Vernon Dobtcheff
Known for: Acting
Born: August 14, 1934
Place of birth: Nimes, France
Vernon Alexandre Dobtcheff (born 14 August 1934) is a French-British character actor, who has appeared in over 300 film, television, and stage productions in a career spanning six decades. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Vernon Dobtcheff, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Filmography
163 movies · 92 TV shows, newest first
5.8
Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour
2024
6.0
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
2024
7.3
The Gold
2023
7.3
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
2022
5.9
Burning Casablanca
2021
5.0
The Haunting of Margam Castle
2020
7.9
The Witcher
2019NR
The Violet Hour
2018
6.4
The Romanoffs
2018
8.0
L'hypothèse de la reine rouge
2018
6.5
The Man with the Iron Heart
2017
6.6
Emerald City
2017
7.5
The Durrells
2016
6.3
Killing Jesus
2015
6.3
The Invisible Boy
2014
5.3
Horsehead
2014
5.6
Seven Lucky Gods
2014
7.5
The Great Beauty
2013
6.2
Another Woman's Life
2012
6.9
Zarafa
2012
4.0
The Passage
2011
7.6
The Borgias
2011
7.6
Undisputed III: Redemption
2010
4.0
Godforsaken
2010
6.4
Changing Climates, Changing Times
2009
7.4
The Little Murders of Agatha Christie
2009
3.4
The Joy of Singing
2008
7.2
Apparitions
2008
6.0
Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
2008
6.8
La Légende des 3 clefs
2007
6.4
Priceless
2006
NR
Courts mais Gay : Tome 12
2006NR
For the Time Being
2006
6.7
Surviving Disaster
2006
5.5
An American Haunting
2005
5.7
Empire of the Wolves
2005
7.8
Before Sunset
2004
5.8
Evilenko
2004
6.5
Pontormo - Un amore eretico
2004
5.5
Thank You, Doctor Rey
2003
4.0
Brocéliande
2003
5.3
The Red Siren
2002
7.0
The Falklands Play
2002
6.3
David Copperfield
2001
5.3
Festival in Cannes
2001
5.1
The Order
2001
5.5
The Body
2001
5.1
Revelation
2001
6.0
Largo Winch
2001
7.0
David Copperfield
2000
4.8
Le Prof
2000
NR
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
2000
7.4
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
2000
4.0
Falling Through
2000
6.4
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
1999
6.8
Relic Hunter
1999
10.0
The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
1999
6.6
Hilary and Jackie
1998
6.9
Jinnah
1998
5.8
30 Years to Life
1998
5.4
Highlander: The Raven
1998
5.1
Vigo
1998
3.2
Spanish Fly
1998
6.9
Merlin
1998
5.8
Déjà Vu
1998
8.0
The Wonderland Experience
1998
5.5
St. Ives
1998
7.3
The Odyssey
1997
6.1
Anna Karenina
1997
5.9
The Hunchback
1997
5.8
The Ice Princess
1996
6.4
The Ogre
1996
5.8
Surviving Picasso
1996
5.6
Catherine the Great
1996
6.3
Jude
1996
7.0
Le fils de Paul
1995
7.3
Sharpe's Sword
1995
8.2
Father Ted
1995
5.1
Jefferson in Paris
1995
6.5
The House that Mary Bought
1995
10.0
Mademoiselle O
1994
6.8
Frankenstein
1993
6.6
M. Butterfly
1993
6.2
The Hour of the Pig
1993
8.0
Sharpe
19937.0
Temptation of Sainthood
199310.0
Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher
1993
7.4
Highlander: The Series
1992
7.0
Obiettivo indiscreto
1992
7.0
Venice/Venice
1992
6.2
Sweetheart
1992
5.0
The First Circle
1992
7.5
As Time Goes By
1992
NR
The Strauss Dynasty
1991
6.6
Let Him Have It
1991
6.6
Hamlet
1990
5.6
Vincent and Me
1990
4.5
Meridian
1990
5.7
The Garden
1990
6.0
The Krays
1990
6.2
The Plot to Kill Hitler
1990
8.5
Flight from Paradise
1990
7.5
The Hostage of Europe
1989
7.9
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1989
5.7
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
1989
5.9
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
1989
6.4
Natalia
1989
6.6
Splendor
19895.3
Berlin-Jerusalem
1989
8.2
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
4.8
The Sweet House of Horrors
1989
7.9
War and Remembrance
1988
5.6
Testimony
1988
6.4
Pascali's Island
1988
4.9
Catacombs
1988
10.0
Le due croci
1988
7.5
Maigret
1988
6.3
Fortunes of War
1987
6.3
Crossbow
1987
7.5
The Name of the Rose
1986
6.1
Caravaggio
1986
8.6
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
1986
7.2
If Tomorrow Comes
1986
5.3
Mussolini: The Untold Story
1985
6.3
Tender Is the Night
1985
4.1
Mata Hari
1985
5.4
A.D.
1985
8.0
Morenga
1985
6.8
Much Ado About Nothing
1984
7.7
L'Homme de Suez
1984
8.2
Sherlock Holmes
1984
4.9
Gwendoline
1984
5.5
Night Patrol
19849.0
The Devil's Lieutenant
1984
9.0
Mon Ami Washington
1984
6.1
An Englishman Abroad
1983
7.3
Dramarama
1983
7.0
The Scarlet and the Black
1983
3.3
Nutcracker
1982
6.8
Marco Polo
1982
5.6
Enigma
1982
6.9
That Night of Varennes
1982
8.0
Troilus & Cressida
1981
5.0
L'Amour nu
19817.0
Goldene Zeiten - Bittere Zeiten
1981
7.2
Sredni Vashtar
1981
5.5
Condorman
1981
7.5
Le Beau Monde
1981
3.5
San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça
1981
5.3
Private Schulz
1981
7.2
Peter and Paul
1981
7.0
Masada
1981
4.9
Nijinsky
1980
6.8
Ike
19797.3
Ike
1979
7.0
Mazarin
1978
7.6
Romeo and Juliet
1978
6.8
Question of Love
1978
4.5
Last In, First Out
1978
5.7
Little Girl in Blue Velvet
1978
7.3
Holocaust
1978
7.3
Blake's 7
1978
9.0
The Roads of Exile
1978
6.5
1990
1977
5.8
March or Die
1977
6.8
The Spy Who Loved Me
1977
5.1
Joseph Andrews
1977
NR
The Achurch Letters
1977
7.3
Dickens of London
1976
7.1
Police Commissioner Moulin
1976NR
Killers
1976
7.0
French Without Tears
1976
6.7
Michael Strogoff
1975
7.1
Rumpole of the Bailey
1975
8.0
Rumpole of the Bailey
1975
6.6
Lovers Like Us
1975
6.8
Des Christoffel von Grimmelshausen abenteuerlicher Simplizissimus
1975
6.9
Operation: Daybreak
1975
6.6
The Messiah
197510.0
The Secret Agent
1975
5.7
Cat and Mouse
1975
10.0
Van der Valk and the Scapegoat
1975
6.3
India Song
1975
5.5
Playing with Fire
1975
8.1
The Sweeney
1975
5.0
Churchill's People
1974
7.4
Scent of a Woman
1974
7.1
Murder on the Orient Express
1974
8.0
À vous de jouer Milord
1974
6.8
Father Brown
1974
6.0
The Marseille Contract
1974
7.0
Fall of Eagles
1974
7.0
Playhouse
1974
9.0
Cartesius
1974
4.6
Soft Beds, Hard Battles
1974NR
Nobody Is Norman Wisdom
1973
4.7
Impossible Object
1973
7.5
The Day of the Jackal
1973
7.5
Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
1973
6.5
An Echo of Theresa
1973
6.2
The Edwardians
1972
5.7
Crown Court
1972
6.1
The Protectors
1972
6.2
Van der Valk
1972
6.1
The Canterbury Tales
1972
4.4
Up the Front
1972
7.3
Far from Dallas
1972
6.3
New Scotland Yard
1972
6.7
Mary, Queen of Scots
1971
7.0
Nicholas and Alexandra
1971
7.7
Fiddler on the Roof
1971
7.5
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
1971
6.3
The Horsemen
1971
4.8
The Beast in the Cellar
1971
6.5
The Married Couple of the Year Two
1971
4.3
Them
1970
6.6
Play for Today
1970
6.3
Ace of Wands
1970
5.6
Darling Lili
19708.0
Codename
1970
7.1
Anne of the Thousand Days
1969
9.7
Doctor Who: The War Games
1969
5.1
Baby Love
1969
6.7
The Assassination Bureau
1969
7.0
Beach Head
1969
6.5
The Champions
1968
7.0
The Name of the Game
1968
6.9
A Dandy in Aspic
1968
7.7
The Further Adventures of the Musketeers
1967
6.9
The Taming of the Shrew
1967
6.0
The Three Musketeers
1966NR
Breaking Point
1966
5.8
Mystery and Imagination
1966
7.0
The World of George Orwell: 1984
1965
5.2
BBC Play of the Month
19658.0
The Mask of Janus
1965
4.3
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965
7.1
Out of the Unknown
1965
6.8
Darling
1965
6.8
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
19657.0
The World of Wooster
1965
7.6
The Debussy Film
1965
NR
The Count of Monte Cristo
1964
7.2
Theatre 625
1964NR
The Life of Galileo
1964
8.0
The Protectors
1964
8.0
Martin Chuzzlewit
1964
7.9
Doctor Who
19638.0
Festival
1963
10.0
Espionage
1963
7.4
The Saint
1962
6.7
The Scales of Justice
1962
7.8
The Avengers
1961
6.0
Dixon of Dock Green
1955
NR
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