Actor
Vernon Dobtcheff
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 th ...

Known For
Acting
2022 -- Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba | Self
2021 -- Burning Casablanca | Corny
2020 -- The Haunting of Margam Castle |
2018 -- The Violet Hour | M. Audran
2018 -- L'hypothèse de la reine rouge | Sherlock Holmes
2017 -- The Man with the Iron Heart | Emile Hacha
2015 -- Killing Jesus | Isaiah
2014 -- The Invisible Boy | Artiglio
2014 -- Horsehead | George
2014 -- Seven Lucky Gods | Lawrence
2013 -- The Great Beauty | Arturo
2012 -- Another Woman's Life | Dimitri Speranski
2012 -- Zarafa | Le vieux sage (voice)
2011 -- Le passage | Vieil homme
2010 -- Undisputed III: Redemption | Rezo
2010 -- Godforsaken | The Surgeon
2009 -- Changing Climates, Changing Times | Lucas
2008 -- The Joy of Singing | Le lecteur du bar
2008 -- Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1 | Self
2006 -- Priceless | Jacques
2006 -- Courts mais Gay : Tome 12 | Anthony
2006 -- For the Time Being | Anthony
2005 -- An American Haunting | Elder #1
2005 -- Empire of the Wolves | Kudseyi
2004 -- Thank You, Doctor Rey | François
2004 -- Before Sunset | Bookstore Manager
2004 -- Evilenko | Bagdasarov
2004 -- Pontormo - Un amore eretico | Riccio
2003 -- Brocéliande | Brennos
2002 -- The Red Siren | Vitali
2002 -- The Falklands Play | Nicanor Costa Méndez (Argentine Minister of External Relations)
2001 -- Festival in Cannes | Millie's Escort
2001 -- The Order | Oscar
2001 -- The Body | Monsignor
2001 -- Revelation | Curé at Rennes-le-Chateau
2000 -- Le Prof | Patte Folle
2000 -- The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization | Cleisthenes
2000 -- Falling Through | Father
1999 -- Dreaming of Joseph Lees | Italian Doctor
1999 -- The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka | Art Gallery Lecturer
1998 -- Hilary and Jackie | Professor Bentley
1998 -- Jinnah | Lord Willingdon
1998 -- 30 Years to Life | Sandler
1998 -- Vigo | Papa Lozinska
1998 -- Spanish Fly | Carl's Friend
1998 -- Déjà Vu | Konstantine
1998 -- The Wonderland Experience | Vincent
1998 -- St. Ives |
1997 -- Anna Karenina | Pestov
1997 -- The Hunchback | Father Michel
1996 -- The Ice Princess |
1996 -- The Ogre | Lawyer
1996 -- Surviving Picasso | Diaghilev
1996 -- Catherine the Great | Naryshkin
1996 -- Jude | Curator
1995 -- Jefferson in Paris | King's Translator
1995 -- The House that Mary Bought |
1994 -- Mademoiselle O | Rouka
1993 -- Frankenstein | Chancellor
1993 -- M. Butterfly | Agent Etancelin
1993 -- The Hour of the Pig | Apothecary
1993 -- Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher | Un Héraut / Un prêtre / Un clerc
1993 -- Temptation of Sainthood | Freud
1992 -- Venice/Venice | Alexander
1992 -- Obiettivo indiscreto | Primo editore
1992 -- Sweetheart | Thurson
1991 -- Let Him Have It | Clerk of Court
1991 -- Mel Gibson Goes Back to School | Reynaldo (archive footage)
1990 -- Hamlet | Reynaldo
1990 -- Vincent and me | Dr Winkler
1990 -- Meridian | Priest
1990 -- The Garden | Old Man at Sauna
1990 -- The Krays | Teacher
1990 -- Flight from Paradise | Merrill
1989 -- The Hostage of Europe | Hudson Lowe
1989 -- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | Butler
1989 -- Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story | Doctor Webber
1989 -- Natalia | Alfred Grabner
1989 -- Splendor |
1989 -- Berlin-Jerusalem | Editor
1989 -- The Sweet House of Horrors | The Exorcist
1988 -- Testimony | Gargolovsky
1988 -- Pascali's Island | Pariente
1988 -- Catacombs | Brother Timothy
1988 -- Maigret | Gannett
1986 -- The Name of the Rose | Hugh of Newcastle
1986 -- Caravaggio | Art Lover
1985 -- Mata Hari | Prosecutor
1985 -- Morenga | Lohmann
1984 -- Much Ado About Nothing | Don John
1984 -- Gwendoline | Shirko
1984 -- The Devil's Lieutenant | Dr. Goldschmiedt
1984 -- Night Patrol |
1984 -- Mon Ami Washington |
1983 -- An Englishman Abroad | Guildenstern
1983 -- The Scarlet and the Black | Count Langenthal
1982 -- Nutcracker | Markovitch
1982 -- Enigma | Minister
1982 -- The Night of Varennes | Judge at the confiscation
1981 -- Troilus & Cressida | Agamemnon
1981 -- L'Amour nu | John, le patron de Claire
1981 -- Sredni Vashtar | Dr. Russell
1981 -- Condorman | Russian Agent
1981 -- Le Beau Monde | Pablo
1981 -- San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça | Un tueur russe
1980 -- Nijinsky | Sergei Grigoriev
1979 -- Ike | Gen. Charles DeGaulle
1978 -- Romeo & Juliet | Apothecary
1978 -- Question of Love | Peter
1978 -- Last In, First Out | Le réceptionniste
1978 -- Little Girl in Blue Velvet | Lamberti
1978 -- The Roads of Exile | Le peintre Ramsay
1977 -- March or Die | Mean Corporal
1977 -- The Spy Who Loved Me | Max Kalba
1977 -- Joseph Andrews | Fop Two
1977 -- The Achurch Letters | Eugene
1976 -- French Without Tears | Monsieur Maingot
1975 -- Rumpole of the Bailey | Magnus Piecan
1975 -- Lovers Like Us | Coleman
1975 -- Operation: Daybreak | Pyotr
1975 -- The Messiah | Samuel
1975 -- Cat and Mouse | Germain's accomplice
1975 -- Pas de frontières pour l'inspecteur - Le bouc émissaire | Reinders
1975 -- India Song | Georges Crawn
1975 -- Playing with Fire | A messenger
1974 -- Scent of a Woman | Don Carlo (uncredited)
1974 -- Murder on the Orient Express | Concierge
1974 -- The Marseille Contract | Lazar
1974 -- Cartesius | Astronomo Ciprus
1974 -- Soft Beds, Hard Battles | Padre
1973 -- Story of a Love Story |
1973 -- The Day of the Jackal | Interrogator
1973 -- An Echo of Theresa | Bannerheim
1972 -- The Canterbury Tales | The Franklin
1972 -- Far from Dallas |
1971 -- Mary, Queen of Scots | Duc De Guise
1971 -- Nicholas and Alexandra | Dr. Lazovert
1971 -- Fiddler on the Roof | Russian Official
1971 -- The Horsemen | Zam Hajji
1971 -- The Married Couple of the Year Two | le pasteur
1970 -- Them |
1970 -- The Beast in the Cellar | Newsmith
1969 -- Anne of the Thousand Days | Mendoza
1969 -- Doctor Who: The War Games | Chief Scientist
1969 -- The Assassination Bureau | Baron Muntzof
1967 -- The Taming of the Shrew | Pedant
1965 -- The World of George Orwell: 1984 | Goldstein
1965 -- Darling | Art Critic at Ralph Riggs Exposure (uncredited)
1965 -- Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes | Member of the French Team
1965 -- The Debussy Film | The Actor
1964 -- The Life of Galileo | Philosopher
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