FrameThrower · Actors · Vernon Dobtcheff
Vernon Dobtcheff
5 films · 325 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1972–2013
Born 14 August 1934 · Nimes, France
Vernon Alexandre Dobtcheff is a French-British character actor, who has appeared in over 300 film, television, and stage productions in a career spanning six decades.
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.…
How their films are shot
Measured across 325 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Vernon takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 5 films we hold, 45% of their frames are night, 45% low key — the look of the work Vernon takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 325 frames from Vernon Dobtcheff's 5 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.