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Vernon Dobtcheff
Vernon Dobtcheff

Vernon Dobtcheff

ActingBorn August 14, 1934 (age 91)Nimes, France

Biography

Vernon Alexandre Dobtcheff (born 14 August 1934) is a French-British character actor, who has appeared in over 300 film, television, and stage productions in a career spanning six decades. 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. 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)

Movie
2023
The Gold

as Matteo Constantino

TV
2021Movie
2019
The Witcher

as Older Elf

TV
2018
The Violet Hour

as M. Audran

Movie
2018
The Romanoffs

as M. Audran

TV
2018Movie
2017Movie
2017
Emerald City

as High Born Man

TV
2016
The Durrells

as Mr. Kralefsky

TV
2015
Killing Jesus

as Isaiah

Movie
2014Movie
2014
Horsehead

as George

Movie
2014
Seven Lucky Gods

as Lawrence

Movie
2013Movie
2012
Another Woman's Life

as Dimitri Speranski

Movie
2012
Zarafa

as Le vieux sage (voice)

Movie
2011
The Passage

as Vieil homme

Movie
2011
The Borgias

as Cardinal Versucci

TV
2010
Godforsaken

as The Surgeon

Movie
2009TV
2008
The Joy of Singing

as Le lecteur du bar

Movie
2007
La Légende des 3 clefs

as The anthropologist Gilles Clément

TV
2006
Priceless

as Jacques

Movie
2006Movie
2006Movie
2005Movie
2005Movie
2004
Before Sunset

as Bookstore Manager

Movie
2004
Evilenko

as Bagdasarov

Movie
2004Movie
2003Movie
2003
Brocéliande

as Brennos

Movie
2002
The Red Siren

as Vitali

Movie
2002
The Falklands Play

as Nicanor Costa Méndez (Argentine Minister of External Relations)

Movie
2001Movie
2001
Festival in Cannes

as Millie's Escort

Movie
2001
The Order

as Oscar

Movie
2001
The Body

as Monsignor

Movie
2001
Revelation

as Curé at Rennes-le-Chateau

Movie
2001
Largo Winch

as Maurice de Beliveau

TV
2000TV
2000
Le Prof

as Patte Folle

Movie
2000Movie
1999
Dreaming of Joseph Lees

as Italian Doctor

Movie
1999
Relic Hunter

as Anthony Cureton

TV
1999Movie
1998
Hilary and Jackie

as Professor Bentley

Movie
1998
Jinnah

as Lord Willingdon

Movie
1998Movie
1998
Highlander: The Raven

as Count Van Der Meer

TV
1998
Vigo

as Papa Lozinska

Movie
1998
Spanish Fly

as Carl's Friend

Movie
1998
Merlin

as 1st Physician

TV
1998
Déjà Vu

as Konstantine

Movie
1998Movie
1998
St. Ives

as Bonnefoy

Movie
1997
Anna Karenina

as Pestov

Movie
1997
The Hunchback

as Father Michel

Movie
1996
The Ice Princess

as Chancellor

Movie
1996
The Ogre

as Lawyer

Movie
1996
Surviving Picasso

as Diaghilev

Movie
1996Movie
1996
Jude

as Curator

Movie
1995Movie
1995
Sharpe's Sword

as Don Felipe

Movie
1995
Father Ted

as Old Nazi

TV
1995
Jefferson in Paris

as King's Translator

Movie
1994Movie
1993
Frankenstein

as Chancellor

Movie
1993
M. Butterfly

as Agent Etancelin

Movie
1993
The Hour of the Pig

as Apothecary

Movie
1993Movie
1993
Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher

as Un Héraut / Un prêtre / Un clerc

Movie
1992
Highlander: The Series

as Carlo Luchesi

TV
1992
Obiettivo indiscreto

as Primo editore

Movie
1992
Venice/Venice

as Alexander

Movie
1992
Sweetheart

as Thurson

Movie
1992Movie
1992
As Time Goes By

as Dr. Stoker

TV
1991TV
1991
Let Him Have It

as Clerk of Court

Movie
1990
Hamlet

as Reynaldo

Movie
1990
Vincent and Me

as Dr Winkler

Movie
1990
Meridian

as Priest

Movie
1990
The Garden

as Old Man at Sauna

Movie
1990
The Krays

as Teacher

Movie
1990Movie
1990Movie
1989
The Hostage of Europe

as Hudson Lowe

Movie
1989
Natalia

as Alfred Grabner

Movie
1989Movie
1989Movie
1989TV
1989Movie
1988
War and Remembrance

as Henri Bulle

TV
1988
Testimony

as Gargolovsky

Movie
1988
Pascali's Island

as Pariente

Movie
1988
Catacombs

as Brother Timothy

Movie
1988
Le due croci

as Bischof de Jong

Movie
1988
Maigret

as Gannett

Movie
1987
Fortunes of War

as Prince Hadjimoscos

TV
1987TV
1986
The Name of the Rose

as Hugh of Newcastle

Movie
1986
Caravaggio

as Art Lover

Movie
1985TV
1985
Tender Is the Night

as Luis Campion

TV
1985
Mata Hari

as Prosecutor

Movie
1985
A.D.

as Flavius Sabinus

TV
1985
Morenga

as Lohmann

TV
1984Movie
1984
L'Homme de Suez

as Konya, Turkish Colonel, spy in the service of the English

TV
1984
Sherlock Holmes

as Mendelstam

TV
1984
Gwendoline

as Shirko

Movie
1984
Night Patrol

as James

Movie
1984
The Devil's Lieutenant

as Dr. Goldschmiedt

Movie
1983
An Englishman Abroad

as Guildenstern

Movie
1983
Dramarama

as Mr. Rolyat

TV
1983
The Scarlet and the Black

as Count Langenthal

Movie
1982
Nutcracker

as Markovitch

Movie
1982
Marco Polo

as Pietro De Abano

TV
1982
Enigma

as Minister

Movie
1982
That Night of Varennes

as Judge at the confiscation

Movie
1981
Troilus & Cressida

as Agamemnon

Movie
1981
L'Amour nu

as John, le patron de Claire

Movie
1981
Sredni Vashtar

as Dr. Russell

Movie
1981
Condorman

as Russian Agent

Movie
1981Movie
1981Movie
1981
Private Schulz

as Sturmer

TV
1981
Peter and Paul

as High Priest of Herod

TV
1981
Masada

as Chief Priest

TV
1980
Nijinsky

as Sergei Grigoriev

Movie
1979
Ike

as Gen. Charles DeGaulle

Movie
1979
Ike

as Gen. Charles DeGaulle

TV
1978
Mazarin

as Pimentel

TV
1978
Romeo and Juliet

as Apothecary

Movie
1978Movie
1978
Last In, First Out

as Le réceptionniste

Movie
1978Movie
1978
Holocaust

as Karp

TV
1978
Blake's 7

as The Chairman

TV
1978
The Roads of Exile

as Le peintre Ramsay

Movie
1977TV
1977
March or Die

as Mean Corporal

Movie
1977Movie
1977
Joseph Andrews

as Fop Two

Movie
1977Movie
1976
Dickens of London

as Legal Gentleman

TV
1976
Killers

as Clerk of the Assizes

TV
1976
French Without Tears

as Monsieur Maingot

Movie
1975TV
1975
Rumpole of the Bailey

as Edward Gandolphini

TV
1975
Rumpole of the Bailey

as Magnus Piecan

Movie
1975
Lovers Like Us

as Coleman

Movie
1975Movie
1975
The Messiah

as Samuel

Movie
1975
The Secret Agent

as Karl Yundt

Movie
1975
Cat and Mouse

as Germain's accomplice

Movie
1975Movie
1975
India Song

as Georges Crawn

Movie
1975
Playing with Fire

as A messenger

Movie
1975
The Sweeney

as Harry Kretchmar

TV
1974
Churchill's People

as De Reynes

TV
1974
Scent of a Woman

as Don Carlo (uncredited)

Movie
1974Movie
1974
Father Brown

as Simon Vesty

TV
1974Movie
1974
Fall of Eagles

as Count Stookau

TV
1974
Playhouse

as Eugene

TV
1974
Cartesius

as Astronomo Ciprus

TV
1974Movie
1973TV
1973
Impossible Object

as Private Investigator

Movie
1973
The Day of the Jackal

as Interrogator

Movie
1973
An Echo of Theresa

as Bannerheim

Movie
1972
The Edwardians

as Benjamin Disraeli

TV
1972
Crown Court

as John Maitland-Wilson

TV
1972
The Protectors

as Joe Flynn

TV
1972
Van der Valk

as Sebastian Jonge

TV
1972
The Canterbury Tales

as The Franklin

Movie
1972
Up the Front

as Muller

Movie
1972
New Scotland Yard

as Jacob Harmann

TV
1971
Mary, Queen of Scots

as Duc De Guise

Movie
1971
Nicholas and Alexandra

as Dr. Lazovert

Movie
1971
Fiddler on the Roof

as Russian Official

Movie
1971
The Horsemen

as Zam Hajji

Movie
1971Movie
1970
Them

as Brisbane

Movie
1970
Ace of Wands

as Sandor Zandar

TV
1970
Darling Lili

as Otto Kraus

Movie
1970
Codename

as Herman Voss

TV
1969Movie
1969
Doctor Who: The War Games

as Chief Scientist

Movie
1969
Baby Love

as Man in Cinema

Movie
1969
The Assassination Bureau

as Baron Muntzof

Movie
1969
Beach Head

as N.G. Waldron

Movie
1968
The Champions

as Manager

TV
1968TV
1967Movie
1966TV
1966TV
1965
BBC Play of the Month

as Monsieur Maingot

TV
1965
The Mask of Janus

as Colonel Valenkov

TV
1965TV
1965
Out of the Unknown

as N.G. Waldron

TV
1965
Darling

as Art Critic at Ralph Riggs Exposure (uncredited)

Movie
1965
The World of Wooster

as Music Store Assistant

TV
1965
The Debussy Film

as The Actor

Movie
1964
Theatre 625

as Priest

TV
1964
Theatre 625

as Emmanuel Goldstein

TV
1964
The Life of Galileo

as Philosopher

Movie
1963
Doctor Who

as Scientist

TV
1963
Festival

as Philosopher

TV
1963
Espionage

as Captain of Police

TV
1962
The Saint

as Vogel

TV
1962TV
1961
The Avengers

as Spencer

TV
1961
The Avengers

as Stenson

TV
1955
Dixon of Dock Green

as Counsel for Defence

TV

Personal Info

DepartmentActing
BirthdayAugust 14, 1934
Place of BirthNimes, France
Popularity0.8