Vernon Dobtcheff
161 movies · 94 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Aug 14, 1934 (age 92)
- Place of birth
- Nimes, France
- Also known as
- Eugene · Alexander Vernon Dobtcheff · Alexandre Vernon Dobtcheff · Vernon Dobthcheff
Biography
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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Profiles IMDb
Known for
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★ 7.9 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1989 · Film
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★ 7.9 The Witcher
2019 · TV
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★ 7.8 Before Sunset
2004 · Film
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★ 7.5 The Name of the Rose
1986 · Film
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★ 7.5 The Great Beauty
2013 · Film
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★ 6.8 The Spy Who Loved Me
1977 · Film
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★ 7.1 Murder on the Orient Express
1974 · Film
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★ 7.6 Undisputed III: Redemption
2010 · Film
Vernon Dobtcheff: movies and TV shows
Acting (255)
- Upcoming
- 2024 Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour
as The Scientist (archive footage)
- 2023
- 2021 Burning Casablanca
as Corny
- 2020 The Haunting of Margam Castle
as Enos
- 2019
- 2018 The Violet Hour
as M. Audran
- 2018
- 2018 L'hypothèse de la reine rouge
as Sherlock Holmes
- 2017 The Man with the Iron Heart
as Emile Hacha
- 2017
- 2016
- 2015 Killing Jesus
as Isaiah
- 2014 The Invisible Boy
as Artiglio
- 2014 Horsehead
as George
- 2014 Seven Lucky Gods
as Lawrence
- 2013 The Great Beauty
as Arturo
- 2012 Another Woman's Life
as Dimitri Speranski
- 2012 Zarafa
as Le vieux sage (voice)
- 2011 The Passage
as Vieil homme
- 2011
- 2010 Undisputed III: Redemption
as Rezo
- 2010 Godforsaken
as The Surgeon
- 2009 Changing Climates, Changing Times
as Lucas
- 2009
- 2008 The Joy of Singing
as Le lecteur du bar
- 2008
- 2008 Accordez-moi
as Joseph Von Stieglitz
- 2007
- 2006 Priceless
as Jacques
- 2006 Courts mais Gay : Tome 12
as Anthony
- 2006 For the Time Being
as Anthony
- 2006
- 2005 An American Haunting
as Elder #1
- 2005 Empire of the Wolves
as Kudseyi
- 2004 Before Sunset
as Bookstore Manager
- 2004 Evilenko
as Bagdasarov
- 2004 Pontormo - Un amore eretico
as Riccio
- 2003 Thank You, Doctor Rey
as François
- 2003 Brocéliande
as Brennos
- 2002 The Red Siren
as Vitali
- 2002 The Falklands Play
as Nicanor Costa Méndez (Argentine Minister of External Relations)
- 2001 David Copperfield
as Quinion
- 2001 Festival in Cannes
as Millie's Escort
- 2001 The Order
as Oscar
- 2001 The Body
as Monsignor
- 2001 Revelation
as Curé at Rennes-le-Chateau
- 2001
- 2000
- 2000 Le Prof
as Patte Folle
- 2000 The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
as Cleisthenes
- 2000
- 2000 Falling Through
as Father
- 1999 Dreaming of Joseph Lees
as Italian Doctor
- 1999
- 1999 The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
as Art Gallery Lecturer
- 1998 Hilary and Jackie
as Professor Bentley
- 1998 Jinnah
as Lord Willingdon
- 1998 30 Years to Life
as Sandler
- 1998
- 1998 Vigo
as Papa Lozinska
- 1998 Spanish Fly
as Carl's Friend
- 1998
- 1998 Déjà Vu
as Konstantine
- 1998 The Wonderland Experience
as Vincent
- 1998 St. Ives
as Bonnefoy
- 1997
- 1997 Anna Karenina
as Pestov
- 1997 The Hunchback
as Father Michel
- 1996 The Ice Princess
as Chancellor
- 1996 The Ogre
as Lawyer
- 1996 Surviving Picasso
as Diaghilev
- 1996 Catherine the Great
as Naryshkin
- 1996 Jude
as Curator
- 1995 Le fils de Paul
as Duval
- 1995 Sharpe's Sword
as Don Felipe
- 1995
- 1995 Jefferson in Paris
as King's Translator
- 1995
- 1994 Mademoiselle O
as Rouka
- 1993 Frankenstein
as Chancellor
- 1993 M. Butterfly
as Agent Etancelin
- 1993 The Hour of the Pig
as Apothecary
- 1993
- 1993 Temptation of Sainthood
as Freud
- 1993 Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher
as Un Héraut / Un prêtre / Un clerc
- 1992
- 1992 Obiettivo indiscreto
as Primo editore
- 1992 Venice/Venice
as Alexander
- 1992 Sweetheart
as Thurson
- 1992 The First Circle
as Riyumin
- 1992
- 1991
- 1991 Let Him Have It
as Clerk of Court
- 1990 Hamlet
as Reynaldo
- 1990 Vincent and Me
as Dr Winkler
- 1990 Meridian
as Priest
- 1990 The Garden
as Old Man at Sauna
- 1990 The Krays
as Teacher
- 1990 The Plot to Kill Hitler
as Fellgiebel
- 1990 Flight from Paradise
as Merrill
- 1989
- 1989 The Hostage of Europe
as Hudson Lowe
- 1989 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
as Butler
- 1989
- 1989 Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
as Doctor Webber
- 1989 Natalia
as Alfred Grabner
- 1989
- 1989 Berlin-Jerusalem
as Editor
- 1989
- 1989 The Sweet House of Horrors
as The Exorcist
- 1988
- 1988 Testimony
as Gargolovsky
- 1988 Pascali's Island
as Pariente
- 1988 Catacombs
as Brother Timothy
- 1988 Le due croci
as Bischof de Jong
- 1988 Maigret
as Gannett
- 1987
- 1987
- 1986 The Name of the Rose
as Hugh of Newcastle
- 1986 Caravaggio
as Art Lover
- 1986
- 1986
- 1985
- 1985
- 1985 Mata Hari
as Prosecutor
- 1985
- 1985
- 1984 Much Ado About Nothing
as Don John
- 1984
- 1984
- 1984 Gwendoline
as Shirko
- 1984 Night Patrol
as James
- 1984 The Devil's Lieutenant
as Dr. Goldschmiedt
- 1984
- 1983 An Englishman Abroad
as Guildenstern
- 1983
- 1983 The Scarlet and the Black
as Count Langenthal
- 1982 Nutcracker
as Markovitch
- 1982
- 1982 Enigma
as Minister
- 1982 That Night of Varennes
as Judge at the confiscation
- 1981 Troilus & Cressida
as Agamemnon
- 1981 L'Amour nu
as John, le patron de Claire
- 1981
- 1981 Sredni Vashtar
as Dr. Russell
- 1981 Condorman
as Russian Agent
- 1981 Le Beau Monde
as Pablo
- 1981 San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça
as Un tueur russe
- 1981
- 1981
- 1981
- 1980 Nijinsky
as Sergei Grigoriev
- 1979
- 1979 Ike
as Gen. Charles DeGaulle
- 1979
- 1978
- 1978 Romeo and Juliet
as Apothecary
- 1978 Question of Love
as Peter
- 1978 Last In, First Out
as Le réceptionniste
- 1978 Little Girl in Blue Velvet
as Lamberti
- 1978
- 1978
- 1978 The Roads of Exile
as Le peintre Ramsay
- 1977
- 1977 March or Die
as Mean Corporal
- 1977 The Spy Who Loved Me
as Max Kalba
- 1977 Joseph Andrews
as Fop Two
- 1977 The Achurch Letters
as Eugene
- 1976
- 1976
- 1976
- 1976 French Without Tears
as Monsieur Maingot
- 1975
- 1975
- 1975 Rumpole of the Bailey
as Magnus Piecan
- 1975 Lovers Like Us
as Coleman
- 1975
- 1975 Operation: Daybreak
as Pyotr
- 1975 The Messiah
as Samuel
- 1975 The Secret Agent
as Karl Yundt
- 1975 Cat and Mouse
as Germain's accomplice
- 1975 Van der Valk and the Scapegoat
as Reinders
- 1975 India Song
as Georges Crawn
- 1975 Playing with Fire
as A messenger
- 1975
- 1974
- 1974 Scent of a Woman
as Don Carlo (uncredited)
- 1974 Murder on the Orient Express
as Concierge
- 1974
- 1974
- 1974 The Marseille Contract
as Lazar
- 1974
- 1974
- 1974
- 1974 Soft Beds, Hard Battles
as Padre
- 1973
- 1973 Impossible Object
as Private Investigator
- 1973 The Day of the Jackal
as Interrogator
- 1973
+ 55 more credits
Talk shows and appearances (3)
- 2024
- 2022
- 2008