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Vernon Dobtcheff
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Vernon Dobtcheff, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Vernon Dobtcheff, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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The Name of the Game
Agatha Christie's Poirot
The Witcher
The Saint
Marco Polo
The Little Murders of Agatha Christie
Doctor Who
Sherlock Holmes
Relic Hunter
The Gold
Dixon of Dock Green
Blake's 7
The Romanoffs
Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
The Venturers
Fall of Eagles
Private Schulz
The Edwardians
The Devil's Crown
Surviving Disaster
Apparitions
Holocaust
Joseph Andrews
Merlin
The Falklands Play
Romeo and Juliet
A.D.
Fiddler on the Roof
Murder on the Orient Express
The Name of the Rose
Peter and Paul
The Marseille Contract
Hamlet
Jude
The Spy Who Loved Me
Catherine the Great
Mussolini: The Untold Story
The World of George Orwell: 1984
Undisputed III: Redemption
The Day of the Jackal
Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour
The Assassination Bureau
The Borgias
Fortunes of War
An Englishman Abroad
Playing with Fire
Nijinsky
M. Butterfly
Rumpole of the Bailey
French Without Tears
The Debussy Film
The Order
Before Sunset
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