Biography
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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.
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Filmography
all 216
Movies 148
TV Shows 68
self 2
Voice 1
The Gold (2023)
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba (2022)
Transfert (2021)
Burning Casablanca (2021)
The Haunting of Margam Castle (2020)
The Witcher (2019)
The Violet Hour (2018)
The Romanoffs (2018)
L'hypothèse de la reine rouge (2018)
The Man with the Iron Heart (2017)
The Durrells (2016)
Killing Jesus (2015)
The Invisible Boy (2014)
Horsehead (2014)
Seven Lucky Gods (2014)
The Great Beauty (2013)
Another Woman's Life (2012)
Zarafa (2012)
Le passage (2011)
The Borgias (2011)
Undisputed III: Redemption (2010)
Godforsaken (2010)
An Englishman Abroad (2009)
Changing Climates, Changing Times (2009)
The Little Murders of Agatha Christie (2009)
Apparitions (2008)
Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1 (2008)
La Légende des 3 clefs (2007)
Priceless (2006)
Courts mais Gay : Tome 12 (2006)
For the Time Being (2006)
Surviving Disaster (2006)
An American Haunting (2005)
Empire of the Wolves (2005)
Before Sunset (2004)
Evilenko (2004)
Pontormo - Un amore eretico (2004)
Brocéliande (2003)
Thank You, Doctor Rey (2002)
The Red Siren (2002)
The Falklands Play (2002)
Festival in Cannes (2001)
The Order (2001)
The Body (2001)
Revelation (2001)
Le Prof (2000)
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization (2000)
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization (2000)
Dreaming of Joseph Lees (1999)
Relic Hunter (1999)
The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka (1999)
Hilary and Jackie (1998)
Jinnah (1998)
30 Years to Life (1998)
Highlander: The Raven (1998)
Vigo (1998)
Spanish Fly (1998)
Merlin (1998)
Déjà Vu (1998)
The Wonderland Experience (1998)
St. Ives (1998)
Anna Karenina (1997)
The Hunchback (1997)
Die Eisprinzessin (1996)
The Ogre (1996)
Surviving Picasso (1996)
Catherine the Great (1996)
Jude (1996)
Father Ted (1995)
Jefferson in Paris (1995)
The Ice Princess (1995)
Mademoiselle O (1994)
Frankenstein (1993)
M. Butterfly (1993)
Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher (1993)
Temptation of Sainthood (1993)
Highlander: The Series (1992)
Obiettivo indiscreto (1992)
Venice/Venice (1992)
Sweetheart (1992)
As Time Goes By (1992)
Let Him Have It (1991)
The Strauss Dynasty (1991)
Strauss Dynasty (1991)
Hamlet (1990)
Vincent and me (1990)
Meridian (1990)
A Season of Giants (1990)
A Season of Giants (1990)
The Garden (1990)
The Krays (1990)
Flight from Paradise (1990)
The Hostage of Europe (1989)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story (1989)
Natalia (1989)
Splendor (1989)
Berlin-Jerusalem (1989)
Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989)
The Sweet House of Horrors (1989)
Testimony (1988)
Pascali's Island (1988)
Catacombs (1988)
Le due croci (1988)
Maigret (1988)
Fortunes of War (1987)
The Name of the Rose (1986)
Caravaggio (1986)
Mussolini: The Untold Story (1985)
Mata Hari (1985)
A.D. (1985)
Morenga (1985)
Morenga (1985)
Much Ado About Nothing (1984)
Sherlock Holmes (1984)
Gwendoline (1984)
Night Patrol (1984)
The Devil's Lieutenant (1984)
Mon Ami Washington (1984)
Dramarama (1983)
The Scarlet and the Black (1983)
Nutcracker (1982)
Marco Polo (1982)
Enigma (1982)
The Night of Varennes (1982)
I Remember Nelson (1982)
Troilus & Cressida (1981)
L'Amour nu (1981)
Goldene Zeiten - Bittere Zeiten (1981)
Sredni Vashtar (1981)
Condorman (1981)
Le Beau Monde (1981)
San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça (1981)
Private Schulz (1981)
Peter and Paul (1981)
Masada (1981)
Nijinsky (1980)
Bloomers (1979)
Ike (1979)
BBC Television Shakespeare (1978)
Romeo & Juliet (1978)
Question of Love (1978)
Last In, First Out (1978)
Little Girl in Blue Velvet (1978)
The Devil's Crown (1978)
Blake's 7 (1978)
The Roads of Exile (1978)
1990 (1977)
March or Die (1977)
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
Joseph Andrews (1977)
Police Commissioner Moulin (1976)
French Without Tears (1976)
Michael Strogoff (1975)
Rumpole of the Bailey (1975)
Rumpole of the Bailey (1975)
Lovers Like Us (1975)
Des Christoffel von Grimmelshausen abenteuerlicher Simplizissimus (1975)
Operation: Daybreak (1975)
The Messiah (1975)
Cat and Mouse (1975)
India Song (1975)
Playing with Fire (1975)
The Venturers (1975)
The Sweeney (1975)
Scent of a Woman (1974)
Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
À vous de jouer Milord (1974)
Father Brown (1974)
The Marseille Contract (1974)
Fall of Eagles (1974)
Cartesius (1974)
Soft Beds, Hard Battles (1974)
Story of a Love Story (1973)
The Day of the Jackal (1973)
Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (1973)
An Echo of Theresa (1973)
The Edwardians (1972)
Crown Court (1972)
The Protectors (1972)
Van der Valk (1972)
The Canterbury Tales (1972)
Le 16 à Kerbriant (1972)
Far from Dallas (1972)
Mary, Queen of Scots (1971)
Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)
Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1971)
The Horsemen (1971)
The Married Couple of the Year Two (1971)
Them (1970)
Play for Today (1970)
The Beast in the Cellar (1970)
Ace of Wands (1970)
Codename (1970)
Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
Doctor Who: The War Games (1969)
The Assassination Bureau (1969)
The Champions (1968)
The Name of the Game (1968)
The Taming of the Shrew (1967)
Breaking Point (UK) (1966)
Mystery and Imagination (1966)
The World of George Orwell: 1984 (1965)
Thirty-Minute Theatre (1965)
Out of the Unknown (1965)
Darling (1965)
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes (1965)
The Debussy Film (1965)
Martin Chuzzlewit (1964)
Doctor Who (1963)
The Saint (1962)
The Scales of Justice (1962)
The Avengers (1961)
Dixon of Dock Green (1955)
I Remember Nelson
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1934-08-14 (89 years old)
Birth PlaceNîmes, France
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom, France
Also Known AsEugene, Alexander Vernon Dobtcheff, Alexandre Vernon Dobtcheff, Vernon Dobthcheff
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