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Vernon Dobtcheff
Nimes, France
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…
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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. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Vernon Dobtcheff, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
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2024
Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour
Movie The Scientist (archive footage)
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2024
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
Movie self
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2023
The Gold
TV show Matteo Constantino
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2022
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
Movie Self
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2021
Burning Casablanca
Movie Corny
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2020
The Haunting of Margam Castle
Movie Enos
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2019
The Witcher
TV show Older Elf
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2018
The Violet Hour
Movie M. Audran
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2018
The Romanoffs
TV show M. Audran
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2018
L'hypothèse de la reine rouge
Movie Sherlock Holmes
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2017
The Man with the Iron Heart
Movie Emile Hacha
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2017
Emerald City
TV show High Born Man
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2016
The Durrells
TV show Mr. Kralefsky
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2015
Killing Jesus
Movie Isaiah
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2014
The Invisible Boy
Movie Artiglio
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2014
Horsehead
Movie George
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2014
Seven Lucky Gods
Movie Lawrence
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2013
The Great Beauty
Movie Arturo
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2012
Another Woman's Life
Movie Dimitri Speranski
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2012
Zarafa
Movie Le vieux sage (voice)
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2011
The Passage
Movie Vieil homme
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2011
The Borgias
TV show Cardinal Versucci
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2010
Undisputed III: Redemption
Movie Rezo
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2010
Godforsaken
Movie The Surgeon
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2009
Changing Climates, Changing Times
Movie Lucas
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2009
The Little Murders of Agatha Christie
TV show Anatole Deschanel
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2008
The Joy of Singing
Movie Le lecteur du bar
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2008
Apparitions
TV show
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2008
Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
Movie Self
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2007
La Légende des 3 clefs
TV show The anthropologist Gilles Clément
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2006
Priceless
Movie Jacques
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2006
Courts mais Gay : Tome 12
Movie Anthony
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2006
For the Time Being
Movie Anthony
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2006
Surviving Disaster
TV show
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2005
An American Haunting
Movie Elder #1
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2005
Empire of the Wolves
Movie Kudseyi
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2004
Before Sunset
Movie Bookstore Manager
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2004
Evilenko
Movie Bagdasarov
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2004
Pontormo - Un amore eretico
Movie Riccio
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2003
Thank You, Doctor Rey
Movie François
