Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1934-08-14 (Age: 92)
Place of Birth
Nimes, France
Vernon Dobtcheff
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 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Vernon Dobtcheff, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography (161)
Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour
2024
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
2024
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
2022
Burning Casablanca
2021
The Haunting of Margam Castle
2020The Violet Hour
2018
L'hypothèse de la reine rouge
2018
The Man with the Iron Heart
2017
Killing Jesus
2015
The Invisible Boy
2014
Horsehead
2014
Seven Lucky Gods
2014
The Great Beauty
2013
Another Woman's Life
2012
