
Vernon Dobtcheff
Born August 14, 1934 · Nimes, France
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.
Notable Appearances
Movies

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

The Spy Who Loved Me

The Name of the Rose

Undisputed III: Redemption

Before Sunset

Murder on the Orient Express

The Day of the Jackal

The Taming of the Shrew

Fiddler on the Roof

The Great Beauty

The Man with the Iron Heart

The Canterbury Tales

Anne of the Thousand Days

Jefferson in Paris

The Order

Priceless

Anna Karenina

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes

Empire of the Wolves

The Hunchback

An American Haunting

Gwendoline

Hilary and Jackie

The Body

A Dandy in Aspic

Jude

Evilenko

The Scarlet and the Black

Surviving Picasso

March or Die

Darling

The Invisible Boy

Nicholas and Alexandra

Mary, Queen of Scots

Scent of a Woman

Hamlet

M. Butterfly

Ike

That Night of Varennes

Brocéliande

Zarafa

Playing with Fire

The Married Couple of the Year Two

Pascali's Island

The Assassination Bureau

The Krays

Let Him Have It

Caravaggio

Dreaming of Joseph Lees

The Horsemen

Killing Jesus

Catherine the Great

Little Girl in Blue Velvet

Soft Beds, Hard Battles

Doctor Who: The War Games

The Hour of the Pig

Mata Hari

Operation: Daybreak

The Passage

The Ogre

The Red Siren

Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba

Enigma

Sharpe's Sword

The Plot to Kill Hitler

Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour

Another Woman's Life

Darling Lili

Baby Love

Horsehead

Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story

Condorman

Them

Alec Guinness: A Class Act

30 Years to Life

Much Ado About Nothing

Meridian

The Marseille Contract

Joseph Andrews

David Copperfield
TV Shows

The Avengers

Highlander: The Series

BBC Play of the Month

Crown Court

The Witcher

The Saint

The Name of the Game

Theatre 625

Relic Hunter

Playhouse

Sherlock Holmes

Thirty-Minute Theatre

The Sweeney

The Borgias

New Scotland Yard

Sharpe

The Champions

Dixon of Dock Green

Rumpole of the Bailey

The Little Murders of Agatha Christie

The Protectors

Police Commissioner Moulin

Largo Winch

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

Blake's 7

Van der Valk

Espionage

Out of the Unknown

Dramarama

Churchill's People

Crossbow

The Gold

The Durrells

War and Remembrance

Highlander: The Raven

Mystery and Imagination

The Romanoffs

The Odyssey

As Time Goes By

Marco Polo

Father Ted

The Edwardians

Fall of Eagles

Merlin

Holocaust

The Scales of Justice

Emerald City

A.D.

Ace of Wands

Masada

1990

Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story

The Further Adventures of the Musketeers

Father Brown

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

If Tomorrow Comes

The Protectors

Mussolini: The Untold Story

The Strauss Dynasty

Ike

Fortunes of War

Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em

Dickens of London

Tender Is the Night

Peter and Paul

The Three Musketeers

David Copperfield

Mazarin

Michael Strogoff

Apparitions

La Légende des 3 clefs

L'Homme de Suez

The Count of Monte Cristo

Des Christoffel von Grimmelshausen abenteuerlicher Simplizissimus

The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization

À vous de jouer Milord

Morenga

Cartesius

Surviving Disaster

Martin Chuzzlewit
More Movies

The World of George Orwell: 1984

The Beast in the Cellar

Vincent and Me

India Song

Beach Head

Maigret

Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1

Lovers Like Us

Nijinsky

Cat and Mouse

The Haunting of Margam Castle

The Garden

Le fils de Paul

Revelation

Le Prof

The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka

San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça

Pontormo - Un amore eretico

The Joy of Singing

An Echo of Theresa

Nutcracker

Romeo and Juliet

The First Circle

Van der Valk and the Scapegoat

Jinnah

Rumpole of the Bailey

Question of Love

The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization

Last In, First Out

The House that Mary Bought

The Falklands Play

Impossible Object

The Sweet House of Horrors

Frankenstein

Falling Through

Thank You, Doctor Rey

Splendor

Déjà Vu

Natalia

Le Beau Monde

Testimony

French Without Tears

Vigo

Night Patrol

Catacombs

Sredni Vashtar

Festival in Cannes

The Hostage of Europe

Spanish Fly

The Roads of Exile

St. Ives

Flight from Paradise

Changing Climates, Changing Times

Seven Lucky Gods

An Englishman Abroad

Mon Ami Washington

Troilus & Cressida

Venice/Venice

L'hypothèse de la reine rouge

L'Amour nu

Courts mais Gay : Tome 12

The Achurch Letters

The Ice Princess

Up the Front

Sweetheart

Parlez-nous de l'Amour

Far from Dallas

Burning Casablanca

The Wonderland Experience

Mademoiselle O

The Debussy Film

The Messiah

Godforsaken

Obiettivo indiscreto




