Vernon Dobtcheff
ActingFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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. Dobtcheff is set to appear in the upcoming Doctor Who audio drama The Children of Seth where he'll be playing the role of Shamur, set for release in December 2011. Description above from the Wikipedia article Vernon Dobtcheff, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Butler
Undisputed III: Redemption
Rezo
Murder on the Orient Express
Concierge
The Name of the Rose
Hugh of Newcastle
The Spy Who Loved Me
Max Kalba
The Day of the Jackal
Interrogator
Fiddler on the Roof
Russian Official
The Canterbury Tales
The Franklin
Before Sunset
Bookstore Manager
The Great Beauty
Arturo
Filmography — Acting
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Butler
Undisputed III: Redemption
Rezo
Murder on the Orient Express
Concierge
The Name of the Rose
Hugh of Newcastle
The Spy Who Loved Me
Max Kalba
The Day of the Jackal
Interrogator
Fiddler on the Roof
Russian Official
The Canterbury Tales
The Franklin
Before Sunset
Bookstore Manager
The Great Beauty
Arturo
The Man with the Iron Heart
Emile Hacha
The Taming of the Shrew
Pedant
The Scarlet and the Black
Count Langenthal
Caravaggio
Art Lover
Hamlet
Reynaldo
Jude
Curator
The Order
Oscar
Nicholas and Alexandra
Dr. Lazovert
Anne of the Thousand Days
Mendoza
Killing Jesus
Isaiah
Hilary and Jackie
Professor Bentley
Meridian
Priest
The Body
Monsignor
Jefferson in Paris
King's Translator
Evilenko
Bagdasarov
An American Haunting
Elder #1
Darling
Art Critic at Ralph Riggs Exposure (uncredited)
March or Die
Mean Corporal
Anna Karenina
Pestov
M. Butterfly
Agent Etancelin
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
Member of the French Team
Empire of the Wolves
Kudseyi
The Krays
Teacher
Zarafa
Le vieux sage (voice)
Gwendoline
Shirko
Priceless
Jacques
A Dandy in Aspic
Playing with Fire
A messenger
Baby Love
Man in Cinema
Jinnah
Lord Willingdon
Enigma
Minister
The Hunchback
Father Michel
Condorman
Russian Agent
Mary, Queen of Scots
Duc De Guise
Catherine the Great
Naryshkin
The Invisible Boy
Artiglio
Ike
Gen. Charles DeGaulle
Little Girl in Blue Velvet
Lamberti
Joseph Andrews
Fop Two
Surviving Picasso
Diaghilev
The Haunting of Margam Castle
Enos
Revelation
Curé at Rennes-le-Chateau
The Hour of the Pig
Apothecary
The Assassination Bureau
Baron Muntzof
Lovers Like Us
Coleman
That Night of Varennes
Judge at the confiscation
Scent of a Woman
Don Carlo (uncredited)
Nijinsky
Sergei Grigoriev
St. Ives
Bonnefoy
David Copperfield
Quinion
The Ogre
Lawyer
Let Him Have It
Clerk of Court
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
Italian Doctor
The Garden
Old Man at Sauna
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
Self
The Beast in the Cellar
Newsmith
The Joy of Singing
Le lecteur du bar
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
Doctor Webber
Vigo
Papa Lozinska
Mata Hari
Prosecutor
Operation: Daybreak
Pyotr
The Messiah
Samuel
Romeo and Juliet
Apothecary
Maigret
Gannett
Pascali's Island
Pariente
The Marseille Contract
Lazar
Spanish Fly
Carl's Friend
Soft Beds, Hard Battles
Padre
Festival in Cannes
Millie's Escort
The Married Couple of the Year Two
le pasteur
India Song
Georges Crawn
Frankenstein
Chancellor
The Plot to Kill Hitler
Fellgiebel
The Falklands Play
Nicanor Costa Méndez (Argentine Minister of External Relations)
Troilus & Cressida
Agamemnon
The Horsemen
Zam Hajji
Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour
The Scientist (archive footage)
The First Circle
Riyumin
Vincent and Me
Dr Winkler
Cat and Mouse
Germain's accomplice
Last In, First Out
Le réceptionniste
Seven Lucky Gods
Lawrence
Le Prof
Patte Folle
Testimony
Gargolovsky
The Ice Princess
Chancellor
Doctor Who: The War Games
Chief Scientist
The Red Siren
Vitali
Up the Front
Muller
Déjà Vu
Konstantine
Sweetheart
Thurson
Catacombs
Brother Timothy
San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça
Un tueur russe
An Englishman Abroad
Guildenstern
Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
Self
The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
Art Gallery Lecturer
Impossible Object
Private Investigator
Question of Love
Peter
Another Woman's Life
Dimitri Speranski
Horsehead
George
Them
Brisbane
Courts mais Gay : Tome 12
Anthony
Splendor
Changing Climates, Changing Times
Lucas
Thank You, Doctor Rey
François
Falling Through
Father
Venice/Venice
Alexander
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
Cleisthenes
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
self
Flight from Paradise
Merrill
The World of George Orwell: 1984
Goldstein
Nutcracker
Markovitch
The House that Mary Bought
Van der Valk and the Scapegoat
Reinders
30 Years to Life
Sandler
L'Amour nu
John, le patron de Claire
The Devil's Lieutenant
Dr. Goldschmiedt
Natalia
Alfred Grabner
Sredni Vashtar
Dr. Russell
Burning Casablanca
Corny
The Secret Agent
Karl Yundt
Much Ado About Nothing
Don John
The Debussy Film
The Actor
Le Beau Monde
Pablo
The Violet Hour
M. Audran
The Life of Galileo
Philosopher
Brocéliande
Brennos
The Hostage of Europe
Hudson Lowe
French Without Tears
Monsieur Maingot
Rumpole of the Bailey
Magnus Piecan
Le fils de Paul
Duval
Berlin-Jerusalem
Editor
The Roads of Exile
Le peintre Ramsay
Night Patrol
James
The Sweet House of Horrors
The Exorcist
Beach Head
N.G. Waldron
Pontormo - Un amore eretico
Riccio
The Achurch Letters
Eugene
Obiettivo indiscreto
Primo editore
Mademoiselle O
Rouka
Far from Dallas
Godforsaken
The Surgeon
Mon Ami Washington
An Echo of Theresa
Bannerheim
Le due croci
Bischof de Jong
The Wonderland Experience
Vincent
Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher
Un Héraut / Un prêtre / Un clerc
Temptation of Sainthood
Freud
L'hypothèse de la reine rouge
Sherlock Holmes
The Passage
Vieil homme
For the Time Being
Anthony
