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