Vernon Dobtcheff

Actor Aug 14 (age 91) Nimes, France 1955–2024 (69 year career)

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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 th…

Known For

Film

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Butler

Film

Before Sunset

Bookstore Manager

Film

The Great Beauty

Arturo

Film

The Name of the Rose

Hugh of Newcastle

Film

The Spy Who Loved Me

Max Kalba

Film

Murder on the Orient Express

Concierge

Film

Undisputed III: Redemption

Rezo

Film

Fiddler on the Roof

Russian Official

Filmography

Acting (242)

Movies (161)

Alec Guinness: A Class Act

2024

as self

6.0

Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour

2024

as The Scientist (archive footage)

5.8

Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba

as Self

Burning Casablanca

as Corny

The Haunting of Margam Castle

2020

as Enos

5.0

L'hypothèse de la reine rouge

2018

as Sherlock Holmes

8.0

The Violet Hour

2018

as M. Audran

The Man with the Iron Heart

as Emile Hacha

Killing Jesus

as Isaiah

Seven Lucky Gods

as Lawrence

The Invisible Boy

as Artiglio

Horsehead

as George

The Great Beauty

as Arturo

Zarafa

as Le vieux sage (voice)

Another Woman's Life

as Dimitri Speranski

The Passage

as Vieil homme

Undisputed III: Redemption

2010

as Rezo

7.5

Godforsaken

2010

as The Surgeon

Changing Climates, Changing Times

as Lucas

The Joy of Singing

as Le lecteur du bar

Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1

as Self

Priceless

as Jacques

For the Time Being

as Anthony

Courts mais Gay : Tome 12

2006

as Anthony

An American Haunting

as Elder #1

Empire of the Wolves

as Kudseyi

Evilenko

as Bagdasarov

Before Sunset

as Bookstore Manager

Pontormo - Un amore eretico

2004

as Riccio

6.0

Thank You, Doctor Rey

as François

Brocéliande

as Brennos

The Red Siren

as Vitali

The Falklands Play

as Nicanor Costa Méndez (Argentine Minister of External Relations)

The Order

as Oscar

The Body

as Monsignor

Revelation

as Curé at Rennes-le-Chateau

David Copperfield

as Quinion

Festival in Cannes

as Millie's Escort

The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization

2000

as Cleisthenes

Le Prof

as Patte Folle

Falling Through

as Father

The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka

1999

as Art Gallery Lecturer

Dreaming of Joseph Lees

1999

as Italian Doctor

6.0

The Wonderland Experience

1998

as Vincent

Hilary and Jackie

as Professor Bentley

Vigo

as Papa Lozinska

Jinnah

as Lord Willingdon

Déjà Vu

as Konstantine

St. Ives

as Bonnefoy

Spanish Fly

as Carl's Friend

30 Years to Life

as Sandler

Anna Karenina

as Pestov

The Hunchback

as Father Michel

Jude

as Curator

Surviving Picasso

as Diaghilev

The Ogre

as Lawyer

Catherine the Great

as Naryshkin

The Ice Princess

as Chancellor

Jefferson in Paris

as King's Translator

Le fils de Paul

as Duval

The House that Mary Bought

1995

5.0

Mademoiselle O

1994

as Rouka

M. Butterfly

1993

as Agent Etancelin

6.6

Temptation of Sainthood

1993

as Freud

The Hour of the Pig

1993

as Apothecary

6.1

Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher

1993

as Un Héraut / Un prêtre / Un clerc

Frankenstein

1993

as Chancellor

6.6

Obiettivo indiscreto

1992

as Primo editore

The First Circle

as Riyumin

Venice/Venice

as Alexander

Sweetheart

as Thurson

Let Him Have It

as Clerk of Court

Hamlet

as Reynaldo

Meridian

as Priest

The Krays

as Teacher

The Garden

as Old Man at Sauna

Vincent and Me

as Dr Winkler

Flight from Paradise

as Merrill

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

as Butler

Berlin-Jerusalem

as Editor

Natalia

as Alfred Grabner

Splendor

The Hostage of Europe

1989

as Hudson Lowe

6.0

Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story

1989

as Doctor Webber

5.7

The Sweet House of Horrors

1989

as The Exorcist

4.8

Le due croci

1988

as Bischof de Jong

Testimony

as Gargolovsky

Maigret

as Gannett

Catacombs

as Brother Timothy

Pascali's Island

as Pariente

The Name of the Rose

as Hugh of Newcastle

Caravaggio

as Art Lover

Mata Hari

as Prosecutor

The Devil's Lieutenant

1984

as Dr. Goldschmiedt

Mon Ami Washington

1984

Gwendoline

1984

as Shirko

4.8

Much Ado About Nothing

as Don John

Night Patrol

as James

An Englishman Abroad

as Guildenstern

The Scarlet and the Black

1983

as Count Langenthal

7.0

The Night of Varennes

1982

as Judge at the confiscation

Nutcracker

as Markovitch

Enigma

as Minister

Sredni Vashtar

as Dr. Russell

Le Beau Monde

as Pablo

Condorman

as Russian Agent

Troilus & Cressida

as Agamemnon

L'Amour nu

as John, le patron de Claire

4.2

San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça

as Un tueur russe

Nijinsky

as Sergei Grigoriev

Ike

as Gen. Charles DeGaulle

Last In, First Out

as Le réceptionniste

Romeo and Juliet

as Apothecary

Little Girl in Blue Velvet

as Lamberti

Question of Love

as Peter

The Roads of Exile

as Le peintre Ramsay

The Spy Who Loved Me

as Max Kalba

March or Die

as Mean Corporal

Joseph Andrews

as Fop Two

The Achurch Letters

as Eugene

French Without Tears

1976

as Monsieur Maingot

Cat and Mouse

1975

as Germain's accomplice

Operation: Daybreak

as Pyotr

Playing with Fire

as A messenger

Lovers Like Us

as Coleman

Rumpole of the Bailey

as Magnus Piecan

The Messiah

as Samuel

India Song

as Georges Crawn

The Secret Agent

as Karl Yundt

Van der Valk and the Scapegoat

1975

as Reinders

Murder on the Orient Express

1974

as Concierge

7.1

Soft Beds, Hard Battles

1974

as Padre

4.3

Scent of a Woman

1974

as Don Carlo (uncredited)

7.4

The Marseille Contract

as Lazar

Cartesius

as Astronomo Ciprus

The Day of the Jackal

1973

as Interrogator

7.5

An Echo of Theresa

1973

as Bannerheim

Impossible Object

1973

as Private Investigator

Far from Dallas

The Canterbury Tales

as The Franklin

Up the Front

as Muller

The Beast in the Cellar

as Newsmith

Fiddler on the Roof

as Russian Official

Mary, Queen of Scots

as Duc De Guise

Nicholas and Alexandra

1971

as Dr. Lazovert

6.9

The Married Couple of the Year Two

as le pasteur

The Horsemen

as Zam Hajji

Them

as Brisbane

The Assassination Bureau

1969

as Baron Muntzof

6.6

Anne of the Thousand Days

as Mendoza

Baby Love

as Man in Cinema

Doctor Who: The War Games

1969

as Chief Scientist

9.7

Beach Head

1969

as N.G. Waldron

A Dandy in Aspic

1968

6.8

The Taming of the Shrew

as Pedant

The Debussy Film

as The Actor

Darling

as Art Critic at Ralph Riggs Exposure (uncredited)

6.7

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes

1965

as Member of the French Team

6.8

The World of George Orwell: 1984

1965

as Goldstein

The Life of Galileo

1964

as Philosopher

Parlez-nous de l'Amour

Television (81)

The Gold

2023

as Matteo Constantino

The Witcher

as Older Elf

The Romanoffs

as M. Audran

Emerald City

as High Born Man

The Durrells

as Mr. Kralefsky

The Borgias

The Little Murders of Agatha Christie

as Anatole Deschanel

Apparitions

La Légende des 3 clefs

2007

as The anthropologist Gilles Clément

Surviving Disaster

Largo Winch

as Maurice de Beliveau

5.8

The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization

as Cleisthenes

Relic Hunter

as Anthony Cureton

Merlin

as 1st Physician

Highlander: The Raven

1998

as Count Van Der Meer

5.3

Father Ted

1995

as Old Nazi

8.1

Highlander: The Series

as Carlo Luchesi

As Time Goes By

as Dr. Stoker

The Strauss Dynasty

as Hirsch

The Strauss Dynasty

1991

as Hirsch

Agatha Christie's Poirot

1989

as Simeon Lee

8.2

Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story

as Jules Glaenzer

Crossbow

Fortunes of War

as Prince Hadjimoscos

Tender Is the Night

as Luis Campion

A.D.

as Flavius Sabinus

Mussolini: The Untold Story

1985

as Sebastiani

4.8

Morenga

1985

as Lohmann

Sherlock Holmes

1984

as Mendelstam

8.1

L'Homme de Suez

1984

as Konya, Turkish Colonel, spy in the service of the English

Dramarama

Marco Polo

as Pietro De Abano

Masada

as Chief Priest

Peter and Paul

as High Priest of Herod

7.0

Private Schulz

1981

as Sturmer

4.8

Goldene Zeiten - Bittere Zeiten

1981

as M. Bernard

Ike

1979

as Gen. Charles DeGaulle

Blake's 7

as The Chairman

Holocaust

as Karp

1990

Police Commissioner Moulin

as Astman

Dickens of London

as Legal Gentleman

The Sweeney

as Harry Kretchmar

Rumpole of the Bailey

as Magnus Piecan

Michael Strogoff

as Blount

Des Christoffel von Grimmelshausen abenteuerlicher Simplizissimus

as Dr. Canard

Playhouse

as Eugene

Churchill's People

as De Reynes

Fall of Eagles

as Count Stookau

Father Brown

À vous de jouer Milord

1974

as N° 2

6.0

Cartesius

1974

as Astronomo Ciprus

Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em

1973

7.6

Nobody Is Norman Wisdom

1973

as Proshnik

Crown Court

1972

as John Maitland-Wilson

Van der Valk

as Sebastian Jonge

The Protectors

as Joe Flynn

The Edwardians

as Benjamin Disraeli

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

as Molbech

Play for Today

Ace of Wands

as Sandor Zandar

Codename

as Herman Voss

The Champions

as Manager

The Name of the Game

as Dedushko

The Further Adventures of the Musketeers

1967

as Msgr. de Gondy

7.5

Mystery and Imagination

as Dr Lutz

The Three Musketeers

as Commissary

Breaking Point

BBC Play of the Month

1965

as Monsieur Maingot

5.0

Thirty-Minute Theatre

as Carpenter

Out of the Unknown

as N.G. Waldron

The Mask of Janus

as Colonel Valenkov

The World of Wooster

as Music Store Assistant

Theatre 625

as Priest

Martin Chuzzlewit

Doctor Who

as Scientist

Festival

as Philosopher

The Saint

as Vogel

The Scales of Justice

as Mr. Strang

The Avengers

as Spencer

Dixon of Dock Green

as Counsel for Defence

5.3