Vernon Dobtcheff
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.
248 acting credits
Acting · 248
The Avengers
1961
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
Doctor Who
1963
Highlander: The Series
1992
The Witcher
2019
Play for Today
1970
The Saint
1962
Crown Court
1972
Sherlock Holmes
1984
BBC Play of the Month
1965
Rumpole of the Bailey
1975
Relic Hunter
1999
Playhouse
1974
The Name of the Game
1968
The Sweeney
1975
Theatre 625
1964
The Borgias
2011
The Champions
1968
Blake's 7
1978
The Protectors
1972
The Little Murders of Agatha Christie
2009
The Gold
2023
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
1971
Van der Valk
1972
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1989
Festival
1963
Police Commissioner Moulin
1976
Undisputed III: Redemption
2010
As Time Goes By
1992
Father Ted
1995
The Durrells
2016
Churchill's People
1974
Out of the Unknown
1965
Mystery and Imagination
1966
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965
The Romanoffs
2018
Espionage
1963
Marco Polo
1982
Dramarama
1983
Emerald City
2017
Fall of Eagles
1974
War and Remembrance
1988
Dixon of Dock Green
1955
Holocaust
1978
Largo Winch
2001
Crossbow
1987
The Name of the Rose
1986
Highlander: The Raven
1998
Before Sunset
2004
The Spy Who Loved Me
1977
Murder on the Orient Express
1974
Merlin
1998
The Day of the Jackal
1973
Father Brown
1974
A.D.
1985
Ace of Wands
1970
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
1989
Masada
1981
1990
1977
New Scotland Yard
1972
The World of Wooster
1965
Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
1973
The Edwardians
1972
The Scales of Justice
1962
Fortunes of War
1987
Mussolini: The Untold Story
1985
The Great Beauty
2013
Dickens of London
1976
The Canterbury Tales
1972
Fiddler on the Roof
1971
Jude
1996
Apparitions
2008
Surviving Disaster
2006
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
1965
Codename
1970
The Strauss Dynasty
1991
The Mask of Janus
1965
Tender Is the Night
1985
March or Die
1977
Ike
1979
Peter and Paul
1981
Private Schulz
1981
The Taming of the Shrew
1967
Hamlet
1990
The Order
2001
The Three Musketeers
1966
David Copperfield
2000
The Man with the Iron Heart
2017
Nicholas and Alexandra
1971
Caravaggio
1986
The Further Adventures of the Musketeers
1967
Darling
1965
Goldene Zeiten - Bittere Zeiten
1981
Anna Karenina
1997
L'Homme de Suez
1984
Des Christoffel von Grimmelshausen abenteuerlicher Simplizissimus
1975
Anne of the Thousand Days
1969
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
2000
The Krays
1990
M. Butterfly
1993
The Marseille Contract
1974
Jefferson in Paris
1995
Surviving Picasso
1996
Evilenko
2004
Martin Chuzzlewit
1964
Hilary and Jackie
1998
Mary, Queen of Scots
1971
Playing with Fire
1975
Gwendoline
1984
The Assassination Bureau
1969
Killing Jesus
2015
David Copperfield
2001
Enigma
1982
Michael Strogoff
1975
Priceless
2006
Revelation
2001
The Invisible Boy
2014
An American Haunting
2005
Catherine the Great
1996
The Hunchback
1997
Ike
1979
Vigo
1998
The Scarlet and the Black
1983
Zarafa
2012
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
2022
Jinnah
1998
Operation: Daybreak
1975
Baby Love
1969
Morenga
1985
The Body
2001
Empire of the Wolves
2005
Scent of a Woman
1974
Condorman
1981
Lovers Like Us
1975
St. Ives
1998
Meridian
1990
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
1989
Nijinsky
1980
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
1999
Mata Hari
1985
The Garden
1990
The Ogre
1996
Frankenstein
1993
Let Him Have It
1991
The First Circle
1992
The Married Couple of the Year Two
1971
The Haunting of Margam Castle
2020
The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
1999
The Hour of the Pig
1993
That Night of Varennes
1982
Pascali's Island
1988
The Beast in the Cellar
1971
Little Girl in Blue Velvet
1978
Van der Valk and the Scapegoat
1975
Killers
1976
Troilus & Cressida
1981
Festival in Cannes
2001
Nobody Is Norman Wisdom
1973
The Red Siren
2002
Sharpe's Sword
1995
Testimony
1988
A Dandy in Aspic
1968
Another Woman's Life
2012
Thank You, Doctor Rey
2003
Flight from Paradise
1990
The Falklands Play
2002
The Messiah
1975
À vous de jouer Milord
1974
The Horsemen
1971
La Légende des 3 clefs
2007
Sweetheart
1992
Maigret
1988
Soft Beds, Hard Battles
1974
Splendor
1989
The Plot to Kill Hitler
1990
Mazarin
1978
An Englishman Abroad
1983
Le Prof
2000
Night Patrol
1984
The World of George Orwell: 1984
1965
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
2000
Breaking Point
1966
Last In, First Out
1978
Spanish Fly
1998
Joseph Andrews
1977
Seven Lucky Gods
2014
India Song
1975
Nutcracker
1982
Mademoiselle O
1994
Vincent and Me
1990
Impossible Object
1973
Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
2008
Catacombs
1988
Horsehead
2014
Romeo and Juliet
1978
Natalia
1989
Le Beau Monde
1981
Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour
2024
Much Ado About Nothing
1984
Sredni Vashtar
1981
Falling Through
2000
The Wonderland Experience
1998
Cat and Mouse
1975
Déjà Vu
1998
Le due croci
1988
The Hostage of Europe
1989
Burning Casablanca
2021
Cartesius
1974
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
2024
For the Time Being
2006
The Ice Princess
1996
San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça
1981
Doctor Who: The War Games
1969
Brocéliande
2003
Question of Love
1978
30 Years to Life
1998
The Sweet House of Horrors
1989
French Without Tears
1976
Changing Climates, Changing Times
2009
The Joy of Singing
2008
The Achurch Letters
1977
Up the Front
1972
The Debussy Film
1965
Rumpole of the Bailey
1975
Venice/Venice
1992
Them
1970
The House that Mary Bought
1995
An Echo of Theresa
1973
Godforsaken
2010
The Secret Agent
1975
L'Amour nu
1981
Far from Dallas
1972
Obiettivo indiscreto
1992
Berlin-Jerusalem
1989
The Life of Galileo
1964
The Roads of Exile
1978
The Violet Hour
2018
L'hypothèse de la reine rouge
2018
Beach Head
1969
Temptation of Sainthood
1993
Pontormo - Un amore eretico
2004
Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher
1993
Courts mais Gay : Tome 12
2006
The Devil's Lieutenant
1984
Le fils de Paul
1995
Mon Ami Washington
1984
The Passage
2011
Parlez-nous de l'Amour
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