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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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Filmography (Movies)
Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour
Character:The Scientist (archive footage)
Release Date:23/12/2024
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
Character:self
Release Date:03/09/2024
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
Character:Self
Release Date:26/11/2022
Burning Casablanca
Character:Corny
Release Date:21/06/2021
The Haunting of Margam Castle
Character:Enos
Release Date:01/09/2020
The Violet Hour
Character:M. Audran
Release Date:12/10/2018
L'hypothèse de la reine rouge
Character:Sherlock Holmes
Release Date:27/03/2018
The Man with the Iron Heart
Character:Emile Hacha
Release Date:25/05/2017
Killing Jesus
Character:Isaiah
Release Date:05/04/2015
The Invisible Boy
Character:Artiglio
Release Date:18/12/2014
Horsehead
Character:George
Release Date:07/09/2014
Seven Lucky Gods
Character:Lawrence
Release Date:04/04/2014
The Great Beauty
Character:Arturo
Release Date:21/05/2013
Another Woman's Life
Character:Dimitri Speranski
Release Date:14/02/2012
Zarafa
Character:Le vieux sage (voice)
Release Date:25/01/2012
The Passage
Character:Vieil homme
Release Date:15/10/2011
Undisputed III: Redemption
Character:Rezo
Release Date:17/04/2010
Godforsaken
Character:The Surgeon
Release Date:10/04/2010
Changing Climates, Changing Times
Character:Lucas
Release Date:04/02/2009
The Joy of Singing
Character:Le lecteur du bar
Release Date:26/11/2008
Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
Character:Self
Release Date:06/03/2008
Priceless
Character:Jacques
Release Date:13/12/2006
Courts mais Gay : Tome 12
Character:Anthony
Release Date:16/11/2006
For the Time Being
Character:Anthony
Release Date:06/02/2006
An American Haunting
Character:Elder #1
Release Date:05/05/2005
Empire of the Wolves
Character:Kudseyi
Release Date:20/04/2005
Thank You, Doctor Rey
Character:François
Release Date:20/08/2004
Before Sunset
Character:Bookstore Manager
Release Date:16/06/2004
Evilenko
Character:Bagdasarov
Release Date:16/04/2004
Pontormo - Un amore eretico
Character:Riccio
Release Date:01/01/2004
Brocéliande
Character:Brennos
Release Date:08/01/2003
The Red Siren
Character:Vitali
Release Date:21/08/2002
The Falklands Play
Character:Nicanor Costa Méndez (Argentine Minister of External Relations)
Release Date:10/04/2002
David Copperfield
Character:Quinion
Release Date:25/12/2001
Festival in Cannes
Character:Millie's Escort
Release Date:03/11/2001
The Order
Character:Oscar
Release Date:05/05/2001
The Body
Character:Monsignor
Release Date:13/04/2001
Revelation
Character:Curé at Rennes-le-Chateau
Release Date:12/04/2001
Le Prof
Character:Patte Folle
Release Date:12/04/2000
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
Character:Cleisthenes
Release Date:09/02/2000
Falling Through
Character:Father
Release Date:01/01/2000
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
Character:Italian Doctor
Release Date:29/10/1999
The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
Character:Art Gallery Lecturer
Release Date:01/01/1999
Hilary and Jackie
Character:Professor Bentley
Release Date:30/12/1998
Jinnah
Character:Lord Willingdon
Release Date:07/11/1998
30 Years to Life
Character:Sandler
Release Date:15/10/1998
Vigo
Character:Papa Lozinska
Release Date:14/09/1998
Spanish Fly
Character:Carl's Friend
Release Date:10/09/1998
Déjà Vu
Character:Konstantine
Release Date:22/04/1998
The Wonderland Experience
Character:Vincent
Release Date:01/02/1998
St. Ives
Character:Bonnefoy
Release Date:01/01/1998
Anna Karenina
Character:Pestov
Release Date:04/04/1997
The Hunchback
Character:Father Michel
Release Date:16/03/1997
The Ice Princess
Character:Chancellor
Release Date:12/12/1996
The Ogre
Character:Lawyer
Release Date:12/09/1996
Surviving Picasso
Character:Diaghilev
Release Date:04/09/1996
Catherine the Great
Character:Naryshkin
Release Date:28/04/1996
Jude
Character:Curator
Release Date:06/02/1996
Le fils de Paul
Character:Duval
Release Date:25/11/1995
Jefferson in Paris
Character:King's Translator
Release Date:31/03/1995
The House that Mary Bought
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1995
Mademoiselle O
Character:Rouka
Release Date:05/12/1994
Frankenstein
Character:Chancellor
Release Date:02/12/1993
M. Butterfly
Character:Agent Etancelin
Release Date:01/10/1993
The Hour of the Pig
Character:Apothecary
Release Date:25/09/1993
Temptation of Sainthood
Character:Freud
Release Date:01/01/1993
Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher
Character:Un Héraut / Un prêtre / Un clerc
Release Date:01/01/1993
Obiettivo indiscreto
Character:Primo editore
Release Date:10/04/1992
Venice/Venice
Character:Alexander
Release Date:10/04/1992
Sweetheart
Character:Thurson
Release Date:07/04/1992
The First Circle
Character:Riyumin
Release Date:25/02/1992
Let Him Have It
Character:Clerk of Court
Release Date:04/10/1991
Hamlet
Character:Reynaldo
Release Date:19/12/1990
Vincent and me
Character:Dr Winkler
Release Date:13/12/1990
Meridian
Character:Priest
Release Date:10/11/1990
The Garden
Character:Old Man at Sauna
Release Date:06/09/1990
The Krays
Character:Teacher
Release Date:27/04/1990
Flight from Paradise
Character:Merrill
Release Date:01/01/1990
The Hostage of Europe
Character:Hudson Lowe
Release Date:29/09/1989
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Character:Butler
Release Date:24/05/1989
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
Character:Doctor Webber
Release Date:22/04/1989
Natalia
Character:Alfred Grabner
Release Date:12/04/1989
Splendor
Character:
Release Date:16/02/1989
Berlin-Jerusalem
Character:Editor
Release Date:03/02/1989
The Sweet House of Horrors
Character:The Exorcist
Release Date:01/01/1989
Testimony
Character:Gargolovsky
Release Date:01/11/1988
Pascali's Island
Character:Pariente
Release Date:22/07/1988
Catacombs
Character:Brother Timothy
Release Date:14/05/1988
Le due croci
Character:Bischof de Jong
Release Date:30/03/1988
Maigret
Character:Gannett
Release Date:22/02/1988
The Name of the Rose
Character:Hugh of Newcastle
Release Date:24/09/1986
Caravaggio
Character:Art Lover
Release Date:29/08/1986
Mata Hari
Character:Prosecutor
Release Date:05/09/1985
Much Ado About Nothing
Character:Don John
Release Date:22/12/1984
Gwendoline
Character:Shirko
Release Date:08/02/1984
Night Patrol
Character:James
Release Date:11/01/1984
The Devil's Lieutenant
Character:Dr. Goldschmiedt
Release Date:11/01/1984
Mon Ami Washington
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1984
An Englishman Abroad
Character:Guildenstern
Release Date:29/11/1983
The Scarlet and the Black
Character:Count Langenthal
Release Date:02/02/1983
Nutcracker
Character:Markovitch
Release Date:17/12/1982
Enigma
Character:Minister
Release Date:15/10/1982
The Night of Varennes
Character:Judge at the confiscation
Release Date:15/05/1982
Troilus & Cressida
Character:Agamemnon
Release Date:07/11/1981
L'Amour nu
Character:John, le patron de Claire
Release Date:07/10/1981
Sredni Vashtar
Character:Dr. Russell
Release Date:01/09/1981
Condorman
Character:Russian Agent
Release Date:02/07/1981
Le Beau Monde
Character:Pablo
Release Date:06/06/1981
San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça
Character:Un tueur russe
Release Date:20/05/1981
Nijinsky
Character:Sergei Grigoriev
Release Date:20/03/1980
Ike
Character:Gen. Charles DeGaulle
Release Date:03/05/1979
Romeo and Juliet
Character:Apothecary
Release Date:03/12/1978
Question of Love
Character:Peter
Release Date:18/10/1978
Last In, First Out
Character:Le réceptionniste
Release Date:30/08/1978
Little Girl in Blue Velvet
Character:Lamberti
Release Date:23/08/1978
The Roads of Exile
Character:Le peintre Ramsay
Release Date:01/01/1978
March or Die
Character:Mean Corporal
Release Date:08/09/1977
The Spy Who Loved Me
Character:Max Kalba
Release Date:07/07/1977
Joseph Andrews
Character:Fop Two
Release Date:09/03/1977
The Achurch Letters
Character:Eugene
Release Date:12/01/1977
French Without Tears
Character:Monsieur Maingot
Release Date:16/05/1976
Rumpole of the Bailey
Character:Magnus Piecan
Release Date:16/12/1975
Lovers Like Us
Character:Coleman
Release Date:26/11/1975
Operation: Daybreak
Character:Pyotr
Release Date:01/11/1975
The Messiah
Character:Samuel
Release Date:24/10/1975
The Secret Agent
Character:Karl Yundt
Release Date:01/10/1975
Cat and Mouse
Character:Germain's accomplice
Release Date:03/09/1975
Van der Valk and the Scapegoat
Character:Reinders
Release Date:21/06/1975
India Song
Character:Georges Crawn
Release Date:04/06/1975
Playing with Fire
Character:A messenger
Release Date:19/02/1975
Scent of a Woman
Character:Don Carlo (uncredited)
Release Date:20/12/1974
Murder on the Orient Express
Character:Concierge
Release Date:22/11/1974
The Marseille Contract
Character:Lazar
Release Date:04/09/1974
Cartesius
Character:Astronomo Ciprus
Release Date:21/02/1974
Soft Beds, Hard Battles
Character:Padre
Release Date:24/01/1974
Impossible Object
Character:Private Investigator
Release Date:24/05/1973
The Day of the Jackal
Character:Interrogator
Release Date:16/05/1973
An Echo of Theresa
Character:Bannerheim
Release Date:15/01/1973
The Canterbury Tales
Character:The Franklin
Release Date:02/09/1972
Up the Front
Character:Muller
Release Date:14/07/1972
Far from Dallas
Character:
Release Date:28/06/1972
Mary, Queen of Scots
Character:Duc De Guise
Release Date:22/12/1971
Nicholas and Alexandra
Character:Dr. Lazovert
Release Date:29/11/1971
Fiddler on the Roof
Character:Russian Official
Release Date:03/11/1971
The Horsemen
Character:Zam Hajji
Release Date:16/08/1971
The Beast in the Cellar
Character:Newsmith
Release Date:14/04/1971
The Married Couple of the Year Two
Character:le pasteur
Release Date:07/04/1971
Them
Character:Brisbane
Release Date:18/11/1970
Anne of the Thousand Days
Character:Mendoza
Release Date:18/12/1969
Doctor Who: The War Games
Character:Chief Scientist
Release Date:21/06/1969
Baby Love
Character:Man in Cinema
Release Date:19/03/1969
The Assassination Bureau
Character:Baron Muntzof
Release Date:09/03/1969
Beach Head
Character:N.G. Waldron
Release Date:28/01/1969
A Dandy in Aspic
Character:
Release Date:02/04/1968
The Taming of the Shrew
Character:Pedant
Release Date:08/03/1967
The World of George Orwell: 1984
Character:Goldstein
Release Date:28/11/1965
Darling
Character:Art Critic at Ralph Riggs Exposure (uncredited)
Release Date:03/08/1965
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
Character:Member of the French Team
Release Date:16/06/1965
The Debussy Film
Character:The Actor
Release Date:18/05/1965
The Life of Galileo
Character:Philosopher
Release Date:29/04/1964
Television Appearances
The Gold
Character:Matteo Constantino
The Witcher
Character:Older Elf
The Romanoffs
Character:M. Audran
Emerald City
Character:High Born Man
The Durrells
Character:Mr. Kralefsky
The Borgias
Character:
The Borgias
Character:Cardinal Versucci
The Little Murders of Agatha Christie
Character:Anatole Deschanel
Apparitions
Character:
La Légende des 3 clefs
Character:The anthropologist Gilles Clément
Surviving Disaster
Character:
Largo Winch
Character:Maurice de Beliveau
Largo Winch
Character:
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
Character:Cleisthenes
Relic Hunter
Character:Anthony Cureton
Highlander: The Raven
Character:Count Van Der Meer
Merlin
Character:1st Physician
Father Ted
Character:Old Nazi
Highlander: The Series
Character:Carlo Luchesi
Highlander: The Series
Character:Hamad
As Time Goes By
Character:Dr. Stoker
The Strauss Dynasty
Character:Hirsch
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
Character:Jules Glaenzer
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Character:Simeon Lee
Fortunes of War
Character:Prince Hadjimoscos
Mussolini: The Untold Story
Character:Sebastiani
Tender Is the Night
Character:Luis Campion
A.D.
Character:Flavius Sabinus
Morenga
Character:Lohmann
L'Homme de Suez
Character:Konya, Turkish Colonel, spy in the service of the English
Sherlock Holmes
Character:Mendelstam
Dramarama
Character:
Marco Polo
Character:Pietro De Abano
Goldene Zeiten - Bittere Zeiten
Character:M. Bernard
Private Schulz
Character:Sturmer
Peter and Paul
Character:High Priest of Herod
Masada
Character:Chief Priest
Ike
Character:Gen. Charles DeGaulle
Lillie
Character:
Holocaust
Character:Karp
Blake's 7
Character:The Chairman
1990
Character:
Dickens of London
Character:Legal Gentleman
Police Commissioner Moulin
Character:Astman
Michael Strogoff
Character:Blount
Rumpole of the Bailey
Character:Edward Gandolphini
Des Christoffel von Grimmelshausen abenteuerlicher Simplizissimus
Character:Dr. Canard
The Sweeney
Character:Harry Kretchmar
Churchill's People
Character:De Reynes
À vous de jouer Milord
Character:N° 2
Father Brown
Character:
Fall of Eagles
Character:Count Stookau
Playhouse
Character:Eugene
Nobody Is Norman Wisdom
Character:Proshnik
Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
Character:
The Edwardians
Character:Benjamin Disraeli
Crown Court
Character:John Maitland-Wilson
The Protectors
Character:Joe Flynn
Van der Valk
Character:Sebastian Jonge
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Character:Molbech
Play for Today
Character:
Ace of Wands
Character:Sandor Zandar
Codename
Character:Herman Voss
The Champions
Character:Manager
The Name of the Game
Character:Dedushko
The Further Adventures of the Musketeers
Character:Msgr. de Gondy
The Three Musketeers
Character:Commissary
Breaking Point
Character:
Mystery and Imagination
Character:Dr Lutz
BBC Play of the Month
Character:Monsieur Maingot
The Mask of Janus
Character:Colonel Valenkov
Out of the Unknown
Character:
The World of Wooster
Character:Music Store Assistant
Theatre 625
Character:Priest
Theatre 625
Character:Emmanuel Goldstein
Martin Chuzzlewit
Character:
Doctor Who
Character:Scientist
Festival
Character:Philosopher
The Saint
Character:Vogel
The Scales of Justice
Character:Mr. Strang
The Avengers
Character:Spencer
The Avengers
Character:Stenson
Dixon of Dock Green
Character:Counsel for Defence
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