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
Bookstore Manager
Before Sunset
Butler
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Agent Etancelin
M. Butterfly
Max Kalba
The Spy Who Loved Me
Elder #1
An American Haunting
Chancellor
Frankenstein
Member of the French Team
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
Concierge
Murder on the Orient Express
Minister
Enigma
Kudseyi
L'Empire des loups
le pasteur
Les Mariés de l'an deux
Brennos
Brocéliande
Art Lover
Caravaggio
The Franklin
I racconti di Canterbury
Professor Bentley
Hilary and Jackie
Jacques
Hors de prix
Mendoza
Anne of the Thousand Days
Samuel
Il Messia
Mean Corporal
March or Die
Pedant
The Taming of the Shrew
Corny
الزنقة كونتاكت
Monsignor
The Body
Self
Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
Primo editore
Obiettivo indiscreto
Padre
Soft Beds, Hard Battles
Rezo
Undisputed III: Redemption
Lucas
Changing Climates, Changing Times
Duc De Guise
Mary, Queen of Scots
Bagdasarov
Evilenko
The Exorcist
La dolce casa degli orrori
Russian Agent
Condorman
Baron Muntzof
The Assassination Bureau
Prosecutor
Mata Hari
Priest
Meridian
Le vieux sage (voice)
Zarafa
Coleman
Le Sauvage
Germain's accomplice
Le Chat et la Souris
Markovitch
Nutcracker
Brother Timothy
Catacombs
Italian Doctor
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
Shirko
Gwendoline
Dimitri Speranski
La Vie d'une autre
The Surgeon
Godforsaken
Hudson Lowe
Jeniec Europy
Astronomo Ciprus
Cartesius
Dr Winkler
Vincent et moi
Sergei Grigoriev
Nijinsky
Alexander
Venice/Venice
Self
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
Art Gallery Lecturer
The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
Private Investigator
L'Impossible Objet
Diaghilev
Surviving Picasso
Fop Two
Joseph Andrews
Bonnefoy
St. Ives
Carl's Friend
Spanish Fly
Vitali
La sirène rouge
Lamberti
La Petite Fille en velours bleu
Pestov
Anna Karenina
Anthony
Courts mais Gay : Tome 12
George
Horsehead
Georges Crawn
India Song
M. Audran
The Violet Hour
Sandler
30 Years to Life
Konstantine
Déjà Vu
Lord Willingdon
Jinnah
Mon Ami Washington
Far from Dallas
Freud
Temptation of Sainthood
Curator
Jude
Alfred Grabner
Natalia
Father Michel
The Hunchback
Le peintre Ramsay
Les Chemins de l'exil ou Les dernières années de Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Actor
The Debussy Film
James
Ronde de nuit
Gannett
Maigret
Teacher
The Krays
Gen. Charles DeGaulle
Ike
Vincent
The Wonderland Experience
Brisbane
Ils...
Philosopher
The Life of Galileo
A messenger
Le Jeu avec le feu
Doctor Webber
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
Pyotr
Operation: Daybreak
Reynaldo
Hamlet
Russian Official
Fiddler on the Roof
Zam Hajji
The Horsemen
Guildenstern
An Englishman Abroad
Le lecteur du bar
Le Plaisir de chanter
Newsmith
The Beast in the Cellar
Reynaldo (archive footage)
Mel Gibson Goes Back to School
Patte Folle
Le Prof
Editor
ברלין ירושלים
Arturo
La grande bellezza
Thurson
Toutes peines confondues
Naryshkin
Catherine the Great
François
Merci Docteur Rey
Count Langenthal
The Scarlet and the Black
Lawrence
Seven Lucky Gods
Isaiah
Killing Jesus
Peter
L'Amour en question
Merrill
Fuga dal paradiso
Cleisthenes
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
Un Héraut / Un prêtre / Un clerc
Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher
Agamemnon
Troilus & Cressida
Old Man at Sauna
The Garden
Hugh of Newcastle
The Name of the Rose
Artiglio
Il ragazzo invisibile
Magnus Piecan
Rumpole of the Bailey
Riccio
Pontormo - Un amore eretico
Dr. Goldschmiedt
The Devil's Lieutenant
Don Carlo (uncredited)
Profumo di donna
Bannerheim
An Echo of Theresa
Rouka
Mademoiselle O
Gargolovsky
Testimony
Die Eisprinzessin
Emile Hacha
The Man with the Iron Heart
Clerk of Court
Let Him Have It
Apothecary
Romeo and Juliet
John, le patron de Claire
L'Amour nu
Lazar
The Marseille Contract
Dr. Lazovert
Nicholas and Alexandra
Lawyer
Der Unhold
Art Critic at Ralph Riggs Exposure (uncredited)
Darling
Vieil homme
Le passage
Oscar
The Order
Curé at Rennes-le-Chateau
Revelation
Pariente
Pascali's Island
Don John
Much Ado About Nothing
Interrogator
The Day of the Jackal
Judge at the confiscation
La Nuit de Varennes
Sherlock Holmes
L'hypothèse de la reine rouge
Goldstein
The World of George Orwell: 1984
Dr. Russell
Sredni Vashtar
King's Translator
Jefferson in Paris
Chief Scientist
Doctor Who: The War Games
Enos
The Haunting of Margam Castle
Nicanor Costa Méndez (Argentine Minister of External Relations)
The Falklands Play
Monsieur Maingot
French Without Tears
Anthony
Le moment venu
Splendor
Millie's Escort
Festival in Cannes
Un tueur russe
San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça
Pablo
Le Beau Monde
Papa Lozinska
Vigo
Eugene
The Achurch Letters
The House that Mary Bought
Apothecary
The Hour of the Pig
Reinders
Pas de frontières pour l'inspecteur - Le bouc émissaire
Father
Falling Through
A Dandy in Aspic
Bischof de Jong
Le due croci
self
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
Le réceptionniste
L'Ordre et la sécurité du monde
The Scientist (archive footage)
Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour
Man in Cinema
Baby Love
The Secret Agent
Quinion
David Copperfield
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
157
Gender
Male
Birthday
1934-08-14
Place of Birth
Nimes, France
Also Known As
Eugene