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 moment venu | Anthony | 2006-02-06 |
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30 Years to Life | Sandler | 1998-10-15 |
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Le fils de Paul | Duval | 1995-11-25 |
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Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher | Un Héraut / Un prêtre / Un clerc | 1993-01-01 |
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Temptation of Sainthood | Freud | 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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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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Vincent et moi | Dr Winkler | 1990-12-13 |
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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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Splendor | 1989-02-16 | |
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ברלין ירושלים | Editor | 1989-02-03 |
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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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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | Butler | 1989-05-24 |
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Testimony | Gargolovsky | 1988-11-01 |
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Le due croci | Bischof de Jong | 1988-03-30 |
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Gwendoline | Shirko | 1984-02-08 |
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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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Mon Ami Washington | 1984-01-01 | |
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An Englishman Abroad | Guildenstern | 1983-11-29 |
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La Nuit de Varennes | Judge at the confiscation | 1982-05-15 |
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Nutcracker | Markovitch | 1982-12-17 |
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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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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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L'Amour en question | Peter | 1978-10-18 |
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The Achurch Letters | Eugene | 1977-01-12 |
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French Without Tears | Monsieur Maingot | 1976-05-16 |
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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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The Secret Agent | Karl Yundt | 1975-10-01 |
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Il Messia | Samuel | 1975-10-24 |
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Beach Head | N.G. Waldron | 1969-01-28 |
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Anne of the Thousand Days | Mendoza | 1969-12-18 |
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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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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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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 Debussy Film | The Actor | 1965-05-18 |
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The Life of Galileo | Philosopher | 1964-04-29 |
