Emile Hacha	66
151	2018	L'hypothèse de la reine rouge	Sherlock Holmes	80
152	2018	The Violet Hour	M. Audran	0
153	2020	The Haunting of Margam Castle	Enos	51
154	2021	Burning Casablanca	Corny	59
155	2022	Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba	Self	76
156	2024	Alec Guinness: A Class Act	self	60
157	2024	Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour	The Scientist (archive footage)	58

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		70
9	1965	The Mask of Janus	Colonel Valenkov	60
10	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Monsieur Maingot	50
11	1966	Mystery and Imagination		55
12	1966	Breaking Point		0
13	1968	The Name of the Game	Dedushko	68
14	1968	The Champions	Manager	61
15	1970	Codename	Herman Voss	0
16	1970	Ace of Wands		55
17	1970	Play for Today		63
18	1971	The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes	Molbech	73
19	1972	Van der Valk	Sebastian Jonge	58
20	1972	The Protectors	Joe Flynn	56
21	1972	Crown Court	John Maitland-Wilson	54
22	1972	The Edwardians		57
23	1973	Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em		76
24	1974	Playhouse	Eugene	70
25	1974	Fall of Eagles	Count Stookau	68
26	1974	Father Brown		66
27	1974	À vous de jouer Milord	N° 2	60
28	1975	The Sweeney	Harry Kretchmar	77
29	1975	The Venturers		0
30	1975	Des Christoffel von Grimmelshausen abenteuerlicher Simplizissimus	Dr. Canard	67
31	1975	Rumpole of the Bailey		71
32	1975	Michael Strogoff	Blount	67
33	1976	Police Commissioner Moulin	Astman	58
34	1976	Dickens of London	Legal Gentleman	65
35	1977	1990		60
36	1978	Blake's 7	The Chairman	72
37	1978	Holocaust	Karp	74
38	1978	The Devil's Crown		73
39	1978	Lillie		82
40	1978	The BBC Television Shakespeare	Apothecary	60
41	1978	The BBC Television Shakespeare	Don John	60
42	1978	The BBC Television Shakespeare	Agamemnon	60
43	1981	Masada	Chief Priest	71
44	1981	Peter and Paul	High Priest of Herod	70
45	1981	Private Schulz		58
46	1981	Goldene Zeiten - Bittere Zeiten	M. Bernard	0
47	1982	Marco Polo	Pietro De Abano	68
48	1983	Dramarama		67
49	1984	Sherlock Holmes	Mendelstam	81
50	1984	L'Homme de Suez	Konya, Turkish Colonel, spy in the service of the English	60
51	1985	Morenga	Lohmann	0
52	1985	A.D.	Flavius Sabinus	51
53	1985	Mussolini: The Untold Story	Sebastiani	53
54	1987	Fortunes of War		64
55	1989	Agatha Christie's Poirot	Simeon Lee	82
56	1989	Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story	Jules Glaenzer	45
57	1991	The Strauss Dynasty	Hirsch	0
58	1992	As Time Goes By	Dr. Stoker	76
59	1992	Highlander: The Series	Carlo Luchesi	74
60	1992	Highlander: The Series	Hamad	74
61	1995	Father Ted	Old Nazi	82
62	1998	Merlin	1st Physician	69
63	1998	Highlander: The Raven	Count Van Der Meer	55
64	1999	Relic Hunter	Anthony Cureton	67
65	2000	The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization	Cleisthenes	75
66	2002	White Teeth	Devil of Dachau	70
67	2006	Surviving Disaster		67
68	2007	La Légende des 3 clefs	The anthropologist Gilles Clément	68
69	2008	Apparitions		71
70	2009	The Little Murders of Agatha Christie	Anatole Deschanel	74
71	2011	The Borgias		76
72	2011	The Borgias	Cardinal Versucci	76
73	2016	The Durrells	Mr. Kralefsky	75
74	2018	The Romanoffs	M. Audran	65
75	2019	The Witcher	Older Elf	80
76	2023	The Gold	Matteo Constantino	73

Vernon Dobtcheff

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