Vernon Dobtcheff

Known for ActingBorn 1934-08-14 (age 91)Nimes, France

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.Read more

Movies & web series

The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka

Mademoiselle O

Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher

Le due croci

Van der Valk and the Scapegoat

The Secret Agent

Espionage

Doctor Who: The War Games

Mon Ami Washington

The Devil's Lieutenant

The Roads of Exile

Cartesius

Flight from Paradise

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

L'hypothèse de la reine rouge

Father Ted

The Witcher

Agatha Christie's Poirot

Sherlock Holmes

Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba

The Wonderland Experience

Morenga

Before Sunset

The Sweeney

Troilus & Cressida

War and Remembrance

Rumpole of the Bailey

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

À vous de jouer Milord

The Borgias

Codename

Undisputed III: Redemption

The Mask of Janus

Martin Chuzzlewit

The Protectors

The Great Beauty

Festival

The Durrells

Doctor Who

The Gold

L'Homme de Suez

The Little Murders of Agatha Christie

Fiddler on the Roof

As Time Goes By

The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization

The Hostage of Europe

Maigret

The Avengers