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.
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as The Scientist (archive footage)
as self
as Matteo Constantino(3 eps)
as Corny
as Older Elf(1 ep)
as M. Audran
as M. Audran(1 ep)
as Sherlock Holmes
as Emile Hacha
as High Born Man(2 eps)
as Mr. Kralefsky(3 eps)
as Isaiah
as Artiglio
as George
as Lawrence
as Arturo
as Dimitri Speranski
as Le vieux sage (voice)
as Vieil homme
as Cardinal Versucci(18 eps)
as Rezo
as The Surgeon
as Anatole Deschanel(1 ep)
as Le lecteur du bar
as Joseph Von Stieglitz
as The anthropologist Gilles Clément(3 eps)
as Jacques
as Anthony
as Anthony
as Elder #1
as Kudseyi
as Bookstore Manager
as Bagdasarov
as Riccio
as François
as Brennos
as Vitali
as Nicanor Costa Méndez (Argentine Minister of External Relations)
as Quinion
as Millie's Escort
as Oscar
as Monsignor
as Curé at Rennes-le-Chateau
as Maurice de Beliveau(1 ep)
as Quinion(2 eps)
as Patte Folle
as Cleisthenes
as Cleisthenes(3 eps)
as Father
as Italian Doctor
as Anthony Cureton(1 ep)
as Art Gallery Lecturer
as Professor Bentley
as Lord Willingdon
as Sandler
as Count Van Der Meer(1 ep)
as Papa Lozinska
as Carl's Friend
as 1st Physician(2 eps)
as Konstantine
as Vincent
as Bonnefoy
as Aegyptius(2 eps)
as Pestov
as Father Michel
as Chancellor
as Lawyer
as Diaghilev
as Naryshkin
as Curator
as Duval
as Don Felipe
as Old Nazi(1 ep)
as King's Translator
as Rouka
as Chancellor
as Agent Etancelin
as Apothecary
as Don Felipe(1 ep)
as Freud
as Un Héraut / Un prêtre / Un clerc
as Carlo Luchesi(1 ep)
as Hamad(1 ep)
as Primo editore
as Alexander
as Thurson
as Riyumin
as Dr. Stoker(1 ep)
as Hirsch(1 ep)
as Clerk of Court
as Reynaldo
as Dr Winkler
as Priest
as Old Man at Sauna
as Teacher
as Fellgiebel
as Merrill
as Felix Penroux(2 eps)
as Hudson Lowe
as Butler
as Jules Glaenzer(6 eps)
as Doctor Webber
as Alfred Grabner
as Editor
as Simeon Lee(1 ep)
as The Exorcist
as Henri Bulle(1 ep)
as Gargolovsky
as Pariente
as Brother Timothy
as Bischof de Jong
as Gannett
as Prince Hadjimoscos(3 eps)
as Hugh of Newcastle
as Art Lover
as Mendelstam(1 ep)
as Boris Melnikov(1 ep)
as Sebastiani(4 eps)
as Luis Campion(1 ep)
as Prosecutor
as Flavius Sabinus(5 eps)
as Lohmann(3 eps)
as Don John
as Konya, Turkish Colonel, spy in the service of the English(1 ep)
as Mendelstam(1 ep)
as Shirko
as James
as Dr. Goldschmiedt
as Guildenstern
as Mr. Rolyat(1 ep)
as Count Langenthal
as Markovitch
as Pietro De Abano(2 eps)
as Minister
as Judge at the confiscation
as Agamemnon
as John, le patron de Claire
as M. Bernard(1 ep)
as Dr. Russell
as Russian Agent
as Pablo
as Un tueur russe
as Sturmer(1 ep)
as High Priest of Herod(2 eps)
as Chief Priest(4 eps)
as Sergei Grigoriev
as Mikhail Mikhailovich
as Bailiff(1 ep)
as Gen. Charles DeGaulle
as Gen. Charles DeGaulle(2 eps)
as Pimentel(2 eps)
as Apothecary
as Peter
as Le réceptionniste
as Lamberti
as Karp(2 eps)
as The Chairman(1 ep)
as Le peintre Ramsay
as Mean Corporal
as Max Kalba
as Fop Two
as Eugene
as Legal Gentleman(1 ep)
as Astman(1 ep)
as Clerk of the Assizes(1 ep)
as Monsieur Maingot
as Blount(4 eps)
as Edward Gandolphini(1 ep)
as Magnus Piecan
as Coleman
as Dr. Canard(1 ep)
as Pyotr
as Samuel
as Karl Yundt
as Germain's accomplice
as Reinders
as Georges Crawn
as A messenger
as Harry Kretchmar(1 ep)
as De Reynes(1 ep)
as Don Carlo (uncredited)
as Concierge
as N° 2(6 eps)
as Simon Vesty(1 ep)
as Lazar
as Count Stookau(1 ep)
as Eugene(1 ep)
as Astronomo Ciprus(2 eps)
as Padre
as Proshnik(6 eps)
as Private Investigator
as Interrogator
as Henry(1 ep)
as Bannerheim
as Benjamin Disraeli(1 ep)
as John Maitland-Wilson(3 eps)
as Joe Flynn(1 ep)
as Sebastian Jonge(1 ep)
as The Franklin
as Muller
as Jacob Harmann(1 ep)
as Duc De Guise
as Dr. Lazovert
as Russian Official
as Molbech(1 ep)
as Zam Hajji
as Newsmith
as le pasteur
as Brisbane
as Sandor Zandar(4 eps)
as Otto Kraus
as Herman Voss(1 ep)
as Mendoza
as Chief Scientist
as Man in Cinema
as Baron Muntzof
as N.G. Waldron
as Manager(2 eps)
as Dedushko(1 ep)
as Msgr. de Gondy(6 eps)
as Pedant
as Commissary(2 eps)
as Dr Lutz(1 ep)
as Goldstein
as Monsieur Maingot(1 ep)
as Colonel Valenkov(1 ep)
as Carpenter(1 ep)
as N.G. Waldron(1 ep)
as Art Critic at Ralph Riggs Exposure (uncredited)
as Peebles(1 ep)
as Member of the French Team
as Music Store Assistant(1 ep)
as The Actor
as Prison Inspector(1 ep)
as Priest(1 ep)
as Emmanuel Goldstein(1 ep)
as Philosopher
as Cherni(1 ep)
as Scientist(3 eps)
as Philosopher(1 ep)
as Captain of Police(1 ep)
as Vogel(1 ep)
as Mr. Strang(1 ep)
as Spencer(2 eps)
as Stenson(1 ep)
as Counsel for Defence(1 ep)