Vernon Dobtcheff
Biography
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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.
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Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1934-08-14
Place of birth
Nimes, France
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Cast
Before Sunset
2004
7.80
M. Butterfly
1993
6.60
The Spy Who Loved Me
1977
6.80
An American Haunting
2005
5.54
Frankenstein
1993
6.64
Murder on the Orient Express
1974
7.10
Enigma
1982
5.65
Empire of the Wolves
2005
5.70
Brocéliande
2003
3.70
Caravaggio
1986
6.13
The Canterbury Tales
1972
6.17
Hilary and Jackie
1998
6.61
Priceless
2006
6.37
Anne of the Thousand Days
1969
7.10
The Messiah
1975
6.53
March or Die
1977
5.80
The Taming of the Shrew
1967
6.90
Burning Casablanca
2021
5.90
The Body
2001
5.48
Obiettivo indiscreto
1992
0.00
Soft Beds, Hard Battles
1974
4.20
Undisputed III: Redemption
2010
7.53
Mary, Queen of Scots
1971
6.70
Evilenko
2004
5.65
The Sweet House of Horrors
1989
4.90
Condorman
1981
5.50
The Assassination Bureau
1969
6.60
Mata Hari
1985
4.04
Meridian
1990
4.65
Zarafa
2012
6.83
Lovers Like Us
1975
6.60
Cat and Mouse
1975
5.74
Nutcracker
1982
2.00
Catacombs
1988
4.87
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
1999
6.00
Gwendoline
1984
4.91
Another Woman's Life
2012
6.22
Godforsaken
2010
0.00
The Hostage of Europe
1989
6.00
Cartesius
1974
6.60
Vincent and me
1990
5.00
Nijinsky
1980
5.03
Venice/Venice
1992
6.50
Impossible Object
1973
4.90
Surviving Picasso
1996
5.77
Joseph Andrews
1977
4.70
St. Ives
1998
5.70
Spanish Fly
1998
2.00
The Red Siren
2002
5.14
Little Girl in Blue Velvet
1978
4.50
Anna Karenina
1997
6.01
Courts mais Gay : Tome 12
2006
0.00
Horsehead
2014
5.24
India Song
1975
6.43
The Violet Hour
2018
0.00
30 Years to Life
1998
5.00
Déjà Vu
1998
5.50
Jinnah
1998
6.85
Mon Ami Washington
1984
0.00
Far from Dallas
1972
6.00
Temptation of Sainthood
1993
0.00
Jude
1996
6.30
Natalia
1989
5.13
The Hunchback
1997
5.90
The Roads of Exile
1978
0.00
The Debussy Film
1965
7.60
Night Patrol
1984
4.90
Maigret
1988
0.00
The Krays
1990
6.00
Ike
1979
6.20
The Wonderland Experience
1998
0.00
Them
1970
2.00
The Life of Galileo
1964
0.00
Playing with Fire
1975
5.40
Operation: Daybreak
1975
6.90
Hamlet
1990
6.60
Fiddler on the Roof
1971
7.71
The Horsemen
1971
6.50
An Englishman Abroad
1983
6.06
The Joy of Singing
2008
3.60
The Beast in the Cellar
1970
4.70
Mel Gibson Goes Back to School
1991
0.00
Le Prof
2000
2.50
Berlin-Jerusalem
1989
5.20
The Great Beauty
2013
7.51
Sweetheart
1992
6.30
Catherine the Great
1996
5.71
Thank You, Doctor Rey
2004
5.70
The Scarlet and the Black
1983
7.00
Seven Lucky Gods
2014
6.10
Killing Jesus
2015
6.25
Question of Love
1978
6.40
Flight from Paradise
1990
7.00
Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher
1993
0.00
Troilus & Cressida
1981
8.00
The Garden
1990
5.62
The Invisible Boy
2014
6.30
The Name of the Rose
1986
7.50
Rumpole of the Bailey
1975
8.00
Pontormo - Un amore eretico
2004
6.00
The Devil's Lieutenant
1984
0.00
Scent of a Woman
1974
7.50
An Echo of Theresa
1973
0.00
Mademoiselle O
1994
0.00
Testimony
1988
4.50
The Ice Princess
1996
4.00
The Man with the Iron Heart
2017
6.56
Let Him Have It
1991
6.60
Romeo and Juliet
1978
7.40
L'Amour nu
1981
4.64
The Marseille Contract
1974
5.80
Nicholas and Alexandra
1971
6.90
The Ogre
1996
6.39
Darling
1965
6.70
Le passage
2011
0.00
The Order
2001
5.10
Revelation
2001
4.80
Pascali's Island
1988
6.40
Much Ado About Nothing
1984
6.30
The Day of the Jackal
1973
7.53
The Night of Varennes
1982
6.83
L'hypothèse de la reine rouge
2018
8.00
The World of George Orwell: 1984
1965
0.00
Sredni Vashtar
1981
6.60
Jefferson in Paris
1995
5.13
Doctor Who: The War Games
1969
9.60
The Haunting of Margam Castle
2020
5.10
The Falklands Play
2002
7.40
French Without Tears
1976
0.00
For the Time Being
2006
0.00
Splendor
1989
6.42
Festival in Cannes
2001
5.50
San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça
1981
2.00
Le Beau Monde
1981
0.00
Vigo
1998
4.80
The Achurch Letters
1977
0.00
The House that Mary Bought
1995
5.00
The Hour of the Pig
1993
6.16
Van der Valk and the Scapegoat
1975
0.00
Falling Through
2000
3.00
A Dandy in Aspic
1968
6.80
Le due croci
1988
0.00
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
2024
6.00
Last In, First Out
1978
3.40
Baby Love
1969
5.38