Vernon Dobtcheff
ActingAlso Known As
Eugene, Alexander Vernon Dobtcheff, Alexandre Vernon Dobtcheff, Vernon Dobthcheff, Вернон Добчефф
Biography
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.
Movies
(161 total)
Before Sunset
as Bookstore Manager
The Great Beauty
as Arturo
The Name of the Rose
as Hugh of Newcastle
The Spy Who Loved Me
as Max Kalba
Murder on the Orient Express
as Concierge
The Invisible Boy
as Artiglio
The Man with the Iron Heart
as Emile Hacha
Priceless
as Jacques
The Day of the Jackal
as Interrogator
Fiddler on the Roof
as Russian Official
An American Haunting
as Elder #1
Hamlet
as Reynaldo
Empire of the Wolves
as Kudseyi
The Order
as Oscar
Scent of a Woman
as Don Carlo (uncredited)
M. Butterfly
as Agent Etancelin
The Canterbury Tales
as The Franklin
The Body
as Monsignor
TV Shows
(84 total)
The Witcher
as Older Elf
Doctor Who
as Scientist
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Simeon Lee
The Borgias
as Cardinal Versucci
Highlander: The Series
as Carlo Luchesi
Highlander: The Series
as Hamad
Father Ted
as Old Nazi
Merlin
as 1st Physician
Sherlock Holmes
as Mendelstam
Emerald City
as High Born Man
Relic Hunter
as Anthony Cureton
The Avengers
as Spencer
The Avengers
as Stenson
The Saint
as Vogel
The Durrells
as Mr. Kralefsky
Holocaust
as Karp
The Romanoffs
as M. Audran
The Gold
as Matteo Constantino
Masada
as Chief Priest
The Little Murders of Agatha Christie
as Anatole Deschanel