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.
162 movies · 89 shows
Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour
2024·5.8
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
2024·6.0
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
2022·7.8
Burning Casablanca
2021·5.9
The Haunting of Margam Castle
2020·5.1
The Violet Hour
2018·0.0
L'hypothèse de la reine rouge
2018·8.0
The Man with the Iron Heart
2017·6.5
Killing Jesus
2015·6.3
The Invisible Boy
2014·6.3
Horsehead
2014·5.3
Seven Lucky Gods
2014·5.6
The Great Beauty
2013·7.5
Another Woman's Life
2012·6.2
Zarafa
2012·6.9
The Passage
2011·4.0
Undisputed III: Redemption
2010·7.6
Godforsaken
2010·4.0
Changing Climates, Changing Times
2009·6.4
The Joy of Singing
2008·3.4
Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
2008·6.0
Priceless
2006·6.4
Courts mais Gay : Tome 12
2006·0.0
For the Time Being
2006·0.0
An American Haunting
2005·5.5
Empire of the Wolves
2005·5.7
Before Sunset
2004·7.8
Evilenko
2004·5.8
Pontormo - Un amore eretico
2004·6.5
Thank You, Doctor Rey
2003·5.5
Brocéliande
2003·4.0
The Red Siren
2002·5.3
The Falklands Play
2002·7.0
David Copperfield
2001·6.3
Festival in Cannes
2001·5.3
The Order
2001·5.1
The Body
2001·5.5
Revelation
2001·5.1
Le Prof
2000·4.8
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
2000·0.0
Falling Through
2000·4.3
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
1999·6.4
The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
1999·10.0
Hilary and Jackie
1998·6.6
Jinnah
1998·6.9
30 Years to Life
1998·6.3
Vigo
1998·5.1
Spanish Fly
1998·3.2
Déjà Vu
1998·5.5
The Wonderland Experience
1998·8.0
St. Ives
1998·5.6
Anna Karenina
1997·6.1
The Hunchback
1997·5.9
The Ice Princess
1996·5.8
The Ogre
1996·6.4
Surviving Picasso
1996·5.8
Catherine the Great
1996·5.6
Jude
1996·6.3
Le fils de Paul
1995·7.0
Sharpe's Sword
1995·7.3
Jefferson in Paris
1995·5.1
The House that Mary Bought
1995·6.5
Mademoiselle O
1994·10.0
Frankenstein
1993·6.9
M. Butterfly
1993·6.6
The Hour of the Pig
1993·6.2
Temptation of Sainthood
1993·7.0
Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher
1993·10.0
Obiettivo indiscreto
1992·7.0
Venice/Venice
1992·7.0
Sweetheart
1992·6.2
The First Circle
1992·5.0
Let Him Have It
1991·6.7
Hamlet
1990·6.6
Vincent and Me
1990·5.5
Meridian
1990·4.6
The Garden
1990·5.7
The Krays
1990·6.0
The Plot to Kill Hitler
1990·6.2
Flight from Paradise
1990·8.5
The Hostage of Europe
1989·7.5
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1989·7.9
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
1989·5.9
Natalia
1989·6.4
Splendor
1989·6.5
Berlin-Jerusalem
1989·5.3
The Sweet House of Horrors
1989·4.9
Testimony
1988·5.6
Pascali's Island
1988·6.4
Catacombs
1988·4.9
Le due croci
1988·10.0
Maigret
1988·7.5
The Name of the Rose
1986·7.5
Caravaggio
1986·6.1
Mata Hari
1985·4.1
Much Ado About Nothing
1984·6.8
Gwendoline
1984·4.9
Night Patrol
1984·5.5
The Devil's Lieutenant
1984·9.0
Mon Ami Washington
1984·9.0
An Englishman Abroad
1983·6.1
The Scarlet and the Black
1983·7.0
Nutcracker
1982·3.3
Enigma
1982·5.6
That Night of Varennes
1982·6.9
Troilus & Cressida
1981·8.0
L'Amour nu
1981·5.0
Sredni Vashtar
1981·7.2
Condorman
1981·5.5
Le Beau Monde
1981·7.5
San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça
1981·3.5
Nijinsky
1980·4.9
Ike
1979·6.8
Romeo and Juliet
1978·7.6
Question of Love
1978·6.8
Last In, First Out
1978·4.5
Little Girl in Blue Velvet
1978·5.7
The Roads of Exile
1978·9.0
March or Die
1977·5.8
The Spy Who Loved Me
1977·6.8
Joseph Andrews
1977·5.2
The Achurch Letters
1977·0.0
French Without Tears
1976·7.0
Rumpole of the Bailey
1975·8.0
Lovers Like Us
1975·6.6
Operation: Daybreak
1975·6.9
The Messiah
1975·6.6
The Secret Agent
1975·10.0
Cat and Mouse
1975·5.7
Van der Valk and the Scapegoat
1975·10.0
India Song
1975·6.4
Playing with Fire
1975·5.5
Scent of a Woman
1974·7.4
Murder on the Orient Express
1974·7.1
The Marseille Contract
1974·6.0
Soft Beds, Hard Battles
1974·4.6
Impossible Object
1973·4.8
The Day of the Jackal
1973·7.5
An Echo of Theresa
1973·6.5
The Canterbury Tales
1972·6.1
Up the Front
1972·4.4
Far from Dallas
1972·7.3
Mary, Queen of Scots
1971·6.7
Nicholas and Alexandra
1971·7.0
Fiddler on the Roof
1971·7.7
The Horsemen
1971·6.3
The Beast in the Cellar
1971·4.9
The Married Couple of the Year Two
1971·6.5
Them
1970·4.3
Darling Lili
1970·5.6
Anne of the Thousand Days
1969·7.1
Doctor Who: The War Games
1969·9.7
Baby Love
1969·5.3
The Assassination Bureau
1969·6.7
Beach Head
1969·7.0
A Dandy in Aspic
1968·6.9
The Taming of the Shrew
1967·6.9
The World of George Orwell: 1984
1965·7.0
Darling
1965·6.7
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
1965·6.8
The Debussy Film
1965·7.6
The Life of Galileo
1964·0.0