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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Horsehead | George | 2014-09-07 |
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Seven Lucky Gods | Lawrence | 2014-04-04 |
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Il ragazzo invisibile | Artiglio | 2014-12-18 |
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La grande bellezza | Arturo | 2013-05-21 |
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La Vie d'une autre | Dimitri Speranski | 2012-02-14 |
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Le passage | Vieil homme | 2011-10-15 |
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Undisputed III: Redemption | Rezo | 2010-04-17 |
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Godforsaken | The Surgeon | 2010-04-10 |
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Changing Climates, Changing Times | Lucas | 2009-02-04 |
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Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1 | Self | 2008-03-06 |
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Le Plaisir de chanter | Le lecteur du bar | 2008-11-26 |
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Le moment venu | Anthony | 2006-02-06 |
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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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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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Pontormo - Un amore eretico | Riccio | 2004-01-01 |
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Evilenko | Bagdasarov | 2004-04-16 |
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Merci Docteur Rey | François | 2003-12-03 |
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Brocéliande | Brennos | 2003-01-08 |
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The Falklands Play | Nicanor Costa Méndez (Argentine Minister of External Relations) | 2002-04-10 |
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La sirène rouge | Vitali | 2002-08-21 |
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The Order | Oscar | 2001-05-05 |
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Revelation | Curé at Rennes-le-Chateau | 2001-04-12 |
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David Copperfield | Quinion | 2001-12-25 |
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The Body | Monsignor | 2001-04-13 |
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Festival in Cannes | Millie's Escort | 2001-11-03 |
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The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization | Cleisthenes | 2000-02-09 |
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Falling Through | Father | 2000-01-01 |
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Le Prof | Patte Folle | 2000-04-12 |
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The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka | Art Gallery Lecturer | 1999-01-01 |
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Hilary and Jackie | Professor Bentley | 1998-12-30 |
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St. Ives | Bonnefoy | 1998-01-01 |
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30 Years to Life | Sandler | 1998-10-15 |
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Jinnah | Lord Willingdon | 1998-11-07 |
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Déjà Vu | Konstantine | 1998-04-22 |
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Spanish Fly | Carl's Friend | 1998-09-10 |
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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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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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Surviving Picasso | Diaghilev | 1996-09-04 |
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Der Unhold | Lawyer | 1996-09-12 |
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Jude | Curator | 1996-02-06 |
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Die Eisprinzessin | Chancellor | 1996-12-12 |
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Le fils de Paul | Duval | 1995-11-25 |
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The House that Mary Bought | 1995-01-01 | |
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Sharpe's Sword | Don Felipe | 1995-04-26 |
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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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Temptation of Sainthood | Freud | 1993-01-01 |
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M. Butterfly | Agent Etancelin | 1993-10-01 |
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Frankenstein | Chancellor | 1993-12-02 |
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Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher | Un Héraut / Un prêtre / Un clerc | 1993-01-01 |
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The Hour of the Pig | Apothecary | 1993-09-25 |
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Venice/Venice | Alexander | 1992-04-10 |
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Toutes peines confondues | Thurson | 1992-04-07 |
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Obiettivo indiscreto | Primo editore | 1992-04-10 |
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The First Circle | Riyumin | 1992-02-25 |
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Let Him Have It | Clerk of Court | 1991-10-04 |
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Meridian | Priest | 1990-11-10 |
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The Plot to Kill Hitler | Fellgiebel | 1990-01-30 |
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Fuga dal paradiso | Merrill | 1990-01-01 |
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Hamlet | Reynaldo | 1990-12-19 |
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The Krays | Teacher | 1990-04-27 |
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Vincent and Me | Dr Winkler | 1990-12-13 |
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The Garden | Old Man at Sauna | 1990-09-06 |
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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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Natalia | Alfred Grabner | 1989-04-12 |
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Jeniec Europy | Hudson Lowe | 1989-09-29 |
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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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Le due croci | Bischof de Jong | 1988-03-30 |
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Testimony | Gargolovsky | 1988-11-01 |
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Pascali's Island | Pariente | 1988-07-22 |
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Maigret | Gannett | 1988-02-22 |
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Catacombs | Brother Timothy | 1988-05-14 |
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The Name of the Rose | Hugh of Newcastle | 1986-09-24 |
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Caravaggio | Art Lover | 1986-08-29 |
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Mata Hari | Prosecutor | 1985-09-05 |
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Ronde de nuit | James | 1984-01-11 |
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Gwendoline | Shirko | 1984-02-08 |
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The Devil's Lieutenant | Dr. Goldschmiedt | 1984-01-11 |
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Mon Ami Washington | 1984-01-01 | |
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Much Ado About Nothing | Don John | 1984-12-22 |
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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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La Nuit de Varennes | Judge at the confiscation | 1982-05-15 |
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Enigma | Minister | 1982-10-15 |
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Nutcracker | Markovitch | 1982-12-17 |
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San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça | Un tueur russe | 1981-05-20 |
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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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Sredni Vashtar | Dr. Russell | 1981-09-01 |
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Le Beau Monde | Pablo | 1981-06-06 |
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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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La Petite Fille en velours bleu | Lamberti | 1978-08-23 |
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Romeo and Juliet | Apothecary | 1978-12-03 |
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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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March or Die | Mean Corporal | 1977-09-08 |
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The Spy Who Loved Me | Max Kalba | 1977-07-07 |
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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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The Secret Agent | Karl Yundt | 1975-10-01 |
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Il Messia | Samuel | 1975-10-24 |
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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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Rumpole of the Bailey | Magnus Piecan | 1975-12-16 |
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Operation: Daybreak | Pyotr | 1975-11-01 |
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India Song | Georges Crawn | 1975-06-04 |
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Le Jeu avec le feu | A messenger | 1975-02-19 |
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Le Sauvage | Coleman | 1975-11-26 |
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Soft Beds, Hard Battles | Padre | 1974-01-24 |
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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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Murder on the Orient Express | Concierge | 1974-11-22 |
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An Echo of Theresa | Bannerheim | 1973-01-15 |
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Up the Front | Muller | 1972-07-14 |
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The Horsemen | Zam Hajji | 1971-08-16 |
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The Beast in the Cellar | Newsmith | 1971-04-14 |
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Mary, Queen of Scots | Duc De Guise | 1971-12-22 |
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Les Mariés de l'an deux | le pasteur | 1971-04-07 |
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Ils... | Brisbane | 1970-11-18 |
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Baby Love | Man in Cinema | 1969-03-19 |
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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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Doctor Who: The War Games | Chief Scientist | 1969-06-21 |
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The Assassination Bureau | Baron Muntzof | 1969-03-09 |
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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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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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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 |
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