Actor profile
Vernon Dobtcheff
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.
154 Movies
87 TV Shows
258 Credits
Filmography
Movies & TV Shows
The Falklands Play
10th April 2002 as Nicanor Costa Méndez (Argentine Minister of External Relations)
The House that Mary Bought
1st January 1995
Splendor
16th February 1989
Mon Ami Washington
1st January 1984
Far from Dallas
28th June 1972
A Dandy in Aspic
2nd April 1968
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
16th June 1965 as Member of the French Team
Apparitions
13th November 2008
Surviving Disaster
10th January 2006
Largo Winch
26th January 2001
Crossbow
30th August 1987
1990
18th September 1977
Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
15th February 1973
Play for Today
15th October 1970
Martin Chuzzlewit
19th January 1964
