Vernon Dobtcheff
Acting
Biography
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 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. Dobtcheff is set to appear in the upcoming Doctor Who audio drama The Children of Seth where he'll be playing the role of Shamur, set for release in December 2011. Description above from the Wikipedia article Vernon Dobtcheff, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born: August 14, 1934
Place of Birth: Nimes, France
Known For
Doctor Who: The War Games
The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe arrive on an unnamed planet. At first believing themselves in the midst of World War I, they realise it to be one of many War Zones overseen by the War Lords, who have kidnapped large numbers of human soldiers to form the greatest army the universe has ever seen. At the helm of this plot is the War Chief, another renegade Time Lord like the Doctor. The creeping realisation sets in that the Doctor cannot solve this problem alone, and that his days of wandering may be at an end...
Agatha Christie's Poirot
From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.
Father Ted
A crazy comedy about three rather strange parish priests exiled to Craggy Island, a remote island off the Irish west coast.
Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes uses his abilities to take on cases by private clients and those that the Scotland Yard are unable to solve, along with his friend Dr. Watson.
Troilus & Cressida
The bitter Trojan War drags on - the Greeks blame Achilles' apathy for low morale, while Troy's hero Hector challenges one of the enemy to a personal duel. And after her father exchanges Cressida for a Trojan prisoner, the war becomes personal for her distraught lover Troilus.
Rumpole of the Bailey
An irreverent barrister chooses to defend a young Jamaican boy accused of stabbing on the same day his only son leaves for college in America.
L'hypothèse de la reine rouge
The legendary detective Sherlock Holmes and the elusive thief Arsene Lupin will unite their intelligence to stop the evil planes of the dangerous Fantomas.
L'Homme de Suez
The plan to build a large shipping canal between the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea had been around for a long time. But it took a man with the drive of Ferdinand de Lesseps to make it happen.
The Witcher
Geralt of Rivia, a mutated monster-hunter for hire, journeys toward his destiny in a turbulent world where people often prove more wicked than beasts.
Doctor Who
The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.
Filmography
as The Scientist (archive footage)
as self
as Matteo Constantino
as Corny
as Older Elf
as M. Audran
as Sherlock Holmes
as Emile Hacha
as High Born Man
as Mr. Kralefsky
as Isaiah
as Artiglio
as George
as Lawrence
as Arturo
as Dimitri Speranski
as Le vieux sage (voice)
as Vieil homme
as Cardinal Versucci
as Rezo
as The Surgeon
as Anatole Deschanel
as Le lecteur du bar
as The anthropologist Gilles Clément
as Jacques
as Anthony
as Elder #1
as Kudseyi
as François
as Bookstore Manager
as Bagdasarov
as Riccio
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
as Patte Folle
as Cleisthenes
as Cleisthenes
as Father
as Italian Doctor
as Anthony Cureton
as Art Gallery Lecturer
as Professor Bentley
as Lord Willingdon
as Sandler
as Count Van Der Meer
as Papa Lozinska
as Carl's Friend
as 1st Physician
as Konstantine
as Vincent
as Bonnefoy
as Pestov
as Father Michel
as Chancellor
as Lawyer
as Diaghilev
as Naryshkin
as Curator
as Duval
as Old Nazi
as King's Translator
as Rouka
as Chancellor
as Agent Etancelin
as Apothecary
as Carlo Luchesi
as Hamad
as Alexander
as Primo editore
as Thurson
as Riyumin
as Dr. Stoker
as Hirsch
as Clerk of Court
as Reynaldo
as Dr Winkler
as Priest
as Old Man at Sauna
as Teacher
as Fellgiebel
as Merrill
as Hudson Lowe
as Butler
as Jules Glaenzer
as Doctor Webber
as Alfred Grabner
as Simeon Lee
as The Exorcist
as Gargolovsky
as Pariente
as Brother Timothy
as Bischof de Jong
as Gannett
as Prince Hadjimoscos
as Hugh of Newcastle
as Art Lover
as Sebastiani
as Luis Campion
as Prosecutor
as Flavius Sabinus
as Lohmann
as Don John
as Konya, Turkish Colonel, spy in the service of the English
as Mendelstam
as Shirko
as James
as Guildenstern
as Count Langenthal
as Markovitch
as Pietro De Abano
as Minister
as Judge at the confiscation
as Agamemnon
as John, le patron de Claire
as Dr. Russell
as Russian Agent
as Pablo
as Un tueur russe
as Sturmer
as High Priest of Herod
as Chief Priest
as Sergei Grigoriev
as Gen. Charles DeGaulle
as Gen. Charles DeGaulle
as Apothecary
as Peter
as Le réceptionniste
as Lamberti
as Karp
as The Chairman
as Le peintre Ramsay
as Mean Corporal
as Max Kalba
as Fop Two
as Eugene
as Legal Gentleman
as Astman
as Monsieur Maingot
as Blount
as Edward Gandolphini
as Magnus Piecan
as Coleman
as Pyotr
as Samuel
as Germain's accomplice
as Reinders
as Georges Crawn
as A messenger
as Harry Kretchmar
as De Reynes
as Don Carlo (uncredited)
as Concierge
as N° 2
as Lazar
as Count Stookau
as Eugene
as Astronomo Ciprus
as Padre
as Private Investigator
as Interrogator
as Bannerheim
as Benjamin Disraeli
as John Maitland-Wilson
as Joe Flynn
as Sebastian Jonge
as The Franklin
as Muller
as Duc De Guise
as Dr. Lazovert
as Russian Official
as Molbech
as Zam Hajji
as Newsmith
as le pasteur
as Brisbane
as Sandor Zandar
as Mendoza
as Chief Scientist
as Man in Cinema
as Baron Muntzof
as Manager
as Dedushko
as Msgr. de Gondy
as Pedant
as Commissary
as Dr Lutz
as Goldstein
as Monsieur Maingot
as N.G. Waldron
as Art Critic at Ralph Riggs Exposure (uncredited)
as Member of the French Team
as The Actor
as Priest
as Emmanuel Goldstein
as Scientist
as Vogel
as Mr. Strang
as Spencer
as Stenson
as Counsel for Defence