Highest rated movie: Before Sunset (2004)
Lowest rated movie: The Order (2001)
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Movies starring Vernon Dobtcheff have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 62%.
Before Sunset - released in 2004 - is Vernon Dobtcheff's highest rated movie, with a score of 85% based on 904 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Vernon Dobtcheff is The Order - released in 2001 - with a score of 30% based on 48 reviews.
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 year 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 local, if unable to expected year 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.
Vernon Dobtcheff has acted in films with Ian Holm, Ronald Pickup, Michael Lonsdale and Michael Gough.
Vernon Dobtcheff has worked with these film directors: Charles Jarrott, Peter Medak, Lewis Gilbert and James Ivory.
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