Vernon Dobtcheff
Actor
- Born
- August 14, 1934 (age 92) · Nimes, France
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.
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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.
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Known for
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
May 24, 1989
Before Sunset
June 16, 2004
The Name of the Rose
September 24, 1986
The Great Beauty
May 21, 2013
The Spy Who Loved Me
July 7, 1977
Murder on the Orient Express
November 22, 1974
Undisputed III: Redemption
April 17, 2010
The Invisible Boy
December 18, 2014
The Man with the Iron Heart
May 25, 2017
Priceless
December 13, 2006
The Day of the Jackal
May 16, 1973
Fiddler on the Roof
November 3, 1971
Acting164
- 2024Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour as The Scientist (archive footage)
- 2024Alec Guinness: A Class Act as self
- 2022Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba as Self
- 2021Burning Casablanca as Corny
- 2020The Haunting of Margam Castle as Enos
- 2018The Violet Hour as M. Audran
- 2018L'hypothèse de la reine rouge as Sherlock Holmes
- 2017The Man with the Iron Heart as Emile Hacha
- 2015Killing Jesus as Isaiah
- 2014