Vernon Dobtcheff
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Aug 14, 1934 (age 92)
- Place of birth
- Nimes, France
- Credits
- 258
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.
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Known for
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1989Movie
Butler
The Witcher
2019TV
Older Elf
Before Sunset
2004Movie
Bookstore Manager
The Name of the Rose
1986Movie
Hugh of Newcastle
The Great Beauty
2013Movie
Arturo
The Spy Who Loved Me
1977Movie
Max Kalba
Filmography
Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour
2024Movie
The Scientist (archive footage)
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
2024Movie
self
The Gold
2023TV
Matteo Constantino
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
2022Movie
Self
Burning Casablanca
2021Movie
Corny
The Haunting of Margam Castle
2020Movie
Enos
The Witcher
2019TV
Older Elf
The Violet Hour
2018Movie
M. Audran
The Romanoffs
2018TV
M. Audran
L'hypothèse de la reine rouge
2018Movie
Sherlock Holmes
The Man with the Iron Heart
2017Movie
Emile Hacha
Emerald City
2017TV
High Born Man
The Durrells
2016TV
Mr. Kralefsky
Killing Jesus
2015Movie
Isaiah
The Invisible Boy
2014Movie
Artiglio
Horsehead
2014Movie
George
Seven Lucky Gods
2014Movie
Lawrence
The Great Beauty
2013Movie
Arturo
Another Woman's Life
2012Movie
Dimitri Speranski
Zarafa
2012Movie
Le vieux sage (voice)
The Passage
2011Movie
Vieil homme
The Borgias
2011TV
Cardinal Versucci
Undisputed III: Redemption
2010Movie
Rezo
Godforsaken
2010Movie
The Surgeon
Changing Climates, Changing Times
2009Movie
Lucas
The Little Murders of Agatha Christie
2009TV
Anatole Deschanel
The Joy of Singing
2008Movie
Le lecteur du bar
Apparitions
2008TV
Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
2008Movie
Self
Accordez-moi
2008Movie
Joseph Von Stieglitz
La Légende des 3 clefs
2007TV
The anthropologist Gilles Clément
Priceless
2006Movie
Jacques
Courts mais Gay : Tome 12
2006Movie
Anthony
For the Time Being
2006Movie
Anthony
Surviving Disaster
2006TV
An American Haunting
2005Movie
Elder #1
Empire of the Wolves
2005Movie
Kudseyi
Before Sunset
2004Movie
Bookstore Manager
Evilenko
2004Movie
Bagdasarov
Pontormo - Un amore eretico
2004Movie
Riccio
Thank You, Doctor Rey
2003Movie
François
Brocéliande
2003Movie
Brennos
The Red Siren
2002Movie
Vitali
The Falklands Play
2002Movie
Nicanor Costa Méndez (Argentine Minister of External Relations)
David Copperfield
2001Movie
Quinion
Festival in Cannes
2001Movie
Millie's Escort
The Order
2001Movie
Oscar
The Body
2001Movie
Monsignor
Revelation
2001Movie
Curé at Rennes-le-Chateau
Largo Winch
2001TV
Maurice de Beliveau
David Copperfield
2000TV
Quinion
Le Prof
2000Movie
Patte Folle
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
2000Movie
Cleisthenes
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
2000TV
Cleisthenes
Falling Through
2000Movie
Father
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
1999Movie
Italian Doctor
Relic Hunter
1999TV
Anthony Cureton
The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
1999Movie
Art Gallery Lecturer
Hilary and Jackie
1998Movie
Professor Bentley
Jinnah
1998Movie
Lord Willingdon
30 Years to Life
1998Movie
Sandler
Highlander: The Raven
1998TV
Count Van Der Meer
Vigo
1998Movie
Papa Lozinska
Spanish Fly
1998Movie
Carl's Friend
Merlin
1998TV
1st Physician
Déjà Vu
1998Movie
Konstantine
The Wonderland Experience
1998Movie
Vincent
St. Ives
1998Movie
Bonnefoy
The Odyssey
1997TV
Aegyptius
Anna Karenina
1997Movie
Pestov
The Hunchback
1997Movie
Father Michel
The Ice Princess
1996Movie
Chancellor
The Ogre
1996Movie
Lawyer
Surviving Picasso
1996Movie
Diaghilev
Catherine the Great
1996Movie
Naryshkin
Jude
1996Movie
Curator
Le fils de Paul
1995Movie
Duval
Sharpe's Sword
1995Movie
Don Felipe
Father Ted
1995TV
Old Nazi
Jefferson in Paris
1995Movie
King's Translator
The House that Mary Bought
1995Movie
Mademoiselle O
1994Movie
Rouka
Frankenstein
1993Movie
Chancellor
M. Butterfly
1993Movie
Agent Etancelin
The Hour of the Pig
1993Movie
Apothecary
Sharpe
1993TV
Don Felipe
Temptation of Sainthood
1993Movie
Freud
Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher
1993Movie
Un Héraut / Un prêtre / Un clerc
Highlander: The Series
1992TV
Carlo Luchesi, Hamad
Obiettivo indiscreto
1992Movie
Primo editore
Venice/Venice
1992Movie
Alexander
Sweetheart
1992Movie
Thurson
The First Circle
1992Movie
Riyumin
As Time Goes By
1992TV
Dr. Stoker
The Strauss Dynasty
1991TV
Hirsch
Let Him Have It
1991Movie
Clerk of Court
Hamlet
1990Movie
Reynaldo
Vincent and Me
1990Movie
Dr Winkler
Meridian
1990Movie
Priest
The Garden
1990Movie
Old Man at Sauna
The Krays
1990Movie
Teacher
The Plot to Kill Hitler
1990Movie
Fellgiebel
Flight from Paradise
1990Movie
Merrill
Judith Krantz's Till We Meet Again
1989TV
Felix Penroux
The Hostage of Europe
1989Movie
Hudson Lowe
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1989Movie
Butler
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
1989TV
Jules Glaenzer
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
1989Movie
Doctor Webber
Natalia
1989Movie
Alfred Grabner
Splendor
1989Movie
Berlin-Jerusalem
1989Movie
Editor
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989TV
Simeon Lee
The Sweet House of Horrors
1989Movie
The Exorcist
War and Remembrance
1988TV
Henri Bulle
Testimony
1988Movie
Gargolovsky
Pascali's Island
1988Movie
Pariente
Catacombs
1988Movie
Brother Timothy
Le due croci
1988Movie
Bischof de Jong
Maigret
1988Movie
Gannett
Fortunes of War
1987TV
Prince Hadjimoscos
Crossbow
1987TV
The Name of the Rose
1986Movie
Hugh of Newcastle
Caravaggio
1986Movie
Art Lover
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
1986TV
Mendelstam
If Tomorrow Comes
1986TV
Boris Melnikov
Mussolini: The Untold Story
1985TV
Sebastiani
Tender Is the Night
1985TV
Luis Campion
Mata Hari
1985Movie
Prosecutor
A.D.
1985TV
Flavius Sabinus
Morenga
1985TV
Lohmann
Much Ado About Nothing
1984Movie
Don John
L'Homme de Suez
1984TV
Konya, Turkish Colonel, spy in the service of the English
Sherlock Holmes
1984TV
Mendelstam
Gwendoline
1984Movie
Shirko
Night Patrol
1984Movie
James
The Devil's Lieutenant
1984Movie
Dr. Goldschmiedt
Mon Ami Washington
1984Movie
An Englishman Abroad
1983Movie
Guildenstern
Dramarama
1983TV
Mr. Rolyat
The Scarlet and the Black
1983Movie
Count Langenthal
Nutcracker
1982Movie
Markovitch
Marco Polo
1982TV
Pietro De Abano
Enigma
1982Movie
Minister
That Night of Varennes
1982Movie
Judge at the confiscation
Troilus & Cressida
1981Movie
Agamemnon
L'Amour nu
1981Movie
John, le patron de Claire
Goldene Zeiten - Bittere Zeiten
1981TV
M. Bernard
Sredni Vashtar
1981Movie
Dr. Russell
Condorman
1981Movie
Russian Agent
Le Beau Monde
1981Movie
Pablo
San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça
1981Movie
Un tueur russe
Private Schulz
1981TV
Sturmer
Peter and Paul
1981TV
High Priest of Herod
Masada
1981TV
Chief Priest
Nijinsky
1980Movie
Sergei Grigoriev
Turning Year Tales
1979TV
Bailiff
Ike
1979Movie
Gen. Charles DeGaulle
Ike
1979TV
Gen. Charles DeGaulle
Mazarin
1978TV
Pimentel
Romeo and Juliet
1978Movie
Apothecary
Question of Love
1978Movie
Peter
Last In, First Out
1978Movie
Le réceptionniste
Little Girl in Blue Velvet
1978Movie
Lamberti
Holocaust
1978TV
Karp
Blake's 7
1978TV
The Chairman
The Roads of Exile
1978Movie
Le peintre Ramsay
1990
1977TV
March or Die
1977Movie
Mean Corporal
The Spy Who Loved Me
1977Movie
Max Kalba
Joseph Andrews
1977Movie
Fop Two
The Achurch Letters
1977Movie
Eugene
Dickens of London
1976TV
Legal Gentleman
Police Commissioner Moulin
1976TV
Astman
Killers
1976TV
Clerk of the Assizes
French Without Tears
1976Movie
Monsieur Maingot
Michael Strogoff
1975TV
Blount
Rumpole of the Bailey
1975TV
Edward Gandolphini
Rumpole of the Bailey
1975Movie
Magnus Piecan
Lovers Like Us
1975Movie
Coleman
Des Christoffel von Grimmelshausen abenteuerlicher Simplizissimus
1975TV
Dr. Canard
Operation: Daybreak
1975Movie
Pyotr
The Messiah
1975Movie
Samuel
The Secret Agent
1975Movie
Karl Yundt
Cat and Mouse
1975Movie
Germain's accomplice
Van der Valk and the Scapegoat
1975Movie
Reinders
India Song
1975Movie
Georges Crawn
Playing with Fire
1975Movie
A messenger
The Sweeney
1975TV
Harry Kretchmar
Churchill's People
1974TV
De Reynes
Scent of a Woman
1974Movie
Don Carlo (uncredited)
Murder on the Orient Express
1974Movie
Concierge
À vous de jouer Milord
1974TV
N° 2
Father Brown
1974TV
Simon Vesty
The Marseille Contract
1974Movie
Lazar
Fall of Eagles
1974TV
Count Stookau
Playhouse
1974TV
Eugene
Cartesius
1974TV
Astronomo Ciprus
Soft Beds, Hard Battles
1974Movie
Padre
Nobody Is Norman Wisdom
1973TV
Proshnik
Impossible Object
1973Movie
Private Investigator
The Day of the Jackal
1973Movie
Interrogator
Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
1973TV
An Echo of Theresa
1973Movie
Bannerheim
The Edwardians
1972TV
Benjamin Disraeli
Crown Court
1972TV
John Maitland-Wilson
The Protectors
1972TV
Joe Flynn
Van der Valk
1972TV
Sebastian Jonge
The Canterbury Tales
1972Movie
The Franklin
Up the Front
1972Movie
Muller
Far from Dallas
1972Movie
New Scotland Yard
1972TV
Jacob Harmann
Mary, Queen of Scots
1971Movie
Duc De Guise
Nicholas and Alexandra
1971Movie
Dr. Lazovert
Fiddler on the Roof
1971Movie
Russian Official
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
1971TV
Molbech
The Horsemen
1971Movie
Zam Hajji
The Beast in the Cellar
1971Movie
Newsmith
The Married Couple of the Year Two
1971Movie
le pasteur
Them
1970Movie
Brisbane
Play for Today
1970TV
Ace of Wands
1970TV
Sandor Zandar
Darling Lili
1970Movie
Otto Kraus
Codename
1970TV
Herman Voss
Anne of the Thousand Days
1969Movie
Mendoza
Doctor Who: The War Games
1969Movie
Chief Scientist
Baby Love
1969Movie
Man in Cinema
The Assassination Bureau
1969Movie
Baron Muntzof
Beach Head
1969Movie
N.G. Waldron
The Champions
1968TV
Manager
The Name of the Game
1968TV
Dedushko
A Dandy in Aspic
1968Movie
The Further Adventures of the Musketeers
1967TV
Msgr. de Gondy
The Taming of the Shrew
1967Movie
Pedant
The Three Musketeers
1966TV
Commissary
Breaking Point
1966TV
Mystery and Imagination
1966TV
Dr Lutz
The World of George Orwell: 1984
1965Movie
Goldstein
BBC Play of the Month
1965TV
Monsieur Maingot
The Mask of Janus
1965TV
Colonel Valenkov
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965TV
Carpenter
Out of the Unknown
1965TV
N.G. Waldron
Darling
1965Movie
Art Critic at Ralph Riggs Exposure (uncredited)
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
1965Movie
Member of the French Team
The World of Wooster
1965TV
Music Store Assistant
The Debussy Film
1965Movie
The Actor
The Count of Monte Cristo
1964TV
Prison Inspector
Theatre 625
1964TV
Priest, Emmanuel Goldstein
The Life of Galileo
1964Movie
Philosopher
The Protectors
1964TV
Cherni
Martin Chuzzlewit
1964TV
Doctor Who
1963TV
Scientist
Festival
1963TV
Philosopher
Espionage
1963TV
Captain of Police
The Saint
1962TV
Vogel
The Scales of Justice
1962TV
Mr. Strang
The Avengers
1961TV
Spencer, Stenson
Dixon of Dock Green
1955TV
Counsel for Defence
Parlez-nous de l'Amour
Movie