Vernon Dobtcheff

Vernon is one of the most versatile and since the 1960’s, who is Equally at home in films and television as on stage and radio dramas. His Anglo – French background has enabled him to work as much in France as in England. Fluent in many languages has also made it possible for Vernon act in Italian , German and Spanish film productions.

He is currently playing the Old Elf Man in The Witcher: Series 2 on Netflix.

His most recent film credits include:

• The Haunting of Margam Castle (Directed by Andrew Jones )
• The 15:17 To Paris (Directed by Clint Eastwood )
• The Man with the Iron Heart (Directed by Cedric Jimenez)
• Killing Jesus (Directed by Christopher Menaul)
• The Invisible Boy (Directed by by Gabriel Salvatores )
• Horsehead (Directed by Romain Basset )
• Deception ( Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore )

Among his most recent television credits are:

• The Witcher: Series 2 (Netflix)
• The Gold (BBC)
• The Durrells (ITV)
• The Romanoffs (Amazon Studios)
• Emerald City
• Jonathan Strange
• Norell (BBC)
• The Borgias (Directed by Niel Jordan – Showtime)
• L’ Hypothese de la Reine Rouge (Directed by Florian Thomas)

He also recently played Sherlock Holmes in a French short film.

Other recent shorts include The Pride of Atticus Lee directed by Samuel Martin with Julian Glover, Lisa Bowerman and Jason Farries. He played Nostradamus in The Prophecies of Nostradamus directed by Das Abra. Now available in full on YouTube.

Few actors have worked with as many of the greatest directors film directors as Vernon over the past 60 years. Some of which are Steven Spielberg, Clint Eastwood, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ettore Scola, Franklin J. Schaffner, Blake Edwards, Henry Jaglom, John Frankenheimer, Joseph Losey, Peter Medak, James Ivory, Basil Dearden, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Norman Jewison, Fred Zinnemann, Derek Jarman, Tony Richardson, Volker Schlondorff, Ken Russell Lewis Gilbert, Franco Zeffirelli , Luco Fulci , David Cronenberg and Sidney Lumet among the great many!

His film debut was in the all – time comedy classic Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines directed by Ken Annakin.

Among the many hundreds of films he has acted in are the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me

• The Name of the Rose.
• The Day of the Jackal
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
• Fiddler on the Roof
• Murder on the Orient Express
• Caravaggio
• The Krays
• Nicholas and Alexandra
• That Night in Varennes
• The Scarlet and the Black
• Darling
• Scent of a Woman
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame
• Jude
• Surviving Picasso
• M. Butterfly
• Let Him Have It
• Hamlet
• Enigma
• Condorman
• Nijinsky
• Operation: Daybreak
• Mary Queen of Scots
• Galileo
• The Marseille Contract
• The Beast in the Cellar
• The Canterbury Tales
• Anne of the Thousand Days
• A Dandy in Aspic
• The Assassination Bureau
• Baby Love
• The Taming of the Shrew

His many acting engagements in now classic work for television include:

• Doctor Who: The War Games
• Masada
• Holocaust
• As Time Goes By
• Father Ted
• Wagner
• Fortunes of War
• Till We Meet Again
• The World of Wooster and Jeeves
• The Avengers
• The Champions
• Camino Real
• Marco Polo
• Some Mother’s Do ‘Av ‘Em
• Blake’s 7
• Merlin
• Highlander
• Mussolini: The Untold Story
• Maigret
• Dixon of Dock Green
• War and Remembrance

In the theatre he has acted with most of the major repertory companies in England. Stage work in London’s West End and in Paris.

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