Vernon Dobtcheff

Acting · 1.3 popularity

Age

Movies

163

Born: August 14, 1934
From: Nimes, France

Biography

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.

Works

163 films

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

19897.9

Murder on the Orient Express

19747.1

Before Sunset

20047.8

Undisputed III: Redemption

20107.6

The Name of the Rose

19867.5

The Spy Who Loved Me

19776.8

The Day of the Jackal

19737.5

The Man with the Iron Heart

20176.5

The Order

20015.1

The Great Beauty

20137.5

Fiddler on the Roof

19717.7

Darling

19656.8

Priceless

20066.4

Anna Karenina

19976.1

Gwendoline

19844.9

The Invisible Boy

20146.3

Ike

19796.8

The Taming of the Shrew

19676.9

The Body

20015.5

Brocéliande

20034.0

Lovers Like Us

19756.6

Empire of the Wolves

20055.7

The Hunchback

19975.9

Anne of the Thousand Days

19697.1

The Canterbury Tales

19726.1

Hamlet

19906.6

M. Butterfly

19936.6

The Krays

19906.0

The Scarlet and the Black

19837.0

That Night of Varennes

19826.9

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes

19656.8

Scent of a Woman

19747.4

Zarafa

20126.9

Hilary and Jackie

19986.6

Mary, Queen of Scots

19716.7

An American Haunting

20055.5

March or Die

19775.8

The Passage

20114.0

Jude

19966.3

Nicholas and Alexandra

19717.0

Pascali's Island

19886.4

Them

19704.3

Baby Love

19695.1

Catherine the Great

19965.6

Evilenko

20045.8

Playing with Fire

19755.5

Condorman

19815.5

Caravaggio

19866.1

Nutcracker

19823.3

L'hypothèse de la reine rouge

20188.0

Enigma

19825.6

The Ogre

19966.4

The Horsemen

19716.3

The Assassination Bureau

19696.7

Little Girl in Blue Velvet

19785.7

Killing Jesus

20156.3

Operation: Daybreak

19756.9

Sharpe's Sword

19957.3

Surviving Picasso

19965.8

India Song

19756.4

Le Prof

20004.8

Mata Hari

19854.1

Jefferson in Paris

19955.1

Soft Beds, Hard Battles

19744.6

Meridian

19904.6

Let Him Have It

19916.7

The Marseille Contract

19746.0

Maigret

19887.5

The Red Siren

20025.3

Nijinsky

19804.9

Dreaming of Joseph Lees

19996.4

The Hour of the Pig

19936.2

Jinnah

19986.9

Splendor

19896.6

A Dandy in Aspic

19686.9

Darling Lili

19705.6

Vincent and Me

19905.6

Seven Lucky Gods

20145.6

Revelation

20015.1

Thank You, Doctor Rey

20035.5

Horsehead

20145.3

The Married Couple of the Year Two

19716.5

Temptation of Sainthood

19937.0

L'Amour nu

19815.0

Vigo

19985.1

The Haunting of Margam Castle

20205.1

Natalia

19896.4

Pontormo - Un amore eretico

20046.5

Question of Love

19786.8

St. Ives

19985.6

Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1

20086.0

David Copperfield

20016.3

Le fils de Paul

19957.0

An Englishman Abroad

19836.1

The Plot to Kill Hitler

19906.2

Déjà Vu

19985.5

The Garden

19905.7

Flight from Paradise

19908.5

The House that Mary Bought

19956.5

The First Circle

19925.0

Spanish Fly

19983.2

Le Beau Monde

19817.5

The Messiah

19756.6

Catacombs

19884.9

The World of George Orwell: 1984

19657.0

30 Years to Life

19986.3

Joseph Andrews

19775.2

Another Woman's Life

20126.2

Changing Climates, Changing Times

20096.4

Rumpole of the Bailey

19758.0

The Beast in the Cellar

19714.9

Cat and Mouse

19755.7

Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story

19895.9

Doctor Who: The War Games

19699.7

Troilus & Cressida

19818.0

Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour

20245.8

Impossible Object

19734.8

Falling Through

20004.0

Night Patrol

19845.5

Much Ado About Nothing

19846.8

Mon Ami Washington

19849.0

The Violet Hour

2018

The Hostage of Europe

19897.5

The Falklands Play

20027.0

The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization

2000

The Life of Galileo

1964

The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka

199910.0

For the Time Being

2006

Beach Head

19697.0

Frankenstein

19936.9

French Without Tears

19767.0

Sweetheart

19926.2

The Achurch Letters

1977

Romeo and Juliet

19787.6

Festival in Cannes

20015.3

Alec Guinness: A Class Act

20246.0

Up the Front

19724.4

Last In, First Out

19784.5

The Sweet House of Horrors

19894.9

The Joy of Singing

20083.4

The Ice Princess

19965.8

Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba

20227.8

Venice/Venice

19927.0

Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher

199310.0

The Debussy Film

19657.6

The Wonderland Experience

19988.0

Testimony

19885.6

Parlez-nous de l'Amour

2026

Sredni Vashtar

19817.2

Burning Casablanca

20215.9

The Secret Agent

197510.0

An Echo of Theresa

19736.5

San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça

19813.5

Godforsaken

20104.0

The Roads of Exile

19789.0

Courts mais Gay : Tome 12

2006

Far from Dallas

19727.3

Le due croci

198810.0

Obiettivo indiscreto

19927.0

Van der Valk and the Scapegoat

197510.0

The Devil's Lieutenant

19849.0

Mademoiselle O

199410.0

Berlin-Jerusalem

19895.3