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Known For
Acting
Birthday
August 14, 1934
Place of Birth
Nimes, France
Also Known As
- Eugene
- Alexander Vernon Dobtcheff
- Alexandre Vernon Dobtcheff
- Vernon Dobthcheff
- Вернон Добчефф
Vernon Dobtcheff
1.2 Popularity
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.
Known For
5.8
The Scientist (archive footage)
Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour
2024
6.0
self
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
2024
7.3
Matteo Constantino
The Gold
2023
7.8
Self
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
2022
5.9
Corny
Burning Casablanca
2021
5.0
Enos
The Haunting of Margam Castle
2020
8.0
Older Elf
The Witcher
2019
🎬
0.0
M. Audran
The Violet Hour
2018
6.3
M. Audran
The Romanoffs
2018
8.0
Sherlock Holmes
L'hypothèse de la reine rouge
2018
Credits
Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour
as The Scientist (archive footage)
2024
5.8
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
as self
2024
6.0
The Gold
as Matteo Constantino
2023
7.3
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
as Self
2022
7.8
Burning Casablanca
as Corny
2021
5.9
The Haunting of Margam Castle
as Enos
2020
5.0
The Witcher
as Older Elf
2019
8.0
🎬
The Violet Hour
as M. Audran
2018
0.0
The Romanoffs
as M. Audran
2018
6.3
L'hypothèse de la reine rouge
as Sherlock Holmes
2018
8.0
The Man with the Iron Heart
as Emile Hacha
2017
6.6
Emerald City
as High Born Man
2017
6.6
The Durrells
as Mr. Kralefsky
2016
7.4
Killing Jesus
as Isaiah
2015
6.3
The Invisible Boy
as Artiglio
2014
6.3
Horsehead
as George
2014
5.2
Seven Lucky Gods
as Lawrence
2014
5.6
The Great Beauty
as Arturo
2013
7.5
Another Woman's Life
as Dimitri Speranski
2012
6.2
Zarafa
as Le vieux sage (voice)
2012
6.8
The Passage
as Vieil homme
2011
4.0
The Borgias
2011
7.6
The Borgias
as Cardinal Versucci
2011
7.6
Undisputed III: Redemption
as Rezo
2010
7.5
Godforsaken
as The Surgeon
2010
0.0
Changing Climates, Changing Times
as Lucas
2009
6.4
The Little Murders of Agatha Christie
as Anatole Deschanel
2009
7.3
The Joy of Singing
as Le lecteur du bar
2008
3.4
Apparitions
2008
7.2
Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
as Self
2008
6.0
La Légende des 3 clefs
as The anthropologist Gilles Clément
2007
6.8
Priceless
as Jacques
2006
6.4
Courts mais Gay : Tome 12
as Anthony
2006
0.0
🎬
For the Time Being
as Anthony
2006
0.0
Surviving Disaster
2006
6.7
An American Haunting
as Elder #1
2005
5.5
Empire of the Wolves
as Kudseyi
2005
5.7
Thank You, Doctor Rey
as François
2004
5.0
Before Sunset
as Bookstore Manager
2004
7.8
Evilenko
as Bagdasarov
2004
5.7
Pontormo - Un amore eretico
as Riccio
2004
6.0
Brocéliande
as Brennos
2003
3.7
The Red Siren
as Vitali
2002
5.1
The Falklands Play
as Nicanor Costa Méndez (Argentine Minister of External Relations)
2002
7.3
David Copperfield
as Quinion
2001
6.2
Festival in Cannes
as Millie's Escort
2001
5.5
The Order
as Oscar
2001
5.1
The Body
as Monsignor
2001
5.5
Revelation
as Curé at Rennes-le-Chateau
2001
4.9
Largo Winch
as Maurice de Beliveau
2001
5.8
Largo Winch
2001
5.8
Le Prof
as Patte Folle
2000
4.0
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
as Cleisthenes
2000
7.5
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
as Cleisthenes
2000
0.0
Falling Through
as Father
2000
3.0
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
as Italian Doctor
1999
6.0
Relic Hunter
as Anthony Cureton
1999
6.7
The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
as Art Gallery Lecturer
1999
0.0
Hilary and Jackie
as Professor Bentley
1998
6.5
Jinnah
as Lord Willingdon
1998
6.6
30 Years to Life
as Sandler
1998
5.0
Highlander: The Raven
as Count Van Der Meer
1998
5.3
Vigo
as Papa Lozinska
1998
4.1
Spanish Fly
as Carl's Friend
1998
2.0
Merlin
as 1st Physician
1998
6.9
Déjà Vu
as Konstantine
1998
5.3
The Wonderland Experience
as Vincent
1998
0.0
St. Ives
as Bonnefoy
1998
5.4
Anna Karenina
as Pestov
1997
6.1
The Hunchback
as Father Michel
1997
5.9
The Ice Princess
as Chancellor
1996
4.7
The Ogre
as Lawyer
1996
6.3
Surviving Picasso
as Diaghilev
1996
5.7
Catherine the Great
as Naryshkin
1996
5.5
Jude
as Curator
1996
6.3
Le fils de Paul
as Duval
1995
0.0
Father Ted
as Old Nazi
1995
8.2
Jefferson in Paris
as King's Translator
1995
5.0
The House that Mary Bought
1995
5.0
Mademoiselle O
as Rouka
1994
0.0
Frankenstein
as Chancellor
1993
6.6
M. Butterfly
as Agent Etancelin
1993
6.6
The Hour of the Pig
as Apothecary
1993
6.1
🎬
Temptation of Sainthood
as Freud
1993
0.0
🎬
Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher
as Un Héraut / Un prêtre / Un clerc
1993
0.0
Highlander: The Series
as Carlo Luchesi
1992
7.4
Highlander: The Series
as Hamad
1992
7.4
Obiettivo indiscreto
as Primo editore
1992
0.0
Venice/Venice
as Alexander
1992
6.5
Sweetheart
as Thurson
1992
6.1
The First Circle
as Riyumin
1992
4.8
As Time Goes By
as Dr. Stoker
1992
7.5
The Strauss Dynasty
as Hirsch
1991
0.0
Let Him Have It
as Clerk of Court
1991
6.6
Hamlet
as Reynaldo
1990
6.6
Vincent and me
as Dr Winkler
1990
5.0
Meridian
as Priest
1990
4.6
The Garden
as Old Man at Sauna
1990
5.5
The Krays
as Teacher
1990
6.1
Flight from Paradise
as Merrill
1990
7.0
The Hostage of Europe
as Hudson Lowe
1989
6.0
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
as Butler
1989
7.8
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
as Jules Glaenzer
1989
4.5
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
as Doctor Webber
1989
5.7
Natalia
as Alfred Grabner
1989
6.1
Splendor
1989
6.4
🎬
Berlin-Jerusalem
as Editor
1989
4.7
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Simeon Lee
1989
8.2
The Sweet House of Horrors
as The Exorcist
1989
4.8
Testimony
as Gargolovsky
1988
4.5
Pascali's Island
as Pariente
1988
6.2
Catacombs
as Brother Timothy
1988
4.9
Le due croci
as Bischof de Jong
1988
0.0
Maigret
as Gannett
1988
7.0
Fortunes of War
as Prince Hadjimoscos
1987
6.1
The Name of the Rose
as Hugh of Newcastle
1986
7.5
Caravaggio
as Art Lover
1986
6.1
Mussolini: The Untold Story
as Sebastiani
1985
4.8
Tender Is the Night
as Luis Campion
1985
6.3
Mata Hari
as Prosecutor
1985
4.0
A.D.
as Flavius Sabinus
1985
5.1
Morenga
as Lohmann
1985
0.0
Much Ado About Nothing
as Don John
1984
6.3
L'Homme de Suez
as Konya, Turkish Colonel, spy in the service of the English
1984
8.0
Sherlock Holmes
as Mendelstam
1984
8.1
Gwendoline
as Shirko
1984
4.8
Night Patrol
as James
1984
5.3
🎬
The Devil's Lieutenant
as Dr. Goldschmiedt
1984
0.0
Mon Ami Washington
1984
0.0
An Englishman Abroad
as Guildenstern
1983
5.7
Dramarama
1983
6.7
The Scarlet and the Black
as Count Langenthal
1983
7.0
Nutcracker
as Markovitch
1982
2.0
Marco Polo
as Pietro De Abano
1982
6.8
Enigma
as Minister
1982
5.5
The Night of Varennes
as Judge at the confiscation
1982
6.8
Troilus & Cressida
as Agamemnon
1981
8.0
L'Amour nu
as John, le patron de Claire
1981
4.2
🎬
Goldene Zeiten - Bittere Zeiten
as M. Bernard
1981
0.0
Sredni Vashtar
as Dr. Russell
1981
6.6
Condorman
as Russian Agent
1981
5.5
Le Beau Monde
as Pablo
1981
6.0
San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça
as Un tueur russe
1981
2.0
Private Schulz
1981
4.8
Peter and Paul
as High Priest of Herod
1981
7.0
Masada
as Chief Priest
1981
7.0
Nijinsky
as Sergei Grigoriev
1980
4.8
Ike
as Gen. Charles DeGaulle
1979
6.2
Ike
as Gen. Charles DeGaulle
1979
6.5
Romeo and Juliet
as Apothecary
1978
7.3
Question of Love
as Peter
1978
6.4
Lillie
1978
8.2
Last In, First Out
as Le réceptionniste
1978
3.4
Little Girl in Blue Velvet
as Lamberti
1978
4.5
Holocaust
as Karp
1978
7.3
Blake's 7
as The Chairman
1978
7.3
The Roads of Exile
as Le peintre Ramsay
1978
0.0
1990
1977
6.0
March or Die
as Mean Corporal
1977
5.8
The Spy Who Loved Me
as Max Kalba
1977
6.8
Joseph Andrews
as Fop Two
1977
4.8
The Achurch Letters
as Eugene
1977
0.0
Dickens of London
as Legal Gentleman
1976
6.5
Police Commissioner Moulin
as Astman
1976
5.8
French Without Tears
as Monsieur Maingot
1976
0.0
Michael Strogoff
as Blount
1975
6.5
Rumpole of the Bailey
as Edward Gandolphini
1975
6.9
Rumpole of the Bailey
as Magnus Piecan
1975
8.0
Lovers Like Us
as Coleman
1975
6.6
Des Christoffel von Grimmelshausen abenteuerlicher Simplizissimus
as Dr. Canard
1975
6.7
Operation: Daybreak
as Pyotr
1975
6.9
The Messiah
as Samuel
1975
6.5
🎬
The Secret Agent
as Karl Yundt
1975
0.0
Cat and Mouse
as Germain's accomplice
1975
5.6
Van der Valk and the Scapegoat
as Reinders
1975
0.0
India Song
as Georges Crawn
1975
6.4
Playing with Fire
as A messenger
1975
5.4
🎬
The Venturers
1975
0.0
The Sweeney
as Harry Kretchmar
1975
7.8
Churchill's People
as De Reynes
1974
1.0
Scent of a Woman
as Don Carlo (uncredited)
1974
7.4
Murder on the Orient Express
as Concierge
1974
7.1
À vous de jouer Milord
as N° 2
1974
6.0
Father Brown
1974
6.6
The Marseille Contract
as Lazar
1974
5.9
Fall of Eagles
as Count Stookau
1974
6.9
Playhouse
as Eugene
1974
7.0
Cartesius
as Astronomo Ciprus
1974
6.6
Soft Beds, Hard Battles
as Padre
1974
4.3
🎬
Nobody Is Norman Wisdom
as Proshnik
1973
0.0
Impossible Object
as Private Investigator
1973
4.5
The Day of the Jackal
as Interrogator
1973
7.5
Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
1973
7.6
An Echo of Theresa
as Bannerheim
1973
0.0
The Edwardians
as Benjamin Disraeli
1972
5.7
Crown Court
as John Maitland-Wilson
1972
5.4
The Protectors
as Joe Flynn
1972
5.8
Van der Valk
as Sebastian Jonge
1972
5.8
The Canterbury Tales
as The Franklin
1972
6.1
Up the Front
as Muller
1972
4.2
Far from Dallas
1972
6.0
Mary, Queen of Scots
as Duc De Guise
1971
6.6
Nicholas and Alexandra
as Dr. Lazovert
1971
6.9
Fiddler on the Roof
as Russian Official
1971
7.7
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
as Molbech
1971
7.4
The Horsemen
as Zam Hajji
1971
6.3
The Beast in the Cellar
as Newsmith
1971
4.8
The Married Couple of the Year Two
as le pasteur
1971
6.6
Them
as Brisbane
1970
2.0
Play for Today
1970
6.3
Ace of Wands
as Sandor Zandar
1970
5.5
🎬
Codename
as Herman Voss
1970
0.0
Anne of the Thousand Days
as Mendoza
1969
7.1
Doctor Who: The War Games
as Chief Scientist
1969
9.7
Baby Love
as Man in Cinema
1969
5.1
The Assassination Bureau
as Baron Muntzof
1969
6.6
🎬
Beach Head
as N.G. Waldron
1969
0.0
The Champions
as Manager
1968
6.2
The Name of the Game
as Dedushko
1968
6.8
A Dandy in Aspic
1968
6.8
The Further Adventures of the Musketeers
as Msgr. de Gondy
1967
7.5
The Taming of the Shrew
as Pedant
1967
6.9
The Three Musketeers
as Commissary
1966
5.0
🎬
Breaking Point
1966
0.0
Mystery and Imagination
1966
5.5
The World of George Orwell: 1984
as Goldstein
1965
0.0
BBC Play of the Month
as Monsieur Maingot
1965
5.0
🎬
The Mask of Janus
as Colonel Valenkov
1965
6.0
Out of the Unknown
1965
7.0
Darling
as Art Critic at Ralph Riggs Exposure (uncredited)
1965
6.7
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
as Member of the French Team
1965
6.8
🎬
The World of Wooster
as Music Store Assistant
1965
5.5
The Debussy Film
as The Actor
1965
7.6
Theatre 625
as Priest
1964
7.2
Theatre 625
as Emmanuel Goldstein
1964
7.2
🎬
The Life of Galileo
as Philosopher
1964
0.0
🎬
Martin Chuzzlewit
1964
0.0
Doctor Who
as Scientist
1963
7.9
🎬
Festival
as Philosopher
1963
8.0
The Saint
as Vogel
1962
7.4
The Scales of Justice
as Mr. Strang
1962
6.7
The Avengers
as Spencer
1961
7.7
The Avengers
as Stenson
1961
7.7
Dixon of Dock Green
as Counsel for Defence
1955
5.3