
Vernon Dobtcheff
Acting
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.

Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour
The Scientist (archive footage)

Alec Guinness: A Class Act
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Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
Self

Burning Casablanca
Corny

The Haunting of Margam Castle
Enos
The Violet Hour
M. Audran

L'hypothèse de la reine rouge
Sherlock Holmes

The Man with the Iron Heart
Emile Hacha

Killing Jesus
Isaiah

The Invisible Boy
Artiglio

Horsehead
George

Seven Lucky Gods
Lawrence

The Great Beauty
Arturo

Another Woman's Life
Dimitri Speranski

Zarafa
Le vieux sage (voice)

The Passage
Vieil homme

Undisputed III: Redemption
Rezo

Godforsaken
The Surgeon

Changing Climates, Changing Times
Lucas

The Joy of Singing
Le lecteur du bar

Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
Self

Priceless
Jacques

Courts mais Gay : Tome 12
Anthony
For the Time Being
Anthony

An American Haunting
Elder #1

Empire of the Wolves
Kudseyi

Thank You, Doctor Rey
François

Before Sunset
Bookstore Manager

Evilenko
Bagdasarov

Pontormo - Un amore eretico
Riccio

Brocéliande
Brennos

The Red Siren
Vitali

The Falklands Play
Nicanor Costa Méndez (Argentine Minister of External Relations)

David Copperfield
Quinion

Festival in Cannes
Millie's Escort

The Order
Oscar

The Body
Monsignor

Revelation
Curé at Rennes-le-Chateau

Le Prof
Patte Folle

The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
Cleisthenes

Falling Through
Father

Dreaming of Joseph Lees
Italian Doctor

The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
Art Gallery Lecturer

Hilary and Jackie
Professor Bentley

Jinnah
Lord Willingdon

30 Years to Life
Sandler

Vigo
Papa Lozinska

Spanish Fly
Carl's Friend

Déjà Vu
Konstantine

The Wonderland Experience
Vincent

St. Ives
Bonnefoy

Anna Karenina
Pestov

The Hunchback
Father Michel

The Ice Princess
Chancellor

The Ogre
Lawyer

Surviving Picasso
Diaghilev

Catherine the Great
Naryshkin

Jude
Curator

Le fils de Paul
Duval

Jefferson in Paris
King's Translator

The House that Mary Bought

Mademoiselle O
Rouka

Frankenstein
Chancellor

M. Butterfly
Agent Etancelin

The Hour of the Pig
Apothecary
Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher
Un Héraut / Un prêtre / Un clerc
Temptation of Sainthood
Freud

Venice/Venice
Alexander

Obiettivo indiscreto
Primo editore

Sweetheart
Thurson

The First Circle
Riyumin

Let Him Have It
Clerk of Court

Hamlet
Reynaldo

Vincent and Me
Dr Winkler

Meridian
Priest

The Garden
Old Man at Sauna

The Krays
Teacher

The Plot to Kill Hitler
Fellgiebel

Flight from Paradise
Merrill

The Hostage of Europe
Hudson Lowe

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Butler

Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
Doctor Webber

Natalia
Alfred Grabner

Splendor
Berlin-Jerusalem
Editor

The Sweet House of Horrors
The Exorcist

Testimony
Gargolovsky

Pascali's Island
Pariente

Catacombs
Brother Timothy

Le due croci
Bischof de Jong

Maigret
Gannett

The Name of the Rose
Hugh of Newcastle

Caravaggio
Art Lover

Mata Hari
Prosecutor

Much Ado About Nothing
Don John

Gwendoline
Shirko
The Devil's Lieutenant
Dr. Goldschmiedt

Night Patrol
James

Mon Ami Washington

An Englishman Abroad
Guildenstern

The Scarlet and the Black
Count Langenthal

Nutcracker
Markovitch

Enigma
Minister

That Night of Varennes
Judge at the confiscation

Troilus & Cressida
Agamemnon

L'Amour nu
John, le patron de Claire

Sredni Vashtar
Dr. Russell

Condorman
Russian Agent

Le Beau Monde
Pablo

San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça
Un tueur russe

Nijinsky
Sergei Grigoriev

Ike
Gen. Charles DeGaulle

Romeo and Juliet
Apothecary

Question of Love
Peter

Last In, First Out
Le réceptionniste

Little Girl in Blue Velvet
Lamberti

The Roads of Exile
Le peintre Ramsay

March or Die
Mean Corporal

The Spy Who Loved Me
Max Kalba

Joseph Andrews
Fop Two

The Achurch Letters
Eugene

French Without Tears
Monsieur Maingot

Rumpole of the Bailey
Magnus Piecan

Lovers Like Us
Coleman

Operation: Daybreak
Pyotr

The Messiah
Samuel
The Secret Agent
Karl Yundt

Cat and Mouse
Germain's accomplice

Van der Valk and the Scapegoat
Reinders

India Song
Georges Crawn

Playing with Fire
A messenger

Scent of a Woman
Don Carlo (uncredited)

Murder on the Orient Express
Concierge

The Marseille Contract
Lazar

Soft Beds, Hard Battles
Padre

Impossible Object
Private Investigator

The Day of the Jackal
Interrogator

An Echo of Theresa
Bannerheim

The Canterbury Tales
The Franklin

Up the Front
Muller

Far from Dallas

Mary, Queen of Scots
Duc De Guise

Nicholas and Alexandra
Dr. Lazovert

Fiddler on the Roof
Russian Official

The Horsemen
Zam Hajji

The Beast in the Cellar
Newsmith

The Married Couple of the Year Two
le pasteur

Them
Brisbane

Anne of the Thousand Days
Mendoza

Doctor Who: The War Games
Chief Scientist

Baby Love
Man in Cinema

The Assassination Bureau
Baron Muntzof

Beach Head
N.G. Waldron

A Dandy in Aspic

The Taming of the Shrew
Pedant

The World of George Orwell: 1984
Goldstein

Darling
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
Member of the French Team

The Debussy Film
The Actor
The Life of Galileo
Philosopher







