Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
August 14, 1934
Place of Birth:
Nimes, France
Social Media
Vernon Dobtcheff
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.
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Alec Guinness: A Class Act | self |
| 2024 | Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour | The Scientist (archive footage) |
| 2022 | Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba | Self |
| 2021 | Burning Casablanca | Corny |
| 2020 | The Haunting of Margam Castle | Enos |
| 2018 | The Violet Hour | M. Audran |
| 2018 | L'hypothèse de la reine rouge | Sherlock Holmes |
| 2017 | The Man with the Iron Heart | Emile Hacha |
| 2015 | Killing Jesus | Isaiah |
| 2014 | Horsehead | George |
| 2014 | Seven Lucky Gods | Lawrence |
| 2014 | The Invisible Boy | Artiglio |
| 2013 | The Great Beauty | Arturo |
| 2012 | Zarafa | Le vieux sage (voice) |
| 2012 | Another Woman's Life | Dimitri Speranski |
| 2011 | The Passage | Vieil homme |
| 2010 | Undisputed III: Redemption | Rezo |
| 2010 | Godforsaken | The Surgeon |
| 2009 | Changing Climates, Changing Times | Lucas |
| 2008 | Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1 | Self |
| 2008 | The Joy of Singing | Le lecteur du bar |
| 2006 | Priceless | Jacques |
| 2006 | Courts mais Gay : Tome 12 | Anthony |
| 2006 | For the Time Being | Anthony |
| 2005 | An American Haunting | Elder #1 |
| 2005 | Empire of the Wolves | Kudseyi |
| 2004 | Before Sunset | Bookstore Manager |
| 2004 | Evilenko | Bagdasarov |
| 2004 | Thank You, Doctor Rey | François |
| 2004 | Pontormo - Un amore eretico | Riccio |
| 2003 | Brocéliande | Brennos |
| 2002 | The Red Siren | Vitali |
| 2002 | The Falklands Play | Nicanor Costa Méndez (Argentine Minister of External Relations) |
| 2001 | The Body | Monsignor |
| 2001 | The Order | Oscar |
| 2001 | Revelation | Curé at Rennes-le-Chateau |
| 2001 | Festival in Cannes | Millie's Escort |
| 2001 | David Copperfield | Quinion |
| 2000 | Le Prof | Patte Folle |
| 2000 | The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization | Cleisthenes |
| 2000 | Falling Through | Father |
| 1999 | Dreaming of Joseph Lees | Italian Doctor |
| 1999 | The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka | Art Gallery Lecturer |
| 1998 | Hilary and Jackie | Professor Bentley |
| 1998 | St. Ives | Bonnefoy |
| 1998 | Spanish Fly | Carl's Friend |
| 1998 | 30 Years to Life | Sandler |
| 1998 | Déjà Vu | Konstantine |
| 1998 | Jinnah | Lord Willingdon |
| 1998 | The Wonderland Experience | Vincent |
| 1998 | Vigo | Papa Lozinska |
| 1997 | Anna Karenina | Pestov |
| 1997 | The Hunchback | Father Michel |
| 1996 | Surviving Picasso | Diaghilev |
| 1996 | Jude | Curator |
| 1996 | Catherine the Great | Naryshkin |
| 1996 | The Ice Princess | |
| 1996 | The Ogre | Lawyer |
| 1995 | Jefferson in Paris | King's Translator |
| 1995 | The House that Mary Bought | |
| 1994 | Mademoiselle O | Rouka |
| 1993 | M. Butterfly | Agent Etancelin |
| 1993 | Frankenstein | Chancellor |
| 1993 | Temptation of Sainthood | Freud |
| 1993 | Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher | Un Héraut / Un prêtre / Un clerc |
| 1993 | The Hour of the Pig | Apothecary |
| 1992 | Obiettivo indiscreto | Primo editore |
| 1992 | Venice/Venice | Alexander |
| 1992 | Sweetheart | Thurson |
| 1992 | The First Circle | Riyumin |
| 1991 | Let Him Have It | Clerk of Court |
| 1990 | Meridian | Priest |
| 1990 | Vincent and me | Dr Winkler |
| 1990 | The Krays | Teacher |
| 1990 | Hamlet | Reynaldo |
| 1990 | Flight from Paradise | Merrill |
| 1990 | The Garden | Old Man at Sauna |
| 1989 | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | Butler |
| 1989 | The Sweet House of Horrors | The Exorcist |
| 1989 | The Hostage of Europe | Hudson Lowe |
| 1989 | Natalia | Alfred Grabner |
| 1989 | Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story | Doctor Webber |
| 1989 | Berlin-Jerusalem | Editor |
| 1989 | Splendor | |
| 1988 | Catacombs | Brother Timothy |
| 1988 | Maigret | Gannett |
| 1988 | Testimony | Gargolovsky |
| 1988 | Pascali's Island | Pariente |
| 1988 | Le due croci | Bischof de Jong |
| 1986 | Caravaggio | Art Lover |
| 1986 | The Name of the Rose | Hugh of Newcastle |
| 1985 | Mata Hari | Prosecutor |
| 1984 | Gwendoline | Shirko |
| 1984 | Mon Ami Washington | |
| 1984 | Night Patrol | James |
| 1984 | The Devil's Lieutenant | Dr. Goldschmiedt |
| 1984 | Much Ado About Nothing | Don John |
| 1983 | An Englishman Abroad | Guildenstern |
| 1983 | The Scarlet and the Black | Count Langenthal |
| 1982 | Enigma | Minister |
| 1982 | Nutcracker | Markovitch |
| 1982 | The Night of Varennes | Judge at the confiscation |
| 1981 | Condorman | Russian Agent |
| 1981 | Troilus & Cressida | Agamemnon |
| 1981 | L'Amour nu | John, le patron de Claire |
| 1981 | Sredni Vashtar | Dr. Russell |
| 1981 | San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça | Un tueur russe |
| 1981 | Le Beau Monde | Pablo |
| 1980 | Nijinsky | Sergei Grigoriev |
| 1979 | Ike | Gen. Charles DeGaulle |
| 1978 | Little Girl in Blue Velvet | Lamberti |
| 1978 | The Roads of Exile | Le peintre Ramsay |
| 1978 | Question of Love | Peter |
| 1978 | Romeo and Juliet | Apothecary |
| 1978 | Last In, First Out | Le réceptionniste |
| 1977 | The Spy Who Loved Me | Max Kalba |
| 1977 | March or Die | Mean Corporal |
| 1977 | Joseph Andrews | Fop Two |
| 1977 | The Achurch Letters | Eugene |
| 1976 | French Without Tears | Monsieur Maingot |
| 1975 | The Messiah | Samuel |
| 1975 | Lovers Like Us | Coleman |
| 1975 | Cat and Mouse | Germain's accomplice |
| 1975 | India Song | Georges Crawn |
| 1975 | Playing with Fire | A messenger |
| 1975 | Operation: Daybreak | Pyotr |
| 1975 | Rumpole of the Bailey | Magnus Piecan |
| 1975 | Van der Valk and the Scapegoat | Reinders |
| 1975 | The Secret Agent | Karl Yundt |
| 1974 | Murder on the Orient Express | Concierge |
| 1974 | Soft Beds, Hard Battles | Padre |
| 1974 | Cartesius | Astronomo Ciprus |
| 1974 | Scent of a Woman | Don Carlo (uncredited) |
| 1974 | The Marseille Contract | Lazar |
| 1973 | Impossible Object | Private Investigator |
| 1973 | An Echo of Theresa | Bannerheim |
| 1973 | The Day of the Jackal | Interrogator |
| 1972 | The Canterbury Tales | The Franklin |
| 1972 | Far from Dallas | |
| 1972 | Up the Front | Muller |
| 1971 | The Married Couple of the Year Two | le pasteur |
| 1971 | Mary, Queen of Scots | Duc De Guise |
| 1971 | Fiddler on the Roof | Russian Official |
| 1971 | The Horsemen | Zam Hajji |
| 1971 | Nicholas and Alexandra | Dr. Lazovert |
| 1970 | Them | Brisbane |
| 1970 | The Beast in the Cellar | Newsmith |
| 1969 | Anne of the Thousand Days | Mendoza |
| 1969 | The Assassination Bureau | Baron Muntzof |
| 1969 | Doctor Who: The War Games | Chief Scientist |
| 1969 | Baby Love | Man in Cinema |
| 1968 | A Dandy in Aspic | |
| 1967 | The Taming of the Shrew | Pedant |
| 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 |
| 1965 | The Debussy Film | The Actor |
| 1965 | Darling | Art Critic at Ralph Riggs Exposure (uncredited) |
| 1965 | The World of George Orwell: 1984 | Goldstein |
| 1964 | The Life of Galileo | Philosopher |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | The Gold | Matteo Constantino |
| 2019 | The Witcher | Older Elf |
| 2018 | The Romanoffs | M. Audran |
| 2016 | The Durrells | Mr. Kralefsky |
| 2011 | The Borgias | |
| 2011 | The Borgias | Cardinal Versucci |
| 2009 | The Little Murders of Agatha Christie | Anatole Deschanel |
| 2008 | Apparitions | |
| 2007 | La Légende des 3 clefs | The anthropologist Gilles Clément |
| 2006 | Surviving Disaster | |
| 2002 | White Teeth | Devil of Dachau |
| 2000 | The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization | Cleisthenes |
| 1999 | Relic Hunter | Anthony Cureton |
| 1998 | Highlander: The Raven | Count Van Der Meer |
| 1998 | Merlin | 1st Physician |
| 1995 | Father Ted | Old Nazi |
| 1992 | As Time Goes By | Dr. Stoker |
| 1992 | Highlander: The Series | Carlo Luchesi |
| 1992 | Highlander: The Series | Hamad |
| 1991 | The Strauss Dynasty | Hirsch |
| 1989 | Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story | Jules Glaenzer |
| 1989 | Agatha Christie's Poirot | Simeon Lee |
| 1987 | Fortunes of War | |
| 1985 | A.D. | Flavius Sabinus |
| 1985 | Mussolini: The Untold Story | Sebastiani |
| 1985 | Morenga | Lohmann |
| 1984 | Sherlock Holmes | Mendelstam |
| 1984 | L'Homme de Suez | Konya, Turkish Colonel, spy in the service of the English |
| 1983 | Dramarama | |
| 1982 | Marco Polo | Pietro De Abano |
| 1981 | Private Schulz | |
| 1981 | Masada | Chief Priest |
| 1981 | Goldene Zeiten - Bittere Zeiten | M. Bernard |
| 1981 | Peter and Paul | High Priest of Herod |
| 1978 | Blake's 7 | The Chairman |
| 1978 | Lillie | |
| 1978 | Holocaust | Karp |
| 1977 | 1990 | |
| 1976 | Police Commissioner Moulin | Astman |
| 1976 | Dickens of London | Legal Gentleman |
| 1975 | The Sweeney | Harry Kretchmar |
| 1975 | Rumpole of the Bailey | |
| 1975 | The Venturers | |
| 1975 | Michael Strogoff | Blount |
| 1975 | Des Christoffel von Grimmelshausen abenteuerlicher Simplizissimus | Dr. Canard |
| 1974 | Fall of Eagles | Count Stookau |
| 1974 | Father Brown | |
| 1974 | À vous de jouer Milord | N° 2 |
| 1974 | Playhouse | Eugene |
| 1973 | Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em | |
| 1973 | Nobody Is Norman Wisdom | Proshnik |
| 1972 | The Protectors | Joe Flynn |
| 1972 | Van der Valk | Sebastian Jonge |
| 1972 | The Edwardians | |
| 1972 | Crown Court | John Maitland-Wilson |
| 1971 | The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes | Molbech |
| 1970 | Codename | Herman Voss |
| 1970 | Play for Today | |
| 1970 | Ace of Wands | Sandor Zandar |
| 1968 | The Champions | Manager |
| 1968 | The Name of the Game | Dedushko |
| 1966 | Mystery and Imagination | |
| 1966 | Breaking Point | |
| 1965 | Out of the Unknown | |
| 1965 | The Mask of Janus | Colonel Valenkov |
| 1965 | BBC Play of the Month | Monsieur Maingot |
| 1965 | The World of Wooster | Music Store Assistant |
| 1964 | Martin Chuzzlewit | |
| 1963 | Doctor Who | Scientist |
| 1963 | Festival | Philosopher |
| 1962 | The Scales of Justice | Mr. Strang |
| 1962 | The Saint | Vogel |
| 1961 | The Avengers | Spencer |
| 1961 | The Avengers | Stenson |
| 1955 | Dixon of Dock Green | Counsel for Defence |