Vernon Dobtcheff
Born in Nimes, France — Aug 14 1934
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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 reputat…
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Agatha Christie's Poirot
Simeon Lee
Doctor Who
Scientist
The Witcher
Older Elf
Play for Today
The Avengers
Spencer
Crown Court
John Maitland-Wilson
The Saint
Vogel
Highlander: The Series
Carlo Luchesi
BBC Play of the Month
Monsieur Maingot
Theatre 625
Priest
Sherlock Holmes
Mendelstam
The Sweeney
Harry Kretchmar
Relic Hunter
Anthony Cureton
The Name of the Game
Dedushko
The Champions
Manager
Rumpole of the Bailey
Edward Gandolphini
Playhouse
Eugene
The Little Murders of Agatha Christie
Anatole Deschanel
The Borgias
Cardinal Versucci
Blake's 7
The Chairman
The Gold
Matteo Constantino
Churchill's People
De Reynes
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Carpenter
The Durrells
Mr. Kralefsky
Police Commissioner Moulin
Astman
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Molbech
Van der Valk
Sebastian Jonge
Out of the Unknown
N.G. Waldron
Festival
Philosopher
As Time Goes By
Dr. Stoker
Father Ted
Old Nazi
Dixon of Dock Green
Counsel for Defence
Emerald City
High Born Man
Mystery and Imagination
Dr Lutz
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Butler
Holocaust
Karp
Largo Winch
Maurice de Beliveau
The Romanoffs
M. Audran
Ace of Wands
Sandor Zandar
The Protectors
Joe Flynn
Fall of Eagles
Count Stookau
Crossbow
Marco Polo
Pietro De Abano
Highlander: The Raven
Count Van Der Meer
The Edwardians
Benjamin Disraeli
Merlin
1st Physician
Undisputed III: Redemption
Rezo
Murder on the Orient Express
Concierge
Dramarama
Father Brown
The Spy Who Loved Me
Max Kalba
Dickens of London
Legal Gentleman
Masada
Chief Priest
1990
A.D.
Flavius Sabinus
The Scales of Justice
Mr. Strang
Codename
Herman Voss
Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
Fortunes of War
Prince Hadjimoscos
The Mask of Janus
Colonel Valenkov
The Name of the Rose
Hugh of Newcastle
Before Sunset
Bookstore Manager
Peter and Paul
High Priest of Herod
The Hunchback
Father Michel
Mussolini: The Untold Story
Sebastiani
The Day of the Jackal
Interrogator
The Strauss Dynasty
Hirsch
Private Schulz
Sturmer
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
Jules Glaenzer
Fiddler on the Roof
Russian Official
Ike
Gen. Charles DeGaulle
Surviving Disaster
Evilenko
Bagdasarov
Tender Is the Night
Luis Campion
Priceless
Jacques
The Three Musketeers
Commissary
The Man with the Iron Heart
Emile Hacha
Goldene Zeiten - Bittere Zeiten
M. Bernard
The Canterbury Tales
The Franklin
Killing Jesus
Isaiah
The Scarlet and the Black
Count Langenthal
Hamlet
Reynaldo
Jude
Curator
Apparitions
L'Homme de Suez
Konya, Turkish Colonel, spy in the service of the English
The World of Wooster
Music Store Assistant
Des Christoffel von Grimmelshausen abenteuerlicher Simplizissimus
Dr. Canard
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
Cleisthenes
The Krays
Teacher
Morenga
Lohmann
M. Butterfly
Agent Etancelin
Anne of the Thousand Days
Mendoza
An American Haunting
Elder #1
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
The Further Adventures of the Musketeers
Msgr. de Gondy
Anna Karenina
Pestov
Revelation
Curé at Rennes-le-Chateau
The Taming of the Shrew
Pedant
March or Die
Mean Corporal
Baby Love
Man in Cinema
Breaking Point
Enigma
Minister
Surviving Picasso
Diaghilev
Joseph Andrews
Fop Two
Jinnah
Lord Willingdon
The Great Beauty
Arturo
Let Him Have It
Clerk of Court
Michael Strogoff
Blount
The Body
Monsignor
India Song
Georges Crawn
Jefferson in Paris
King's Translator
Nicholas and Alexandra
Dr. Lazovert
A Dandy in Aspic
Vigo
Papa Lozinska
Condorman
Russian Agent
Mary, Queen of Scots
Duc De Guise
Meridian
Priest
Zarafa
Le vieux sage (voice)
Caravaggio
Art Lover
The Horsemen
Zam Hajji
Lovers Like Us
Coleman
Mata Hari
Prosecutor
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
Doctor Webber
Martin Chuzzlewit
Darling
Art Critic at Ralph Riggs Exposure (uncredited)
Testimony
Gargolovsky
The Assassination Bureau
Baron Muntzof
Hilary and Jackie
Professor Bentley
Maigret
Gannett
The Order
Oscar
Gwendoline
Shirko
The Red Siren
Vitali
Doctor Who: The War Games
Chief Scientist
The Ogre
Lawyer
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
Self
Little Girl in Blue Velvet
Lamberti
Ike
Gen. Charles DeGaulle
David Copperfield
Quinion
Déjà Vu
Konstantine
Up the Front
Muller
Empire of the Wolves
Kudseyi
The Hour of the Pig
Apothecary
Spanish Fly
Carl's Friend
The Plot to Kill Hitler
Fellgiebel
The Marseille Contract
Lazar
Playing with Fire
A messenger
Pascali's Island
Pariente
Catherine the Great
Naryshkin
Scent of a Woman
Don Carlo (uncredited)
Operation: Daybreak
Pyotr
The Invisible Boy
Artiglio
Venice/Venice
Alexander
Horsehead
George
À vous de jouer Milord
N° 2
Nutcracker
Markovitch
Seven Lucky Gods
Lawrence
Cartesius
Astronomo Ciprus
Catacombs
Brother Timothy
The First Circle
Riyumin
Soft Beds, Hard Battles
Padre
St. Ives
Bonnefoy
Festival in Cannes
Millie's Escort
The Garden
Old Man at Sauna
Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour
The Scientist (archive footage)
The Married Couple of the Year Two
le pasteur
The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
Art Gallery Lecturer
The Haunting of Margam Castle
Enos
The Beast in the Cellar
Newsmith
That Night of Varennes
Judge at the confiscation
The Falklands Play
Nicanor Costa Méndez (Argentine Minister of External Relations)
Them
Brisbane
Impossible Object
Private Investigator
Nobody Is Norman Wisdom
Proshnik
Romeo and Juliet
Apothecary
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
Italian Doctor
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
Cleisthenes
Le Beau Monde
Pablo
Thank You, Doctor Rey
François
Nijinsky
Sergei Grigoriev
Le Prof
Patte Folle
The Secret Agent
Karl Yundt
The Joy of Singing
Le lecteur du bar
Cat and Mouse
Germain's accomplice
Troilus & Cressida
Agamemnon
La Légende des 3 clefs
The anthropologist Gilles Clément
Falling Through
Father
L'Amour nu
John, le patron de Claire
Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
Self
Sredni Vashtar
Dr. Russell
Splendor
Night Patrol
James
Mademoiselle O
Rouka
Another Woman's Life
Dimitri Speranski
Beach Head
N.G. Waldron
The Debussy Film
The Actor
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
self
The Messiah
Samuel
Van der Valk and the Scapegoat
Reinders
For the Time Being
Anthony
Godforsaken
The Surgeon
Frankenstein
Chancellor
Question of Love
Peter
The Achurch Letters
Eugene
Natalia
Alfred Grabner
The Hostage of Europe
Hudson Lowe
Rumpole of the Bailey
Magnus Piecan
30 Years to Life
Sandler
Last In, First Out
Le réceptionniste
Mon Ami Washington
Much Ado About Nothing
Don John
The House that Mary Bought
The Passage
Vieil homme
Flight from Paradise
Merrill
The Violet Hour
M. Audran
The Life of Galileo
Philosopher
Pontormo - Un amore eretico
Riccio
Courts mais Gay : Tome 12
Anthony
French Without Tears
Monsieur Maingot
Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher
Un Héraut / Un prêtre / Un clerc
Le fils de Paul
Duval
The Devil's Lieutenant
Dr. Goldschmiedt
The Roads of Exile
Le peintre Ramsay
An Englishman Abroad
Guildenstern
The Ice Princess
Chancellor
Le due croci
Bischof de Jong
Sweetheart
Thurson
San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça
Un tueur russe
Brocéliande
Brennos
Changing Climates, Changing Times
Lucas
Vincent and Me
Dr Winkler
Obiettivo indiscreto
Primo editore
Berlin-Jerusalem
Editor
Far from Dallas
The World of George Orwell: 1984
Goldstein
Burning Casablanca
Corny
An Echo of Theresa
Bannerheim
Temptation of Sainthood
Freud
L'hypothèse de la reine rouge
Sherlock Holmes
The Sweet House of Horrors
The Exorcist
The Wonderland Experience
Vincent
Parlez-nous de l'Amour
David Copperfield
Quinion