Vernon Dobtcheff
Biography
From 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.
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Movies (39)
Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour
as The Scientist (archive footage)
2024
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
as self
2024
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
as Self
2022
Burning Casablanca
as Corny
2021
The Haunting of Margam Castle
as Enos
2020
The Violet Hour
as M. Audran
2018
L'hypothèse de la reine rouge
as Sherlock Holmes
2018
The Man with the Iron Heart
as Emile Hacha
2017
Killing Jesus
as Isaiah
2015
The Invisible Boy
as Artiglio
2014
Horsehead
as George
2014
Seven Lucky Gods
as Lawrence
2014
The Great Beauty
as Arturo
2013
Another Woman's Life
as Dimitri Speranski
2012
Zarafa
as Le vieux sage (voice)
2012
The Passage
as Vieil homme
2011
Undisputed III: Redemption
as Rezo
2010
Godforsaken
as The Surgeon
2010
Changing Climates, Changing Times
as Lucas
2009
The Joy of Singing
as Le lecteur du bar
2008
Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
as Self
2008
Priceless
as Jacques
2006
Courts mais Gay : Tome 12
as Anthony
2006
For the Time Being
as Anthony
2006
An American Haunting
as Elder #1
2005
Empire of the Wolves
as Kudseyi
2005
Thank You, Doctor Rey
as François
2004
Before Sunset
as Bookstore Manager
2004
Evilenko
as Bagdasarov
2004
Pontormo - Un amore eretico
as Riccio
2004
Brocéliande
as Brennos
2003
The Red Siren
as Vitali
2002
The Falklands Play
as Nicanor Costa Méndez (Argentine Minister of External Relations)
2002
David Copperfield
as Quinion
2001
Festival in Cannes
as Millie's Escort
2001
The Order
as Oscar
2001
The Body
as Monsignor
2001
Revelation
as Curé at Rennes-le-Chateau
2001
Le Prof
as Patte Folle
2000
TV Shows (11)
The Gold
as Matteo Constantino
2023
The Witcher
as Older Elf
2019
The Romanoffs
as M. Audran
2018
Emerald City
as High Born Man
2017
The Durrells
as Mr. Kralefsky
2016
The Borgias
2011
The Little Murders of Agatha Christie
as Anatole Deschanel
2009
Apparitions
2008
La Légende des 3 clefs
as The anthropologist Gilles Clément
2007
Surviving Disaster
2006
Largo Winch
as Maurice de Beliveau
2001