Vernon Dobtcheff
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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
Credits
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
as Butler
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
as Max Kalba
Undisputed III: Redemption (2010)
as Rezo
The Name of the Rose (1986)
as Hugh of Newcastle
Before Sunset (2004)
as Bookstore Manager
Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
as Concierge
The Day of the Jackal (1973)
as Interrogator
Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
as Russian Official
The Great Beauty (2013)
as Arturo
The Taming of the Shrew (1967)
as Pedant
The Man with the Iron Heart (2017)
as Emile Hacha
The Order (2001)
as Oscar
The Canterbury Tales (1972)
as The Franklin
Empire of the Wolves (2005)
as Kudseyi
Priceless (2006)
as Jacques
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes (1965)
as Member of the French Team
The Hunchback (1997)
as Father Michel
Anna Karenina (1997)
as Pestov
Gwendoline (1984)
as Shirko
March or Die (1977)
as Mean Corporal
Surviving Picasso (1996)
as Diaghilev
An American Haunting (2005)
as Elder #1
Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
as Mendoza
A Dandy in Aspic (1968)
Actor
Hilary and Jackie (1998)
as Professor Bentley
Darling (1965)
as Art Critic at Ralph Riggs Exposure (uncredited)
M. Butterfly (1993)
as Agent Etancelin
Jefferson in Paris (1995)
as King's Translator
Jude (1996)
as Curator
Evilenko (2004)
as Bagdasarov
Let Him Have It (1991)
as Clerk of Court
Zarafa (2012)
as Le vieux sage (voice)
Ike (1979)
as Gen. Charles DeGaulle
The Invisible Boy (2014)
as Artiglio
Playing with Fire (1975)
as A messenger
The Scarlet and the Black (1983)
as Count Langenthal
The Body (2001)
as Monsignor
Pascali's Island (1988)
as Pariente
The Married Couple of the Year Two (1971)
as le pasteur
The Hour of the Pig (1993)
as Apothecary
Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)
as Dr. Lazovert
That Night of Varennes (1982)
as Judge at the confiscation
Hamlet (1990)
as Reynaldo
Caravaggio (1986)
as Art Lover
Mary, Queen of Scots (1971)
as Duc De Guise
The Assassination Bureau (1969)
as Baron Muntzof
Operation: Daybreak (1975)
as Pyotr
Soft Beds, Hard Battles (1974)
as Padre
Scent of a Woman (1974)
as Don Carlo (uncredited)
30 Years to Life (1998)
as Sandler
Dreaming of Joseph Lees (1999)
as Italian Doctor
Sharpe's Sword (1995)
as Don Felipe
The Red Siren (2002)
as Vitali
The Ogre (1996)
as Lawyer
The Marseille Contract (1974)
as Lazar
The Krays (1990)
as Teacher
Brocéliande (2003)
as Brennos
Vincent and Me (1990)
as Dr Winkler
The Horsemen (1971)
as Zam Hajji
Doctor Who: The War Games (1969)
as Chief Scientist
The Falklands Play (2002)
as Nicanor Costa Méndez (Argentine Minister of External Relations)
The Plot to Kill Hitler (1990)
as Fellgiebel
Catherine the Great (1996)
as Naryshkin
Killing Jesus (2015)
as Isaiah
The Passage (2011)
as Vieil homme
Little Girl in Blue Velvet (1978)
as Lamberti
Them (1970)
as Brisbane
The Beast in the Cellar (1971)
as Newsmith
Beach Head (1969)
as N.G. Waldron
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story (1989)
as Doctor Webber
Lovers Like Us (1975)
as Coleman
Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour (2024)
as The Scientist (archive footage)
Another Woman's Life (2012)
as Dimitri Speranski
Baby Love (1969)
as Man in Cinema
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba (2022)
as Self
Mata Hari (1985)
as Prosecutor
Pontormo - Un amore eretico (2004)
as Riccio
Enigma (1982)
as Minister
Meridian (1990)
as Priest
Romeo and Juliet (1978)
as Apothecary
The World of George Orwell: 1984 (1965)
as Goldstein
Darling Lili (1970)
as Otto Kraus
Jinnah (1998)
as Lord Willingdon
Much Ado About Nothing (1984)
as Don John
Maigret (1988)
as Gannett
Le fils de Paul (1995)
as Duval
Condorman (1981)
as Russian Agent
The Garden (1990)
as Old Man at Sauna
David Copperfield (2001)
as Quinion
French Without Tears (1976)
as Monsieur Maingot
The Haunting of Margam Castle (2020)
as Enos
Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1 (2008)
as Self
Last In, First Out (1978)
as Le réceptionniste
The Sweet House of Horrors (1989)
as The Exorcist
Le Prof (2000)
as Patte Folle
India Song (1975)
as Georges Crawn
Nutcracker (1982)
as Markovitch
Alec Guinness: A Class Act (2024)
as self
Horsehead (2014)
as George
Seven Lucky Gods (2014)
as Lawrence
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization (2000)
as Cleisthenes
San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça (1981)
as Un tueur russe
The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka (1999)
as Art Gallery Lecturer
Question of Love (1978)
as Peter
Revelation (2001)
as Curé at Rennes-le-Chateau
Cat and Mouse (1975)
as Germain's accomplice
Rumpole of the Bailey (1975)
as Magnus Piecan
St. Ives (1998)
as Bonnefoy
An Echo of Theresa (1973)
as Bannerheim
Joseph Andrews (1977)
as Fop Two
Le Beau Monde (1981)
as Pablo
The First Circle (1992)
as Riyumin
The Joy of Singing (2008)
as Le lecteur du bar
The House that Mary Bought (1995)
Actor
Impossible Object (1973)
as Private Investigator
The Life of Galileo (1964)
as Philosopher
Thank You, Doctor Rey (2003)
as François
Natalia (1989)
as Alfred Grabner
Van der Valk and the Scapegoat (1975)
as Reinders
Nijinsky (1980)
as Sergei Grigoriev
Vigo (1998)
as Papa Lozinska
Falling Through (2000)
as Father
Venice/Venice (1992)
as Alexander
The Roads of Exile (1978)
as Le peintre Ramsay
Frankenstein (1993)
as Chancellor
The Devil's Lieutenant (1984)
as Dr. Goldschmiedt
Up the Front (1972)
as Muller
Troilus & Cressida (1981)
as Agamemnon
The Hostage of Europe (1989)
as Hudson Lowe
An Englishman Abroad (1983)
as Guildenstern
Splendor (1989)
Actor
L'hypothèse de la reine rouge (2018)
as Sherlock Holmes
Flight from Paradise (1990)
as Merrill
Déjà Vu (1998)
as Konstantine
Changing Climates, Changing Times (2009)
as Lucas
Courts mais Gay : Tome 12 (2006)
as Anthony
Testimony (1988)
as Gargolovsky
Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher (1993)
as Un Héraut / Un prêtre / Un clerc
The Messiah (1975)
as Samuel
Parlez-nous de l'Amour (—)
Actor
Night Patrol (1984)
as James
Catacombs (1988)
as Brother Timothy
The Debussy Film (1965)
as The Actor
Sweetheart (1992)
as Thurson
The Wonderland Experience (1998)
as Vincent
Mon Ami Washington (1984)
Actor
L'Amour nu (1981)
as John, le patron de Claire
Far from Dallas (1972)
Actor
Festival in Cannes (2001)
as Millie's Escort
The Violet Hour (2018)
as M. Audran
Spanish Fly (1998)
as Carl's Friend
Sredni Vashtar (1981)
as Dr. Russell
Burning Casablanca (2021)
as Corny
Temptation of Sainthood (1993)
as Freud
Mademoiselle O (1994)
as Rouka
The Achurch Letters (1977)
as Eugene
The Ice Princess (1996)
as Chancellor
For the Time Being (2006)
as Anthony
The Secret Agent (1975)
as Karl Yundt
Le due croci (1988)
as Bischof de Jong
Godforsaken (2010)
as The Surgeon
Berlin-Jerusalem (1989)
as Editor
Obiettivo indiscreto (1992)
as Primo editore