Vernon Dobtcheff
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.
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Parlez-nous de l'Amour
as Unknown
Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour
as The Scientist (archive footage)
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
as self
The Gold
as Matteo Constantino
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
as Self
Burning Casablanca
as Corny
The Haunting of Margam Castle
as Enos
The Romanoffs
as M. Audran
L'hypothèse de la reine rouge
as Sherlock Holmes
The Man with the Iron Heart
as Emile Hacha
Emerald City
as High Born Man
The Durrells
as Mr. Kralefsky
Killing Jesus
as Isaiah
The Invisible Boy
as Artiglio
Horsehead
as George
Seven Lucky Gods
as Lawrence
The Great Beauty
as Arturo
Another Woman's Life
as Dimitri Speranski
Zarafa
as Le vieux sage (voice)
The Passage
as Vieil homme
The Borgias
as Cardinal Versucci
Godforsaken
as The Surgeon
Changing Climates, Changing Times
as Lucas
The Little Murders of Agatha Christie
as Anatole Deschanel
The Joy of Singing
as Le lecteur du bar
Apparitions
as Unknown
Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
as Self
La Légende des 3 clefs
as The anthropologist Gilles Clément
Priceless
as Jacques
Courts mais Gay : Tome 12
as Anthony
Surviving Disaster
as Unknown
An American Haunting
as Elder #1
Empire of the Wolves
as Kudseyi
Before Sunset
as Bookstore Manager
Evilenko
as Bagdasarov
Pontormo - Un amore eretico
as Riccio
Thank You, Doctor Rey
as François
Brocéliande
as Brennos
The Red Siren
as Vitali
The Falklands Play
as Nicanor Costa Méndez (Argentine Minister of External Relations)
David Copperfield
as Quinion
Festival in Cannes
as Millie's Escort
The Order
as Oscar
The Body
as Monsignor
Revelation
as Curé at Rennes-le-Chateau
Largo Winch
as Maurice de Beliveau
Largo Winch
as Unknown
David Copperfield
as Quinion
Le Prof
as Patte Folle
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
as Cleisthenes
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
as Cleisthenes
Falling Through
as Father
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
as Italian Doctor
Relic Hunter
as Anthony Cureton
The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
as Art Gallery Lecturer
Hilary and Jackie
as Professor Bentley
Jinnah
as Lord Willingdon
30 Years to Life
as Sandler
Highlander: The Raven
as Count Van Der Meer
Vigo
as Papa Lozinska
Spanish Fly
as Carl's Friend
Merlin
as 1st Physician
Déjà Vu
as Konstantine
The Wonderland Experience
as Vincent
St. Ives
as Bonnefoy
Anna Karenina
as Pestov
The Hunchback
as Father Michel
The Ice Princess
as Chancellor
The Ogre
as Lawyer
Surviving Picasso
as Diaghilev
Catherine the Great
as Naryshkin
Jude
as Curator
Le fils de Paul
as Duval
Sharpe's Sword
as Don Felipe
Father Ted
as Old Nazi
Jefferson in Paris
as King's Translator
The House that Mary Bought
as Unknown
Mademoiselle O
as Rouka
M. Butterfly
as Agent Etancelin
The Hour of the Pig
as Apothecary
Sharpe
as Don Felipe
Highlander: The Series
as Carlo Luchesi
Highlander: The Series
as Hamad
Obiettivo indiscreto
as Primo editore
Venice/Venice
as Alexander
Sweetheart
as Thurson
The First Circle
as Riyumin
As Time Goes By
as Dr. Stoker
The Strauss Dynasty
as Hirsch
Let Him Have It
as Clerk of Court
Hamlet
as Reynaldo
Vincent and Me
as Dr Winkler
Meridian
as Priest
The Garden
as Old Man at Sauna
The Krays
as Teacher
The Plot to Kill Hitler
as Fellgiebel
Flight from Paradise
as Merrill
The Hostage of Europe
as Hudson Lowe
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
as Butler
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
as Jules Glaenzer
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
as Doctor Webber
Natalia
as Alfred Grabner
Splendor
as Unknown
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Simeon Lee
The Sweet House of Horrors
as The Exorcist
War and Remembrance
as Henri Bulle
Testimony
as Gargolovsky
Pascali's Island
as Pariente
Catacombs
as Brother Timothy
Le due croci
as Bischof de Jong
Maigret
as Gannett
Fortunes of War
as Prince Hadjimoscos
Crossbow
as Unknown
The Name of the Rose
as Hugh of Newcastle
Caravaggio
as Art Lover
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
as Mendelstam
If Tomorrow Comes
as Boris Melnikov
Mussolini: The Untold Story
as Sebastiani
Tender Is the Night
as Luis Campion
Mata Hari
as Prosecutor
A.D.
as Flavius Sabinus
Morenga
as Lohmann
Much Ado About Nothing
as Don John
L'Homme de Suez
as Konya, Turkish Colonel, spy in the service of the English
Gwendoline
as Shirko
Night Patrol
as James
Mon Ami Washington
as Unknown
An Englishman Abroad
as Guildenstern
Dramarama
as Mr. Rolyat
The Scarlet and the Black
as Count Langenthal
Nutcracker
as Markovitch
Marco Polo
as Pietro De Abano
Enigma
as Minister
That Night of Varennes
as Judge at the confiscation
Troilus & Cressida
as Agamemnon
L'Amour nu
as John, le patron de Claire
Sredni Vashtar
as Dr. Russell
Condorman
as Russian Agent
Le Beau Monde
as Pablo
San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça
as Un tueur russe
Private Schulz
as Sturmer
Peter and Paul
as High Priest of Herod
Masada
as Chief Priest
Nijinsky
as Sergei Grigoriev
Ike
as Gen. Charles DeGaulle
Ike
as Gen. Charles DeGaulle
Mazarin
as Pimentel
Romeo and Juliet
as Apothecary
Question of Love
as Peter
Last In, First Out
as Le réceptionniste
Little Girl in Blue Velvet
as Lamberti
Holocaust
as Karp
Blake's 7
as The Chairman
The Roads of Exile
as Le peintre Ramsay
1990
as Unknown
March or Die
as Mean Corporal
The Spy Who Loved Me
as Max Kalba
Joseph Andrews
as Fop Two
The Achurch Letters
as Eugene
Dickens of London
as Legal Gentleman
Police Commissioner Moulin
as Astman
French Without Tears
as Monsieur Maingot
Michael Strogoff
as Blount
Rumpole of the Bailey
as Edward Gandolphini
Rumpole of the Bailey
as Magnus Piecan
Lovers Like Us
as Coleman
Des Christoffel von Grimmelshausen abenteuerlicher Simplizissimus
as Dr. Canard
Operation: Daybreak
as Pyotr
The Messiah
as Samuel
Cat and Mouse
as Germain's accomplice
Van der Valk and the Scapegoat
as Reinders
India Song
as Georges Crawn
Playing with Fire
as A messenger
The Sweeney
as Harry Kretchmar
Churchill's People
as De Reynes
Scent of a Woman
as Don Carlo (uncredited)
Murder on the Orient Express
as Concierge
À vous de jouer Milord
as N° 2
Father Brown
as Simon Vesty
The Marseille Contract
as Lazar
Fall of Eagles
as Count Stookau
Playhouse
as Eugene
Cartesius
as Astronomo Ciprus
Soft Beds, Hard Battles
as Padre
Impossible Object
as Private Investigator
The Day of the Jackal
as Interrogator
Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
as Unknown
An Echo of Theresa
as Bannerheim
The Edwardians
as Benjamin Disraeli
Crown Court
as John Maitland-Wilson
The Protectors
as Joe Flynn
Van der Valk
as Sebastian Jonge
The Canterbury Tales
as The Franklin
Up the Front
as Muller
Far from Dallas
as Unknown
New Scotland Yard
as Jacob Harmann
Mary, Queen of Scots
as Duc De Guise
Nicholas and Alexandra
as Dr. Lazovert
Fiddler on the Roof
as Russian Official
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
as Molbech
The Horsemen
as Zam Hajji
The Beast in the Cellar
as Newsmith
The Married Couple of the Year Two
as le pasteur
Them
as Brisbane
Play for Today
as Unknown
Ace of Wands
as Sandor Zandar
Darling Lili
as Otto Kraus
Anne of the Thousand Days
as Mendoza
Doctor Who: The War Games
as Chief Scientist
Baby Love
as Man in Cinema
The Assassination Bureau
as Baron Muntzof
Beach Head
as N.G. Waldron
The Champions
as Manager
The Name of the Game
as Dedushko
A Dandy in Aspic
as Unknown
The Further Adventures of the Musketeers
as Msgr. de Gondy
The Taming of the Shrew
as Pedant
The Three Musketeers
as Commissary
Mystery and Imagination
as Dr Lutz
The World of George Orwell: 1984
as Goldstein
BBC Play of the Month
as Monsieur Maingot
Thirty-Minute Theatre
as Carpenter
Out of the Unknown
as N.G. Waldron
Darling
as Art Critic at Ralph Riggs Exposure (uncredited)
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
as Member of the French Team
The Debussy Film
as The Actor
The Count of Monte Cristo
as Prison Inspector
Theatre 625
as Priest
Theatre 625
as Emmanuel Goldstein
The Protectors
as Cherni
Martin Chuzzlewit
as Unknown
Doctor Who
as Scientist
Espionage
as Captain of Police
The Saint
as Vogel
The Scales of Justice
as Mr. Strang
Dixon of Dock Green
as Counsel for Defence