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