Vernon Dobtcheff: movies and TV shows
Vernon Dobtcheff has 256 credits in the archive: 163 films and 93 TV series, from 1955 to 2024. Highest rated: The Return of Sherlock Holmes (8.8/10).
Career timeline
1955 – 2024 · busiest year: 1975 (13 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Alec Guinness: A Class Act | self | Film | 6.0 | 89 |
| 2024 | Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour | The Scientist (archive footage) | Film | 5.8 | 89 |
| 2023 | The Gold | Matteo Constantino | TV | 7.3 | 88 |
| 2022 | Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba | Self | Film | 7.8 | 87 |
| 2021 | Burning Casablanca | Corny | Film | 5.9 | 86 |
| 2020 | The Haunting of Margam Castle | Enos | Film | 5.1 | 85 |
| 2019 | The Witcher | Older Elf | TV | 7.9 | 84 |
| 2018 | The Romanoffs | M. Audran | TV | 6.4 | 83 |
| 2018 | L'hypothèse de la reine rouge | Sherlock Holmes | Film | 8.0 | 83 |
| 2018 | The Violet Hour | M. Audran | Film | — | 83 |
| 2017 | Emerald City | High Born Man | TV | 6.6 | 82 |
| 2017 | The Man with the Iron Heart | Emile Hacha | Film | 6.5 | 82 |
| 2016 | The Durrells | Mr. Kralefsky | TV | 7.4 | 81 |
| 2015 | Killing Jesus | Isaiah | Film | 6.3 | 80 |
| 2014 | The Invisible Boy | Artiglio | Film | 6.3 | 79 |
| 2014 | Horsehead | George | Film | 5.3 | 79 |
| 2014 | Seven Lucky Gods | Lawrence | Film | 5.6 | 79 |
| 2013 | The Great Beauty | Arturo | Film | 7.5 | 78 |
| 2012 | Zarafa | Le vieux sage (voice) | Film | 6.9 | 77 |
| 2012 | Another Woman's Life | Dimitri Speranski | Film | 6.2 | 77 |
| 2011 | The Borgias | Cardinal Versucci | TV | 7.6 | 76 |
| 2011 | The Passage | Vieil homme | Film | 4.0 | 76 |
| 2010 | Undisputed III: Redemption | Rezo | Film | 7.6 | 75 |
| 2010 | Godforsaken | The Surgeon | Film | 4.0 | 75 |
| 2009 | The Little Murders of Agatha Christie | Anatole Deschanel | TV | 7.4 | 74 |
| 2009 | Changing Climates, Changing Times | Lucas | Film | 6.4 | 74 |
| 2008 | Apparitions | TV | 7.2 | 73 | |
| 2008 | The Joy of Singing | Le lecteur du bar | Film | 3.4 | 73 |
| 2008 | Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1 | Self | Film | 6.0 | 73 |
| 2007 | La Légende des 3 clefs | The anthropologist Gilles Clément | TV | 6.8 | 72 |
| 2006 | Priceless | Jacques | Film | 6.4 | 71 |
| 2006 | Surviving Disaster | TV | 6.7 | 71 | |
| 2006 | For the Time Being | Anthony | Film | — | 71 |
| 2006 | Courts mais Gay : Tome 12 | Anthony | Film | — | 71 |
| 2005 | Empire of the Wolves | Kudseyi | Film | 5.7 | 70 |
| 2005 | An American Haunting | Elder #1 | Film | 5.5 | 70 |
| 2004 | Before Sunset | Bookstore Manager | Film | 7.8 | 69 |
| 2004 | Evilenko | Bagdasarov | Film | 5.8 | 69 |
| 2004 | Pontormo - Un amore eretico | Riccio | Film | 6.5 | 69 |
| 2003 | Brocéliande | Brennos | Film | 4.0 | 68 |
| 2003 | Thank You, Doctor Rey | François | Film | 5.5 | 68 |
| 2002 | The Red Siren | Vitali | Film | 5.3 | 67 |
| 2002 | The Falklands Play | Nicanor Costa Méndez (Argentine Minister of External Relations) | Film | 7.0 | 67 |
| 2001 | Largo Winch | Maurice de Beliveau | TV | 6.0 | 66 |
| 2001 | Largo Winch | TV | 6.0 | 66 | |
| 2001 | The Order | Oscar | Film | 5.1 | 66 |
| 2001 | The Body | Monsignor | Film | 5.5 | 66 |
| 2001 | David Copperfield | Quinion | Film | 6.3 | 66 |
| 2001 | Revelation | Curé at Rennes-le-Chateau | Film | 5.1 | 66 |
| 2001 | Festival in Cannes | Millie's Escort | Film | 5.3 | 66 |
| 2000 | David Copperfield | Quinion | TV | — | 65 |
| 2000 | The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization | Cleisthenes | TV | 7.4 | 65 |
| 2000 | Le Prof | Patte Folle | Film | 4.8 | 65 |
| 2000 | The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization | Cleisthenes | Film | — | 65 |
| 2000 | Falling Through | Father | Film | 4.3 | 65 |
| 1999 | Relic Hunter | Anthony Cureton | TV | 6.8 | 64 |
| 1999 | Dreaming of Joseph Lees | Italian Doctor | Film | 6.4 | 64 |
| 1999 | The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka | Art Gallery Lecturer | Film | 10.0 | 64 |
| 1998 | Merlin | 1st Physician | TV | 6.9 | 63 |
| 1998 | Highlander: The Raven | Count Van Der Meer | TV | 5.4 | 63 |
| 1998 | Hilary and Jackie | Professor Bentley | Film | 6.6 | 63 |
| 1998 | Vigo | Papa Lozinska | Film | 5.1 | 63 |
| 1998 | Jinnah | Lord Willingdon | Film | 6.9 | 63 |
| 1998 | St. Ives | Bonnefoy | Film | 5.6 | 63 |
| 1998 | Spanish Fly | Carl's Friend | Film | 3.2 | 63 |
| 1998 | 30 Years to Life | Sandler | Film | 6.3 | 63 |
| 1998 | Déjà Vu | Konstantine | Film | 5.5 | 63 |
| 1998 | The Wonderland Experience | Vincent | Film | 8.0 | 63 |
| 1997 | Anna Karenina | Pestov | Film | 6.1 | 62 |
| 1997 | The Hunchback | Father Michel | Film | 5.9 | 62 |
| 1996 | Jude | Curator | Film | 6.3 | 61 |
| 1996 | Catherine the Great | Naryshkin | Film | 5.6 | 61 |
| 1996 | Surviving Picasso | Diaghilev | Film | 5.8 | 61 |
| 1996 | The Ogre | Lawyer | Film | 6.4 | 61 |
| 1996 | The Ice Princess | Chancellor | Film | 5.8 | 61 |
| 1995 | Father Ted | Old Nazi | TV | 8.2 | 60 |
| 1995 | Jefferson in Paris | King's Translator | Film | 5.1 | 60 |
| 1995 | Sharpe's Sword | Don Felipe | Film | 7.3 | 60 |
| 1995 | The House that Mary Bought | Film | 6.5 | 60 | |
| 1995 | Le fils de Paul | Duval | Film | 7.0 | 60 |
| 1994 | Mademoiselle O | Rouka | Film | 10.0 | 59 |
| 1993 | Sharpe | Don Felipe | TV | 8.0 | 58 |
| 1993 | M. Butterfly | Agent Etancelin | Film | 6.6 | 58 |
| 1993 | The Hour of the Pig | Apothecary | Film | 6.2 | 58 |
| 1993 | Temptation of Sainthood | Freud | Film | 7.0 | 58 |
| 1993 | Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher | Un Héraut / Un prêtre / Un clerc | Film | 10.0 | 58 |
| 1993 | Frankenstein | Chancellor | Film | 6.9 | 58 |
| 1992 | Highlander: The Series | Carlo Luchesi | TV | 7.4 | 57 |
| 1992 | Highlander: The Series | Hamad | TV | 7.4 | 57 |
| 1992 | As Time Goes By | Dr. Stoker | TV | 7.5 | 57 |
| 1992 | The First Circle | Riyumin | Film | 5.0 | 57 |
| 1992 | Sweetheart | Thurson | Film | 6.2 | 57 |
| 1992 | Venice/Venice | Alexander | Film | 7.0 | 57 |
| 1992 | Obiettivo indiscreto | Primo editore | Film | 7.0 | 57 |
| 1991 | The Strauss Dynasty | Hirsch | TV | — | 56 |
| 1991 | Let Him Have It | Clerk of Court | Film | 6.7 | 56 |
| 1990 | Vincent and Me | Dr Winkler | Film | 5.5 | 55 |
| 1990 | Flight from Paradise | Merrill | Film | 8.5 | 55 |
| 1990 | Hamlet | Reynaldo | Film | 6.6 | 55 |
| 1990 | The Krays | Teacher | Film | 6.1 | 55 |
| 1990 | The Plot to Kill Hitler | Fellgiebel | Film | 6.2 | 55 |
| 1990 | Meridian | Priest | Film | 4.5 | 55 |
| 1990 | The Garden | Old Man at Sauna | Film | 5.6 | 55 |
| 1989 | Agatha Christie's Poirot | Simeon Lee | TV | 8.2 | 54 |
| 1989 | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | Butler | Film | 7.9 | 54 |
| 1989 | Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story | Jules Glaenzer | TV | 5.7 | 54 |
| 1989 | Natalia | Alfred Grabner | Film | 6.4 | 54 |
| 1989 | The Sweet House of Horrors | The Exorcist | Film | 4.9 | 54 |
| 1989 | Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story | Doctor Webber | Film | 5.9 | 54 |
| 1989 | The Hostage of Europe | Hudson Lowe | Film | 7.5 | 54 |
| 1989 | Splendor | Film | 6.5 | 54 | |
| 1989 | Berlin-Jerusalem | Editor | Film | 5.3 | 54 |
| 1988 | War and Remembrance | Henri Bulle | TV | 7.9 | 53 |
| 1988 | Catacombs | Brother Timothy | Film | 4.9 | 53 |
| 1988 | Pascali's Island | Pariente | Film | 6.4 | 53 |
| 1988 | Maigret | Gannett | Film | 7.5 | 53 |
| 1988 | Testimony | Gargolovsky | Film | 5.6 | 53 |
| 1988 | Le due croci | Bischof de Jong | Film | 10.0 | 53 |
| 1987 | Crossbow | TV | 6.3 | 52 | |
| 1987 | Fortunes of War | Prince Hadjimoscos | TV | 6.3 | 52 |
| 1986 | The Name of the Rose | Hugh of Newcastle | Film | 7.5 | 51 |
| 1986 | The Return of Sherlock Holmes | Mendelstam | TV | 8.8 | 51 |
| 1986 | Caravaggio | Art Lover | Film | 6.1 | 51 |
| 1985 | A.D. | Flavius Sabinus | TV | 5.4 | 50 |
| 1985 | Tender Is the Night | Luis Campion | TV | 6.3 | 50 |
| 1985 | Mussolini: The Untold Story | Sebastiani | TV | 5.3 | 50 |
| 1985 | Mata Hari | Prosecutor | Film | 4.1 | 50 |
| 1985 | Morenga | Lohmann | TV | 8.0 | 50 |
| 1984 | Sherlock Holmes | Mendelstam | TV | 8.2 | 49 |
| 1984 | Gwendoline | Shirko | Film | 4.9 | 49 |
| 1984 | L'Homme de Suez | Konya, Turkish Colonel, spy in the service of the English | TV | 7.7 | 49 |
| 1984 | Night Patrol | James | Film | 5.5 | 49 |
| 1984 | Mon Ami Washington | Film | 9.0 | 49 | |
| 1984 | Much Ado About Nothing | Don John | Film | 6.8 | 49 |
| 1984 | The Devil's Lieutenant | Dr. Goldschmiedt | Film | 9.0 | 49 |
| 1983 | Dramarama | Mr. Rolyat | TV | 7.3 | 48 |
| 1983 | The Scarlet and the Black | Count Langenthal | Film | 7.0 | 48 |
| 1983 | An Englishman Abroad | Guildenstern | Film | 6.1 | 48 |
| 1982 | Marco Polo | Pietro De Abano | TV | 6.7 | 47 |
| 1982 | Nutcracker | Markovitch | Film | 3.3 | 47 |
| 1982 | That Night of Varennes | Judge at the confiscation | Film | 6.9 | 47 |
| 1982 | Enigma | Minister | Film | 5.6 | 47 |
| 1981 | Masada | Chief Priest | TV | 7.0 | 46 |
| 1981 | Private Schulz | Sturmer | TV | 5.3 | 46 |
| 1981 | Goldene Zeiten - Bittere Zeiten | M. Bernard | TV | 7.0 | 46 |
| 1981 | Peter and Paul | High Priest of Herod | TV | 7.2 | 46 |
| 1981 | Condorman | Russian Agent | Film | 5.5 | 46 |
| 1981 | L'Amour nu | John, le patron de Claire | Film | 5.0 | 46 |
| 1981 | Le Beau Monde | Pablo | Film | 7.5 | 46 |
| 1981 | Troilus & Cressida | Agamemnon | Film | 8.0 | 46 |
| 1981 | Sredni Vashtar | Dr. Russell | Film | 7.2 | 46 |
| 1981 | San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça | Un tueur russe | Film | 3.5 | 46 |
| 1980 | Nijinsky | Sergei Grigoriev | Film | 4.9 | 45 |
| 1979 | Ike | Gen. Charles DeGaulle | Film | 6.8 | 44 |
| 1979 | Ike | Gen. Charles DeGaulle | TV | 7.3 | 44 |
| 1978 | Blake's 7 | The Chairman | TV | 7.3 | 43 |
| 1978 | Holocaust | Karp | TV | 7.3 | 43 |
| 1978 | Mazarin | Pimentel | TV | 7.0 | 43 |
| 1978 | Little Girl in Blue Velvet | Lamberti | Film | 5.7 | 43 |
| 1978 | Romeo and Juliet | Apothecary | Film | 7.6 | 43 |
| 1978 | Question of Love | Peter | Film | 6.8 | 43 |
| 1978 | Last In, First Out | Le réceptionniste | Film | 4.5 | 43 |
| 1978 | The Roads of Exile | Le peintre Ramsay | Film | 9.0 | 43 |
| 1977 | The Spy Who Loved Me | Max Kalba | Film | 6.8 | 42 |
| 1977 | 1990 | TV | 6.5 | 42 | |
| 1977 | March or Die | Mean Corporal | Film | 5.8 | 42 |
| 1977 | Joseph Andrews | Fop Two | Film | 5.2 | 42 |
| 1977 | The Achurch Letters | Eugene | Film | — | 42 |
| 1976 | Police Commissioner Moulin | Astman | TV | 7.1 | 41 |
| 1976 | Dickens of London | Legal Gentleman | TV | 7.3 | 41 |
| 1976 | Killers | Clerk of the Assizes | TV | — | 41 |
| 1976 | French Without Tears | Monsieur Maingot | Film | 7.0 | 41 |
| 1975 | The Sweeney | Harry Kretchmar | TV | 8.1 | 40 |
| 1975 | Rumpole of the Bailey | Edward Gandolphini | TV | 7.1 | 40 |
| 1975 | Michael Strogoff | Blount | TV | 6.7 | 40 |
| 1975 | Operation: Daybreak | Pyotr | Film | 6.9 | 40 |
| 1975 | Playing with Fire | A messenger | Film | 5.5 | 40 |
| 1975 | Des Christoffel von Grimmelshausen abenteuerlicher Simplizissimus | Dr. Canard | TV | 6.8 | 40 |
| 1975 | Lovers Like Us | Coleman | Film | 6.6 | 40 |
| 1975 | India Song | Georges Crawn | Film | 6.4 | 40 |
| 1975 | Rumpole of the Bailey | Magnus Piecan | Film | 8.0 | 40 |
| 1975 | Cat and Mouse | Germain's accomplice | Film | 5.7 | 40 |
| 1975 | The Messiah | Samuel | Film | 6.6 | 40 |
| 1975 | The Secret Agent | Karl Yundt | Film | 10.0 | 40 |
| 1975 | Van der Valk and the Scapegoat | Reinders | Film | 10.0 | 40 |
| 1974 | Playhouse | Eugene | TV | 7.0 | 39 |
| 1974 | Churchill's People | De Reynes | TV | 5.0 | 39 |
| 1974 | Father Brown | Simon Vesty | TV | 6.8 | 39 |
| 1974 | Murder on the Orient Express | Concierge | Film | 7.1 | 39 |
| 1974 | Fall of Eagles | Count Stookau | TV | 7.0 | 39 |
| 1974 | Scent of a Woman | Don Carlo (uncredited) | Film | 7.4 | 39 |
| 1974 | Soft Beds, Hard Battles | Padre | Film | 4.6 | 39 |
| 1974 | The Marseille Contract | Lazar | Film | 6.0 | 39 |
| 1974 | Cartesius | Astronomo Ciprus | TV | 9.0 | 39 |
| 1974 | À vous de jouer Milord | N° 2 | TV | 8.0 | 39 |
| 1973 | The Day of the Jackal | Interrogator | Film | 7.5 | 38 |
| 1973 | Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em | TV | 7.6 | 38 | |
| 1973 | Nobody Is Norman Wisdom | Proshnik | TV | — | 38 |
| 1973 | Impossible Object | Private Investigator | Film | 4.8 | 38 |
| 1973 | An Echo of Theresa | Bannerheim | Film | 6.5 | 38 |
| 1972 | Crown Court | John Maitland-Wilson | TV | 5.7 | 37 |
| 1972 | The Protectors | Joe Flynn | TV | 6.1 | 37 |
| 1972 | Van der Valk | Sebastian Jonge | TV | 6.2 | 37 |
| 1972 | New Scotland Yard | Jacob Harmann | TV | 6.3 | 37 |
| 1972 | The Edwardians | Benjamin Disraeli | TV | 6.3 | 37 |
| 1972 | The Canterbury Tales | The Franklin | Film | 6.1 | 37 |
| 1972 | Up the Front | Muller | Film | 4.4 | 37 |
| 1972 | Far from Dallas | Film | 7.3 | 37 | |
| 1971 | The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes | Molbech | TV | 7.5 | 36 |
| 1971 | Fiddler on the Roof | Russian Official | Film | 7.8 | 36 |
| 1971 | Nicholas and Alexandra | Dr. Lazovert | Film | 7.0 | 36 |
| 1971 | The Horsemen | Zam Hajji | Film | 6.3 | 36 |
| 1971 | Mary, Queen of Scots | Duc De Guise | Film | 6.7 | 36 |
| 1971 | The Married Couple of the Year Two | le pasteur | Film | 6.5 | 36 |
| 1971 | The Beast in the Cellar | Newsmith | Film | 4.9 | 36 |
| 1970 | Play for Today | TV | 6.6 | 35 | |
| 1970 | Ace of Wands | Sandor Zandar | TV | 6.3 | 35 |
| 1970 | Codename | Herman Voss | TV | 8.0 | 35 |
| 1970 | Them | Brisbane | Film | 4.3 | 35 |
| 1970 | Darling Lili | Otto Kraus | Film | 5.6 | 35 |
| 1969 | Beach Head | N.G. Waldron | Film | 7.0 | 34 |
| 1969 | Anne of the Thousand Days | Mendoza | Film | 7.1 | 34 |
| 1969 | The Assassination Bureau | Baron Muntzof | Film | 6.7 | 34 |
| 1969 | Baby Love | Man in Cinema | Film | 5.3 | 34 |
| 1969 | Doctor Who: The War Games | Chief Scientist | Film | 9.7 | 34 |
| 1968 | The Name of the Game | Dedushko | TV | 7.0 | 33 |
| 1968 | The Champions | Manager | TV | 6.5 | 33 |
| 1968 | A Dandy in Aspic | Film | 6.9 | 33 | |
| 1967 | The Further Adventures of the Musketeers | Msgr. de Gondy | TV | 7.7 | 32 |
| 1967 | The Taming of the Shrew | Pedant | Film | 6.9 | 32 |
| 1966 | Mystery and Imagination | Dr Lutz | TV | 5.8 | 31 |
| 1966 | The Three Musketeers | Commissary | TV | 6.0 | 31 |
| 1966 | Breaking Point | TV | — | 31 | |
| 1965 | BBC Play of the Month | Monsieur Maingot | TV | 5.3 | 30 |
| 1965 | Thirty-Minute Theatre | Carpenter | TV | 4.2 | 30 |
| 1965 | Out of the Unknown | N.G. Waldron | TV | 7.1 | 30 |
| 1965 | The World of Wooster | Music Store Assistant | TV | 7.0 | 30 |
| 1965 | The Mask of Janus | Colonel Valenkov | TV | 8.0 | 30 |
| 1965 | Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes | Member of the French Team | Film | 6.8 | 30 |
| 1965 | Darling | Art Critic at Ralph Riggs Exposure (uncredited) | Film | 6.7 | 30 |
| 1965 | The Debussy Film | The Actor | Film | 7.6 | 30 |
| 1965 | The World of George Orwell: 1984 | Goldstein | Film | 7.0 | 30 |
| 1964 | Theatre 625 | Priest | TV | 7.2 | 29 |
| 1964 | Theatre 625 | Emmanuel Goldstein | TV | 7.2 | 29 |
| 1964 | The Protectors | Cherni | TV | 8.0 | 29 |
| 1964 | Martin Chuzzlewit | TV | 8.0 | 29 | |
| 1964 | The Life of Galileo | Philosopher | Film | — | 29 |
| 1963 | Doctor Who | Scientist | TV | 7.9 | 28 |
| 1963 | Festival | Philosopher | TV | 8.0 | 28 |
| 1963 | Espionage | Captain of Police | TV | 10.0 | 28 |
| 1962 | The Saint | Vogel | TV | 7.3 | 27 |
| 1962 | The Scales of Justice | Mr. Strang | TV | 6.7 | 27 |
| 1961 | The Avengers | Spencer | TV | 7.8 | 26 |
| 1961 | The Avengers | Stenson | TV | 7.8 | 26 |
| 1955 | Dixon of Dock Green | Counsel for Defence | TV | 6.0 | 20 |
| Parlez-nous de l'Amour | Film | — | — |