Vernon Dobtcheff

Vernon Dobtcheff

Acting

Born August 14, 1934 · 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…

Known for

Agatha Christie's Poirot

Agatha Christie's Poirot

1989

Doctor Who

Doctor Who

1963

The Witcher

The Witcher

2019

Play for Today

Play for Today

1970

The Avengers

The Avengers

1961

The Avengers

The Avengers

1961

Crown Court

Crown Court

1972

The Saint

The Saint

1962

Acting(250)

2024Doctor Who: The War Games in ColourThe Scientist (archive footage)

2024Alec Guinness: A Class Actself

2023The GoldMatteo Constantino

2022Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to AqabaSelf

2021Burning CasablancaCorny

2020The Haunting of Margam CastleEnos

2019The WitcherOlder Elf

2018The Violet HourM. Audran

2018The RomanoffsM. Audran

2018L'hypothèse de la reine rougeSherlock Holmes

2017The Man with the Iron HeartEmile Hacha

2017Emerald CityHigh Born Man

2016The DurrellsMr. Kralefsky

2015Killing JesusIsaiah

2014The Invisible BoyArtiglio

2014HorseheadGeorge

2014Seven Lucky GodsLawrence

2013The Great BeautyArturo

2012Another Woman's LifeDimitri Speranski

2012ZarafaLe vieux sage (voice)

2011The PassageVieil homme

2011The BorgiasCardinal Versucci

2010Undisputed III: RedemptionRezo

2010GodforsakenThe Surgeon

2009Changing Climates, Changing TimesLucas

2009The Little Murders of Agatha ChristieAnatole Deschanel

2008The Joy of SingingLe lecteur du bar

2008Apparitions

2008Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1Self

2007La Légende des 3 clefsThe anthropologist Gilles Clément

2006PricelessJacques

2006Courts mais Gay : Tome 12Anthony

2006For the Time BeingAnthony

2006Surviving Disaster

2005An American HauntingElder #1

2005Empire of the WolvesKudseyi

2004Before SunsetBookstore Manager

2004EvilenkoBagdasarov

2004Pontormo - Un amore ereticoRiccio

2003Thank You, Doctor ReyFrançois

2003BrocéliandeBrennos

2002The Red SirenVitali

2002The Falklands PlayNicanor Costa Méndez (Argentine Minister of External Relations)

2001David CopperfieldQuinion

2001Festival in CannesMillie's Escort

2001The OrderOscar

2001The BodyMonsignor

2001RevelationCuré at Rennes-le-Chateau

2001Largo WinchMaurice de Beliveau

2000David CopperfieldQuinion

2000Le ProfPatte Folle

2000The Greeks: Crucible of CivilizationCleisthenes

2000The Greeks: Crucible of CivilizationCleisthenes

2000Falling ThroughFather

1999Dreaming of Joseph LeesItalian Doctor

1999Relic HunterAnthony Cureton

1999The Strange Case of Delfina PotockaArt Gallery Lecturer

1998Hilary and JackieProfessor Bentley

1998JinnahLord Willingdon

199830 Years to LifeSandler

1998Highlander: The RavenCount Van Der Meer

1998VigoPapa Lozinska

1998Spanish FlyCarl's Friend

1998Merlin1st Physician

1998Déjà VuKonstantine

1998The Wonderland ExperienceVincent

1998St. IvesBonnefoy

1997Anna KareninaPestov

1997The HunchbackFather Michel

1996The Ice PrincessChancellor

1996The OgreLawyer

1996Surviving PicassoDiaghilev

1996Catherine the GreatNaryshkin

1996JudeCurator

1995Le fils de PaulDuval

1995Sharpe's SwordDon Felipe

1995Father TedOld Nazi

1995Jefferson in ParisKing's Translator

1995The House that Mary Bought

1994Mademoiselle ORouka

1993FrankensteinChancellor

1993M. ButterflyAgent Etancelin

1993The Hour of the PigApothecary

1993Temptation of SainthoodFreud

1993Jeanne d'Arc au bûcherUn Héraut / Un prêtre / Un clerc

1992Highlander: The SeriesCarlo Luchesi

1992Obiettivo indiscretoPrimo editore

1992Venice/VeniceAlexander

1992SweetheartThurson

1992The First CircleRiyumin

1992As Time Goes ByDr. Stoker

1991The Strauss DynastyHirsch

1991Let Him Have ItClerk of Court

1990HamletReynaldo

1990Vincent and MeDr Winkler

1990MeridianPriest

1990The GardenOld Man at Sauna

1990The KraysTeacher

1990The Plot to Kill HitlerFellgiebel

1990Flight from ParadiseMerrill

1989The Hostage of EuropeHudson Lowe

1989Indiana Jones and the Last CrusadeButler

1989Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton StoryJules Glaenzer

1989Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal StoryDoctor Webber

1989NataliaAlfred Grabner

1989Berlin-JerusalemEditor

1989Agatha Christie's PoirotSimeon Lee

1989The Sweet House of HorrorsThe Exorcist

1988War and RemembranceHenri Bulle

1988TestimonyGargolovsky

1988Pascali's IslandPariente

1988CatacombsBrother Timothy

1988Le due crociBischof de Jong

1988MaigretGannett

1987Fortunes of WarPrince Hadjimoscos

1986The Name of the RoseHugh of Newcastle

1986CaravaggioArt Lover

1986The Return of Sherlock HolmesMendelstam

1985Mussolini: The Untold StorySebastiani

1985Tender Is the NightLuis Campion

1985Mata HariProsecutor

1985A.D.Flavius Sabinus

1985MorengaLohmann

1984Much Ado About NothingDon John

1984L'Homme de SuezKonya, Turkish Colonel, spy in the service of the English

1984Sherlock HolmesMendelstam

1984GwendolineShirko

1984Night PatrolJames

1984The Devil's LieutenantDr. Goldschmiedt

1984Mon Ami Washington

1983An Englishman AbroadGuildenstern

1983DramaramaMr. Rolyat

1983The Scarlet and the BlackCount Langenthal

1982NutcrackerMarkovitch

1982Marco PoloPietro De Abano

1982EnigmaMinister

1982That Night of VarennesJudge at the confiscation

1981Troilus & CressidaAgamemnon

1981L'Amour nuJohn, le patron de Claire

1981Goldene Zeiten - Bittere ZeitenM. Bernard

1981Sredni VashtarDr. Russell

1981CondormanRussian Agent

1981Le Beau MondePablo

1981San-Antonio ne pense qu'à çaUn tueur russe

1981Private SchulzSturmer

1981Peter and PaulHigh Priest of Herod

1981MasadaChief Priest

1980NijinskySergei Grigoriev

1979IkeGen. Charles DeGaulle

1979IkeGen. Charles DeGaulle

1978MazarinPimentel

1978Romeo and JulietApothecary

1978Question of LovePeter

1978Last In, First OutLe réceptionniste

1978Little Girl in Blue VelvetLamberti

1978HolocaustKarp

1978Blake's 7The Chairman

1978The Roads of ExileLe peintre Ramsay

1977March or DieMean Corporal

1977The Spy Who Loved MeMax Kalba

1977Joseph AndrewsFop Two

1977The Achurch LettersEugene

1976Dickens of LondonLegal Gentleman

1976Police Commissioner MoulinAstman

1976KillersClerk of the Assizes

1976French Without TearsMonsieur Maingot

1975Michael StrogoffBlount

1975Rumpole of the BaileyEdward Gandolphini

1975Rumpole of the BaileyMagnus Piecan

1975Lovers Like UsColeman

1975Des Christoffel von Grimmelshausen abenteuerlicher SimplizissimusDr. Canard

1975Operation: DaybreakPyotr

1975The MessiahSamuel

1975The Secret AgentKarl Yundt

1975Cat and MouseGermain's accomplice

1975Van der Valk and the ScapegoatReinders

1975India SongGeorges Crawn

1975Playing with FireA messenger

1975The SweeneyHarry Kretchmar

1974Churchill's PeopleDe Reynes

1974Scent of a WomanDon Carlo (uncredited)

1974Murder on the Orient ExpressConcierge

1974À vous de jouer MilordN° 2

1974Father BrownSimon Vesty

1974The Marseille ContractLazar

1974Fall of EaglesCount Stookau

1974PlayhouseEugene

1974CartesiusAstronomo Ciprus

1974Soft Beds, Hard BattlesPadre

1973Nobody Is Norman WisdomProshnik

1973Impossible ObjectPrivate Investigator

1973The Day of the JackalInterrogator

1973Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em

1973An Echo of TheresaBannerheim

1972The EdwardiansBenjamin Disraeli

1972Crown CourtJohn Maitland-Wilson

1972The ProtectorsJoe Flynn

1972Van der ValkSebastian Jonge

1972The Canterbury TalesThe Franklin

1972Up the FrontMuller

1972Far from Dallas

1972New Scotland YardJacob Harmann

1971Mary, Queen of ScotsDuc De Guise

1971Nicholas and AlexandraDr. Lazovert

1971Fiddler on the RoofRussian Official

1971The Rivals of Sherlock HolmesMolbech

1971The HorsemenZam Hajji

1971The Beast in the CellarNewsmith

1971The Married Couple of the Year Twole pasteur

1970ThemBrisbane

1970Play for Today

1970Ace of WandsSandor Zandar

1970Darling LiliOtto Kraus

1970CodenameHerman Voss

1969Anne of the Thousand DaysMendoza

1969Doctor Who: The War GamesChief Scientist

1969Baby LoveMan in Cinema

1969The Assassination BureauBaron Muntzof

1969Beach HeadN.G. Waldron

1968The ChampionsManager

1968The Name of the GameDedushko

1968A Dandy in Aspic

1967The Further Adventures of the MusketeersMsgr. de Gondy

1967The Taming of the ShrewPedant

1966The Three MusketeersCommissary

1966Breaking Point

1966Mystery and ImaginationDr Lutz

1965The World of George Orwell: 1984Goldstein

1965BBC Play of the MonthMonsieur Maingot

1965The Mask of JanusColonel Valenkov

1965Thirty-Minute TheatreCarpenter

1965Out of the UnknownN.G. Waldron

1965DarlingArt Critic at Ralph Riggs Exposure (uncredited)

1965Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 MinutesMember of the French Team

1965The World of WoosterMusic Store Assistant

1965The Debussy FilmThe Actor

1964Theatre 625Priest

1964The Life of GalileoPhilosopher

1964Martin Chuzzlewit

1963Doctor WhoScientist

1963FestivalPhilosopher

1963EspionageCaptain of Police

1962The SaintVogel

1962The Scales of JusticeMr. Strang

1961The AvengersSpencer

1955Dixon of Dock GreenCounsel for Defence

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