Vernon Dobtcheff
Acting
1934-08-14 · 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.
Filmography
Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour
2024 · Movie
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
2024 · Movie
The Gold
2023 · Series
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
2022 · Movie
Burning Casablanca
2021 · Movie
The Haunting of Margam Castle
2020 · Movie
The Witcher
2019 · Series
The Violet Hour
2018 · Movie
The Romanoffs
2018 · Series
L'hypothèse de la reine rouge
2018 · Movie
The Man with the Iron Heart
2017 · Movie
Emerald City
2017 · Series
The Durrells
2016 · Series
Killing Jesus
2015 · Movie
The Invisible Boy
2014 · Movie
Horsehead
2014 · Movie
Seven Lucky Gods
2014 · Movie
The Great Beauty
2013 · Movie
Another Woman's Life
2012 · Movie
Zarafa
2012 · Movie
The Passage
2011 · Movie
The Borgias
2011 · Series
Undisputed III: Redemption
2010 · Movie
Godforsaken
2010 · Movie
Changing Climates, Changing Times
2009 · Movie
The Little Murders of Agatha Christie
2009 · Series
The Joy of Singing
2008 · Movie
Apparitions
2008 · Series
Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
2008 · Movie
La Légende des 3 clefs
2007 · Series
Priceless
2006 · Movie
Courts mais Gay : Tome 12
2006 · Movie
For the Time Being
2006 · Movie
Surviving Disaster
2006 · Series
An American Haunting
2005 · Movie
Empire of the Wolves
2005 · Movie
Before Sunset
2004 · Movie
Evilenko
2004 · Movie
Pontormo - Un amore eretico
2004 · Movie
Thank You, Doctor Rey
2003 · Movie
Brocéliande
2003 · Movie
The Red Siren
2002 · Movie
The Falklands Play
2002 · Movie
David Copperfield
2001 · Movie
Festival in Cannes
2001 · Movie
The Order
2001 · Movie
The Body
2001 · Movie
Revelation
2001 · Movie
Largo Winch
2001 · Series
David Copperfield
2000 · Series
Le Prof
2000 · Movie
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
2000 · Series
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
2000 · Movie
Falling Through
2000 · Movie
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
1999 · Movie
Relic Hunter
1999 · Series
The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
1999 · Movie
Hilary and Jackie
1998 · Movie
Jinnah
1998 · Movie
30 Years to Life
1998 · Movie
Highlander: The Raven
1998 · Series
Vigo
1998 · Movie
Spanish Fly
1998 · Movie
Merlin
1998 · Series
Déjà Vu
1998 · Movie
The Wonderland Experience
1998 · Movie
St. Ives
1998 · Movie
The Odyssey
1997 · Series
Anna Karenina
1997 · Movie
The Hunchback
1997 · Movie
The Ice Princess
1996 · Movie
The Ogre
1996 · Movie
Surviving Picasso
1996 · Movie
Catherine the Great
1996 · Movie
Jude
1996 · Movie
Le fils de Paul
1995 · Movie
Sharpe's Sword
1995 · Movie
Father Ted
1995 · Series
Jefferson in Paris
1995 · Movie
The House that Mary Bought
1995 · Movie
Mademoiselle O
1994 · Movie
Frankenstein
1993 · Movie
M. Butterfly
1993 · Movie
The Hour of the Pig
1993 · Movie
Sharpe
1993 · Series
Temptation of Sainthood
1993 · Movie
Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher
1993 · Movie
Highlander: The Series
1992 · Series
Venice/Venice
1992 · Movie
Obiettivo indiscreto
1992 · Movie
Sweetheart
1992 · Movie
The First Circle
1992 · Movie
As Time Goes By
1992 · Series
The Strauss Dynasty
1991 · Series
Let Him Have It
1991 · Movie
Hamlet
1990 · Movie
Vincent and Me
1990 · Movie
Meridian
1990 · Movie
The Garden
1990 · Movie
The Krays
1990 · Movie
The Plot to Kill Hitler
1990 · Movie
Flight from Paradise
1990 · Movie
The Hostage of Europe
1989 · Movie
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1989 · Movie
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
1989 · Series
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
1989 · Movie
Natalia
1989 · Movie
Splendor
1989 · Movie
Berlin-Jerusalem
1989 · Movie
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989 · Series
The Sweet House of Horrors
1989 · Movie
War and Remembrance
1988 · Series
Testimony
1988 · Movie
Pascali's Island
1988 · Movie
Catacombs
1988 · Movie
Le due croci
1988 · Movie
Maigret
1988 · Movie
Fortunes of War
1987 · Series
Crossbow
1987 · Series
The Name of the Rose
1986 · Movie
Caravaggio
1986 · Movie
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
1986 · Series
If Tomorrow Comes
1986 · Series
Mussolini: The Untold Story
1985 · Series
Tender Is the Night
1985 · Series
Mata Hari
1985 · Movie
A.D.
1985 · Series
Morenga
1985 · Series
Much Ado About Nothing
1984 · Movie
L'Homme de Suez
1984 · Series
Sherlock Holmes
1984 · Series
Gwendoline
1984 · Movie
Night Patrol
1984 · Movie
The Devil's Lieutenant
1984 · Movie
Mon Ami Washington
1984 · Movie
An Englishman Abroad
1983 · Movie
Dramarama
1983 · Series
The Scarlet and the Black
1983 · Movie
Nutcracker
1982 · Movie
Marco Polo
1982 · Series
Enigma
1982 · Movie
That Night of Varennes
1982 · Movie
Troilus & Cressida
1981 · Movie
L'Amour nu
1981 · Movie
Goldene Zeiten - Bittere Zeiten
1981 · Series
Sredni Vashtar
1981 · Movie
Condorman
1981 · Movie
Le Beau Monde
1981 · Movie
San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça
1981 · Movie
Private Schulz
1981 · Series
Peter and Paul
1981 · Series
Masada
1981 · Series
Nijinsky
1980 · Movie
Ike
1979 · Series
Ike
1979 · Movie
Mazarin
1978 · Series
Romeo and Juliet
1978 · Movie
Question of Love
1978 · Movie
Last In, First Out
1978 · Movie
Little Girl in Blue Velvet
1978 · Movie
Holocaust
1978 · Series
Blake's 7
1978 · Series
The Roads of Exile
1978 · Movie
1990
1977 · Series
March or Die
1977 · Movie
The Spy Who Loved Me
1977 · Movie
Joseph Andrews
1977 · Movie
The Achurch Letters
1977 · Movie
Dickens of London
1976 · Series
Police Commissioner Moulin
1976 · Series
Killers
1976 · Series
French Without Tears
1976 · Movie
Michael Strogoff
1975 · Series
Rumpole of the Bailey
1975 · Series
Rumpole of the Bailey
1975 · Movie
Lovers Like Us
1975 · Movie
Des Christoffel von Grimmelshausen abenteuerlicher Simplizissimus
1975 · Series
Operation: Daybreak
1975 · Movie
The Messiah
1975 · Movie
The Secret Agent
1975 · Movie
Cat and Mouse
1975 · Movie
Van der Valk and the Scapegoat
1975 · Movie
India Song
1975 · Movie
Playing with Fire
1975 · Movie
The Sweeney
1975 · Series
Churchill's People
1974 · Series
Scent of a Woman
1974 · Movie
Murder on the Orient Express
1974 · Movie
À vous de jouer Milord
1974 · Series
Father Brown
1974 · Series
The Marseille Contract
1974 · Movie
Fall of Eagles
1974 · Series
Playhouse
1974 · Series
Cartesius
1974 · Series
Soft Beds, Hard Battles
1974 · Movie
Nobody Is Norman Wisdom
1973 · Series
Impossible Object
1973 · Movie
The Day of the Jackal
1973 · Movie
Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
1973 · Series
An Echo of Theresa
1973 · Movie
The Edwardians
1972 · Series
Crown Court
1972 · Series
The Protectors
1972 · Series
Van der Valk
1972 · Series
The Canterbury Tales
1972 · Movie
Up the Front
1972 · Movie
Far from Dallas
1972 · Movie
New Scotland Yard
1972 · Series
Mary, Queen of Scots
1971 · Movie
Nicholas and Alexandra
1971 · Movie
Fiddler on the Roof
1971 · Movie
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
1971 · Series
The Horsemen
1971 · Movie
The Beast in the Cellar
1971 · Movie
The Married Couple of the Year Two
1971 · Movie
Them
1970 · Movie
Play for Today
1970 · Series
Ace of Wands
1970 · Series
Darling Lili
1970 · Movie
Codename
1970 · Series
Anne of the Thousand Days
1969 · Movie
Doctor Who: The War Games
1969 · Movie
Baby Love
1969 · Movie
The Assassination Bureau
1969 · Movie
Beach Head
1969 · Movie
The Champions
1968 · Series
The Name of the Game
1968 · Series
A Dandy in Aspic
1968 · Movie
The Further Adventures of the Musketeers
1967 · Series
The Taming of the Shrew
1967 · Movie
The Three Musketeers
1966 · Series
Breaking Point
1966 · Series
Mystery and Imagination
1966 · Series
The World of George Orwell: 1984
1965 · Movie
BBC Play of the Month
1965 · Series
The Mask of Janus
1965 · Series
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965 · Series
Out of the Unknown
1965 · Series
Darling
1965 · Movie
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
1965 · Movie
The World of Wooster
1965 · Series
The Debussy Film
1965 · Movie
The Count of Monte Cristo
1964 · Series
Theatre 625
1964 · Series
The Life of Galileo
1964 · Movie
The Protectors
1964 · Series
Martin Chuzzlewit
1964 · Series
Doctor Who
1963 · Series
Festival
1963 · Series
Espionage
1963 · Series
The Saint
1962 · Series
The Scales of Justice
1962 · Series
The Avengers
1961 · Series
Dixon of Dock Green
1955 · Series
Parlez-nous de l'Amour
Movie