
Actor
Born August 14, 1934 in Nimes, France
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.

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Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour
The Scientist (archive footage)

Alec Guinness: A Class Act
self

The Gold
Matteo Constantino

Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
Self

Burning Casablanca
Corny

The Haunting of Margam Castle
Enos

The Witcher
Older Elf

The Romanoffs
M. Audran

L'hypothèse de la reine rouge
Sherlock Holmes

The Man with the Iron Heart
Emile Hacha

Emerald City
High Born Man

The Durrells
Mr. Kralefsky

Killing Jesus
Isaiah

The Invisible Boy
Artiglio

Horsehead
George

Seven Lucky Gods
Lawrence

The Great Beauty
Arturo

Another Woman's Life
Dimitri Speranski

Zarafa
Le vieux sage (voice)

The Passage
Vieil homme

The Borgias
Cardinal Versucci

Undisputed III: Redemption
Rezo

Godforsaken
The Surgeon

Changing Climates, Changing Times
Lucas

The Little Murders of Agatha Christie
Anatole Deschanel

The Joy of Singing
Le lecteur du bar

Apparitions

Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
Self

La Légende des 3 clefs
The anthropologist Gilles Clément

Priceless
Jacques

Courts mais Gay : Tome 12
Anthony

Surviving Disaster

An American Haunting
Elder #1

Empire of the Wolves
Kudseyi

Before Sunset
Bookstore Manager

Evilenko
Bagdasarov

Pontormo - Un amore eretico
Riccio

Thank You, Doctor Rey
François

Brocéliande
Brennos

The Red Siren
Vitali

The Falklands Play
Nicanor Costa Méndez (Argentine Minister of External Relations)

David Copperfield
Quinion

Festival in Cannes
Millie's Escort

The Order
Oscar

The Body
Monsignor

Revelation
Curé at Rennes-le-Chateau

Largo Winch
Maurice de Beliveau

David Copperfield
Quinion

Le Prof
Patte Folle

The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
Cleisthenes

The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
Cleisthenes

Falling Through
Father

Dreaming of Joseph Lees
Italian Doctor

Relic Hunter
Anthony Cureton

The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
Art Gallery Lecturer

Hilary and Jackie
Professor Bentley

Jinnah
Lord Willingdon

30 Years to Life
Sandler

Highlander: The Raven
Count Van Der Meer

Vigo
Papa Lozinska

Spanish Fly
Carl's Friend

Merlin
1st Physician

Déjà Vu
Konstantine

The Wonderland Experience
Vincent

St. Ives
Bonnefoy

Anna Karenina
Pestov

The Hunchback
Father Michel

The Ice Princess
Chancellor

The Ogre
Lawyer

Surviving Picasso
Diaghilev

Catherine the Great
Naryshkin

Jude
Curator

Le fils de Paul
Duval

Sharpe's Sword
Don Felipe

Father Ted
Old Nazi

Jefferson in Paris
King's Translator

The House that Mary Bought

Mademoiselle O
Rouka

Frankenstein
Chancellor

M. Butterfly
Agent Etancelin

The Hour of the Pig
Apothecary

Highlander: The Series
Carlo Luchesi

Obiettivo indiscreto
Primo editore

Venice/Venice
Alexander

Sweetheart
Thurson

The First Circle
Riyumin

As Time Goes By
Dr. Stoker

The Strauss Dynasty
Hirsch

Let Him Have It
Clerk of Court

Hamlet
Reynaldo

Vincent and Me
Dr Winkler

Meridian
Priest

The Garden
Old Man at Sauna

The Krays
Teacher

The Plot to Kill Hitler
Fellgiebel

Flight from Paradise
Merrill

The Hostage of Europe
Hudson Lowe

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Butler

Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
Jules Glaenzer

Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
Doctor Webber

Natalia
Alfred Grabner

Splendor

Agatha Christie's Poirot
Simeon Lee

The Sweet House of Horrors
The Exorcist

War and Remembrance
Henri Bulle

Testimony
Gargolovsky

Pascali's Island
Pariente

Catacombs
Brother Timothy

Le due croci
Bischof de Jong

Maigret
Gannett

Fortunes of War
Prince Hadjimoscos

Crossbow

The Name of the Rose
Hugh of Newcastle

Caravaggio
Art Lover

The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Mendelstam

Mussolini: The Untold Story
Sebastiani

Tender Is the Night
Luis Campion

Mata Hari
Prosecutor

A.D.
Flavius Sabinus

Morenga
Lohmann

Much Ado About Nothing
Don John

L'Homme de Suez
Konya, Turkish Colonel, spy in the service of the English

Sherlock Holmes
Mendelstam

Gwendoline
Shirko

Night Patrol
James

Mon Ami Washington

An Englishman Abroad
Guildenstern

Dramarama
Mr. Rolyat

The Scarlet and the Black
Count Langenthal

Nutcracker
Markovitch

Marco Polo
Pietro De Abano

Enigma
Minister

That Night of Varennes
Judge at the confiscation

Troilus & Cressida
Agamemnon

L'Amour nu
John, le patron de Claire

Sredni Vashtar
Dr. Russell

Condorman
Russian Agent

Le Beau Monde
Pablo

San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça
Un tueur russe

Private Schulz
Sturmer

Peter and Paul
High Priest of Herod

Masada
Chief Priest

Nijinsky
Sergei Grigoriev

Ike
Gen. Charles DeGaulle

Ike
Gen. Charles DeGaulle

Mazarin
Pimentel

Romeo and Juliet
Apothecary

Question of Love
Peter

Last In, First Out
Le réceptionniste

Little Girl in Blue Velvet
Lamberti

Holocaust
Karp

Blake's 7
The Chairman

The Roads of Exile
Le peintre Ramsay

1990

March or Die
Mean Corporal

The Spy Who Loved Me
Max Kalba

Joseph Andrews
Fop Two

The Achurch Letters
Eugene

Dickens of London
Legal Gentleman

Police Commissioner Moulin
Astman

French Without Tears
Monsieur Maingot

Michael Strogoff
Blount

Rumpole of the Bailey
Edward Gandolphini

Rumpole of the Bailey
Magnus Piecan

Lovers Like Us
Coleman

Des Christoffel von Grimmelshausen abenteuerlicher Simplizissimus
Dr. Canard

Operation: Daybreak
Pyotr

The Messiah
Samuel

Cat and Mouse
Germain's accomplice

Van der Valk and the Scapegoat
Reinders

India Song
Georges Crawn

Playing with Fire
A messenger

The Sweeney
Harry Kretchmar

Churchill's People
De Reynes

Scent of a Woman
Don Carlo (uncredited)

Murder on the Orient Express
Concierge

À vous de jouer Milord
N° 2

Father Brown
Simon Vesty

The Marseille Contract
Lazar

Fall of Eagles
Count Stookau

Playhouse
Eugene

Cartesius
Astronomo Ciprus

Soft Beds, Hard Battles
Padre

Impossible Object
Private Investigator

The Day of the Jackal
Interrogator

Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em

An Echo of Theresa
Bannerheim

The Edwardians
Benjamin Disraeli

Crown Court
John Maitland-Wilson

The Protectors
Joe Flynn

Van der Valk
Sebastian Jonge

The Canterbury Tales
The Franklin

Up the Front
Muller

Far from Dallas

New Scotland Yard
Jacob Harmann

Mary, Queen of Scots
Duc De Guise

Nicholas and Alexandra
Dr. Lazovert

Fiddler on the Roof
Russian Official

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Molbech

The Horsemen
Zam Hajji

The Beast in the Cellar
Newsmith

The Married Couple of the Year Two
le pasteur

Them
Brisbane

Play for Today

Ace of Wands
Sandor Zandar

Darling Lili
Otto Kraus

Anne of the Thousand Days
Mendoza

Doctor Who: The War Games
Chief Scientist

Baby Love
Man in Cinema

The Assassination Bureau
Baron Muntzof

Beach Head
N.G. Waldron

The Champions
Manager

The Name of the Game
Dedushko

A Dandy in Aspic

The Further Adventures of the Musketeers
Msgr. de Gondy

The Taming of the Shrew
Pedant

The Three Musketeers
Commissary

Mystery and Imagination
Dr Lutz

The World of George Orwell: 1984
Goldstein

BBC Play of the Month
Monsieur Maingot

Thirty-Minute Theatre
Carpenter

Out of the Unknown
N.G. Waldron

Darling
Art Critic at Ralph Riggs Exposure (uncredited)

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
Member of the French Team

The Debussy Film
The Actor

Theatre 625
Priest

Martin Chuzzlewit

Doctor Who
Scientist

Espionage
Captain of Police

The Saint
Vogel

The Scales of Justice
Mr. Strang

The Avengers
Spencer

Dixon of Dock Green
Counsel for Defence