Vernon Dobtcheff
Acting
Born August 14, 1934 · Nimes, France
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.
Films (160)
Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour
2024
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
2024
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
2022
Burning Casablanca
2021
The Haunting of Margam Castle
2020
The Violet Hour
2018
L'hypothèse de la reine rouge
2018
The Man with the Iron Heart
2017
Killing Jesus
2015
The Invisible Boy
2014
Horsehead
2014
Seven Lucky Gods
2014
The Great Beauty
2013
Another Woman's Life
2012
Zarafa
2012
The Passage
2011
Undisputed III: Redemption
2010
Godforsaken
2010
Changing Climates, Changing Times
2009
The Joy of Singing
2008
Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
2008
Priceless
2006
Courts mais Gay : Tome 12
2006
For the Time Being
2006
An American Haunting
2005
Empire of the Wolves
2005
Thank You, Doctor Rey
2004
Before Sunset
2004
Evilenko
2004
Pontormo - Un amore eretico
2004
Brocéliande
2003
The Red Siren
2002
The Falklands Play
2002
David Copperfield
2001
Festival in Cannes
2001
The Order
2001
The Body
2001
Revelation
2001
Le Prof
2000
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
2000
Falling Through
2000
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
1999
The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
1999
Hilary and Jackie
1998
Jinnah
1998
30 Years to Life
1998
Vigo
1998
Spanish Fly
1998
Déjà Vu
1998
The Wonderland Experience
1998
St. Ives
1998
Anna Karenina
1997
The Hunchback
1997
The Ice Princess
1996
The Ogre
1996
Surviving Picasso
1996
Catherine the Great
1996
Jude
1996
Le fils de Paul
1995
Jefferson in Paris
1995
The House that Mary Bought
1995
Mademoiselle O
1994
Frankenstein
1993
M. Butterfly
1993
The Hour of the Pig
1993
Temptation of Sainthood
1993
Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher
1993
Obiettivo indiscreto
1992
Venice/Venice
1992
Sweetheart
1992
The First Circle
1992
Let Him Have It
1991
Hamlet
1990
Vincent and Me
1990
Meridian
1990
The Garden
1990
The Krays
1990
The Plot to Kill Hitler
1990
Flight from Paradise
1990
The Hostage of Europe
1989
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1989
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
1989
Natalia
1989
Splendor
1989
Berlin-Jerusalem
1989
The Sweet House of Horrors
1989
Testimony
1988
Pascali's Island
1988
Catacombs
1988
Le due croci
1988
Maigret
1988
The Name of the Rose
1986
Caravaggio
1986
Mata Hari
1985
Much Ado About Nothing
1984
Gwendoline
1984
Night Patrol
1984
The Devil's Lieutenant
1984
Mon Ami Washington
1984
An Englishman Abroad
1983
The Scarlet and the Black
1983
Nutcracker
1982
Enigma
1982
That Night of Varennes
1982
Troilus & Cressida
1981
L'Amour nu
1981
Sredni Vashtar
1981
Condorman
1981
Le Beau Monde
1981
San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça
1981
Nijinsky
1980
Ike
1979
Romeo and Juliet
1978
Question of Love
1978
Last In, First Out
1978
Little Girl in Blue Velvet
1978
The Roads of Exile
1978
March or Die
1977
The Spy Who Loved Me
1977
Joseph Andrews
1977
The Achurch Letters
1977
French Without Tears
1976
Rumpole of the Bailey
1975
Lovers Like Us
1975
Operation: Daybreak
1975
The Messiah
1975
The Secret Agent
1975
Cat and Mouse
1975
Van der Valk and the Scapegoat
1975
India Song
1975
Playing with Fire
1975
Scent of a Woman
1974
Murder on the Orient Express
1974
The Marseille Contract
1974
Soft Beds, Hard Battles
1974
Impossible Object
1973
The Day of the Jackal
1973
An Echo of Theresa
1973
The Canterbury Tales
1972
Up the Front
1972
Far from Dallas
1972
Mary, Queen of Scots
1971
Nicholas and Alexandra
1971
Fiddler on the Roof
1971
The Horsemen
1971
The Beast in the Cellar
1971
The Married Couple of the Year Two
1971
Them
1970
Anne of the Thousand Days
1969
Doctor Who: The War Games
1969
Baby Love
1969
The Assassination Bureau
1969
Beach Head
1969
A Dandy in Aspic
1968
The Taming of the Shrew
1967
The World of George Orwell: 1984
1965
Darling
1965
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
1965
The Debussy Film
1965
The Life of Galileo
1964