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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Known for
Doctor Who
Scientist
Play for Today
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Simeon Lee
Dixon of Dock Green
Counsel for Defence
Crown Court
John Maitland-Wilson
The Avengers
Spencer
The Avengers
Stenson
Highlander: The Series
Carlo Luchesi
Highlander: The Series
Hamad
The Witcher
Older Elf
The Name of the Game
Dedushko
Rumpole of the Bailey
Rumpole of the Bailey
Magnus Piecan
The Little Murders of Agatha Christie
Anatole Deschanel
The Saint
Vogel
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Apothecary
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Don John
As Time Goes By
Dr. Stoker
The Borgias
The Borgias
Cardinal Versucci
Blake's 7
The Chairman
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Butler
Police Commissioner Moulin
Astman
The Day of the Jackal
Interrogator
Sherlock Holmes
Mendelstam
Relic Hunter
Anthony Cureton
The Champions
Manager
The Sweeney
Harry Kretchmar
Undisputed III: Redemption
Rezo
The Durrells
Mr. Kralefsky
Van der Valk
Sebastian Jonge
The Spy Who Loved Me
Max Kalba
Dramarama
Killing Jesus
Isaiah
Ace of Wands
Father Ted
Old Nazi
Highlander: The Raven
Count Van Der Meer
Before Sunset
Bookstore Manager
Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
Out of the Unknown
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Molbech
Murder on the Orient Express
Concierge
The Devil's Crown
The Name of the Rose
Hugh of Newcastle
The Protectors
Joe Flynn
Fiddler on the Roof
Russian Official
The Man with the Iron Heart
Emile Hacha
The Scales of Justice
Mr. Strang
The Romanoffs
M. Audran
Goldene Zeiten - Bittere Zeiten
M. Bernard
Mussolini: The Untold Story
Sebastiani
Merlin
1st Physician
Mystery and Imagination
Father Brown
The Invisible Boy
Artiglio
Fortunes of War
The Order
Oscar
Jude
Curator
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
Jules Glaenzer
The Gold
Matteo Constantino
The Taming of the Shrew
Pedant
Surviving Picasso
Diaghilev
Nicholas and Alexandra
Dr. Lazovert
Hilary and Jackie
Professor Bentley
The Canterbury Tales
The Franklin
A.D.
Flavius Sabinus
Scent of a Woman
Don Carlo (uncredited)
Anne of the Thousand Days
Mendoza
The Scarlet and the Black
Count Langenthal
Let Him Have It
Clerk of Court
1990
The Body
Monsignor
March or Die
Mean Corporal
Darling
Art Critic at Ralph Riggs Exposure (uncredited)
À vous de jouer Milord
N° 2
The Hunchback
Father Michel
Playing with Fire
A messenger
The Night of Varennes
Judge at the confiscation
Anna Karenina
Pestov
Enigma
Minister
Joseph Andrews
Fop Two
Marco Polo
Pietro De Abano
Holocaust
Karp
Ike
Gen. Charles DeGaulle
Mary, Queen of Scots
Duc De Guise
The Falklands Play
Nicanor Costa Méndez (Argentine Minister of External Relations)
The Married Couple of the Year Two
le pasteur
Jefferson in Paris
King's Translator
M. Butterfly
Agent Etancelin
Operation: Daybreak
Pyotr
The Krays
Teacher
Apparitions
The Edwardians
Gwendoline
Shirko
Jinnah
Lord Willingdon
The Assassination Bureau
Baron Muntzof
The Ogre
Lawyer
Lillie
Caravaggio
Art Lover
Fall of Eagles
Count Stookau
Strauss Dynasty
Hirsch
Meridian
Priest
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
Doctor Webber
Priceless
Jacques
A Dandy in Aspic
The Hour of the Pig
Apothecary
Revelation
Curé at Rennes-le-Chateau
Masada
Chief Priest
White Teeth
Devil of Dachau
Vigo
Papa Lozinska
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
Self
An American Haunting
Elder #1
Doctor Who: The War Games
Chief Scientist
The Great Beauty
Arturo
Catherine the Great
Naryshkin
The World of George Orwell: 1984
Goldstein
Zarafa
Le vieux sage (voice)
An Englishman Abroad
Guildenstern
Nijinsky
Sergei Grigoriev
Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour
The Scientist (archive footage)
Surviving Disaster
Déjà Vu
Konstantine
Mel Gibson Goes Back to School
Reynaldo (archive footage)
St. Ives
Evilenko
Bagdasarov
Des Christoffel von Grimmelshausen abenteuerlicher Simplizissimus
Dr. Canard
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
Cleisthenes
The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
Art Gallery Lecturer
Codename
Herman Voss
Falling Through
Father
Frankenstein
Chancellor
The Haunting of Margam Castle
Enos
Much Ado About Nothing
Don John
Festival in Cannes
Millie's Escort
Pascali's Island
Pariente
Catacombs
Brother Timothy
Peter and Paul
High Priest of Herod
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
Italian Doctor
Romeo and Juliet
Apothecary
Lovers Like Us
Coleman
Soft Beds, Hard Battles
Padre
Michael Strogoff
Blount
The Beast in the Cellar
Newsmith
The Red Siren
Vitali
30 Years to Life
Sandler
The Marseille Contract
Lazar
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
Breaking Point
The Garden
Old Man at Sauna
Brocéliande
Brennos
Testimony
Gargolovsky
Baby Love
Man in Cinema
The Horsemen
Zam Hajji
India Song
Georges Crawn
Troilus & Cressida
Agamemnon
Mata Hari
Prosecutor
Nutcracker
Markovitch
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
Cleisthenes
The Hostage of Europe
Hudson Lowe
La Légende des 3 clefs
The anthropologist Gilles Clément
L'Homme de Suez
Konya, Turkish Colonel, spy in the service of the English
Story of a Love Story
Private Investigator
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
self
The Venturers
The Messiah
Samuel
Hamlet
Reynaldo
Empire of the Wolves
Kudseyi
Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
Self
Last In, First Out
Le réceptionniste
Little Girl in Blue Velvet
Lamberti
Night Patrol
James
Maigret
Gannett
Courts mais Gay : Tome 12
Anthony
Splendor
Martin Chuzzlewit
Condorman
Russian Agent
Seven Lucky Gods
Lawrence
Thank You, Doctor Rey
François
Le Prof
Patte Folle
Venice/Venice
Alexander
French Without Tears
Monsieur Maingot
Another Woman's Life
Dimitri Speranski
Morenga
Lohmann
The House that Mary Bought
Horsehead
George
Pontormo - Un amore eretico
Riccio
Flight from Paradise
Merrill
L'hypothèse de la reine rouge
Sherlock Holmes
The Wonderland Experience
Vincent
Spanish Fly
Carl's Friend
The Sweet House of Horrors
The Exorcist
Rumpole of the Bailey
Magnus Piecan
The Life of Galileo
Philosopher
Le due croci
Bischof de Jong
The Roads of Exile
Le peintre Ramsay
The Violet Hour
M. Audran
Sredni Vashtar
Dr. Russell
Natalia
Alfred Grabner
Cartesius
Astronomo Ciprus
Vincent and me
Dr Winkler
Question of Love
Peter
Cat and Mouse
Germain's accomplice
Private Schulz
The Achurch Letters
Eugene
San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça
Un tueur russe
The Joy of Singing
Le lecteur du bar
Them
Brisbane
Sweetheart
Thurson
L'Amour nu
John, le patron de Claire
Burning Casablanca
Corny
The Debussy Film
The Actor
Mon Ami Washington
Van der Valk and the Scapegoat
Reinders
An Echo of Theresa
Bannerheim
Changing Climates, Changing Times
Lucas
The Devil's Lieutenant
Dr. Goldschmiedt
For the Time Being
Anthony
Le Beau Monde
Pablo
Godforsaken
The Surgeon
Temptation of Sainthood
Freud
The Ice Princess
Obiettivo indiscreto
Primo editore
Far from Dallas
Berlin-Jerusalem
Editor
Le passage
Vieil homme
Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher
Un Héraut / Un prêtre / Un clerc
Mademoiselle O
Rouka