Known For
Acting
Born
Aug 14, 1934
Place of Birth
Nimes, France
Credits
252 titles
Vernon Dobtcheff
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
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