Vernon Dobtcheff
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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.
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Movies
Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour
The Scientist (archive footage)
Burning Casablanca
Corny
The Haunting of Margam Castle
Enos
The Violet Hour
M. Audran
L'hypothèse de la reine rouge
Sherlock Holmes
The Man with the Iron Heart
Emile Hacha
Killing Jesus
Isaiah
The Invisible Boy
Artiglio
Horsehead
George
Seven Lucky Gods
Lawrence
The Great Beauty
Arturo
Another Woman's Life
Dimitri Speranski
Zarafa
Le vieux sage (voice)
The Passage
Vieil homme
Undisputed III: Redemption
Rezo
Godforsaken
The Surgeon
Changing Climates, Changing Times
Lucas
The Joy of Singing
Le lecteur du bar
Priceless
Jacques
Courts mais Gay : Tome 12
Anthony
For the Time Being
Anthony
An American Haunting
Elder #1
Empire of the Wolves
Kudseyi
Thank You, Doctor Rey
François
Before Sunset
Bookstore Manager
Evilenko
Bagdasarov
Pontormo - Un amore eretico
Riccio
Brocéliande
Brennos
The Red Siren
Vitali
The Falklands Play
Nicanor Costa Méndez (Argentine Minister of External Relations)
David Copperfield
Quinion
Festival in Cannes
Millie's Escort
The Order
Oscar
The Body
Monsignor
Revelation
Curé at Rennes-le-Chateau
Le Prof
Patte Folle
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
Cleisthenes
Falling Through
Father
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
Italian Doctor
The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
Art Gallery Lecturer
Hilary and Jackie
Professor Bentley
Jinnah
Lord Willingdon
30 Years to Life
Sandler
Vigo
Papa Lozinska
Spanish Fly
Carl's Friend
Déjà Vu
Konstantine
The Wonderland Experience
Vincent
St. Ives
Bonnefoy
Anna Karenina
Pestov
The Hunchback
Father Michel
The Ice Princess
Chancellor
The Ogre
Lawyer
Surviving Picasso
Diaghilev
Catherine the Great
Naryshkin
Jude
Curator
Le fils de Paul
Duval
Jefferson in Paris
King's Translator
The House that Mary Bought
Mademoiselle O
Rouka
Frankenstein
Chancellor
M. Butterfly
Agent Etancelin
The Hour of the Pig
Apothecary
Temptation of Sainthood
Freud
Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher
Un Héraut / Un prêtre / Un clerc
Obiettivo indiscreto
Primo editore
Venice/Venice
Alexander
Sweetheart
Thurson
The First Circle
Riyumin
Let Him Have It
Clerk of Court
Hamlet
Reynaldo
Vincent and me
Dr Winkler
Meridian
Priest
The Garden
Old Man at Sauna
The Krays
Teacher
Flight from Paradise
Merrill
The Hostage of Europe
Hudson Lowe
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Butler
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
Doctor Webber
Natalia
Alfred Grabner
Splendor
Berlin-Jerusalem
Editor
The Sweet House of Horrors
The Exorcist
Testimony
Gargolovsky
Pascali's Island
Pariente
Catacombs
Brother Timothy
Le due croci
Bischof de Jong
Maigret
Gannett
The Name of the Rose
Hugh of Newcastle
Caravaggio
Art Lover
Mata Hari
Prosecutor
Much Ado About Nothing
Don John
Gwendoline
Shirko
Night Patrol
James
The Devil's Lieutenant
Dr. Goldschmiedt
Mon Ami Washington
An Englishman Abroad
Guildenstern
The Scarlet and the Black
Count Langenthal
Nutcracker
Markovitch
Enigma
Minister
The Night of Varennes
Judge at the confiscation
Troilus & Cressida
Agamemnon
L'Amour nu
John, le patron de Claire
Sredni Vashtar
Dr. Russell
Condorman
Russian Agent
Le Beau Monde
Pablo
San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça
Un tueur russe
Nijinsky
Sergei Grigoriev
Ike
Gen. Charles DeGaulle
Romeo and Juliet
Apothecary
Question of Love
Peter
Last In, First Out
Le réceptionniste
Little Girl in Blue Velvet
Lamberti
The Roads of Exile
Le peintre Ramsay
March or Die
Mean Corporal
The Spy Who Loved Me
Max Kalba
Joseph Andrews
Fop Two
The Achurch Letters
Eugene
French Without Tears
Monsieur Maingot
Rumpole of the Bailey
Magnus Piecan
Lovers Like Us
Coleman
Operation: Daybreak
Pyotr
The Messiah
Samuel
The Secret Agent
Karl Yundt
Cat and Mouse
Germain's accomplice
Van der Valk and the Scapegoat
Reinders
India Song
Georges Crawn
Playing with Fire
A messenger
Scent of a Woman
Don Carlo (uncredited)
Murder on the Orient Express
Concierge
The Marseille Contract
Lazar
Cartesius
Astronomo Ciprus
Soft Beds, Hard Battles
Padre
Impossible Object
Private Investigator
The Day of the Jackal
Interrogator
An Echo of Theresa
Bannerheim
The Canterbury Tales
The Franklin
Up the Front
Muller
Far from Dallas
Mary, Queen of Scots
Duc De Guise
Nicholas and Alexandra
Dr. Lazovert
Fiddler on the Roof
Russian Official
The Horsemen
Zam Hajji
The Beast in the Cellar
Newsmith
The Married Couple of the Year Two
le pasteur
Them
Brisbane
Anne of the Thousand Days
Mendoza
Doctor Who: The War Games
Chief Scientist
Baby Love
Man in Cinema
The Assassination Bureau
Baron Muntzof
Beach Head
N.G. Waldron
A Dandy in Aspic
The Taming of the Shrew
Pedant
The World of George Orwell: 1984
Goldstein
Darling
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
Member of the French Team
The Debussy Film
The Actor
The Life of Galileo
Philosopher
TV Series
The Gold
Matteo Constantino
3 Episodes
The Witcher
Older Elf
1 Episode
The Romanoffs
M. Audran
1 Episode
Emerald City
High Born Man
2 Episodes
The Durrells
Mr. Kralefsky
3 Episodes
The Borgias
1 Episode
The Little Murders of Agatha Christie
Anatole Deschanel
1 Episode
Apparitions
1 Episode
La Légende des 3 clefs
The anthropologist Gilles Clément
3 Episodes
Surviving Disaster
1 Episode
Largo Winch
Maurice de Beliveau
1 Episode
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
Cleisthenes
3 Episodes
Relic Hunter
Anthony Cureton
1 Episode
Highlander: The Raven
Count Van Der Meer
1 Episode
Merlin
1st Physician
2 Episodes
Father Ted
Old Nazi
1 Episode
Highlander: The Series
Carlo Luchesi
1 Episode
As Time Goes By
Dr. Stoker
1 Episode
The Strauss Dynasty
Hirsch
6 Episodes
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
Jules Glaenzer
6 Episodes
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Simeon Lee
1 Episode
Fortunes of War
Prince Hadjimoscos
3 Episodes
Mussolini: The Untold Story
Sebastiani
4 Episodes
Tender Is the Night
Luis Campion
1 Episode
A.D.
Flavius Sabinus
5 Episodes
Morenga
Lohmann
3 Episodes
L'Homme de Suez
Konya, Turkish Colonel, spy in the service of the English
1 Episode
Sherlock Holmes
Mendelstam
1 Episode
Dramarama
1 Episode
Marco Polo
Pietro De Abano
2 Episodes
Goldene Zeiten - Bittere Zeiten
M. Bernard
1 Episode
Private Schulz
1 Episode
Peter and Paul
High Priest of Herod
2 Episodes
Masada
Chief Priest
4 Episodes
Ike
Gen. Charles DeGaulle
2 Episodes
Lillie
3 Episodes
Holocaust
Karp
2 Episodes
Blake's 7
The Chairman
1 Episode
1990
1 Episode
Dickens of London
Legal Gentleman
1 Episode
Police Commissioner Moulin
Astman
1 Episode
Michael Strogoff
Blount
4 Episodes
Rumpole of the Bailey
Edward Gandolphini
1 Episode
Des Christoffel von Grimmelshausen abenteuerlicher Simplizissimus
Dr. Canard
1 Episode
The Venturers
1 Episode
The Sweeney
Harry Kretchmar
1 Episode
Churchill's People
De Reynes
1 Episode
À vous de jouer Milord
N° 2
6 Episodes
Father Brown
1 Episode
Fall of Eagles
Count Stookau
1 Episode
Playhouse
Eugene
1 Episode
Nobody Is Norman Wisdom
Proshnik
6 Episodes
Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
1 Episode
The Edwardians
Benjamin Disraeli
1 Episode
Crown Court
John Maitland-Wilson
3 Episodes
The Protectors
Joe Flynn
1 Episode
Van der Valk
Sebastian Jonge
1 Episode
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Molbech
1 Episode
Play for Today
1 Episode
Ace of Wands
Sandor Zandar
4 Episodes
Codename
Herman Voss
1 Episode
The Champions
Manager
2 Episodes
The Name of the Game
Dedushko
1 Episode
The Further Adventures of the Musketeers
Msgr. de Gondy
6 Episodes
The Three Musketeers
Commissary
2 Episodes
Breaking Point
5 Episodes
Mystery and Imagination
1 Episode
BBC Play of the Month
Monsieur Maingot
1 Episode
The Mask of Janus
Colonel Valenkov
1 Episode
Out of the Unknown
1 Episode
The World of Wooster
Music Store Assistant
1 Episode
Theatre 625
Priest
1 Episode
Martin Chuzzlewit
3 Episodes
Doctor Who
Scientist
3 Episodes
Festival
Philosopher
1 Episode
The Saint
Vogel
1 Episode
The Scales of Justice
Mr. Strang
1 Episode
The Avengers
Spencer
2 Episodes
Dixon of Dock Green
Counsel for Defence
1 Episode