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
• Murder on the Orient Express as Concierge
• Undisputed III: Redemption as Rezo
• Fiddler on the Roof as Russian Official
• The Great Beauty as Arturo
• The Name of the Rose as Hugh of Newcastle
• Scent of a Woman as Don Carlo (uncredited)
• The Day of the Jackal as Interrogator
• M. Butterfly as Agent Etancelin

TV

• Father Ted as Old Nazi
• Doctor Who as Scientist
• The Avengers as Spencer
• The Witcher as Older Elf
• Sherlock Holmes as Mendelstam
• Agatha Christie's Poirot as Simeon Lee
• The Avengers as Stenson
• As Time Goes By as Dr. Stoker
• Out of the Unknown as N.G. Waldron
• Blake's 7 as The Chairman