Vernon Dobtcheff

Personal Info

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Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1934-08-14 (91 years old)

Place of Birth

Nimes, France

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 ...

Acting

2004

Before Sunset

as Bookstore Manager

1993

M. Butterfly

as Agent Etancelin

1977

2005

1993

Frankenstein

as Chancellor

1982

Enigma

as Minister

2005

2003

Brocéliande

as Brennos

1986

Caravaggio

as Art Lover

1972

The Canterbury Tales

as The Franklin

1998

Hilary and Jackie

as Professor Bentley

2006

Priceless

as Jacques

1975

The Messiah

as Samuel

1977

March or Die

as Mean Corporal

2021

2001

The Body

as Monsignor

1992

Obiettivo indiscreto

as Primo editore

1971

Mary, Queen of Scots

as Duc De Guise

2004

Evilenko

as Bagdasarov

1989

1981

Condorman

as Russian Agent

1969

The Assassination Bureau

as Baron Muntzof

1985

Mata Hari

as Prosecutor

1990

Meridian

as Priest

2012

Zarafa

as Le vieux sage (voice)

1975

Lovers Like Us

as Coleman

1975

Cat and Mouse

as Germain's accomplice

1982

Nutcracker

as Markovitch

1988

Catacombs

as Brother Timothy

1999

Dreaming of Joseph Lees

as Italian Doctor

1984

Gwendoline

as Shirko

2012

Another Woman's Life

as Dimitri Speranski

2010

Godforsaken

as The Surgeon

1989

The Hostage of Europe

as Hudson Lowe

1974

Cartesius

as Astronomo Ciprus

1990

Vincent and me

as Dr Winkler

1980

Nijinsky

as Sergei Grigoriev

1992

Venice/Venice

as Alexander

1999

1973

Impossible Object

as Private Investigator

1996

Surviving Picasso

as Diaghilev

1977

Joseph Andrews

as Fop Two

1998

St. Ives

as Bonnefoy

1998

Spanish Fly

as Carl's Friend

2002

The Red Siren

as Vitali

1997

Anna Karenina

as Pestov

2014

Horsehead

as George

1975

India Song

as Georges Crawn

2018

The Violet Hour

as M. Audran

1998

1998

Déjà Vu

as Konstantine

1998

Jinnah

as Lord Willingdon

1996

Jude

as Curator

1989

Natalia

as Alfred Grabner

1997

The Hunchback

as Father Michel

1978

The Roads of Exile

as Le peintre Ramsay

1965

The Debussy Film

as The Actor

1984

Night Patrol

as James

1988

Maigret

as Gannett

1990

The Krays

as Teacher

1979

Ike

as Gen. Charles DeGaulle

1970

Them

as Brisbane

1964

The Life of Galileo

as Philosopher

1975

Playing with Fire

as A messenger

1990

Hamlet

as Reynaldo

1971

Fiddler on the Roof

as Russian Official

1971

The Horsemen

as Zam Hajji

1983

An Englishman Abroad

as Guildenstern

2008

The Joy of Singing

as Le lecteur du bar

1991

Mel Gibson Goes Back to School

as Reynaldo (archive footage)

2000

Le Prof

as Patte Folle

1989

2013

1992

Sweetheart

as Thurson

1996

2004

1983

The Scarlet and the Black

as Count Langenthal

2014

Seven Lucky Gods

as Lawrence

2015

Killing Jesus

as Isaiah

1978

1990

1993

Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher

as Un Héraut / Un prêtre / Un clerc

1981

Troilus & Cressida

as Agamemnon

1990

The Garden

as Old Man at Sauna

2014

1986

The Name of the Rose

as Hugh of Newcastle

1975

Rumpole of the Bailey

as Magnus Piecan

1984

The Devil's Lieutenant

as Dr. Goldschmiedt

1974

Scent of a Woman

as Don Carlo (uncredited)

1973

An Echo of Theresa

as Bannerheim

1994

1988

Testimony

as Gargolovsky

2017

1991

Let Him Have It

as Clerk of Court

1978

Romeo and Juliet

as Apothecary

1981

L'Amour nu

as John, le patron de Claire

1971

Nicholas and Alexandra

as Dr. Lazovert

1996

The Ogre

as Lawyer

1965

Darling

as Art Critic at Ralph Riggs Exposure (uncredited)

2011

Le passage

as Vieil homme

2001

The Order

as Oscar

2001

Revelation

as Curé at Rennes-le-Chateau

1988

Pascali's Island

as Pariente

1984

1973

The Day of the Jackal

as Interrogator

1982

The Night of Varennes

as Judge at the confiscation

2018

1981

Sredni Vashtar

as Dr. Russell

1995

Jefferson in Paris

as King's Translator

1969

Doctor Who: The War Games

as Chief Scientist

2002

The Falklands Play

as Nicanor Costa Méndez (Argentine Minister of External Relations)

1976

French Without Tears

as Monsieur Maingot

2006

2001

Festival in Cannes

as Millie's Escort

1981

1981

1998

Vigo

as Papa Lozinska

1977

1993

The Hour of the Pig

as Apothecary

2000

1988

Le due croci

as Bischof de Jong

1978

Last In, First Out

as Le réceptionniste

2024

Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour

as The Scientist (archive footage)

1969

Baby Love

as Man in Cinema

2001

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