Vernon Dobtcheff
- Acting
- August 14, 1934 · 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.
Known for
Filmography
- Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour · The Scientist (archive footage)
- Alec Guinness: A Class Act · Self
- The Gold · Matteo Constantino
- Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba · Self
- Burning Casablanca · Corny
- The Haunting of Margam Castle · Enos
- The Witcher · Older Elf
- The Violet Hour · M. Audran
- The Romanoffs · M. Audran
- L'hypothèse de la reine rouge · Sherlock Holmes
- The Man with the Iron Heart · Emile Hacha
- Emerald City · High Born Man
- The Durrells · Mr. Kralefsky
- Killing Jesus · Isaiah
- The Invisible Boy · Artiglio
- Horsehead · George
- Seven Lucky Gods · Lawrence
- The Great Beauty · Arturo
- Another Woman's Life · Dimitri Speranski
- Zarafa · Le vieux sage (Voice)
- The Passage · Vieil homme
- The Borgias · Cardinal Versucci
- Undisputed III: Redemption · Rezo
- Godforsaken · The Surgeon
- Changing Climates, Changing Times · Lucas
- The Little Murders of Agatha Christie · Anatole Deschanel
- The Joy of Singing · Le lecteur du bar
- Apparitions
- Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1 · Self
- Accordez-moi · Joseph Von Stieglitz
- La Légende des 3 clefs · The anthropologist Gilles Clément
- Priceless · Jacques
- Courts mais Gay : Tome 12 · Anthony
- For the Time Being · Anthony
- Surviving Disaster
- An American Haunting · Elder #1
- Empire of the Wolves · Kudseyi
- Before Sunset · Bookstore Manager
- Evilenko · Bagdasarov
- Pontormo - Un amore eretico · Riccio
- Thank You, Doctor Rey · François
- Brocéliande · Brennos
- The Red Siren · Vitali
- The Falklands Play · Nicanor Costa Méndez (Argentine Minister of External Relations)
- David Copperfield · Quinion
- Festival in Cannes · Millie's Escort
- The Order · Oscar
- The Body · Monsignor
- Revelation · Curé at Rennes-le-Chateau
- Largo Winch · Maurice de Beliveau
- David Copperfield · Quinion
- Le Prof · Patte Folle
- The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization · Cleisthenes
- The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization · Cleisthenes
- Falling Through · Father
- Dreaming of Joseph Lees · Italian Doctor
- Relic Hunter · Anthony Cureton
- The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka · Art Gallery Lecturer
- Hilary and Jackie · Professor Bentley
- Jinnah · Lord Willingdon
- 30 Years to Life · Sandler
- Highlander: The Raven · Count Van Der Meer
- Vigo · Papa Lozinska
- Spanish Fly · Carl's Friend
- Merlin · 1st Physician
- Déjà Vu · Konstantine
- The Wonderland Experience · Vincent
- St. Ives · Bonnefoy
- The Odyssey · Aegyptius
- Anna Karenina · Pestov
- The Hunchback · Father Michel
- The Ice Princess · Chancellor
- The Ogre · Lawyer
- Surviving Picasso · Diaghilev
- Catherine the Great · Naryshkin
- Jude · Curator
- Le fils de Paul · Duval
- Sharpe's Sword · Don Felipe
- Father Ted · Old Nazi
- Jefferson in Paris · King's Translator