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