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