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Vernon Dobtcheff
Born · August 14, 1934 (90 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Nimes, France
Bio
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.
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
self
0.0
2024
The Gold
Matteo Constantino · (3 episodes)
7.2
2023
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
Self
7.6
2022
Burning Casablanca
Corny
5.9
2021
The Haunting of Margam Castle
Enos
5.1
2020
The Witcher
Older Elf · (1 episode)
8.0
2019
The Violet Hour
M. Audran
0.0
2018
The Romanoffs
M. Audran · (1 episode)
6.5
2018
L'hypothèse de la reine rouge
Sherlock Holmes
8.0
2018
The Man with the Iron Heart
Emile Hacha
6.6
2017
The Durrells
Mr. Kralefsky · (3 episodes)
7.5
2016
Killing Jesus
Isaiah
6.3
2015
The Invisible Boy
Artiglio
6.3
2014
Horsehead
George
5.3
2014
Seven Lucky Gods
Lawrence
6.1
2014
The Great Beauty
Arturo
7.5
2013
Another Woman's Life
Dimitri Speranski
6.2
2012
Zarafa
Le vieux sage (voice)
6.8
2012
Le passage
Vieil homme
0.0
2011
The Borgias
(1 episode)
7.5
2011
The Borgias
Cardinal Versucci · (20 episodes)
7.5
2011
Undisputed III: Redemption
Rezo
7.5
2010
Godforsaken
The Surgeon
0.0
2010
Changing Climates, Changing Times
Lucas
6.4
2009
The Little Murders of Agatha Christie
Anatole Deschanel · (1 episode)
7.4
2009
The Joy of Singing
Le lecteur du bar
3.6
2008
Apparitions
(1 episode)
7.2
2008
Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
Self
6.0
2008
La Légende des 3 clefs
The anthropologist Gilles Clément · (3 episodes)
6.8
2007
Priceless
Jacques
6.4
2006
Courts mais Gay : Tome 12
Anthony
0.0
2006
For the Time Being
Anthony
0.0
2006
Surviving Disaster
(1 episode)
6.7
2006
An American Haunting
Elder #1
5.6
2005
Empire of the Wolves
Kudseyi
5.7
2005
Thank You, Doctor Rey
François
5.7
2004
Before Sunset
Bookstore Manager
7.8
2004
Evilenko
Bagdasarov
5.7
2004
Pontormo - Un amore eretico
Riccio
6.0
2004
Brocéliande
Brennos
3.7
2003
White Teeth
Devil of Dachau · (4 episodes)
7.0
2002
The Red Siren
Vitali
5.2
2002
The Falklands Play
Nicanor Costa Méndez (Argentine Minister of External Relations)
7.4
2002
Festival in Cannes
Millie's Escort
6.0
2001
The Order
Oscar
5.1
2001
The Body
Monsignor
5.5
2001
Revelation
Curé at Rennes-le-Chateau
4.8
2001
Le Prof
Patte Folle
4.0
2000
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
Cleisthenes
0.0
2000
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
Cleisthenes · (3 episodes)
7.4
2000
Falling Through
Father
3.0
2000
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
Italian Doctor
6.0
1999
Relic Hunter
Anthony Cureton · (1 episode)
6.7
1999
The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
Art Gallery Lecturer
0.0
1999
Hilary and Jackie
Professor Bentley
6.7
1998
Jinnah
Lord Willingdon
7.1
1998
30 Years to Life
Sandler
5.0
1998
Highlander: The Raven
Count Van Der Meer · (1 episode)
5.1
1998
Vigo
Papa Lozinska
4.8
1998
Spanish Fly
Carl's Friend
2.0
1998
Merlin
1st Physician · (2 episodes)
6.9
1998
Déjà Vu
Konstantine
5.5
1998
The Wonderland Experience
Vincent
0.0
1998
St. Ives
5.7
1998
Anna Karenina
Pestov
6.0
1997
The Hunchback
Father Michel
5.9
1997
The Ice Princess
4.0
1996
The Ogre
Lawyer
6.4
1996
Surviving Picasso
Diaghilev
5.8
1996
Catherine the Great
Naryshkin
5.7
1996
Jude
Curator
6.3
1996
Father Ted
Old Nazi · (1 episode)
8.1
1995
Jefferson in Paris
King's Translator
5.2
1995
The House that Mary Bought
5.0
1995
Mademoiselle O
Rouka
0.0
1994
Frankenstein
Chancellor
6.5
1993
M. Butterfly
Agent Etancelin
6.6
1993
The Hour of the Pig
Apothecary
6.2
1993
Temptation of Sainthood
Freud
0.0
1993
Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher
Un Héraut / Un prêtre / Un clerc
0.0
1993
Highlander: The Series
Carlo Luchesi · (1 episode)
7.4
1992
Highlander: The Series
Hamad · (1 episode)
7.4
1992
Obiettivo indiscreto
Primo editore
0.0
1992
Venice/Venice
Alexander
8.0
1992
Sweetheart
Thurson
6.3
1992
As Time Goes By
Dr. Stoker · (1 episode)
7.6
1992
Let Him Have It
Clerk of Court
6.6
1991
Mel Gibson Goes Back to School
Reynaldo (archive footage)
0.0
1991
Strauss Dynasty
Hirsch · (12 episodes)
0.0
1991
Hamlet
Reynaldo
6.6
1990
Vincent and me
Dr Winkler
5.0
1990
Meridian
Priest
4.6
1990
The Garden
Old Man at Sauna
5.6
1990
The Krays
Teacher
6.0
1990
Flight from Paradise
Merrill
7.0
1990
The Hostage of Europe
Hudson Lowe
6.0
1989
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Butler
7.8
1989
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
Jules Glaenzer · (6 episodes)
4.5
1989
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
Doctor Webber
6.6
1989
Natalia
Alfred Grabner
6.5
1989
Splendor
6.5
1989
Berlin-Jerusalem
Editor
5.2
1989
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Simeon Lee · (1 episode)
8.1
1989
The Sweet House of Horrors
The Exorcist
4.9
1989
Testimony
Gargolovsky
5.7
1988
Pascali's Island
Pariente
6.4
1988
Catacombs
Brother Timothy
5.0
1988
Le due croci
Bischof de Jong
0.0
1988
Maigret
Gannett
0.0
1988
Fortunes of War
(7 episodes)
6.4
1987
The Name of the Rose
Hugh of Newcastle
7.5
1986
Caravaggio
Art Lover
6.1
1986
Mussolini: The Untold Story
Sebastiani · (4 episodes)
5.2
1985
Mata Hari
Prosecutor
4.0
1985
A.D.
Flavius Sabinus · (5 episodes)
4.9
1985
Morenga
Lohmann · (3 episodes)
0.0
1985
Much Ado About Nothing
Don John
6.3
1984
L'Homme de Suez
Konya, Turkish Colonel, spy in the service of the English · (1 episode)
6.0
1984
Sherlock Holmes
Mendelstam · (1 episode)
8.1
1984
Gwendoline
Shirko
4.9
1984
Night Patrol
4.7
1984
The Devil's Lieutenant
Dr. Goldschmiedt
0.0
1984
Mon Ami Washington
0.0
1984
An Englishman Abroad
Guildenstern
5.9
1983
Dramarama
(1 episode)
6.7
1983
The Scarlet and the Black
Count Langenthal
7.0
1983
Nutcracker
Markovitch
2.0
1982
Marco Polo
Pietro De Abano · (2 episodes)
6.8
1982
Enigma
Minister
5.6
1982
The Night of Varennes
Judge at the confiscation
6.8
1982
Troilus & Cressida
Agamemnon
8.0
1981
L'Amour nu
John, le patron de Claire
4.0
1981
Goldene Zeiten - Bittere Zeiten
M. Bernard · (1 episode)
0.0
1981
Sredni Vashtar
Dr. Russell
6.6
1981
Condorman
Russian Agent
5.5
1981
Le Beau Monde
Pablo
0.0
1981
San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça
Un tueur russe
2.0
1981
Private Schulz
(1 episode)
5.8
1981
Peter and Paul
High Priest of Herod · (2 episodes)
7.0
1981
Masada
Chief Priest · (4 episodes)
7.1
1981
Nijinsky
Sergei Grigoriev
5.3
1980
Ike
Gen. Charles DeGaulle
6.2
1979
Romeo & Juliet
Apothecary
7.4
1978
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Apothecary · (3 episodes)
5.2
1978
Question of Love
Peter
6.4
1978
Lillie
(3 episodes)
8.2
1978
Last In, First Out
Le réceptionniste
3.4
1978
Little Girl in Blue Velvet
Lamberti
4.5
1978
The Devil's Crown
(1 episode)
7.5
1978
Holocaust
Karp · (2 episodes)
7.4
1978
Blake's 7
The Chairman · (1 episode)
7.2
1978
The Roads of Exile
Le peintre Ramsay
0.0
1978
1990
(1 episode)
6.0
1977
March or Die
Mean Corporal
5.8
1977
The Spy Who Loved Me
Max Kalba
6.8
1977
Joseph Andrews
Fop Two
4.7
1977
The Achurch Letters
Eugene
0.0
1977
Police Commissioner Moulin
Astman · (1 episode)
5.8
1976
French Without Tears
Monsieur Maingot
0.0
1976
Michael Strogoff
Blount · (4 episodes)
6.7
1975
Rumpole of the Bailey
(1 episode)
7.1
1975
Rumpole of the Bailey
Magnus Piecan · (1 episode)
7.1
1975
Rumpole of the Bailey
Magnus Piecan
9.0
1975
Lovers Like Us
Coleman
6.6
1975
Des Christoffel von Grimmelshausen abenteuerlicher Simplizissimus
Dr. Canard · (1 episode)
6.7
1975
Operation: Daybreak
Pyotr
6.8
1975
The Messiah
Samuel
6.4
1975
Cat and Mouse
Germain's accomplice
5.7
1975
Van der Valk and the Scapegoat
Reinders
0.0
1975
India Song
Georges Crawn
6.4
1975
Playing with Fire
A messenger
5.5
1975
The Venturers
(1 episode)
0.0
1975
The Sweeney
Harry Kretchmar · (1 episode)
7.7
1975
Scent of a Woman
Don Carlo (uncredited)
7.5
1974
Murder on the Orient Express
Concierge
7.1
1974
À vous de jouer Milord
N° 2 · (6 episodes)
6.0
1974
Father Brown
(1 episode)
6.6
1974
The Marseille Contract
Lazar
5.8
1974
Fall of Eagles
Count Stookau · (1 episode)
6.8
1974
Cartesius
Astronomo Ciprus
6.6
1974
Soft Beds, Hard Battles
Padre
4.1
1974
Story of a Love Story
Private Investigator
4.9
1973
The Day of the Jackal
Interrogator
7.5
1973
Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
(1 episode)
7.6
1973
An Echo of Theresa
Bannerheim
0.0
1973
The Edwardians
(1 episode)
5.7
1972
Crown Court
John Maitland-Wilson · (3 episodes)
5.4
1972
The Protectors
Joe Flynn · (1 episode)
5.6
1972
Van der Valk
Sebastian Jonge · (1 episode)
5.8
1972
The Canterbury Tales
The Franklin
6.3
1972
Far from Dallas
6.0
1972
Mary, Queen of Scots
Duc De Guise
6.7
1971
Nicholas and Alexandra
Dr. Lazovert
6.9
1971
Fiddler on the Roof
Russian Official
7.7
1971
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Molbech · (1 episode)
7.3
1971
The Horsemen
Zam Hajji
6.5
1971
The Married Couple of the Year Two
le pasteur
6.6
1971
Them
2.0
1970
Play for Today
(1 episode)
6.1
1970
The Beast in the Cellar
Newsmith
4.7
1970
Ace of Wands
(3 episodes)
5.5
1970
Codename
Herman Voss · (1 episode)
0.0
1970
Anne of the Thousand Days
Mendoza
7.1
1969
Doctor Who: The War Games
Chief Scientist
9.6
1969
The Assassination Bureau
Baron Muntzof
6.4
1969
The Champions
Manager · (2 episodes)
6.1
1968
The Name of the Game
Dedushko · (1 episode)
6.8
1968
A Dandy in Aspic
6.8
1968
The Taming of the Shrew
Pedant
6.9
1967
Breaking Point
(5 episodes)
0.0
1966
Mystery and Imagination
(1 episode)
5.5
1966
The World of George Orwell: 1984
Goldstein
0.0
1965
Out of the Unknown
(1 episode)
6.8
1965
Darling
Art Critic at Ralph Riggs Exposure (uncredited)
6.7
1965
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
Member of the French Team
6.8
1965
The Debussy Film
The Actor
7.6
1965
The Life of Galileo
Philosopher
0.0
1964
Martin Chuzzlewit
(3 episodes)
0.0
1964
Doctor Who
Scientist · (3 episodes)
7.9
1963
The Saint
Vogel · (1 episode)
7.3
1962
The Scales of Justice
Mr. Strang · (1 episode)
6.7
1962
The Avengers
Spencer · (2 episodes)
7.7
1961
The Avengers
Stenson · (1 episode)
7.7
1961
Dixon of Dock Green
Counsel for Defence · (1 episode)
5.3
1955