Who: Before And After #348
Name: Vernon Dobtcheff
Year(s): 1969
Stories: The War Games episode 4 – The War Games episode 6
Character(s): Chief Scientist
Note: Also appeared in several Big Finish audio releases. Doctor Who main range - 'The Cradle of the Snake'; Jago and Litefoot: 'The Necropolis Express'. In the Lost Stories range - 'The Children of Seth'; Counter-Measures: 'Threshold'; Philip Hinchcliffe Presents: 'The Genesis Chamber'
Before Who (Selected listings):
Film: Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes) (1965), Darling (1965), Return from the Ashes (1965), The Idol (1966),
The Taming of the Shrew* (1967), A Dandy in Aspic (1968),
The Assassination Bureau* (1969), Baby Love (1969)
Television: The Sword in the Web: A Foot in the Door / Compact [2 episodes as the Croupier] / Espionage: A Camel to Ride / Martin Chuzzlewit [3 episodes as the Footman] / Festival: The Life of Galileo / The Protectors: Freedom! / The Count of Monte Cristo: The Abbe Faria / Dixon of Dock Green [4 episodes, different characters (1964-1966) / Thorndyke: Percival Bland's Brother / The Brothers Karamazov: Parricide / Front Page Story: The Quiet Load / The Scales of Justice: The Hidden Face / ITV Play of the Week: The Edwardians #1: The Walls of Jericho / Monitor: The Debussy Film / The World of Wooster: Jeeves and the Song of Songs / The Mask of Janus: And the Fish Are Biting / Hereward the Wake: The Art of War / Theatre 625: The World of George Orwell: 1984 / Buddenbrooks: Silent Night / Knock on Any Door: Pig Iron Johnny / Seven Deadly Sins: File on Harry Jordan / Love Story: The Vegetable Man / Mystery and Imagination: Carmilla / Four People: St. Paul / Breaking Point [5 episodes as Hedworth] /
The Avengers: Room Without a View* / The Three Musketeers: Peril / The Avengers: The Living Dead (1967) / The Rat Catchers: Showdown Vienna / Conflict: Henry V / The Troubleshooters: We're Not One of Us Perfect / The Saint: The Gadget Lovers / The Further Adventures of the Musketeers [6 episodes as Monsignor de Gondy] / Virgin of the Secret Service: Russian Roundabout /
The Champions: The Gilded Cage* / The Tyrant King: The Turnover / Thirty-Minute Theatre: These Men Are Dangerous - Hitler / Out of the Unknown: Beach Head / The Avengers: Thingumajig / The Champions: The Gun-Runners
After Who (Selected listings):
Films: Anne of the Thousand Days (1969), Darling Lili (1970), Them (1970), Swashbuckler (1971), The Beast in the Cellar (1971), The Horsemen (1971), Fiddler on the Roof (1971), Nicholas and Alexandra (1971), Mary, Queen of Scots (1971), Far from Dallas (1972), The Canterbury Tales (1972), Up the Front (1972), The Day of the Jackal (1973), Story of a Love Story (1973), Joan of Arc (1973), Giordano Bruno (1973), Undercovers Hero (1974), Cartesius (1974), The Destructors (1974), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), Scent of a Woman (1974), Galileo (1975), Playing with Fire (1975), India Song (1975), Cat and Mouse (1975), The Messiah (1975), Le Sauvage (1975), Operation: Daybreak (1975), The Secret Agent (1975), Joseph Andrews (1977),
The Spy Who Loved Me* (1977), March or Die (1977), Little Girl in Blue Velvet (1978), Last In, First Out (1978), Question of Love (1978), The Roads of Exile (1978), Romeo & Juliet (1978), A Question of Faith (1979), Nijinsky (1980), Peter and Paul (1981), Condorman (1981), Troilus & Cressida (1981), That Night in Varennes (1982), Enigma (1982), The Nutcracker (1982), The Scarlet and the Black (1983), An Englishman Abroad (1983), The Devil's Lieutenant (1984), Night Patrol (1984), The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik Yak (1984), Yalta (1984), Much Ado About Nothing (1984), My Friend Washington (1984), Morenga (1985), Mata Hari (1985), Mussolini: The Untold Story (1985), Caravaggio (1986), I Hate Actors (1986), The Name of the Rose (1986), Maschenka (1987), Testimony (1987), Catacombs (1988), Maigret (1988), Natalia (1988), Pascali's Island (1988), Madame Sousatzka (1988), Splendor (1989), Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story (1989),
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade* (1989), Berlin-Jerusalem (1989), Jeniec Europy (1989), The Sweet House of Horrors [directed by Lucio Fulci] (1989), The Plot to Kill Hitler (1990), Meridian [directed by Charles Band] (1990), The Krays (1990), Flight from Paradise (1990), The Garden (1990), A Season of Giants (1990), Vincent and Me (1990), Hamlet (1990), Let Him Have It (1991), Prisoner of Honor [directed by Ken Russell] (1991), Near Mrs. (1992), Venice/Venice (1992), Frankenstein (1992), M. Butterfly (1993), The Advocate (1993), Joan of Arc at the Stake (1993), Mademoiselle O (1994), Catherine the Great (1995), Jefferson in Paris (1995), England, My England (1995), The House That Mary Bought (1995), Jude (1996), Surviving Picasso (1996), The Ogre (1996), A Cabin in the Mountains (1997), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1997), Anna Karenina (1997), Love in the Ancient World (1997), DéjÃ* Vu (1997), Jinnah (1998), Hilary and Jackie (1998), Spanish Fly (1998), Vigo: A Passion for Life (1998), 30 Years to Life (1998), St. Ives (1998), Falling Through (2000), David Copperfield (2000), The Body (2001), Largo Winch: The Heir (2001), Festival in Cannes (2001), The Order (2001), The Falklands Play (2002), The Red Siren (2002), Before Sunset (2004), An American Haunting (2005), Othello: A South African Tale (2005), Priceless (2006), Changing Climates, Changing Times (2008), The Invisible Boy (2011), The Man with the Iron Heart (2017), The Haunting of Margam Castle (2020)
Television: The Name of the Game: The Emissary / Codename: Opening Gambit / Ace of Wands [4 episodes as Senor Zandar] / Roads to Freedom: The Age of Reason / Clochemerle: The Inexorable Power of the Third Republic / New Scotland Yard: Memory of a Gauntlet / Scoop: The War Torn Ishmaelia / The Edwardians: Daisy / Thriller: Anatomy of Terror /
The Wide World of Mystery: An Echo of Theresa* / Pour Vermeer / The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: The Sensible Action of Lieutenant Holst / The Protectors: It Could Be Practically Anywhere on the Island / Nobody Is Norman Wisdom / Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em: Frank Goes Over the Edge / Fall of Eagles: Requiem for a Crown Prince / Microbes and Men: The Search for the Magic Bullet / Father Brown: The Dagger with Wings / Churchill's People: On the Anvil / The Venturers: The Cannibals / The Sweeney: Supersnout / The Nearly Man: Confrontation - July 1975 / Play for Today: Rumpole of the Bailey / Jackanory Playhouse: The Magic Gorilla / BBC Play of the Month: French Without Tears / Killers: Murder at the Metropole / Dickens of London: Mask / BBC2 Playhouse: The Achurch Letters / Commissaire Moulin: Marée basse / Marie Curie / Michel Strogoff [7 episodes as Blount] / 1990: Non-Citizen / Holocaust [2 episodes as Karp] / The Devil's Crown [2 episodes as Peter of Wakefield] / Crown Court [3 episodes as John Maitland-Wilson] / Lillie [3 episodes as George Lewis] / Mazarin [4 episodes as Dom Pimentel] /Blake's 7: Shadow / Ike: The War Years [2 episodes as Gen. Charles DeGaulle] / Screenplay: Gossip from the Forest / Turning Year Tales: Jack Fletcher / Bloomers / Les dossiers de l'ecran: Mers El-Kebir / Spy!: Cynthia / Cowboys: Pieces of Hate / Masada [4 episodes as Chief Priest] / Exil / Private Schulz / I Remember Nelson [2 episodes as Cardinal Ruffo] / Tom, Dick and Harriet: Dog in the Manger / Mozart [3 episodes as Prince Galitzine] / Marco Polo [2 episodes as Pietro d'Abano] / Rumpole of the Bailey: Rumpole and the Genuine Article / L'homme de Suez / Wagner [2 episodes as Meyerbeer] / Ellis Island / Goldene Zeiten - Bittere Zeiten [6 episodes as M. Bernard] / A.D. [5 episodes as Flavius Sabinus] / Tender Is the Night / If Tomorrow Comes / The Return of Sherlock Holmes: The Six Napoleons / Fortunes of War [3 episodes as Prince Hadjimoscos] / Poor Little Rich Girl - The Barbara Hutton Story / Small World: Unreal Cities / Melba [4 episodes as Duc de Luyns] / William Tell: Trolls / War and Remembrance / Dramarama: Back to Front / The Hitchhiker: Renaissance / Till We Meet Again [2 episodes as Felix Penroux] / Mr. Majeika [2 episodes as Wizard Marks] / Marie Pervenche: L'étoile filante / Zorro: The Whistling Bandit / Strauss Dynasty [8 episodes as Hirsch] / Van der Valk: The Ties That Bind / Maguy: SOS vampires / The Good Guys: Moldavian Rhapsody / Poirot: Hercule Poirot's Christmas / Sharpe: Sharpe's Sword / The Famous Five: Five Go Adventuring Again / Highlander: For Evil's Sake / Highlander: Promises / Annie's Bar / The Odyssey [2 episodes as Aegyptius] / As Time Goes By: What's Wrong with Mrs Bale? / Father Ted: Are You Right There Father Ted? / Merlin [2 episodes as 1st Physician] / Highlander - The Raven: Dead on Arrival / Empires: The Greeks - Crucible of Civilization: The Revolution / Relic Hunter: The Royal Ring / White Teeth: The Return of Magid Iqbal / Surviving Disaster: Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster / Rome: Philippi / The Legend of Three Keys [3 episodes as Gilles Clement] / Grand Star [6 episodes as Tshishenish] /
The Borgias* [18 episodes as Cardinal Versucci (2011-2013)] / Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell: The Friends of English Magic / Emerald City [2 episodes as High Born Man] / The Durrells in Corfu [3 episodes as Mr. Kralefsky] / The Romanoffs: The Violet Hour /