Vernon Dobtcheff

Acting · 1.5 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 Great Beauty

20137.5

The Man with the Iron Heart

20176.5

Anna Karenina

19976.1

Fiddler on the Roof

19717.7

The Order

20015.1

Priceless

20066.4

Darling

19656.8

Empire of the Wolves

20055.7

The Hunchback

19975.9

Gwendoline

19844.9

The Taming of the Shrew

19676.9

Ike

19796.8

Brocéliande

20034.0

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

19656.8

The Invisible Boy

20146.3

Anne of the Thousand Days

19697.1

The Canterbury Tales

19726.1

Lovers Like Us

19756.6

The Body

20015.5

Hamlet

19906.6

M. Butterfly

19936.6

Scent of a Woman

19747.4

The Krays

19906.0

Jude

19966.3

Nicholas and Alexandra

19717.0

March or Die

19775.8

An American Haunting

20055.5

Hilary and Jackie

19986.6

The Scarlet and the Black

19837.0

Zarafa

20126.9

That Night of Varennes

19826.9

The Passage

20114.0

Playing with Fire

19755.5

Pascali's Island

19886.4

Them

19704.3

L'hypothèse de la reine rouge

20188.0

Caravaggio

19866.1

India Song

19756.4

Mary, Queen of Scots

19716.7

The Ogre

19966.4

Operation: Daybreak

19756.9

Catherine the Great

19965.6

The Horsemen

19716.3

Sharpe's Sword

19957.3

Baby Love

19695.1

Condorman

19815.5

Enigma

19825.6

Little Girl in Blue Velvet

19785.7

The Red Siren

20025.3

Evilenko

20045.8

The Assassination Bureau

19696.7

Soft Beds, Hard Battles

19744.6

Darling Lili

19705.6

Surviving Picasso

19965.8

Killing Jesus

20156.3

Temptation of Sainthood

19937.0

Meridian

19904.6

Nutcracker

19823.3

Mata Hari

19854.1

The Married Couple of the Year Two

19716.5

The Hour of the Pig

19936.2

Let Him Have It

19916.7

Jefferson in Paris

19955.1

Le Prof

20004.8

The Marseille Contract

19746.0

Dreaming of Joseph Lees

19996.4

A Dandy in Aspic

19686.9

Maigret

19887.5

Revelation

20015.1

Jinnah

19986.9

Vincent and Me

19905.6

Thank You, Doctor Rey

20035.5

An Englishman Abroad

19836.1

Nijinsky

19804.9

Horsehead

20145.3

The Haunting of Margam Castle

20205.1

Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour

20245.8

Joseph Andrews

19775.2

The Plot to Kill Hitler

19906.2

Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba

20227.8

Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1

20086.0

David Copperfield

20016.3

St. Ives

19985.6

The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization

2000

The World of George Orwell: 1984

19657.0

Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story

19895.9

Question of Love

19786.8

Natalia

19896.4

L'Amour nu

19815.0

Spanish Fly

19983.2

The Garden

19905.7

Déjà Vu

19985.5

Another Woman's Life

20126.2

Pontormo - Un amore eretico

20046.5

Le fils de Paul

19957.0

The Beast in the Cellar

19714.9

The First Circle

19925.0

Seven Lucky Gods

20145.6

Doctor Who: The War Games

19699.7

The Messiah

19756.6

Falling Through

20004.0

For the Time Being

2006

Night Patrol

19845.5

Flight from Paradise

19908.5

Frankenstein

19936.9

The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka

199910.0

Vigo

19985.1

Mon Ami Washington

19849.0

Romeo and Juliet

19787.6

30 Years to Life

19986.3

Rumpole of the Bailey

19758.0

Catacombs

19884.9

Alec Guinness: A Class Act

20246.0

Splendor

19896.6

Changing Climates, Changing Times

20096.4

Beach Head

19697.0

The House that Mary Bought

19956.5

Le Beau Monde

19817.5

Festival in Cannes

20015.3

Last In, First Out

19784.5

San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça

19813.5

Impossible Object

19734.8

Venice/Venice

19927.0

Up the Front

19724.4

Parlez-nous de l'Amour

2026

Cat and Mouse

19755.7

French Without Tears

19767.0

The Sweet House of Horrors

19894.9

Much Ado About Nothing

19846.8

The Violet Hour

2018

Sweetheart

19926.2

Troilus & Cressida

19818.0

The Hostage of Europe

19897.5

Testimony

19885.6

The Wonderland Experience

19988.0

The Falklands Play

20027.0

The Ice Princess

19965.8

The Debussy Film

19657.6

The Achurch Letters

1977

The Joy of Singing

20083.4

Sredni Vashtar

19817.2

The Secret Agent

197510.0

The Life of Galileo

1964

Burning Casablanca

20215.9

Van der Valk and the Scapegoat

197510.0

Le due croci

198810.0

Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher

199310.0

Courts mais Gay : Tome 12

2006

Obiettivo indiscreto

19927.0

The Roads of Exile

19789.0

Godforsaken

20104.0

Mademoiselle O

199410.0

Far from Dallas

19727.3

An Echo of Theresa

19736.5

Berlin-Jerusalem

19895.3

The Devil's Lieutenant

19849.0