Vernon Dobtcheff
Acting
Born 1934-08-14
Nimes, France
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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.
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Filmography
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The Witcher
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Play for Today
Doctor Who
The Odyssey
The Avengers
Sherlock Holmes
The Saint
BBC Play of the Month
Playhouse
Highlander: The Series
Relic Hunter
Theatre 625
Crown Court
The Borgias
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Van der Valk
The Name of the Game
Rumpole of the Bailey
The Sweeney
The Little Murders of Agatha Christie
Thirty-Minute Theatre
The Durrells
The Gold
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
The Champions
Sharpe
Blake's 7
Police Commissioner Moulin
Father Ted
Murder on the Orient Express
Crossbow
Before Sunset
As Time Goes By
Undisputed III: Redemption
Dixon of Dock Green
Out of the Unknown
The Name of the Rose
Largo Winch
The Spy Who Loved Me
Festival
New Scotland Yard
The Protectors
Churchill's People
Merlin
Emerald City
The Romanoffs
Mystery and Imagination
Espionage
The Day of the Jackal
War and Remembrance
Highlander: The Raven
The Great Beauty
Father Brown
Holocaust
The Man with the Iron Heart
A.D.
Dramarama
Anna Karenina
Fiddler on the Roof
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