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
- Alec Guinness: A Class Act as self
- Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour as The Scientist (archive footage)
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
- The Man with the Iron Heart as Emile Hacha
- Emerald City as High Born Man
2016
- The Durrells as Mr. Kralefsky
2015
- Killing Jesus as Isaiah
2014
- Horsehead as George
- The Invisible Boy as Artiglio
- 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
- 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
- Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1 as Self
- Apparitions
- The Joy of Singing as Le lecteur du bar
2007
- La Légende des 3 clefs as The anthropologist Gilles Clément
2006
- Priceless as Jacques
- Surviving Disaster
- Courts mais Gay : Tome 12 as Anthony
- For the Time Being as Anthony
2005
- Empire of the Wolves as Kudseyi
- An American Haunting as Elder #1
2004
- Before Sunset as Bookstore Manager
- Evilenko as Bagdasarov
- Pontormo - Un amore eretico as Riccio
- Thank You, Doctor Rey as François
2003
- Brocéliande as Brennos
2002
- The Red Siren as Vitali
- The Falklands Play as Nicanor Costa Méndez (Argentine Minister of External Relations)
2001
- Revelation as Curé at Rennes-le-Chateau
- The Order as Oscar
- The Body as Monsignor
- Largo Winch as Maurice de Beliveau
- Festival in Cannes as Millie's Escort
- David Copperfield as Quinion
2000
- Falling Through as Father
- The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization as Cleisthenes
- Le Prof as Patte Folle
- The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization as Cleisthenes
1999
- Relic Hunter as Anthony Cureton
- Dreaming of Joseph Lees as Italian Doctor
- The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka as Art Gallery Lecturer
1998
- Spanish Fly as Carl's Friend
- Merlin as 1st Physician
- Jinnah as Lord Willingdon
- Vigo as Papa Lozinska
- Déjà Vu as Konstantine
- Highlander: The Raven as Count Van Der Meer
- 30 Years to Life as Sandler
- Hilary and Jackie as Professor Bentley
- The Wonderland Experience as Vincent
- St. Ives as Bonnefoy
1997
- Anna Karenina as Pestov
- The Hunchback as Father Michel
1996
- The Ice Princess as Chancellor
- Surviving Picasso as Diaghilev
- Jude as Curator
- The Ogre as Lawyer
- Catherine the Great as Naryshkin
1995
- Father Ted as Old Nazi
- Jefferson in Paris as King's Translator
- The House that Mary Bought
- Le fils de Paul as Duval
1994
- Mademoiselle O as Rouka
1993
- M. Butterfly as Agent Etancelin
- Frankenstein as Chancellor
- The Hour of the Pig as Apothecary
- Temptation of Sainthood as Freud
- Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher as Un Héraut / Un prêtre / Un clerc
1992
- Highlander: The Series as Carlo Luchesi
- Venice/Venice as Alexander
- Obiettivo indiscreto as Primo editore
- As Time Goes By as Dr. Stoker
- Sweetheart as Thurson
- The First Circle as Riyumin
1991
- Let Him Have It as Clerk of Court
- The Strauss Dynasty as Hirsch
1990
- Meridian as Priest
- Hamlet as Reynaldo
- The Krays as Teacher
- The Garden as Old Man at Sauna
- Vincent and me as Dr Winkler
- Flight from Paradise as Merrill
1989
- Agatha Christie's Poirot as Simeon Lee
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade as Butler
- Splendor
- Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story as Doctor Webber
- The Hostage of Europe as Hudson Lowe
- Berlin-Jerusalem as Editor
- Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story as Jules Glaenzer
- Natalia as Alfred Grabner
- The Sweet House of Horrors as The Exorcist
1988
- Testimony as Gargolovsky
- Catacombs as Brother Timothy
- Maigret as Gannett
- Pascali's Island as Pariente
- Le due croci as Bischof de Jong
1987
- Fortunes of War as Prince Hadjimoscos
1986
- Caravaggio as Art Lover
- The Name of the Rose as Hugh of Newcastle
1985
- Mata Hari as Prosecutor
- Tender Is the Night as Luis Campion
- A.D. as Flavius Sabinus
- Mussolini: The Untold Story as Sebastiani
- Morenga as Lohmann
1984
- Sherlock Holmes as Mendelstam
- The Devil's Lieutenant as Dr. Goldschmiedt
- Gwendoline as Shirko
- Much Ado About Nothing as Don John
- Night Patrol as James
- L'Homme de Suez as Konya, Turkish Colonel, spy in the service of the English
- Mon Ami Washington
1983
- The Scarlet and the Black as Count Langenthal
- Dramarama
- An Englishman Abroad as Guildenstern
1982
- Enigma as Minister
- Marco Polo as Pietro De Abano
- Nutcracker as Markovitch
- The Night of Varennes as Judge at the confiscation
1981
- Condorman as Russian Agent
- Troilus & Cressida as Agamemnon
- Sredni Vashtar as Dr. Russell
- Masada as Chief Priest
- Le Beau Monde as Pablo
- Peter and Paul as High Priest of Herod
- San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça as Un tueur russe
- Goldene Zeiten - Bittere Zeiten as M. Bernard
- L'Amour nu as John, le patron de Claire
- Private Schulz
1980
- Nijinsky as Sergei Grigoriev
1978
- Blake's 7 as The Chairman
- Holocaust as Karp
- Lillie
- Little Girl in Blue Velvet as Lamberti
- Romeo and Juliet as Apothecary
- Last In, First Out as Le réceptionniste
- Question of Love as Peter
- The Roads of Exile as Le peintre Ramsay
1977
- The Spy Who Loved Me as Max Kalba
- March or Die as Mean Corporal
- The Achurch Letters as Eugene
- 1990
- Joseph Andrews as Fop Two
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
- India Song as Georges Crawn
- The Sweeney as Harry Kretchmar
- The Messiah as Samuel
- Playing with Fire as A messenger
- Van der Valk and the Scapegoat as Reinders
- Michael Strogoff as Blount
- The Venturers
- Rumpole of the Bailey as Magnus Piecan
- Operation: Daybreak as Pyotr
- Lovers Like Us as Coleman
- Des Christoffel von Grimmelshausen abenteuerlicher Simplizissimus as Dr. Canard
- Cat and Mouse as Germain's accomplice
- The Secret Agent as Karl Yundt
1974
- Playhouse as Eugene
- Murder on the Orient Express as Concierge
- Cartesius as Astronomo Ciprus
- Churchill's People as De Reynes
- Fall of Eagles as Count Stookau
- The Marseille Contract as Lazar
- Scent of a Woman as Don Carlo (uncredited)
- Soft Beds, Hard Battles as Padre
- Father Brown
- À vous de jouer Milord as N° 2
1973
- The Day of the Jackal as Interrogator
- Impossible Object as Private Investigator
- Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
- An Echo of Theresa as Bannerheim
- Nobody Is Norman Wisdom as Proshnik
1972
- Crown Court as John Maitland-Wilson
- Van der Valk as Sebastian Jonge
- The Protectors as Joe Flynn
- The Edwardians as Benjamin Disraeli
- Far from Dallas
- The Canterbury Tales as The Franklin
- Up the Front as Muller
1971
- Fiddler on the Roof as Russian Official
- The Horsemen as Zam Hajji
- The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes as Molbech
- The Married Couple of the Year Two as le pasteur
- Nicholas and Alexandra as Dr. Lazovert
- The Beast in the Cellar as Newsmith
- Mary, Queen of Scots as Duc De Guise
1970
- Play for Today
- Them as Brisbane
- Ace of Wands as Sandor Zandar
- Codename as Herman Voss
1969
- Baby Love as Man in Cinema
- The Assassination Bureau as Baron Muntzof
- Anne of the Thousand Days as Mendoza
- Doctor Who: The War Games as Chief Scientist
- Beach Head as N.G. Waldron
1968
- The Name of the Game as Dedushko
- The Champions as Manager
- 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
- The Three Musketeers as Commissary
- Breaking Point
1965
- BBC Play of the Month as Monsieur Maingot
- 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
- Out of the Unknown
- The Mask of Janus as Colonel Valenkov
- The World of Wooster as Music Store Assistant
- The Debussy Film as The Actor
- The World of George Orwell: 1984 as Goldstein
1964
- Theatre 625 as Priest
- The Life of Galileo as Philosopher
- Martin Chuzzlewit
1963
- Doctor Who as Scientist
- Festival as Philosopher
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