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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 Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour
2024
The Scientist (archive footage)
Details Alec Guinness: A Class Act
2024
self
Details Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
2022
Self
Details Burning Casablanca
2021
Corny
Details The Haunting of Margam Castle
2020
Enos
Details The Violet Hour
2018
M. Audran
Details L'hypothèse de la reine rouge
2018
Sherlock Holmes
Details The Man with the Iron Heart
2017
Emile Hacha
Details The Invisible Boy
2014
Artiglio
Details Seven Lucky Gods
2014
Lawrence
Details Another Woman's Life
2012
Dimitri Speranski
Details Zarafa
2012
Le vieux sage (voice)
Details Undisputed III: Redemption
2010
Rezo
Details Changing Climates, Changing Times
2009
Lucas
Details The Joy of Singing
2008
Le lecteur du bar
Details Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
2008
Self
Details Courts mais Gay : Tome 12
2006
Anthony
Details For the Time Being
2006
Anthony
Details An American Haunting
2005
Elder #1
Details Empire of the Wolves
2005
Kudseyi
Details Thank You, Doctor Rey
2004
François
Details Before Sunset
2004
Bookstore Manager
Details Pontormo - Un amore eretico
2004
Riccio
Details The Falklands Play
2002
Nicanor Costa Méndez (Argentine Minister of External Relations)
Details Festival in Cannes
2001
Millie's Escort
Details Revelation
2001
Curé at Rennes-le-Chateau
Details The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
2000
Cleisthenes
Details Dreaming of Joseph Lees
1999
Italian Doctor
Details The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
1999
Art Gallery Lecturer
Details Hilary and Jackie
1998
Professor Bentley
Details 30 Years to Life
1998
Sandler
Details Spanish Fly
1998
Carl's Friend
Details The Wonderland Experience
1998
Vincent
Details The Hunchback
1997
Father Michel
Details The Ice Princess
1996
Character TBA
Details Surviving Picasso
1996
Diaghilev
Details Catherine the Great
1996
Naryshkin
Details Jefferson in Paris
1995
King's Translator
Details The House that Mary Bought
1995
Character TBA
Details M. Butterfly
1993
Agent Etancelin
Details The Hour of the Pig
1993
Apothecary
Details Temptation of Sainthood
1993
Freud
Details Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher
1993
Un Héraut / Un prêtre / Un clerc
Details Obiettivo indiscreto
1992
Primo editore
Details Let Him Have It
1991
Clerk of Court
Details Mel Gibson Goes Back to School
1991
Reynaldo (archive footage)
Details Vincent and me
1990
Dr Winkler
Details The Garden
1990
Old Man at Sauna
Details Flight from Paradise
1990
Merrill
Details The Hostage of Europe
1989
Hudson Lowe
Details Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1989
Butler
Details Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
1989
Doctor Webber
Details The Sweet House of Horrors
1989
The Exorcist
Details Pascali's Island
1988
Pariente
Details Catacombs
1988
Brother Timothy
Details Le due croci
1988
Bischof de Jong
Details The Name of the Rose
1986
Hugh of Newcastle
Details Much Ado About Nothing
1984
Don John
Details Night Patrol
1984
Character TBA
Details The Devil's Lieutenant
1984
Dr. Goldschmiedt
Details Mon Ami Washington
1984
Character TBA
Details An Englishman Abroad
1983
Guildenstern
Details The Scarlet and the Black
1983
Count Langenthal
Details The Night of Varennes
1982
Judge at the confiscation
Details Troilus & Cressida
1981
Agamemnon
Details L'Amour nu
1981
John, le patron de Claire
Details Sredni Vashtar
1981
Dr. Russell
Details San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça
1981
Un tueur russe
Details Nijinsky
1980
Sergei Grigoriev
Details Ike
1979
Gen. Charles DeGaulle
Details Romeo and Juliet
1978
Apothecary
Details Last In, First Out
1978
Le réceptionniste
Details Little Girl in Blue Velvet
1978
Lamberti
Details The Roads of Exile
1978
Le peintre Ramsay
Details March or Die
1977
Mean Corporal
Details The Spy Who Loved Me
1977
Max Kalba
Details The Achurch Letters
1977
Eugene
Details French Without Tears
1976
Monsieur Maingot
Details Rumpole of the Bailey
1975
Magnus Piecan
Details Operation: Daybreak
1975
Pyotr
Details Cat and Mouse
1975
Germain's accomplice
Details Van der Valk and the Scapegoat
1975
Reinders
Details India Song
1975
Georges Crawn
Details Playing with Fire
1975
A messenger
Details Scent of a Woman
1974
Don Carlo (uncredited)
Details Murder on the Orient Express
1974
Concierge
Details The Marseille Contract
1974
Lazar
Details Cartesius
1974
Astronomo Ciprus
Details Soft Beds, Hard Battles
1974
Padre
Details Story of a Love Story
1973
Private Investigator
Details The Day of the Jackal
1973
Interrogator
Details An Echo of Theresa
1973
Bannerheim
Details The Canterbury Tales
1972
The Franklin
Details Far from Dallas
1972
Character TBA
Details Mary, Queen of Scots
1971
Duc De Guise
Details Nicholas and Alexandra
1971
Dr. Lazovert
Details Fiddler on the Roof
1971
Russian Official
Details The Married Couple of the Year Two
1971
le pasteur
Details The Beast in the Cellar
1970
Newsmith
Details Anne of the Thousand Days
1969
Mendoza
Details Doctor Who: The War Games
1969
Chief Scientist
Details The Assassination Bureau
1969
Baron Muntzof
Details A Dandy in Aspic
1968
Character TBA
Details The Taming of the Shrew
1967
Pedant
Details The World of George Orwell: 1984
1965
Goldstein
Details Darling
1965
Art Critic at Ralph Riggs Exposure (uncredited)
Details Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
1965
Member of the French Team
Details The Debussy Film
1965
The Actor
Details The Life of Galileo
1964
Philosopher
Details 