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Vernon Dobtcheff
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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. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Vernon Dobtcheff, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Acting (256)
Butler
Older Elf
Bookstore Manager
Hugh of Newcastle
Arturo
Max Kalba
Concierge
Rezo
Artiglio
Aegyptius
Emile Hacha
Jacques
Scientist
Interrogator
Russian Official
Simeon Lee
Elder #1
Cardinal Versucci
Reynaldo
Carlo Luchesi / Hamad
Old Nazi
Kudseyi
1st Physician
Oscar
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Mendelstam
Don Carlo (uncredited)
Agent Etancelin
Monsignor
The Franklin
High Born Man
Member of the French Team
Pedant
Anthony Cureton
Pestov
Art Critic at Ralph Riggs Exposure (uncredited)
Art Lover
Spencer / Stenson
Curator
Russian Agent
Coleman
Mendoza
Bagdasarov
Vogel
Le vieux sage (voice)
Mr. Kralefsky
Teacher
Shirko
Professor Bentley
George
Diaghilev
le pasteur
Isaiah
Baron Muntzof
Mean Corporal
Georges Crawn
Dimitri Speranski
Matteo Constantino
Dr. Lazovert
Karp
Judge at the confiscation
M. Audran
Count Langenthal
Chief Priest
Duc De Guise
Enos
Anatole Deschanel
Priest
Henry
The Chairman
Clerk of Court
King's Translator
Pyotr
Father Michel
Prosecutor
Lawyer
Dr. Stoker
Minister
Apothecary
Lazar
Brennos
Newsmith
Otto Kraus
A messenger
Don Felipe
Henri Bulle
Brother Timothy
Naryshkin
Don Felipe
Old Man at Sauna
Germain's accomplice
Pietro De Abano
Boris Melnikov
Lord Willingdon
Harry Kretchmar
Curé at Rennes-le-Chateau
The Exorcist
Count Van Der Meer
Pariente
Fellgiebel
Edward Gandolphini
Zam Hajji
Vitali
Man in Cinema
Quinion
Manager
Chancellor
Samuel
Sergei Grigoriev
Thurson
Maurice de Beliveau
Padre
Muller
Blount
Prince Hadjimoscos
Fop Two
Bonnefoy
Joe Flynn
Konstantine
The Actor
Dedushko
Flavius Sabinus
Guildenstern
Simon Vesty
Private Investigator
Sebastiani
James
Lawrence
Molbech
Chief Scientist
Italian Doctor
Count Stookau
John, le patron de Claire
Luis Campion
Le lecteur du bar
Sebastian Jonge
Corny
Mendelstam
Monsieur Maingot
N.G. Waldron
Astman
François
Nicanor Costa Méndez (Argentine Minister of External Relations)
Riyumin
Carpenter
Doctor Webber
Apothecary
Papa Lozinska
Dr Winkler
John Maitland-Wilson
Le réceptionniste
Alfred Grabner
High Priest of Herod
Jules Glaenzer
Sturmer
Peter
Dr. Russell
Cleisthenes
Lucas
Don John
Dr Lutz
Carl's Friend
Gargolovsky
Priest / Emmanuel Goldstein
Sandler
Dr. Canard
Counsel for Defence
Mr. Rolyat
Father
Millie's Escort
Patte Folle
Gannett
Markovitch
Un tueur russe
Benjamin Disraeli
Chancellor
Sandor Zandar
Legal Gentleman
Gen. Charles DeGaulle
Gen. Charles DeGaulle
Konya, Turkish Colonel, spy in the service of the English
Lamberti
Pimentel
Jacob Harmann
Magnus Piecan
Msgr. de Gondy
Mr. Strang
Peebles
Brisbane
Alexander
Bannerheim
De Reynes
Merrill
Felix Penroux
The anthropologist Gilles Clément
Pablo
Riccio
Hudson Lowe
Commissary
Agamemnon
N° 2
Mikhail Mikhailovich
N.G. Waldron
Astronomo Ciprus
Quinion
Captain of Police
Monsieur Maingot
The Surgeon
Sherlock Holmes
Bischof de Jong
Duval
Rouka
Lohmann
Primo editore
Eugene
Vieil homme
Cherni
Le peintre Ramsay
Art Gallery Lecturer
Vincent
Goldstein
Reinders
Joseph Von Stieglitz
Anthony
Eugene
Prison Inspector
Cleisthenes
Hirsch
Appearances (4)
The Scientist (archive footage)
Self
Self
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