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.

Фільмографія

• 2024Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour — The Scientist (archive footage)
• Золото — Matteo Constantino
• 2021Burning Casablanca — Corny
• 2020The Haunting of Margam Castle — Enos
• Відьмак — Older Elf
• 2018L'hypothèse de la reine rouge — Sherlock Holmes
• The Romanoffs — M. Audran
• 2018The Violet Hour — M. Audran
• Emerald City — High Born Man
• 2017Мозок Гіммлера зветься Гейдріхом — Emile Hacha
• Даррелли — Mr. Kralefsky
• 2015Killing Jesus — Isaiah
• 2014Horsehead — George
• 2014Seven Lucky Gods — Lawrence
• 2014The Invisible Boy — Artiglio
• 2013Велика краса — Arturo
• 2012Another Woman's Life — Dimitri Speranski
• 2012Zarafa — Le vieux sage (voice)
• 2011The Passage — Vieil homme
• Борджіа — Cardinal Versucci
• 2010Godforsaken — The Surgeon
• 2010Обговоренню не підлягає 3 — Rezo
• 2009Changing Climates, Changing Times — Lucas
• Загадкові вбивства Агати Крісті — Anatole Deschanel
• 2008Accordez-moi — Joseph Von Stieglitz
• Apparitions
• 2008The Joy of Singing — Le lecteur du bar
• La Légende des 3 clefs — The anthropologist Gilles Clément
• 2006Courts mais Gay : Tome 12 — Anthony
• 2006For the Time Being — Anthony
• Surviving Disaster
• 2006Фатальна красуня — Jacques
• 2005An American Haunting — Elder #1
• 2005Імперія вовків — Kudseyi
• 2004Evilenko — Bagdasarov
• 2004Pontormo - Un amore eretico — Riccio
• 2004Перед заходом сонця — Bookstore Manager
• 2003Brocéliande — Brennos
• 2003Thank You, Doctor Rey — François
• 2002The Falklands Play — Nicanor Costa Méndez (Argentine Minister of External Relations)
• 2002The Red Siren — Vitali
• 2001David Copperfield — Quinion
• 2001Festival in Cannes — Millie's Escort
• Largo Winch — Maurice de Beliveau
• 2001Revelation — Curé at Rennes-le-Chateau
• 2001Таємниця ордену — Oscar
• 2001Тіло — Monsignor
• David Copperfield — Quinion
• 2000Falling Through — Father
• 2000Le Prof — Patte Folle
• 2000The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization — Cleisthenes
• The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization — Cleisthenes
• 1999Dreaming of Joseph Lees — Italian Doctor
• 1999The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka — Art Gallery Lecturer
• Мисливці за старовиною — Anthony Cureton
• 199830 Years to Life — Sandler
• 1998Déjà Vu — Konstantine
• Highlander: The Raven — Count Van Der Meer
• 1998Hilary and Jackie — Professor Bentley
• 1998Jinnah — Lord Willingdon
• 1998Spanish Fly — Carl's Friend
• 1998St. Ives — Bonnefoy
• 1998The Wonderland Experience — Vincent
• 1998Vigo — Papa Lozinska
• Великий Мерлін — 1st Physician
• 1997Anna Karenina — Pestov
• 1997The Hunchback — Father Michel
• Одіссея — Aegyptius
• 1996Catherine the Great — Naryshkin
• 1996Jude — Curator
• 1996Surviving Picasso — Diaghilev
• 1996The Ice Princess — Chancellor
• 1996The Ogre — Lawyer
• 1995Jefferson in Paris — King's Translator
• 1995Le fils de Paul — Duval
• 1995Sharpe's Sword — Don Felipe
• 1995The House that Mary Bought
• Отець Тед — Old Nazi
• 1994Mademoiselle O — Rouka
• 1993Frankenstein — Chancellor
• 1993Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher — Un Héraut / Un prêtre / Un clerc
• 1993M. Butterfly — Agent Etancelin
• 1993Temptation of Sainthood — Freud
• 1993The Hour of the Pig — Apothecary
• Стрілки Шарпа — Don Felipe
• As Time Goes By — Dr. Stoker
• 1992Obiettivo indiscreto — Primo editore
• 1992Sweetheart — Thurson
• 1992The First Circle — Riyumin
• 1992Venice/Venice — Alexander
• Горець — Carlo Luchesi, Hamad
• 1991Let Him Have It — Clerk of Court
• The Strauss Dynasty — Hirsch
• 1990Flight from Paradise — Merrill
• 1990Hamlet — Reynaldo
• 1990Meridian — Priest
• 1990The Garden — Old Man at Sauna
• 1990The Krays — Teacher
• 1990The Plot to Kill Hitler — Fellgiebel
• 1990Vincent and Me — Dr Winkler
• 1989Berlin-Jerusalem — Editor
• 1989Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story — Doctor Webber
• 1989Natalia — Alfred Grabner
• Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story — Jules Glaenzer
• 1989Splendor
• 1989The Hostage of Europe — Hudson Lowe
• 1989The Sweet House of Horrors — The Exorcist
• 1989Індіана Джонс і останній хрестовий похід — Butler
• Пуаро Аґати Крісті — Simeon Lee
• 1988Catacombs — Brother Timothy
• 1988Le due croci — Bischof de Jong
• 1988Maigret — Gannett
• 1988Pascali's Island — Pariente
• 1988Testimony — Gargolovsky
• War and Remembrance — Henri Bulle
• Crossbow
• Fortunes of War — Prince Hadjimoscos
• 1986Caravaggio — Art Lover
• If Tomorrow Comes — Boris Melnikov
• The Return of Sherlock Holmes — Mendelstam
• 1986Ім'я троянди — Hugh of Newcastle
• A.D. — Flavius Sabinus
• 1985Mata Hari — Prosecutor
• Morenga — Lohmann
• Mussolini: The Untold Story — Sebastiani
• Tender Is the Night — Luis Campion
• L'Homme de Suez — Konya, Turkish Colonel, spy in the service of the English
• 1984Mon Ami Washington
• 1984Much Ado About Nothing — Don John
• 1984Night Patrol — James
• 1984The Devil's Lieutenant — Dr. Goldschmiedt
• Шерлок Голмс — Mendelstam
• 1984Ґвендолін — Shirko
• 1983An Englishman Abroad — Guildenstern
• Dramarama — Mr. Rolyat
• 1983The Scarlet and the Black — Count Langenthal
• 1982Enigma — Minister
• Marco Polo — Pietro De Abano
• 1982Nutcracker — Markovitch
• 1982That Night of Varennes — Judge at the confiscation
• 1981Condorman — Russian Agent
• Goldene Zeiten - Bittere Zeiten — M. Bernard
• 1981L'Amour nu — John, le patron de Claire
• 1981Le Beau Monde — Pablo
• Masada — Chief Priest
• Peter and Paul — High Priest of Herod
• Private Schulz — Sturmer
• 1981San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça — Un tueur russe
• 1981Sredni Vashtar — Dr. Russell
• 1981Troilus & Cressida — Agamemnon
• 1980Nijinsky — Sergei Grigoriev
• 1979Ike — Gen. Charles DeGaulle
• Ike — Gen. Charles DeGaulle
• Turning Year Tales — Bailiff
• Blake's 7 — The Chairman
• Holocaust — Karp
• 1978Last In, First Out — Le réceptionniste
• 1978Little Girl in Blue Velvet — Lamberti
• Mazarin — Pimentel
• 1978Question of Love — Peter
• 1978Romeo and Juliet — Apothecary
• 1978The Roads of Exile — Le peintre Ramsay
• 1977007: Шпигун, який мене кохав — Max Kalba
• 1990
• 1977Joseph Andrews — Fop Two
• 1977March or Die — Mean Corporal
• 1977The Achurch Letters — Eugene
• Dickens of London — Legal Gentleman
• 1976French Without Tears — Monsieur Maingot
• Killers — Clerk of the Assizes
• Police Commissioner Moulin — Astman
• 1975Cat and Mouse — Germain's accomplice
• Des Christoffel von Grimmelshausen abenteuerlicher Simplizissimus — Dr. Canard
• 1975India Song — Georges Crawn
• 1975Lovers Like Us — Coleman
• Michael Strogoff — Blount
• 1975Operation: Daybreak — Pyotr
• 1975Playing with Fire — A messenger
• 1975Rumpole of the Bailey — Magnus Piecan
• Rumpole of the Bailey — Edward Gandolphini
• 1975The Messiah — Samuel
• 1975The Secret Agent — Karl Yundt
• The Sweeney — Harry Kretchmar
• 1975Van der Valk and the Scapegoat — Reinders
• Cartesius — Astronomo Ciprus
• Churchill's People — De Reynes
• Fall of Eagles — Count Stookau
• Father Brown — Simon Vesty
• Playhouse — Eugene
• 1974Scent of a Woman — Don Carlo (uncredited)
• 1974Soft Beds, Hard Battles — Padre
• 1974The Marseille Contract — Lazar
• À vous de jouer Milord — N° 2
• 1974Вбивство у «Східному експресі» — Concierge
• 1973An Echo of Theresa — Bannerheim
• 1973Impossible Object — Private Investigator
• Nobody Is Norman Wisdom — Proshnik
• Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
• 1973День Шакала — Interrogator
• Crown Court — John Maitland-Wilson
• 1972Far from Dallas
• New Scotland Yard — Jacob Harmann
• The Edwardians — Benjamin Disraeli
• The Protectors — Joe Flynn
• 1972Up the Front — Muller
• Van der Valk — Sebastian Jonge
• 1972Кентерберійські оповідання — The Franklin
• 1971Fiddler on the Roof — Russian Official
• 1971Mary, Queen of Scots — Duc De Guise
• 1971Nicholas and Alexandra — Dr. Lazovert
• 1971The Beast in the Cellar — Newsmith
• 1971The Horsemen — Zam Hajji
• 1971The Married Couple of the Year Two — le pasteur
• The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes — Molbech
• Ace of Wands — Sandor Zandar
• Codename — Herman Voss
• 1970Darling Lili — Otto Kraus
• Play for Today
• 1970Them — Brisbane
• 1969Baby Love — Man in Cinema
• 1969Beach Head — N.G. Waldron
• 1969Doctor Who: The War Games — Chief Scientist
• 1969The Assassination Bureau — Baron Muntzof
• 1969Анна на тисячу днів — Mendoza
• 1968A Dandy in Aspic
• The Champions — Manager
• The Name of the Game — Dedushko
• The Further Adventures of the Musketeers — Msgr. de Gondy
• 1967Приборкання норовливої — Pedant
• Breaking Point
• Mystery and Imagination — Dr Lutz
• The Three Musketeers — Commissary
• BBC Play of the Month — Monsieur Maingot
• 1965Darling — Art Critic at Ralph Riggs Exposure (uncredited)
• Out of the Unknown — N.G. Waldron
• 1965The Debussy Film — The Actor
• The Mask of Janus — Colonel Valenkov
• 1965The World of George Orwell: 1984 — Goldstein
• The World of Wooster — Music Store Assistant
• Thirty-Minute Theatre — Carpenter
• 1965Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes — Member of the French Team
• Martin Chuzzlewit
• The Count of Monte Cristo — Prison Inspector
• 1964The Life of Galileo — Philosopher
• The Protectors — Cherni
• Theatre 625 — Priest, Emmanuel Goldstein
• Espionage — Captain of Police
• Festival — Philosopher
• Доктор Хто — Scientist
• The Saint — Vogel
• The Scales of Justice — Mr. Strang
• The Avengers — Spencer, Stenson
• Dixon of Dock Green — Counsel for Defence
• Parlez-nous de l'Amour

Ток-шоу, премії та інші появи (3)

• 2024Alec Guinness: A Class Act — self
• 2022Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba — Self
• 2008Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1 — Self