Cast
Vernon Dobtcheff
Acting
Cast
Vernon Dobtcheff
Known for
Acting
Born
1934-08-14
From
Nimes, France
Also known as Eugene, Alexander Vernon Dobtcheff, Alexandre Vernon Dobtcheff
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.
★7.9
MOVIE1989
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
as Butler
★7.6
MOVIE2010
Undisputed III: Redemption
as Rezo
★7.8
MOVIE2004
Before Sunset
as Bookstore Manager
★6.1
MOVIE1997
Anna Karenina
as Pestov
★6.8
MOVIE1977
The Spy Who Loved Me
as Max Kalba
★7.5
MOVIE1986
The Name of the Rose
as Hugh of Newcastle
★7.1
MOVIE1974
Murder on the Orient Express
as Concierge
★7.5
MOVIE1973
The Day of the Jackal
as Interrogator
★7.5
MOVIE2013
The Great Beauty
as Arturo
★6.9
MOVIE2012
Zarafa
as Le vieux sage (voice)
★6.8
MOVIE1979
Ike
as Gen. Charles DeGaulle
★4.9
MOVIE1984
Gwendoline
as Shirko
★4.6
MOVIE1974
Soft Beds, Hard Battles
as Padre
★5.9
MOVIE1997
The Hunchback
as Father Michel
★6.4
MOVIE2006
Priceless
as Jacques
★7.8
MOVIE1971
Fiddler on the Roof
as Russian Official
★4.8
MOVIE2000
Le Prof
as Patte Folle
★7.4
MOVIE1974
Scent of a Woman
as Don Carlo (uncredited)
★5.7
MOVIE2005
Empire of the Wolves
as Kudseyi
★6.4
MOVIE1988
Pascali's Island
as Pariente
★5.5
MOVIE2005
An American Haunting
as Elder #1
★7.3
MOVIE1995
Sharpe's Sword
as Don Felipe
★6.6
MOVIE1998
Hilary and Jackie
as Professor Bentley
★6.5
MOVIE2017
The Man with the Iron Heart
as Emile Hacha
★6.6
MOVIE1993
M. Butterfly
as Agent Etancelin
★4.3
MOVIE1970
Them
as Brisbane
★6.2
MOVIE1993
The Hour of the Pig
as Apothecary
★5.1
MOVIE2001
The Order
as Oscar
★6.3
MOVIE2014
The Invisible Boy
as Artiglio
★7.5
MOVIE1988
Maigret
as Gannett
★4.0
MOVIE2003
Brocéliande
as Brennos
★6.6
MOVIE1975
Lovers Like Us
as Coleman
★8.0
MOVIE2018
L'hypothèse de la reine rouge
as Sherlock Holmes
★5.5
MOVIE1975
Playing with Fire
as A messenger
★5.1
MOVIE1995
Jefferson in Paris
as King's Translator
★5.6
MOVIE1996
Catherine the Great
as Naryshkin
★6.6
MOVIE1990
Hamlet
as Reynaldo
★5.8
MOVIE2004
Evilenko
as Bagdasarov
★6.9
MOVIE1975
Operation: Daybreak
as Pyotr
★7.0
MOVIE1971
Nicholas and Alexandra
as Dr. Lazovert
★5.3
MOVIE2001
Festival in Cannes
as Millie's Escort
★6.3
MOVIE1996
Jude
as Curator
★6.9
MOVIE1968
A Dandy in Aspic
★6.7
MOVIE1965
Darling
as Art Critic at Ralph Riggs Exposure (uncredited)
★6.1
MOVIE1972
The Canterbury Tales
as The Franklin
★6.7
MOVIE1971
Mary, Queen of Scots
as Duc De Guise
★6.9
MOVIE1967
The Taming of the Shrew
as Pedant
★6.0
MOVIE1974
The Marseille Contract
as Lazar
★6.1
MOVIE1983
An Englishman Abroad
as Guildenstern
★5.5
MOVIE1990
Vincent and Me
as Dr Winkler
★4.0
MOVIE2011
The Passage
as Vieil homme
★6.7
MOVIE1991
Let Him Have It
as Clerk of Court
★5.3
MOVIE2002
The Red Siren
as Vitali
★5.5
MOVIE2003
Thank You, Doctor Rey
as François
★3.2
MOVIE1982
Nutcracker
as Markovitch
★7.0
MOVIE1993
Temptation of Sainthood
as Freud
★4.1
MOVIE1985
Mata Hari
as Prosecutor
★5.6
MOVIE1982
Enigma
as Minister
MOVIE2018
The Violet Hour
as M. Audran
★6.1
MOVIE1986
Caravaggio
as Art Lover
★5.3
MOVIE1969
Baby Love
as Man in Cinema
★6.9
MOVIE1982
That Night of Varennes
as Judge at the confiscation
★6.2
MOVIE1990
The Plot to Kill Hitler
as Fellgiebel
★6.4
MOVIE1989
Natalia
as Alfred Grabner
★7.1
MOVIE1969
Anne of the Thousand Days
as Mendoza
★6.8
MOVIE1965
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
as Member of the French Team
★5.7
MOVIE1975
Cat and Mouse
as Germain's accomplice
★7.5
MOVIE1981
Le Beau Monde
as Pablo
★4.6
MOVIE1990
Meridian
as Priest
★7.0
MOVIE1983
The Scarlet and the Black
as Count Langenthal
★9.0
MOVIE1984
Mon Ami Washington
★5.6
MOVIE1990
The Garden
as Old Man at Sauna
★10.0
MOVIE1975
The Secret Agent
as Karl Yundt
★6.7
MOVIE1969
The Assassination Bureau
as Baron Muntzof
★5.8
MOVIE1996
Surviving Picasso
as Diaghilev
★7.6
MOVIE1978
Romeo and Juliet
as Apothecary
★5.3
MOVIE2014
Horsehead
as George
★6.4
MOVIE1975
India Song
as Georges Crawn
★7.0
MOVIE1976
French Without Tears
as Monsieur Maingot
★5.8
MOVIE1977
March or Die
as Mean Corporal
★6.2
MOVIE2012
Another Woman's Life
as Dimitri Speranski
★6.3
MOVIE2015
Killing Jesus
as Isaiah
★5.6
MOVIE1970
Darling Lili
as Otto Kraus
★6.3
MOVIE1971
The Horsemen
as Zam Hajji
★6.8
MOVIE1978
Question of Love
as Peter
★6.5
MOVIE2004
Pontormo - Un amore eretico
as Riccio
★6.3
MOVIE2001
David Copperfield
as Quinion
★5.5
MOVIE1984
Night Patrol
as James
★7.0
MOVIE1995
Le fils de Paul
as Duval
★5.5
MOVIE2001
The Body
as Monsignor
★5.0
MOVIE1981
L'Amour nu
as John, le patron de Claire
★5.5
MOVIE1981
Condorman
as Russian Agent
★6.5
MOVIE1971
The Married Couple of the Year Two
as le pasteur
★6.4
MOVIE1996
The Ogre
as Lawyer
★6.4
MOVIE1999
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
as Italian Doctor
★7.0
MOVIE1969
Beach Head
as N.G. Waldron
★9.7
MOVIE1969
Doctor Who: The War Games
as Chief Scientist
★4.8
MOVIE1973
Impossible Object
as Private Investigator
★5.6
MOVIE2014
Seven Lucky Gods
as Lawrence
★6.2
MOVIE1992
Sweetheart
as Thurson
★6.0
MOVIE1990
The Krays
as Teacher
★4.9
MOVIE1988
Catacombs
as Brother Timothy
★6.9
MOVIE1998
Jinnah
as Lord Willingdon
★4.4
MOVIE1972
Up the Front
as Muller
★8.0
MOVIE1981
Troilus & Cressida
as Agamemnon
★5.1
MOVIE2001
Revelation
as Curé at Rennes-le-Chateau
★5.7
MOVIE1978
Little Girl in Blue Velvet
as Lamberti
★5.8
MOVIE1996
The Ice Princess
as Chancellor
★5.0
MOVIE1992
The First Circle
as Riyumin
★7.0
MOVIE1973
An Echo of Theresa
as Bannerheim
★6.8
MOVIE1984
Much Ado About Nothing
as Don John
MOVIE1977
The Achurch Letters
as Eugene
★7.0
MOVIE1992
Venice/Venice
as Alexander
★8.0
MOVIE1975
Rumpole of the Bailey
as Magnus Piecan
★5.5
MOVIE1998
Déjà Vu
as Konstantine
★5.2
MOVIE1977
Joseph Andrews
as Fop Two
★6.5
MOVIE1989
Splendor
★6.9
MOVIE1993
Frankenstein
as Chancellor
★6.5
MOVIE1995
The House that Mary Bought
★6.3
MOVIE1998
30 Years to Life
as Sandler
★7.0
MOVIE2002
The Falklands Play
as Nicanor Costa Méndez (Argentine Minister of External Relations)
★10.0
MOVIE1993
Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher
as Un Héraut / Un prêtre / Un clerc
★4.9
MOVIE1980
Nijinsky
as Sergei Grigoriev
★5.6
MOVIE1998
St. Ives
as Bonnefoy
★4.3
MOVIE2000
Falling Through
as Father
★3.2
MOVIE1998
Spanish Fly
as Carl's Friend
★4.9
MOVIE1998
Vigo
as Papa Lozinska
MOVIE2000
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
as Cleisthenes
MOVIE1964
The Life of Galileo
as Philosopher
★6.6
MOVIE1975
The Messiah
as Samuel
★4.0
MOVIE2010
Godforsaken
as The Surgeon
★7.6
MOVIE1965
The Debussy Film
as The Actor
★5.8
MOVIE2024
Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour
as The Scientist (archive footage)
★7.8
MOVIE2022
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
as Self
★6.0
MOVIE2008
Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
as Self
★7.5
MOVIE1989
The Hostage of Europe
as Hudson Lowe
★5.9
MOVIE1989
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
as Doctor Webber
★10.0
MOVIE1994
Mademoiselle O
as Rouka
★3.4
MOVIE2008
The Joy of Singing
as Le lecteur du bar
★8.5
MOVIE1990
Flight from Paradise
as Merrill
★9.0
MOVIE1984
The Devil's Lieutenant
as Dr. Goldschmiedt
★4.9
MOVIE1971
The Beast in the Cellar
as Newsmith
MOVIE2006
For the Time Being
as Anthony
★10.0
MOVIE1975
Van der Valk and the Scapegoat
as Reinders
★6.4
MOVIE2009
Changing Climates, Changing Times
as Lucas
★7.0
MOVIE1965
The World of George Orwell: 1984
as Goldstein
★7.0
MOVIE1992
Obiettivo indiscreto
as Primo editore
★10.0
MOVIE1988
Le due croci
as Bischof de Jong
★3.5
MOVIE1981
San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça
as Un tueur russe
★6.0
MOVIE2024
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
as self
★7.3
MOVIE1972
Far from Dallas
★5.1
MOVIE2020
The Haunting of Margam Castle
as Enos
★7.2
MOVIE1981
Sredni Vashtar
as Dr. Russell
★4.5
MOVIE1978
Last In, First Out
as Le réceptionniste
★5.6
MOVIE1988
Testimony
as Gargolovsky
★9.0
MOVIE1978
The Roads of Exile
as Le peintre Ramsay
★5.3
MOVIE1989
Berlin-Jerusalem
as Editor
★4.9
MOVIE1989
The Sweet House of Horrors
as The Exorcist
MOVIE2006
Courts mais Gay : Tome 12
as Anthony
★8.0
MOVIE1998
The Wonderland Experience
as Vincent
★10.0
MOVIE1999
The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
as Art Gallery Lecturer
★5.9
MOVIE2021
Burning Casablanca
as Corny
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