Vernon Dobtcheff
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.
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Fotos
Películas (165)
Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour
2024 · The Scientist (archive footage)
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
2024 · self
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
2022 · Self
Burning Casablanca
2021 · Corny
The Haunting of Margam Castle
2020 · Enos
The Violet Hour
2018 · M. Audran
L'hypothèse de la reine rouge
2018 · Sherlock Holmes
The Man with the Iron Heart
2017 · Emile Hacha
Killing Jesus
2015 · Isaiah
The Invisible Boy
2014 · Artiglio
Horsehead
2014 · George
Seven Lucky Gods
2014 · Lawrence
The Great Beauty
2013 · Arturo
Another Woman's Life
2012 · Dimitri Speranski
Zarafa
2012 · Le vieux sage (voice)
The Passage
2011 · Vieil homme
Undisputed III: Redemption
2010 · Rezo
Godforsaken
2010 · The Surgeon
Changing Climates, Changing Times
2009 · Lucas
The Joy of Singing
2008 · Le lecteur du bar
Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
2008 · Self
Accordez-moi
2008 · Joseph Von Stieglitz
Priceless
2006 · Jacques
Courts mais Gay : Tome 12
2006 · Anthony
For the Time Being
2006 · Anthony
An American Haunting
2005 · Elder #1
Empire of the Wolves
2005 · Kudseyi
Before Sunset
2004 · Bookstore Manager
Evilenko
2004 · Bagdasarov
Pontormo - Un amore eretico
2004 · Riccio
Thank You, Doctor Rey
2003 · François
Brocéliande
2003 · Brennos
The Red Siren
2002 · Vitali
The Falklands Play
2002 · Nicanor Costa Méndez (Argentine Minister of External Relations)
David Copperfield
2001 · Quinion
Festival in Cannes
2001 · Millie's Escort
The Order
2001 · Oscar
The Body
2001 · Monsignor
Revelation
2001 · Curé at Rennes-le-Chateau
Le Prof
2000 · Patte Folle
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
2000 · Cleisthenes
Falling Through
2000 · Father
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
1999 · Italian Doctor
The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
1999 · Art Gallery Lecturer
Hilary and Jackie
1998 · Professor Bentley
Jinnah
1998 · Lord Willingdon
30 Years to Life
1998 · Sandler
Vigo
1998 · Papa Lozinska
Spanish Fly
1998 · Carl's Friend
Déjà Vu
1998 · Konstantine
The Wonderland Experience
1998 · Vincent
St. Ives
1998 · Bonnefoy
Anna Karenina
1997 · Pestov
The Hunchback
1997 · Father Michel
The Ice Princess
1996 · Chancellor
The Ogre
1996 · Lawyer
Surviving Picasso
1996 · Diaghilev
Catherine the Great
1996 · Naryshkin
Jude
1996 · Curator
Le fils de Paul
1995 · Duval
Sharpe's Sword
1995 · Don Felipe
Jefferson in Paris
1995 · King's Translator
The House that Mary Bought
1995
Mademoiselle O
1994 · Rouka
Frankenstein
1993 · Chancellor
M. Butterfly
1993 · Agent Etancelin
The Hour of the Pig
1993 · Apothecary
Temptation of Sainthood
1993 · Freud
Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher
1993 · Un Héraut / Un prêtre / Un clerc
Obiettivo indiscreto
1992 · Primo editore
Venice/Venice
1992 · Alexander
Sweetheart
1992 · Thurson
The First Circle
1992 · Riyumin
Let Him Have It
1991 · Clerk of Court
Hamlet
1990 · Reynaldo
Vincent and Me
1990 · Dr Winkler
Meridian
1990 · Priest
The Garden
1990 · Old Man at Sauna
The Krays
1990 · Teacher
The Plot to Kill Hitler
1990 · Fellgiebel
Flight from Paradise
1990 · Merrill
The Hostage of Europe
1989 · Hudson Lowe
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1989 · Butler
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
1989 · Doctor Webber
Natalia
1989 · Alfred Grabner
Splendor
1989
Berlin-Jerusalem
1989 · Editor
The Sweet House of Horrors
1989 · The Exorcist
Testimony
1988 · Gargolovsky
Pascali's Island
1988 · Pariente
Catacombs
1988 · Brother Timothy
Le due croci
1988 · Bischof de Jong
Maigret
1988 · Gannett
The Name of the Rose
1986 · Hugh of Newcastle
Caravaggio
1986 · Art Lover
Mata Hari
1985 · Prosecutor
Much Ado About Nothing
1984 · Don John
Gwendoline
1984 · Shirko
Night Patrol
1984 · James
The Devil's Lieutenant
1984 · Dr. Goldschmiedt
Mon Ami Washington
1984
An Englishman Abroad
1983 · Guildenstern
The Scarlet and the Black
1983 · Count Langenthal
Nutcracker
1982 · Markovitch
Enigma
1982 · Minister
That Night of Varennes
1982 · Judge at the confiscation
Troilus & Cressida
1981 · Agamemnon
L'Amour nu
1981 · John, le patron de Claire
Sredni Vashtar
1981 · Dr. Russell
Condorman
1981 · Russian Agent
Le Beau Monde
1981 · Pablo
San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça
1981 · Un tueur russe
Nijinsky
1980 · Sergei Grigoriev
A Question Of Faith
1979 · Mikhail Mikhailovich
Ike
1979 · Gen. Charles DeGaulle
Romeo and Juliet
1978 · Apothecary
Question of Love
1978 · Peter
Last In, First Out
1978 · Le réceptionniste
Little Girl in Blue Velvet
1978 · Lamberti
The Roads of Exile
1978 · Le peintre Ramsay
March or Die
1977 · Mean Corporal
The Spy Who Loved Me
1977 · Max Kalba
Joseph Andrews
1977 · Fop Two
The Achurch Letters
1977 · Eugene
French Without Tears
1976 · Monsieur Maingot
Rumpole of the Bailey
1975 · Magnus Piecan
Lovers Like Us
1975 · Coleman
Operation: Daybreak
1975 · Pyotr
The Messiah
1975 · Samuel
The Secret Agent
1975 · Karl Yundt
Cat and Mouse
1975 · Germain's accomplice
Van der Valk and the Scapegoat
1975 · Reinders
India Song
1975 · Georges Crawn
Playing with Fire
1975 · A messenger
Scent of a Woman
1974 · Don Carlo (uncredited)
Murder on the Orient Express
1974 · Concierge
The Marseille Contract
1974 · Lazar
Soft Beds, Hard Battles
1974 · Padre
Impossible Object
1973 · Private Investigator
The Day of the Jackal
1973 · Interrogator
An Echo of Theresa
1973 · Bannerheim
The Canterbury Tales
1972 · The Franklin
Up the Front
1972 · Muller
Far from Dallas
1972
Mary, Queen of Scots
1971 · Duc De Guise
Nicholas and Alexandra
1971 · Dr. Lazovert
Fiddler on the Roof
1971 · Russian Official
The Horsemen
1971 · Zam Hajji
The Beast in the Cellar
1971 · Newsmith
The Married Couple of the Year Two
1971 · le pasteur
Them
1970 · Brisbane
Darling Lili
1970 · Otto Kraus
Anne of the Thousand Days
1969 · Mendoza
Doctor Who: The War Games
1969 · Chief Scientist
Baby Love
1969 · Man in Cinema
The Assassination Bureau
1969 · Baron Muntzof
Beach Head
1969 · N.G. Waldron
A Dandy in Aspic
1968
The Taming of the Shrew
1967 · Pedant
The World of George Orwell: 1984
1965 · Goldstein
Darling
1965 · 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
1965 · Member of the French Team
The Debussy Film
1965 · The Actor
The Life of Galileo
1964 · Philosopher
Parlez-nous de l'Amour
Series (95)
The Gold
2023 · Matteo Constantino
The Witcher
2019 · Older Elf
The Romanoffs
2018 · M. Audran
Emerald City
2017 · High Born Man
The Durrells
2016 · Mr. Kralefsky
The Borgias
2011 · Cardinal Versucci
The Little Murders of Agatha Christie
2009 · Anatole Deschanel
Apparitions
2008
La Légende des 3 clefs
2007 · The anthropologist Gilles Clément
Surviving Disaster
2006
Largo Winch
2001 · Maurice de Beliveau
David Copperfield
2000 · Quinion
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
2000 · Cleisthenes
Relic Hunter
1999 · Anthony Cureton
Highlander: The Raven
1998 · Count Van Der Meer
Merlin
1998 · 1st Physician
The Odyssey
1997 · Aegyptius
Father Ted
1995 · Old Nazi
Sharpe
1993 · Don Felipe
Highlander: The Series
1992 · Carlo Luchesi, Hamad
As Time Goes By
1992 · Dr. Stoker
The Strauss Dynasty
1991 · Hirsch
Judith Krantz's Till We Meet Again
1989 · Felix Penroux
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
1989 · Jules Glaenzer
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989 · Simeon Lee
War and Remembrance
1988 · Henri Bulle
Fortunes of War
1987 · Prince Hadjimoscos
Crossbow
1987
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
1986 · Mendelstam
If Tomorrow Comes
1986 · Boris Melnikov
Mussolini: The Untold Story
1985 · Sebastiani
Tender Is the Night
1985 · Luis Campion
A.D.
1985 · Flavius Sabinus
Morenga
1985 · Lohmann
L'Homme de Suez
1984 · Konya, Turkish Colonel, spy in the service of the English
Sherlock Holmes
1984 · Mendelstam
Dramarama
1983 · Mr. Rolyat
Marco Polo
1982 · Pietro De Abano
Goldene Zeiten - Bittere Zeiten
1981 · M. Bernard
Private Schulz
1981 · Sturmer
Peter and Paul
1981 · High Priest of Herod
Masada
1981 · Chief Priest
Turning Year Tales
1979 · Bailiff
Ike
1979 · Gen. Charles DeGaulle
Mazarin
1978 · Pimentel
Holocaust
1978 · Karp
Blake's 7
1978 · The Chairman
1990
1977
Dickens of London
1976 · Legal Gentleman
Police Commissioner Moulin
1976 · Astman
Killers
1976 · Clerk of the Assizes
Michael Strogoff
1975 · Blount
Rumpole of the Bailey
1975 · Edward Gandolphini
Des Christoffel von Grimmelshausen abenteuerlicher Simplizissimus
1975 · Dr. Canard
The Sweeney
1975 · Harry Kretchmar
Churchill's People
1974 · De Reynes
À vous de jouer Milord
1974 · N° 2
Father Brown
1974 · Simon Vesty
Fall of Eagles
1974 · Count Stookau
Playhouse
1974 · Eugene
Cartesius
1974 · Astronomo Ciprus
Nobody Is Norman Wisdom
1973 · Proshnik
Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
1973 · Henry
The Edwardians
1972 · Benjamin Disraeli
Crown Court
1972 · John Maitland-Wilson
The Protectors
1972 · Joe Flynn
Van der Valk
1972 · Sebastian Jonge
New Scotland Yard
1972 · Jacob Harmann
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
1971 · Molbech
Play for Today
1970
Ace of Wands
1970 · Sandor Zandar
Codename
1970 · Herman Voss
The Champions
1968 · Manager
The Name of the Game
1968 · Dedushko
The Further Adventures of the Musketeers
1967 · Msgr. de Gondy
The Three Musketeers
1966 · Commissary
Breaking Point
1966
Mystery and Imagination
1966 · Dr Lutz
BBC Play of the Month
1965 · Monsieur Maingot
The Mask of Janus
1965 · Colonel Valenkov
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965 · Carpenter
Out of the Unknown
1965 · N.G. Waldron
The Troubleshooters
1965 · Peebles
The World of Wooster
1965 · Music Store Assistant
The Count of Monte Cristo
1964 · Prison Inspector
Theatre 625
1964 · Priest, Emmanuel Goldstein
The Protectors
1964 · Cherni
Martin Chuzzlewit
1964
Doctor Who
1963 · Scientist
Festival
1963 · Philosopher
Espionage
1963 · Captain of Police
The Saint
1962 · Vogel
The Scales of Justice
1962 · Mr. Strang
The Avengers
1961 · Spencer, Stenson
Dixon of Dock Green
1955 · Counsel for Defence