Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade1989
As Butler
TMDb 7.9 / 10
Vernon Dobtcheff
Born
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.
Filmography (163)
The Spy Who Loved Me1977
As Max Kalba
TMDb 6.8 / 10
The Name of the Rose1986
As Hugh of Newcastle
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Before Sunset2004
As Bookstore Manager
TMDb 7.8 / 10
Murder on the Orient Express1974
As Concierge
TMDb 7.1 / 10
Undisputed III: Redemption2010
As Rezo
TMDb 7.6 / 10
The Great Beauty2013
As Arturo
TMDb 7.5 / 10
The Day of the Jackal1973
As Interrogator
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Fiddler on the Roof1971
As Russian Official
TMDb 7.7 / 10
Priceless2006
As Jacques
TMDb 6.4 / 10
The Order2001
As Oscar
TMDb 5.1 / 10
The Man with the Iron Heart2017
As Emile Hacha
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Empire of the Wolves2005
As Kudseyi
TMDb 5.7 / 10
The Taming of the Shrew1967
As Pedant
TMDb 6.9 / 10
Anna Karenina1997
As Pestov
TMDb 6.1 / 10
The Canterbury Tales1972
As The Franklin
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Darling1965
As Art Critic at Ralph Riggs Exposure (uncredited)
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Ike1979
As Gen. Charles DeGaulle
TMDb 6.8 / 10
The Invisible Boy2014
As Artiglio
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Brocéliande2003
As Brennos
TMDb 3.9 / 10
Anne of the Thousand Days1969
As Mendoza
TMDb 7.2 / 10
Jude1996
As Curator
TMDb 6.3 / 10
M. Butterfly1993
As Agent Etancelin
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Gwendoline1984
As Shirko
TMDb 4.9 / 10
The Hunchback1997
As Father Michel
TMDb 5.9 / 10
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes1965
As Member of the French Team
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Hamlet1990
As Reynaldo
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Zarafa2012
As Le vieux sage (voice)
TMDb 6.9 / 10
Meridian1990
As Priest
TMDb 4.5 / 10
Hilary and Jackie1998
As Professor Bentley
TMDb 6.6 / 10
The Body2001
As Monsignor
TMDb 5.5 / 10
An American Haunting2005
As Elder #1
TMDb 5.5 / 10
Nicholas and Alexandra1971
As Dr. Lazovert
TMDb 6.9 / 10
The Scarlet and the Black1983
As Count Langenthal
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Evilenko2004
As Bagdasarov
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Playing with Fire1975
As A messenger
TMDb 5.5 / 10
Scent of a Woman1974
As Don Carlo (uncredited)
TMDb 7.4 / 10
March or Die1977
As Mean Corporal
TMDb 5.8 / 10
That Night of Varennes1982
As Judge at the confiscation
TMDb 6.9 / 10
Pascali's Island1988
As Pariente
TMDb 6.4 / 10
The Passage2011
As Vieil homme
TMDb 4.0 / 10
Let Him Have It1991
As Clerk of Court
TMDb 6.7 / 10
The Horsemen1971
As Zam Hajji
TMDb 6.3 / 10
The Ogre1996
As Lawyer
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Surviving Picasso1996
As Diaghilev
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Caravaggio1986
As Art Lover
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Mary, Queen of Scots1971
As Duc De Guise
TMDb 6.7 / 10
The Assassination Bureau1969
As Baron Muntzof
TMDb 6.7 / 10
A Dandy in Aspic1968
TMDb 6.9 / 10
The Red Siren2002
As Vitali
TMDb 5.3 / 10
Operation: Daybreak1975
As Pyotr
TMDb 6.9 / 10
The Married Couple of the Year Two1971
As le pasteur
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Le Prof2000
As Patte Folle
TMDb 4.8 / 10
Vincent and Me1990
As Dr Winkler
TMDb 5.6 / 10
The Krays1990
As Teacher
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Condorman1981
As Russian Agent
TMDb 5.5 / 10
Joseph Andrews1977
As Fop Two
TMDb 5.4 / 10
India Song1975
As Georges Crawn
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Them1970
As Brisbane
TMDb 4.3 / 10
Catherine the Great1996
As Naryshkin
TMDb 5.6 / 10
Dreaming of Joseph Lees1999
As Italian Doctor
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Darling Lili1970
As Otto Kraus
TMDb 5.6 / 10
The Plot to Kill Hitler1990
As Fellgiebel
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Soft Beds, Hard Battles1974
As Padre
TMDb 4.6 / 10
The Hour of the Pig1993
As Apothecary
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Mata Hari1985
As Prosecutor
TMDb 4.1 / 10
Enigma1982
As Minister
TMDb 5.6 / 10
Killing Jesus2015
As Isaiah
TMDb 6.3 / 10
The Garden1990
As Old Man at Sauna
TMDb 5.7 / 10
Lovers Like Us1975
As Coleman
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Jefferson in Paris1995
As King's Translator
TMDb 5.1 / 10
Revelation2001
As Curé at Rennes-le-Chateau
TMDb 5.1 / 10
Jinnah1998
As Lord Willingdon
TMDb 6.9 / 10
Sharpe's Sword1995
As Don Felipe
TMDb 7.3 / 10
Beach Head1969
As N.G. Waldron
TMDb 7.0 / 10
30 Years to Life1998
As Sandler
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Baby Love1969
As Man in Cinema
TMDb 5.1 / 10
Romeo and Juliet1978
As Apothecary
TMDb 7.6 / 10
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story1989
As Doctor Webber
TMDb 5.9 / 10
Nijinsky1980
As Sergei Grigoriev
TMDb 4.9 / 10
David Copperfield2001
As Quinion
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Horsehead2014
As George
TMDb 5.3 / 10
Venice/Venice1992
As Alexander
TMDb 7.0 / 10
The Marseille Contract1974
As Lazar
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Doctor Who: The War Games1969
As Chief Scientist
TMDb 9.7 / 10
Cat and Mouse1975
As Germain's accomplice
TMDb 5.7 / 10
The Hostage of Europe1989
As Hudson Lowe
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Catacombs1988
As Brother Timothy
TMDb 4.9 / 10
Much Ado About Nothing1984
As Don John
TMDb 7.4 / 10
Maigret1988
As Gannett
TMDb 7.5 / 10
The Haunting of Margam Castle2020
As Enos
TMDb 5.0 / 10
Impossible Object1973
As Private Investigator
TMDb 4.7 / 10
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba2022
As Self
TMDb 7.3 / 10
The First Circle1992
As Riyumin
TMDb 5.0 / 10
Little Girl in Blue Velvet1978
As Lamberti
TMDb 5.7 / 10
Frankenstein1993
As Chancellor
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 12008
As Self
TMDb 6.0 / 10
The Beast in the Cellar1971
As Newsmith
TMDb 4.8 / 10
Thank You, Doctor Rey2003
As François
TMDb 5.5 / 10
Falling Through2000
As Father
TMDb 4.0 / 10
Troilus & Cressida1981
As Agamemnon
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Night Patrol1984
As James
TMDb 5.5 / 10
Nutcracker1982
As Markovitch
TMDb 3.3 / 10
Question of Love1978
As Peter
TMDb 6.8 / 10
The Falklands Play2002
As Nicanor Costa Méndez (Argentine Minister of External Relations)
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Festival in Cannes2001
As Millie's Escort
TMDb 5.3 / 10
Van der Valk and the Scapegoat1975
As Reinders
TMDb 10.0 / 10
St. Ives1998
As Bonnefoy
TMDb 5.5 / 10
The Sweet House of Horrors1989
As The Exorcist
TMDb 4.8 / 10
French Without Tears1976
As Monsieur Maingot
TMDb 7.0 / 10
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization2000
As Cleisthenes
Up the Front1972
As Muller
TMDb 4.4 / 10
Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour2024
As The Scientist (archive footage)
TMDb 5.8 / 10
L'Amour nu1981
As John, le patron de Claire
TMDb 5.0 / 10
The Joy of Singing2008
As Le lecteur du bar
TMDb 3.4 / 10
Natalia1989
As Alfred Grabner
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Another Woman's Life2012
As Dimitri Speranski
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Le fils de Paul1995
As Duval
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Le Beau Monde1981
As Pablo
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Vigo1998
As Papa Lozinska
TMDb 5.1 / 10
Splendor1989
TMDb 6.6 / 10
An Englishman Abroad1983
As Guildenstern
TMDb 6.1 / 10
The Achurch Letters1977
As Eugene
Testimony1988
As Gargolovsky
TMDb 5.6 / 10
L'hypothèse de la reine rouge2018
As Sherlock Holmes
TMDb 8.0 / 10
An Echo of Theresa1973
As Bannerheim
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Le due croci1988
As Bischof de Jong
TMDb 10.0 / 10
Déjà Vu1998
As Konstantine
TMDb 5.8 / 10
The Messiah1975
As Samuel
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Alec Guinness: A Class Act2024
As self
TMDb 6.0 / 10
The House that Mary Bought1995
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Seven Lucky Gods2014
As Lawrence
TMDb 5.6 / 10
Rumpole of the Bailey1975
As Magnus Piecan
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Sweetheart1992
As Thurson
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Spanish Fly1998
As Carl's Friend
TMDb 3.2 / 10
Mademoiselle O1994
As Rouka
TMDb 10.0 / 10
The Debussy Film1965
As The Actor
TMDb 7.6 / 10
The Ice Princess1996
As Chancellor
TMDb 5.8 / 10
The Violet Hour
The Violet Hour2018
As M. Audran
Flight from Paradise1990
As Merrill
TMDb 8.5 / 10
Mon Ami Washington1984
TMDb 9.0 / 10
The Life of Galileo
The Life of Galileo1964
As Philosopher
The World of George Orwell: 19841965
As Goldstein
TMDb 7.0 / 10
The Wonderland Experience1998
As Vincent
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Courts mais Gay : Tome 122006
As Anthony
The Roads of Exile1978
As Le peintre Ramsay
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Last In, First Out1978
As Le réceptionniste
TMDb 4.5 / 10
Changing Climates, Changing Times2009
As Lucas
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Burning Casablanca2021
As Corny
TMDb 5.9 / 10
The Secret Agent
The Secret Agent1975
As Karl Yundt
TMDb 10.0 / 10
Sredni Vashtar1981
As Dr. Russell
TMDb 7.2 / 10
San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça1981
As Un tueur russe
TMDb 3.5 / 10
For the Time Being
For the Time Being2006
As Anthony
The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka1999
As Art Gallery Lecturer
TMDb 10.0 / 10
Pontormo - Un amore eretico2004
As Riccio
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Parlez-nous de l'AmourRelease date TBA
Godforsaken2010
As The Surgeon
TMDb 4.0 / 10
The Devil's Lieutenant
The Devil's Lieutenant1984
As Dr. Goldschmiedt
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Temptation of Sainthood
Temptation of Sainthood1993
As Freud
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Obiettivo indiscreto1992
As Primo editore
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Berlin-Jerusalem
Berlin-Jerusalem1989
As Editor
TMDb 5.3 / 10
Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher
Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher1993
As Un Héraut / Un prêtre / Un clerc
TMDb 10.0 / 10
Far from Dallas1972
TMDb 7.3 / 10
Filmography and biography: TMDb