Vernon Dobtcheff
Acting
Born August 14, 1934 · Nimes, France
Biography
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…
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Doctor Who
Agatha Christie's Poirot
The Avengers
The Witcher
The Borgias
Crown Court
BBC Play of the Month
Theatre 625
Highlander: The Series
Sherlock Holmes
The Saint
Playhouse
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Relic Hunter
Police Commissioner Moulin
The Sweeney
Blake's 7
The Name of the Game
Rumpole of the Bailey
The Little Murders of Agatha Christie
The Champions
Dixon of Dock Green
Largo Winch
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
The Gold
Sharpe
Churchill's People
Mystery and Imagination
Van der Valk
The Durrells
Dramarama
New Scotland Yard
The Protectors
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Crossbow
As Time Goes By
Out of the Unknown
Festival
Espionage