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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Known For
The Name of the Game
Agatha Christie's Poirot
The Witcher
The Saint
The Little Murders of Agatha Christie
Doctor Who
Sherlock Holmes
Relic Hunter
The Gold
The Romanoffs
The Borgias
Marco Polo
Holocaust
Joseph Andrews
Merlin
A.D.
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
Mussolini: The Untold Story
Undisputed III: Redemption
The Assassination Bureau
Fortunes of War
M. Butterfly
Nijinsky
The Order
Before Sunset
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