1934-08-14 Nimes, France
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.
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Le passage | Vieil homme | 2011-10-15 |
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Godforsaken | The Surgeon | 2010-04-10 |
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Undisputed III: Redemption | Rezo | 2010-04-17 |
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Changing Climates, Changing Times | Lucas | 2009-02-04 |
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Le Plaisir de chanter | Le lecteur du bar | 2008-11-26 |
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Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1 | Self | 2008-03-06 |
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Courts mais Gay : Tome 12 | Anthony | 2006-11-16 |
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Hors de prix | Jacques | 2006-12-13 |
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Le moment venu | Anthony | 2006-02-06 |
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An American Haunting | Elder #1 | 2005-05-05 |
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L'Empire des loups | Kudseyi | 2005-04-20 |
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Before Sunset | Bookstore Manager | 2004-06-16 |
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Merci Docteur Rey | François | 2004-08-20 |
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Evilenko | Bagdasarov | 2004-04-16 |
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Pontormo - Un amore eretico | Riccio | 2004-01-01 |
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La sirène rouge | Vitali | 2002-08-21 |
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David Copperfield | Quinion | 2001-12-25 |
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Festival in Cannes | Millie's Escort | 2001-11-03 |
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The Order | Oscar | 2001-05-05 |
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The Body | Monsignor | 2001-04-13 |
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Revelation | Curé at Rennes-le-Chateau | 2001-04-12 |
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The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization | Cleisthenes | 2000-02-09 |
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Le Prof | Patte Folle | 2000-04-12 |
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Falling Through | Father | 2000-01-01 |
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St. Ives | Bonnefoy | 1998-01-01 |
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Spanish Fly | Carl's Friend | 1998-09-10 |
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30 Years to Life | Sandler | 1998-10-15 |
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Déjà Vu | Konstantine | 1998-04-22 |
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Jinnah | Lord Willingdon | 1998-11-07 |
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The Wonderland Experience | Vincent | 1998-02-01 |
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Vigo | Papa Lozinska | 1998-09-14 |
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Hilary and Jackie | Professor Bentley | 1998-12-30 |
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The Hunchback | Father Michel | 1997-03-16 |
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Anna Karenina | Pestov | 1997-04-04 |
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Catherine the Great | Naryshkin | 1996-04-28 |
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Jude | Curator | 1996-02-06 |
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Die Eisprinzessin | 1996-12-12 | |
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Surviving Picasso | Diaghilev | 1996-09-04 |
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Der Unhold | Lawyer | 1996-09-12 |
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The House that Mary Bought | 1995-01-01 | |
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Jefferson in Paris | King's Translator | 1995-03-31 |
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Mademoiselle O | Rouka | 1994-12-05 |
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Frankenstein | Chancellor | 1993-12-02 |
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Temptation of Sainthood | Freud | 1993-01-01 |
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M. Butterfly | Agent Etancelin | 1993-10-01 |
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The Hour of the Pig | Apothecary | 1993-09-25 |
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Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher | Un Héraut / Un prêtre / Un clerc | 1993-01-01 |
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Toutes peines confondues | Thurson | 1992-04-07 |
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Venice/Venice | Alexander | 1992-04-10 |
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The First Circle | Riyumin | 1992-02-25 |
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Obiettivo indiscreto | Primo editore | 1992-04-10 |
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Let Him Have It | Clerk of Court | 1991-10-04 |
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The Garden | Old Man at Sauna | 1990-09-06 |
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Hamlet | Reynaldo | 1990-12-19 |
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Fuga dal paradiso | Merrill | 1990-01-01 |
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The Krays | Teacher | 1990-04-27 |
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Meridian | Priest | 1990-11-10 |
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Vincent et moi | Dr Winkler | 1990-12-13 |
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Jeniec Europy | Hudson Lowe | 1989-09-29 |
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Natalia | Alfred Grabner | 1989-04-12 |
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La dolce casa degli orrori | The Exorcist | 1989-01-01 |
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | Butler | 1989-05-24 |
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ברלין ירושלים | Editor | 1989-02-03 |
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Splendor | 1989-02-16 | |
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Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story | Doctor Webber | 1989-04-22 |
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Le due croci | Bischof de Jong | 1988-03-30 |
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Pascali's Island | Pariente | 1988-07-22 |
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Testimony | Gargolovsky | 1988-11-01 |
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Catacombs | Brother Timothy | 1988-05-14 |
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Caravaggio | Art Lover | 1986-08-29 |
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The Name of the Rose | Hugh of Newcastle | 1986-09-24 |
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The Devil's Lieutenant | Dr. Goldschmiedt | 1984-01-11 |
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Much Ado About Nothing | Don John | 1984-12-22 |
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Ronde de nuit | James | 1984-01-11 |
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Gwendoline | Shirko | 1984-02-08 |
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Mon Ami Washington | 1984-01-01 | |
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The Scarlet and the Black | Count Langenthal | 1983-02-02 |
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An Englishman Abroad | Guildenstern | 1983-11-29 |
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Nutcracker | Markovitch | 1982-12-17 |
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La Nuit de Varennes | Judge at the confiscation | 1982-05-15 |
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Enigma | Minister | 1982-10-15 |
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San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça | Un tueur russe | 1981-05-20 |
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Le Beau Monde | Pablo | 1981-06-06 |
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Sredni Vashtar | Dr. Russell | 1981-09-01 |
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Condorman | Russian Agent | 1981-07-02 |
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L'Amour nu | John, le patron de Claire | 1981-10-07 |
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Troilus & Cressida | Agamemnon | 1981-11-07 |
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Nijinsky | Sergei Grigoriev | 1980-03-20 |
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Ike | Gen. Charles DeGaulle | 1979-05-03 |
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Les Chemins de l'exil ou Les dernières années de Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Le peintre Ramsay | 1978-01-01 |
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L'Ordre et la sécurité du monde | Le réceptionniste | 1978-08-30 |
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L'Amour en question | Peter | 1978-10-18 |
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Romeo and Juliet | Apothecary | 1978-12-03 |
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La Petite Fille en velours bleu | Lamberti | 1978-08-23 |
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The Achurch Letters | Eugene | 1977-01-12 |
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The Spy Who Loved Me | Max Kalba | 1977-07-07 |
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March or Die | Mean Corporal | 1977-09-08 |
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French Without Tears | Monsieur Maingot | 1976-05-16 |
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Operation: Daybreak | Pyotr | 1975-11-01 |
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Il Messia | Samuel | 1975-10-24 |
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The Secret Agent | Karl Yundt | 1975-10-01 |
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Pas de frontières pour l'inspecteur - Le bouc émissaire | Reinders | 1975-06-21 |
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Le Chat et la Souris | Germain's accomplice | 1975-09-03 |
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India Song | Georges Crawn | 1975-06-04 |
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Le Sauvage | Coleman | 1975-11-26 |
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Rumpole of the Bailey | Magnus Piecan | 1975-12-16 |
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Profumo di donna | Don Carlo (uncredited) | 1974-12-20 |
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The Marseille Contract | Lazar | 1974-09-04 |
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The Beast in the Cellar | Newsmith | 1970-08-01 |
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Baby Love | Man in Cinema | 1969-03-19 |
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The Assassination Bureau | Baron Muntzof | 1969-03-09 |
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Anne of the Thousand Days | Mendoza | 1969-12-18 |
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Doctor Who: The War Games | Chief Scientist | 1969-06-21 |
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Beach Head | N.G. Waldron | 1969-01-28 |
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A Dandy in Aspic | 1968-04-02 | |
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The Taming of the Shrew | Pedant | 1967-03-08 |
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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 | 1965-06-16 |
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The World of George Orwell: 1984 | Goldstein | 1965-11-28 |
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Darling | Art Critic at Ralph Riggs Exposure (uncredited) | 1965-08-03 |
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The Debussy Film | The Actor | 1965-05-18 |
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The Life of Galileo | Philosopher | 1964-04-29 |
