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