
Vernon Dobtcheff
Department: Acting
Biography
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.
Known For

Before Sunset
2004

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1989

M. Butterfly
1993

The Spy Who Loved Me
1977

An American Haunting
2005

Frankenstein
1993

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
1965

Murder on the Orient Express
1974

Enigma
1982

Empire of the Wolves
2005

The Married Couple of the Year Two
1971

Brocéliande
2003

Caravaggio
1986

The Canterbury Tales
1972

Hilary and Jackie
1998

Priceless
2006

Anne of the Thousand Days
1969

The Messiah
1975

March or Die
1977

The Taming of the Shrew
1967

Burning Casablanca
2021

The Body
2001

Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
2008

Obiettivo indiscreto
1992

Soft Beds, Hard Battles
1974

Undisputed III: Redemption
2010

Changing Climates, Changing Times
2009

Mary, Queen of Scots
1971

Evilenko
2004

The Sweet House of Horrors
1989

Condorman
1981

The Assassination Bureau
1969

Mata Hari
1985

Meridian
1990

Zarafa
2012

Lovers Like Us
1975

Cat and Mouse
1975

Nutcracker
1982

Catacombs
1988

Dreaming of Joseph Lees
1999

Gwendoline
1984

Another Woman's Life
2012

Godforsaken
2010

The Hostage of Europe
1989

Vincent and Me
1990

Nijinsky
1980

Venice/Venice
1992

Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
2022

The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
1999

Impossible Object
1973

Surviving Picasso
1996

Joseph Andrews
1977

St. Ives
1998

Spanish Fly
1998

The Red Siren
2002

Little Girl in Blue Velvet
1978

Anna Karenina
1997

Courts mais Gay : Tome 12
2006

Horsehead
2014

India Song
1975

The Violet Hour
2018

30 Years to Life
1998

Déjà Vu
1998

Jinnah
1998

Mon Ami Washington
1984

Far from Dallas
1972

Temptation of Sainthood
1993

Jude
1996

Natalia
1989

The Hunchback
1997

The Roads of Exile
1978

The Debussy Film
1965

Night Patrol
1984

Maigret
1988

The Krays
1990

Ike
1979

The Wonderland Experience
1998

Them
1970

The Life of Galileo
1964

Playing with Fire
1975

Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
1989

Operation: Daybreak
1975

Hamlet
1990

Fiddler on the Roof
1971

The Horsemen
1971

An Englishman Abroad
1983

The Joy of Singing
2008

The Beast in the Cellar
1971

Le Prof
2000

Berlin-Jerusalem
1989

The Great Beauty
2013

Sweetheart
1992

Catherine the Great
1996

Thank You, Doctor Rey
2004

The Scarlet and the Black
1983

Seven Lucky Gods
2014

Killing Jesus
2015

Question of Love
1978

Flight from Paradise
1990

The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
2000

Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher
1993

Troilus & Cressida
1981

The Garden
1990

The Name of the Rose
1986

The Invisible Boy
2014

Rumpole of the Bailey
1975

Pontormo - Un amore eretico
2004

The Devil's Lieutenant
1984

Scent of a Woman
1974

An Echo of Theresa
1973

Mademoiselle O
1994

Testimony
1988

The Ice Princess
1996

The Man with the Iron Heart
2017

Let Him Have It
1991

Romeo and Juliet
1978

L'Amour nu
1981

The Marseille Contract
1974

Nicholas and Alexandra
1971

The Ogre
1996

Darling
1965

The Passage
2011

The Order
2001

Revelation
2001

Pascali's Island
1988

Much Ado About Nothing
1984

The Day of the Jackal
1973

That Night of Varennes
1982

L'hypothèse de la reine rouge
2018

The World of George Orwell: 1984
1965

Sredni Vashtar
1981

Jefferson in Paris
1995

Doctor Who: The War Games
1969

The Haunting of Margam Castle
2020

The Falklands Play
2002

French Without Tears
1976

For the Time Being
2006

Splendor
1989

Festival in Cannes
2001

San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça
1981

Le Beau Monde
1981

Vigo
1998

The Achurch Letters
1977

The House that Mary Bought
1995

The Hour of the Pig
1993

Van der Valk and the Scapegoat
1975

Falling Through
2000

A Dandy in Aspic
1968

Le due croci
1988

Alec Guinness: A Class Act
2024

Last In, First Out
1978

Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour
2024

Baby Love
1969

The Secret Agent
1975

David Copperfield
2001

The First Circle
1992

Up the Front
1972

Beach Head
1969

Le fils de Paul
1995

The Plot to Kill Hitler
1990

Parlez-nous de l'Amour
—

As Time Goes By
1992

Out of the Unknown
1965

Father Ted
1995

Doctor Who
1963

Blake's 7
1978

Dramarama
1983

The Sweeney
1975

The Avengers
1961

The Protectors
1972

Relic Hunter
1999

Rumpole of the Bailey
1975

The Scales of Justice
1962

The Saint
1962

Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
1989

Highlander: The Raven
1998

Dixon of Dock Green
1955

Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
1973

The Champions
1968

Apparitions
2008

Van der Valk
1972

Codename
1970

Play for Today
1970

1990
1977

Fall of Eagles
1974

Breaking Point
1966

The Gold
2023

Martin Chuzzlewit
1964

Father Brown
1974

The Borgias
2011

La Légende des 3 clefs
2007

The Little Murders of Agatha Christie
2009

Michael Strogoff
1975

The Witcher
2019

The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
2000

Des Christoffel von Grimmelshausen abenteuerlicher Simplizissimus
1975

Sherlock Holmes
1984

À vous de jouer Milord
1974

A.D.
1985

The Name of the Game
1968

Merlin
1998

Mussolini: The Untold Story
1985

Goldene Zeiten - Bittere Zeiten
1981

Surviving Disaster
2006

Holocaust
1978

Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989

Highlander: The Series
1992

Highlander: The Series
1992

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
1971

Morenga
1985

Peter and Paul
1981

The Romanoffs
2018

Police Commissioner Moulin
1976

Marco Polo
1982

Crown Court
1972

L'Homme de Suez
1984

The Durrells
2016

The Avengers
1961

The Mask of Janus
1965

Playhouse
1974

BBC Play of the Month
1965

Dickens of London
1976

Festival
1963

Nobody Is Norman Wisdom
1973

Ace of Wands
1970

The World of Wooster
1965

The Three Musketeers
1966

The Further Adventures of the Musketeers
1967

Fortunes of War
1987

The Edwardians
1972

Tender Is the Night
1985

Theatre 625
1964

Masada
1981

Theatre 625
1964

Largo Winch
2001

Largo Winch
2001

Churchill's People
1974

Emerald City
2017

Ike
1979

Mystery and Imagination
1966

Private Schulz
1981

Crossbow
1987

Cartesius
1974

Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965

The Strauss Dynasty
1991

David Copperfield
2000