
Vernon Dobtcheff
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Biography
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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.
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The Name of the Game

Agatha Christie's Poirot

The Witcher

The Saint

Marco Polo

Doctor Who

The Little Murders of Agatha Christie

Sherlock Holmes

Relic Hunter

The Gold

Dixon of Dock Green

Blake's 7

The Romanoffs

Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em

The Venturers

Fall of Eagles

Private Schulz

The Edwardians

The Devil's Crown

Surviving Disaster

Apparitions

Holocaust

Joseph Andrews

Merlin

The Falklands Play

A.D.

Romeo and Juliet

Fiddler on the Roof

Murder on the Orient Express

Peter and Paul

The Name of the Rose

The Marseille Contract

Hamlet

The Spy Who Loved Me

Catherine the Great

Jude

Mussolini: The Untold Story

The World of George Orwell: 1984

Undisputed III: Redemption

Fortunes of War

The Borgias

The Day of the Jackal

The Assassination Bureau

Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour

An Englishman Abroad

Nijinsky

Playing with Fire

Rumpole of the Bailey

M. Butterfly

French Without Tears

The Debussy Film

The Order

Before Sunset
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