Vernon Dobtcheff

Acting · Born 1934-08-14 in Nimes, France

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…

Filmography

• Before Sunset as Bookstore Manager
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade as Butler
• M. Butterfly as Agent Etancelin
• The Spy Who Loved Me as Max Kalba
• An American Haunting as Elder #1
• Frankenstein as Chancellor
• Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes as Member of the French Team
• Murder on the Orient Express as Concierge
• Enigma as Minister
• The Married Couple of the Year Two as le pasteur