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Vernon Dobtcheff
- Name: Vernon Dobtcheff
- Birthday: 1934-08-14
- Also known as: Eugene,Alexander Vernon Dobtcheff,Alexandre Vernon Dobtcheff,Vernon Dobthcheff,Вернон Добчефф
- Place of birth: Nimes, France
- Popularity: 7.287
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... Read More
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| Title | Release date |
|---|---|
| Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba as Self | 2022-11-26 |
| Burning Casablanca as Corny | 2021-06-21 |
| The Haunting of Margam Castle | 2020-09-01 |
| The Violet Hour as M. Audran | 2018-10-12 |
| L'hypothèse de la reine rouge as Sherlock Holmes | 2018-03-27 |
| The Man with the Iron Heart as Emile Hacha | 2017-05-25 |
| Killing Jesus as Isaiah | 2015-04-05 |
| The Invisible Boy as Artiglio | 2014-12-18 |
| Horsehead as George | 2014-09-07 |
| Seven Lucky Gods as Lawrence | 2014-04-04 |
| The Great Beauty as Arturo | 2013-05-21 |
| Another Woman's Life as Dimitri Speranski | 2012-02-14 |
| Zarafa as Le vieux sage (voice) | 2012-01-25 |
| Le passage as Vieil homme | 2011-10-15 |
| Undisputed III: Redemption as Rezo | 2010-04-17 |
| Godforsaken as The Surgeon | 2010-04-10 |
| Changing Climates, Changing Times as Lucas | 2009-02-04 |
| The Joy of Singing as Le lecteur du bar | 2008-11-26 |
| Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1 as Self | 2008-03-06 |
| Priceless as Jacques | 2006-12-13 |
| Courts mais Gay : Tome 12 as Anthony | 2006-11-16 |
| For the Time Being as Anthony | 2006-02-06 |
| An American Haunting as Elder #1 | 2005-05-05 |
| Empire of the Wolves as Kudseyi | 2005-04-20 |
| Thank You, Doctor Rey as François | 2004-08-20 |
| Before Sunset as Bookstore Manager | 2004-06-16 |
| Evilenko as Bagdasarov | 2004-04-16 |
| Pontormo - Un amore eretico as Riccio | 2004-01-01 |
| Brocéliande as Brennos | 2003-01-08 |
| The Red Siren as Vitali | 2002-08-21 |
| The Falklands Play as Nicanor Costa Méndez (Argentine Minister of External Relations) | 2002-04-10 |
| Festival in Cannes as Millie's Escort | 2001-11-03 |
| The Order as Oscar | 2001-05-05 |
| The Body as Monsignor | 2001-04-13 |
| Revelation as Curé at Rennes-le-Chateau | 2001-04-12 |
| Le Prof as Patte Folle | 2000-04-12 |
| The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization as Cleisthenes | 2000-02-09 |
| Dreaming of Joseph Lees as Italian Doctor | 1999-10-29 |
| The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka as Art Gallery Lecturer | 1999-01-01 |
| Hilary and Jackie as Professor Bentley | 1998-12-30 |
| Jinnah as Lord Willingdon | 1998-11-07 |
| 30 Years to Life as Sandler | 1998-10-15 |
| Vigo as Papa Lozinska | 1998-09-14 |
| Spanish Fly as Carl's Friend | 1998-09-10 |
| Déjà Vu as Konstantine | 1998-04-22 |
| The Wonderland Experience as Vincent | 1998-02-01 |
| St. Ives | 1998-01-01 |
| Anna Karenina as Pestov | 1997-04-04 |
| The Hunchback as Father Michel | 1997-03-16 |
| Die Eisprinzessin | 1996-12-12 |
| The Ogre as Lawyer | 1996-09-12 |
| Surviving Picasso as Diaghilev | 1996-09-04 |
| Catherine the Great as Naryshkin | 1996-04-28 |
| Jude as Curator | 1996-02-06 |
| Jefferson in Paris as King's Translator | 1995-03-31 |
| The House that Mary Bought | 1995-01-01 |
| The Ice Princess | 1995-01-01 |
| Mademoiselle O as Rouka | 1994-12-05 |
| Frankenstein as Chancellor | 1993-12-02 |
| M. Butterfly as Agent Etancelin | 1993-10-01 |
| Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher as Un Héraut / Un prêtre / Un clerc | 1993-01-01 |
| Temptation of Sainthood as Freud | 1993-01-01 |
| Obiettivo indiscreto as Primo editore | 1992-04-10 |
| Venice/Venice as Alexander | 1992-04-10 |
| Sweetheart as Thurson | 1992-04-07 |
| Let Him Have It as Clerk of Court | 1991-10-04 |
| Mel Gibson Goes Back to School as Reynaldo (archive footage) | 1991-01-01 |
| Hamlet as Reynaldo | 1990-12-19 |
| Vincent and me as Dr Winkler | 1990-12-13 |
| Meridian as Priest | 1990-11-10 |
| The Garden as Old Man at Sauna | 1990-09-06 |
| The Krays as Teacher | 1990-04-27 |
| Flight from Paradise as Merrill | 1990-01-01 |
| The Hostage of Europe as Hudson Lowe | 1989-09-29 |
| Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade as Butler | 1989-05-24 |
| Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story as Doctor Webber | 1989-04-22 |
| Natalia as Alfred Grabner | 1989-04-12 |
| Splendor | 1989-02-16 |
| Berlin-Jerusalem as Editor | 1989-02-03 |
| The Sweet House of Horrors as The Exorcist | 1989-01-01 |
| Testimony as Gargolovsky | 1988-11-01 |
| Pascali's Island as Pariente | 1988-07-22 |
| Catacombs as Brother Timothy | 1988-05-14 |
| Maigret as Gannett | 1988-02-22 |
| The Name of the Rose as Hugh of Newcastle | 1986-09-24 |
| Caravaggio as Art Lover | 1986-08-29 |
| Mata Hari as Prosecutor | 1985-09-05 |
| Morenga as Lohmann | 1985-02-16 |
| Much Ado About Nothing as Don John | 1984-12-22 |
| Gwendoline as Shirko | 1984-02-08 |
| Night Patrol | 1984-01-11 |
| The Devil's Lieutenant as Dr. Goldschmiedt | 1984-01-11 |
| Mon Ami Washington | 1984-01-01 |
| An Englishman Abroad as Guildenstern | 1983-11-29 |
| The Scarlet and the Black as Count Langenthal | 1983-02-02 |
| Nutcracker as Markovitch | 1982-12-17 |
| Enigma as Minister | 1982-10-15 |
| The Night of Varennes as Judge at the confiscation | 1982-05-15 |
| Troilus & Cressida as Agamemnon | 1981-11-07 |
| L'Amour nu as John, le patron de Claire | 1981-10-07 |
| Sredni Vashtar as Dr. Russell | 1981-09-01 |
| Condorman as Russian Agent | 1981-07-02 |
| Le Beau Monde as Pablo | 1981-06-06 |
| San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça as Un tueur russe | 1981-05-20 |
| Nijinsky as Sergei Grigoriev | 1980-03-20 |
| Ike as Gen. Charles DeGaulle | 1979-05-03 |
| Romeo & Juliet as Apothecary | 1978-12-03 |
| Question of Love as Peter | 1978-10-18 |
| Last In, First Out as Le réceptionniste | 1978-08-30 |
| Little Girl in Blue Velvet as Lamberti | 1978-08-23 |
| The Roads of Exile as Le peintre Ramsay | 1978-01-01 |
| March or Die as Mean Corporal | 1977-09-08 |
| The Spy Who Loved Me as Max Kalba | 1977-07-07 |
| Joseph Andrews as Fop Two | 1977-03-09 |
| The Achurch Letters as Eugene | 1977-01-12 |
| French Without Tears as Monsieur Maingot | 1976-05-16 |
| Rumpole of the Bailey as Magnus Piecan | 1975-12-16 |
| Lovers Like Us as Coleman | 1975-11-26 |
| Operation: Daybreak as Pyotr | 1975-11-01 |
| The Messiah as Samuel | 1975-10-24 |
| Cat and Mouse as le complice de Germain | 1975-09-03 |
| India Song as Georges Crawn | 1975-06-04 |
| Playing with Fire as A messenger | 1975-02-19 |
| Scent of a Woman as Don Carlo (uncredited) | 1974-12-20 |
| Murder on the Orient Express as Concierge | 1974-11-22 |
| The Marseille Contract as Lazar | 1974-09-04 |
| Cartesius as Astronomo Ciprus | 1974-02-21 |
| Soft Beds, Hard Battles as Padre | 1974-01-24 |
| Story of a Love Story | 1973-05-24 |
| The Day of the Jackal as Interrogator | 1973-05-16 |
| An Echo of Theresa as Bannerheim | 1973-01-15 |
| The Canterbury Tales as The Franklin | 1972-09-02 |
| Far from Dallas | 1972-06-28 |
| Mary, Queen of Scots as Duc De Guise | 1971-12-22 |
| Nicholas and Alexandra as Dr. Lazovert | 1971-11-29 |
| Fiddler on the Roof as Russian Official | 1971-11-03 |
| The Horsemen as Zam Hajji | 1971-08-16 |
| The Married Couple of the Year Two as le pasteur | 1971-04-07 |
| Them | 1970-11-18 |
| The Beast in the Cellar as Newsmith | 1970-08-01 |
| Anne of the Thousand Days as Mendoza | 1969-12-18 |
| Doctor Who: The War Games as Chief Scientist | 1969-06-21 |
| The Assassination Bureau as Baron Muntzof | 1969-03-09 |
| The Taming of the Shrew as Pedant | 1967-03-08 |
| The World of George Orwell: 1984 as Goldstein | 1965-11-28 |
| Darling as Art Critic at Ralph Riggs Exposure (uncredited) | 1965-08-03 |
| Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes as Member of the French Team | 1965-06-16 |
| The Debussy Film as The Actor | 1965-05-18 |
| The Life of Galileo as Philosopher | 1964-04-29 |
