Vernon Dobtcheff

Overview

Known for
Acting
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Birthday
Aug 14, 1934 (90 years old)

Vernon Dobtcheff

Known For

Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour
1h 30m
Movie 2024

Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour

The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe arrive on an unnamed planet. At first believing themselves in the midst of World War I, they realise it to be one of many War Zones overseen by the War Lords, who have kidnapped large numbers of human soldiers to form the greatest army the universe has ever seen. At the helm of this plot is the War Chief, another renegade Time Lord like the Doctor. The creeping realisation sets in that the Doctor cannot solve this problem alone, and that his days of wandering may be at an end...

Alec Guinness: A Class Act
1h 30m
Movie 2024

Alec Guinness: A Class Act

The story of one of Britain's most celebrated actors of the 20th century, told by those who knew and admired him.

Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
1h 30m
Movie 2022

Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba

Reflecting Peter O'Toole's theatrical legacy, this feature documentary is structured into four acts, each introduced by a quote about O'Toole that encapsulates his life during a specific period.

Burning Casablanca
2h 0m
Movie 2021

Burning Casablanca

In hellish Casablanca, a car-crash sets ablaze a burning, passionate love story between has-been rocker Larsen and the streetwise amazon Rajae. An unspoken trauma is their common history; rock n' roll their mutual saviour. Larsen's snakeskin-covered guitar and Rajae's liquid gold voice could be heaven, if only everything from his drug-induced visions to her music-buff pimp didn't get in the way. The only hope for their blooming romance is to skip this ferocious town. Is there a way out of this crazy Moroccan underworld with its menagerie of sadistic cops, venomous snakes, metal concerts and shotgun-wielding modern-day Calamity Janes? For these punk Romeo and Juliet, maybe the answer lies in a song - the one they've been writing and dreaming together : Zanka Contact

The Haunting of Margam Castle
1h 21m
Movie 2020

The Haunting of Margam Castle

A team of American parapsychologists travel to Wales to conduct a study of Margam Castle, one of the UK's most haunted buildings.

The Violet Hour
1h 25m
Movie 2018

The Violet Hour

Set in Paris, an ancestral home holds the key to a family's future.

L'hypothèse de la reine rouge
0h 18m
Movie 2018

L'hypothèse de la reine rouge

The legendary detective Sherlock Holmes and the elusive thief Arsene Lupin will unite their intelligence to stop the evil planes of the dangerous Fantomas.

The Man with the Iron Heart
2h 0m
Movie 2017

The Man with the Iron Heart

With the Third Reich at its peak in 1942, the Czech resistance in London plans the most ambitious military operation of WWII – Anthropoid. Two young recruits are sent to Prague to assassinate the most ruthless Nazi leader – Reinhard Heydrich, head of the Reich Security Main Office, the Gestapo and the architect of the Final Solution.

Killing Jesus
2h 12m
Movie 2015

Killing Jesus

Jesus of Nazareth’s life and ministry were subject to seismic social and political events that led to his execution and changed the world forever.

The Invisible Boy
1h 40m
Movie 2014

The Invisible Boy

Michele is thirteen year old, shy, unpopular at school, and in love with Stella. After wearing a costume for a Halloween party, he finds out that he's invisible.

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.

Acting

2024
Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour
2024
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
2022
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
2021
Burning Casablanca
2020
The Haunting of Margam Castle
2018
The Violet Hour
2018
L'hypothèse de la reine rouge
2017
The Man with the Iron Heart
2015
Killing Jesus
2014
The Invisible Boy
2014
Seven Lucky Gods
2013
The Great Beauty
2011
Le passage
2011
The Borgias
2008
The Joy of Singing
2007
La Légende des 3 clefs
2006
Courts mais Gay : Tome 12
2006
For the Time Being
2005
An American Haunting
2004
Thank You, Doctor Rey
2004
Before Sunset
2004
Pontormo - Un amore eretico
2003
Brocéliande
2002
White Teeth
2001
Festival in Cannes
2001
The Body
2001
Revelation
2000
Le Prof
2000
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
2000
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
2000
Falling Through
1999
The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
1998
Hilary and Jackie
1998
Jinnah
1998
30 Years to Life
1998
Vigo
1998
Spanish Fly
1998
Merlin
1998
Déjà Vu
1998
The Wonderland Experience
1998
St. Ives
1997
Anna Karenina
1997
The Hunchback
1996
The Ogre
1996
Jude
1995
The House that Mary Bought
1994
Mademoiselle O
1993
Frankenstein
1993
The Hour of the Pig
1993
Temptation of Sainthood
1993
Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher
1992
Obiettivo indiscreto
1992
Venice/Venice
1991
Strauss Dynasty
1991
Mel Gibson Goes Back to School
1990
Hamlet
1990
Vincent and me
1990
The Krays
1990
Flight from Paradise
1989
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
1989
Natalia
1989
Splendor
1989
Berlin-Jerusalem
1988
Testimony
1988
Le due croci
1988
Maigret
1987
Fortunes of War
1986
Caravaggio
1985
Mussolini: The Untold Story
1985
Mata Hari
1985
A.D.
1985
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