Vernon Dobtcheff
Known for Acting · 248 credits
- Born
- 1934-08-14 (age 91)
- Place of birth
- Nimes, France
- Also known as
- Eugene · Alexander Vernon Dobtcheff · Alexandre Vernon Dobtcheff · Vernon Dobthcheff · Вернон Добчефф
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.
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Known For
TV Shows (86)
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
as Simeon Lee
Doctor Who
1963
as Scientist
The Witcher
2019
as Older Elf
The Avengers
1961
as Spencer / Stenson
Play for Today
1970
Crown Court
1972
as John Maitland-Wilson
Highlander: The Series
1992
as Carlo Luchesi / Hamad
The Saint
1962
as Vogel
BBC Play of the Month
1965
as Monsieur Maingot
Sherlock Holmes
1984
as Mendelstam
Relic Hunter
1999
as Anthony Cureton
The Name of the Game
1968
as Dedushko
Rumpole of the Bailey
1975
as Edward Gandolphini
Playhouse
1974
as Eugene
The Sweeney
1975
as Harry Kretchmar
Theatre 625
1964
as Priest / Emmanuel Goldstein
The Borgias
2011
as Cardinal Versucci
The Champions
1968
as Manager
Blake's 7
1978
as The Chairman
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965
as Carpenter
The Protectors
1972
as Joe Flynn
The Little Murders of Agatha Christie
2009
as Anatole Deschanel
As Time Goes By
1992
as Dr. Stoker
The Gold
2023
as Matteo Constantino
Van der Valk
1972
as Sebastian Jonge
The Durrells
2016
as Mr. Kralefsky
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
1971
as Molbech
The Romanoffs
2018
as M. Audran
Police Commissioner Moulin
1976
as Astman
Espionage
1963
as Captain of Police
Out of the Unknown
1965
as N.G. Waldron
Father Ted
1995
as Old Nazi
Dixon of Dock Green
1955
as Counsel for Defence
Churchill's People
1974
as De Reynes
Crossbow
1987
Festival
1963
as Philosopher
War and Remembrance
1988
as Henri Bulle
Emerald City
2017
as High Born Man
Mystery and Imagination
1966
as Dr Lutz
Dramarama
1983
as Mr. Rolyat
Holocaust
1978
as Karp
Largo Winch
2001
as Maurice de Beliveau
Marco Polo
1982
as Pietro De Abano
Merlin
1998
as 1st Physician
Highlander: The Raven
1998
as Count Van Der Meer
New Scotland Yard
1972
as Jacob Harmann
A.D.
1985
as Flavius Sabinus
Fall of Eagles
1974
as Count Stookau
Ace of Wands
1970
as Sandor Zandar
The Scales of Justice
1962
as Mr. Strang
Father Brown
1974
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
1989
as Jules Glaenzer
The World of Wooster
1965
as Music Store Assistant
Masada
1981
as Chief Priest
The Edwardians
1972
as Benjamin Disraeli
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
2000
as Cleisthenes
1990
1977
The Three Musketeers
1966
as Commissary
Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
1973
Codename
1970
as Herman Voss
Movies (162)
Undisputed III: Redemption
2010
as Rezo
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1989
as Butler
Murder on the Orient Express
1974
as Concierge
The Name of the Rose
1986
as Hugh of Newcastle
The Day of the Jackal
1973
as Interrogator
Before Sunset
2004
as Bookstore Manager
The Spy Who Loved Me
1977
as Max Kalba
The Order
2001
as Oscar
The Great Beauty
2013
as Arturo
Jude
1996
as Curator
Nicholas and Alexandra
1971
as Dr. Lazovert
Fiddler on the Roof
1971
as Russian Official
Hamlet
1990
as Reynaldo
The Man with the Iron Heart
2017
as Emile Hacha
The Hunchback
1997
as Father Michel
Caravaggio
1986
as Art Lover
Playing with Fire
1975
as A messenger
The Canterbury Tales
1972
as The Franklin
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
1965
as Member of the French Team
Lovers Like Us
1975
as Coleman
March or Die
1977
as Mean Corporal
Surviving Picasso
1996
as Diaghilev
Enigma
1982
as Minister
Baby Love
1969
as Man in Cinema
The Body
2001
as Monsignor
The Taming of the Shrew
1967
as Pedant
M. Butterfly
1993
as Agent Etancelin
Anne of the Thousand Days
1969
as Mendoza
Priceless
2006
as Jacques
The Invisible Boy
2014
as Artiglio
Condorman
1981
as Russian Agent
Mary, Queen of Scots
1971
as Duc De Guise
Gwendoline
1984
as Shirko
Anna Karenina
1997
as Pestov
Darling
1965
as Art Critic at Ralph Riggs Exposure (uncredited)
Evilenko
2004
as Bagdasarov
Revelation
2001
as Curé at Rennes-le-Chateau
The Krays
1990
as Teacher
The Scarlet and the Black
1983
as Count Langenthal
Ike
1979
as Gen. Charles DeGaulle
Nijinsky
1980
as Sergei Grigoriev
The Assassination Bureau
1969
as Baron Muntzof
Zarafa
2012
as Le vieux sage (voice)
Catherine the Great
1996
as Naryshkin
Hilary and Jackie
1998
as Professor Bentley
Jefferson in Paris
1995
as King's Translator
Killing Jesus
2015
as Isaiah
The Ogre
1996
as Lawyer
Empire of the Wolves
2005
as Kudseyi
Operation: Daybreak
1975
as Pyotr
Vigo
1998
as Papa Lozinska
The Hour of the Pig
1993
as Apothecary
An American Haunting
2005
as Elder #1
Frankenstein
1993
as Chancellor
David Copperfield
2001
as Quinion
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
1989
as Doctor Webber
Scent of a Woman
1974
as Don Carlo (uncredited)
Meridian
1990
as Priest
Little Girl in Blue Velvet
1978
as Lamberti
Jinnah
1998
as Lord Willingdon
The Haunting of Margam Castle
2020
as Enos
Let Him Have It
1991
as Clerk of Court
Mata Hari
1985
as Prosecutor
Natalia
1989
as Alfred Grabner
St. Ives
1998
as Bonnefoy
The Marseille Contract
1974
as Lazar
Pascali's Island
1988
as Pariente
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
2022
as Self
The First Circle
1992
as Riyumin
Festival in Cannes
2001
as Millie's Escort
That Night of Varennes
1982
as Judge at the confiscation
The Horsemen
1971
as Zam Hajji
The Garden
1990
as Old Man at Sauna
Maigret
1988
as Gannett
The Married Couple of the Year Two
1971
as le pasteur
India Song
1975
as Georges Crawn
Troilus & Cressida
1981
as Agamemnon
The Falklands Play
2002
as Nicanor Costa Méndez (Argentine Minister of External Relations)
Spanish Fly
1998
as Carl's Friend
A Dandy in Aspic
1968
Splendor
1989
Nutcracker
1982
as Markovitch
Sharpe's Sword
1995
as Don Felipe
Vincent and Me
1990
as Dr Winkler
Brocéliande
2003
as Brennos
Soft Beds, Hard Battles
1974
as Padre
The Beast in the Cellar
1971
as Newsmith
Falling Through
2000
as Father
Le Prof
2000
as Patte Folle
Impossible Object
1973
as Private Investigator
The Messiah
1975
as Samuel
Seven Lucky Gods
2014
as Lawrence
Thank You, Doctor Rey
2003
as François
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
1999
as Italian Doctor
The Passage
2011
as Vieil homme
Night Patrol
1984
as James
Le Beau Monde
1981
as Pablo
The Red Siren
2002
as Vitali
Joseph Andrews
1977
as Fop Two
An Englishman Abroad
1983
as Guildenstern
Romeo and Juliet
1978
as Apothecary
Sweetheart
1992
as Thurson
The Hostage of Europe
1989
as Hudson Lowe
Last In, First Out
1978
as Le réceptionniste
The World of George Orwell: 1984
1965
as Goldstein
Mademoiselle O
1994
as Rouka
Flight from Paradise
1990
as Merrill
Up the Front
1972
as Muller
Another Woman's Life
2012
as Dimitri Speranski
The Plot to Kill Hitler
1990
as Fellgiebel
Catacombs
1988
as Brother Timothy
Horsehead
2014
as George
Testimony
1988
as Gargolovsky
San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça
1981
as Un tueur russe
The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
1999
as Art Gallery Lecturer
The Ice Princess
1996
as Chancellor
Changing Climates, Changing Times
2009
as Lucas
L'Amour nu
1981
as John, le patron de Claire
Them
1970
as Brisbane
French Without Tears
1976
as Monsieur Maingot
About 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 extraordinar… With 248 credits spanning from 1955 to 2024, Vernon Dobtcheff has appeared in 162 films and 86 TV shows.
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Most Popular Vernon Dobtcheff Movies
- Undisputed III: Redemption (2010) — as Rezo
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) — as Butler
- Murder on the Orient Express (1974) — as Concierge
- The Name of the Rose (1986) — as Hugh of Newcastle
- The Day of the Jackal (1973) — as Interrogator
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