Herbert Lom
Birthday: 1917-09-12
Place of Birth: Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary
Biography: Herbert Lom (born Herbert Charles Angelo Kuchačevič ze Schluderpacheru; 11 September 1917 – 27 September 2012) was a Czech-born British film and television actor who moved to the United Kingdom in 1939. In a career lasting more than 60 years, he appeared in character roles, often portraying criminals or villains early in his career and professional men in later years. Lom was noted for his precise, elegant enunciation of English. He is best known for his roles in The Ladykillers, The Pink Panther film series and the television series The Human Jungle.
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Spartacus
The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. A...
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A Shot in the Dark
Inspector Jacques Clouseau, smitten with the accused maid Maria Gambrelli, unwittingly turns a strai...
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The Lady Vanishes
On the eve of World War II, zany heiress Amanda Kelly travels by train to Switzerland. While passing...
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And Then There Were None
Ten people are invited to a hotel in the Iranian desert, only to find that an unseen person is killi...
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Whoops Apocalypse
When a small British owned island in the Caribbean is invaded and the world's most dangerous terrori...
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The Ladykillers
Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow...
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The Dead Zone
Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's ho...
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Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy 2
Now Brunhild knows by which treason she was won for king Gunther of Burgund by Siegfried of Xanthen,...
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Count Dracula
A faithful adaptation of the classic tale portrays Dracula as an old man who grows younger whenever ...
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Treasure of Silver Lake
Fred Engel's father is murdered by Colonel Brinkley in order to acquire a treasure map, however the ...
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The Masque of the Red Death
Lovely photographer Rebecca winds up in a Bavarian castle at a "Masque of the Red Death" party hoste...
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Revenge of the Pink Panther
Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau is dead. At least that is what the world—and Charles Dreyfus—believ...
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Chase a Crooked Shadow
A woman who lives in Spain has trouble convincing anybody that a complete stranger has taken her dea...
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James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate
Retrospective of the life and movie work of British actor James Mason. The documentary presents inte...
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War and Peace
The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Gr...
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The Karate Killers
International spies Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin travel around the globe in an effort to track d...
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The Return of the Pink Panther
The famous Pink Panther jewel has once again been stolen and Inspector Clouseau is called in to catc...
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Hopscotch
When CIA operative Miles Kendig deliberately lets KGB agent Yaskov get away, his boss threatens to r...
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The Pink Panther Strikes Again
Charles Dreyfus, who has finally cracked over inspector Clouseau's antics, escapes from a mental ins...
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Asylum
A young psychiatrist applies for a job at a mental asylum and must pass a test by interviewing four ...
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King Solomon's Mines
Ever in search of adventure, explorer Allan Quatermain agrees to join the beautiful Jesse Huston on ...
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Trail of the Pink Panther
The Pink Panther diamond is stolen once again from Lugash and the authorities call in Chief Inspecto...
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Night Boat to Dublin
British intelligence officers head off a Nazi plot to kidnap an atomic scientist....
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Gambit
Harry Dean is a career burglar set on stealing a piece of priceless art from the world's wealthiest ...
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99 Women
Female prisoners endure the horrors of drug abuse, prostitution and rampant sadism at an island pris...
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Doppelgänger
A planet is discovered in the same orbit as Earth's but is located on the exact opposite side of the...
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Curse of the Pink Panther
Inspector Clouseau disappears, and the Surete wants the world's second best detective to look for hi...
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And Now the Screaming Starts!
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The Man with Bogart's Face
In this send-up of the Humphrey Bogart detective films of the 1940s, a man idolizes Bogart so much t...
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Passport to Shame
British melodrama about a cabbie befriending a girl caught up in the white slave trade....
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The Love Lottery
Rex Allerton is a top Hollywood star and an idol of the female population. To get away from the pres...
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The Man Who Watched Trains Go By
A Dutch company's owner bankrupts his own company, burns the incriminating ledgers and plans to run ...
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Mr. Denning Drives North
When well-off aircraft designer Denning finds his daughter's current boyfriend is a nasty character ...
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Action of the Tiger
A woman hires soldier-of-fortune Carson to smuggle her into Albania by way of Greece. Their trouble ...
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Murders in the Rue Morgue
In Paris, in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Cesar Charron owns a theater at the Rue Morgue ...
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Hell Drivers
An ex-con trying to go clean ends up working for a crooked trucking company swindling money....
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The Sect
A spree of grisly murders is perpetrated in Frankfurt by a group of Satan worshippers. A lonely scho...
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River of Death
An adventurer (Hamilton) decides to go in search of the Lost City in the Amazon jungle. A motley cre...
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Third Man on the Mountain
Famous British mountaineer Winter wants to climb a difficult summit, the Citadel. He goes to a small...
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The Phantom of the Opera
A London opera house is haunted by tragic events on its opening night, but when its star is kidnappe...
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Charleston
Charleston is a 1977 Italian comedy film written and directed by Marcello Fondato. It reprises the s...
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Dorian Gray
London, England. Dorian Gray is a young man who somehow keeps his beauty eternally, while a mysterio...
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Son of the Pink Panther
The illegitimate son of Inspector Clouseau is on the case of the kidnapped Princess Yasmin....
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Mark of the Devil
In 1700s Austria, a witch-hunter's apprentice has doubts about the righteousness of witch-hunting wh...
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Villa Rides
Pulled into the Mexican Revolution by his own greed, Texas gunrunner and pilot Lee Arnold joins band...
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Mysterious Island
During the US Civil War, Union POWs escape in a balloon and end up stranded on a South Pacific islan...
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Our Man in Marrakesh
One of six travelers who catch the bus from Casablanca airport to Marrakesh is carrying $2 million t...
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Night and the City
Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with ...
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Mr. Topaze
Mr. Topaze is an unassuming school teacher in an unassuming small French town, who is honest to a fa...
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Skeleton Coast
A retired Army colonel attempts to rescue his imprisoned son in this action packed thriller. To save...
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The Frightened City
A small time thief is recruited by a mobster to help with the racketeering. He doesn't like the job,...
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Return from the Ashes
A Jewish woman, Dr. Michele Wolf, interred in a Nazi concentration camp during WWII returns to her P...
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Fire Down Below
Tony and Felix own a tramp boat, and sail around the Caribbean doing odd jobs and drinking a lot. Th...
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Appointment with Crime
Small-time jewel thief Leo Martin is deserted by his partners-in-crime, club owner Gus Loman and dri...
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Good-Time Girl
Sent to a home for "problem" girls, incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen receives a crash course in p...
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Intent to Kill
While resisting pressure from his upper-class wife to take a higher-paying job in London, a Montreal...
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North West Frontier
In the rebellious northern frontier province of colonial India, British Army Captain Scott, a young ...
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Dual Alibi
A French PR man and his girlfriend steal a lottery ticket from twin trapeze artists, prompting murde...
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Golden Salamander
An archaeologist stumbles into the territory of an evil crime syndicate and struggles to set things ...
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Beautiful Stranger
An ex-chorus girl lives on the Riviera, supported by a married man she doesn't know is a crook....
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Hotel Reserve
A hunt for a spy, in a hotel in the South of France just before World War Two....
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Ten Little Indians
Ten people are invited to go on an African safari, only to find that an unseen person is killing the...
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I Aim at the Stars
The life story of the famed rocket scientist Dr. Werner von Braun, one of the most brilliant and con...
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Dark Places
A scheming couple plot to conceal a hidden cache of stolen money from its rightful owner. The only p...
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Eve
Adventurer and treasure hunter Mike Yates is hoping to find a cache of Incan treasure lost in the Am...
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Rough Shoot
An American military officer and his wife move to a cottage in what they think is the peaceful Engli...
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Vampir Cuadecuc
An atmospheric essay, which is an alternative version of Count Dracula, a film directed by Jess Fran...
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Cage of Gold
The love that Judy, a young painter, feels for Alan, a promising doctor to whom she is engaged, falt...
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After Mein Kampf
Allied propaganda in the form of cartoons and newsreels shows the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis...
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Snowbound
Good and bad characters are stuck in a ski chalet near buried Nazi gold in the Alps....
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State Secret
While working in England, an American surgeon Dr. John Marlowe is invited to Vosnia (a fictitious Ea...
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Assignment to Kill
A private eye is hired by an insurance company to investigate a shipping magnate suspected of delibe...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Perilous Assignment
"Perilous Assignment" is an episode of ABC's Walt Disney Presents. Disney loved to show viewers behi...
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The Dark Tower
While working at a circus, a man hypnotizes a trapezist to kill her partner....
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Tomorrow We Live
British World War II film set in occupied France, portraying the activities of members of the French...
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The Big Fisherman
Drama that focuses on the later life of Peter, one of the closest disciples of Jesus....
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I Accuse!
Alfred Dreyfus, a German-Jewish captain serving in the French Army, is falsely accused of treason an...
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The Curious Case of Inspector Clouseau
DA-DUN DA-DUN DA-DUN-DA-DUN-DA-DUN-DA-DUN-DA-DUUUUN Henry Mancini’s iconic score, Peter Sellers’ bu...
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Mister Jerico
Con man Dudley Jerico sets out to rob corrupt millionaire Victor Rosso of his legendary Gemini diamo...
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Hell Is Sold Out
A supposedly dead writer suddenly turns up to confront the young woman who is using his penname....
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Whispering Smith Hits London
In this contemporary update of Frank H. Spearman's Western hero, Whispering Smith is now a sleuth wh...
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Memed My Hawk
In 1920s Turkey, a young peasant is smitten with a beautiful young girl, who has been promised in ma...
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The Ringer
An underhand solicitor receives threatening notes, and the police are called in to protect him....
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No Trees in the Street
Based on the play by Ted Willis, the film is set in the years just before World War II, when England...
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Portrait from Life
A British army officer becomes fascinated by the portrait of a young woman. He travels to Germany to...
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Star of India
Squire Pierre St. Laurent returns from wars in India to 17th-century provincial France to find his e...
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Dracula vs. Vampir
In 1970, the iconoclast Jess Franco directs a version of Dracula with Christopher Lee and Klaus Kins...
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The Roots of Heaven
In French Equatorial Africa, an idealist campaigns to save the African elephant, gaining support fro...
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The Pope Must Die
A less-than-qualified and far-from-perfect priest is mistakenly named the new pope. As the pontiff, ...
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Master of Dragonard Hill
In the 18th-century British Caribbean colony of St. Joseph's, decadent and hedonistic aristocrats ru...
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I Have Been Here Before
Guests at a small hotel are disquieted by the insistence of a mysterious doctor that he has been the...
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The Black Rose
In the 13th century, Walter of Gurnie, a disinherited Saxon youth, is forced to flee England. With h...
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Tiara Tahiti
James Mason and John Mills star in this comedy-drama about a tough colonel and a refined captain who...
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The Young Mr. Pitt
This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Brit...
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The Net
A secret jet aircraft capable of traveling three times the speed of sound is being developed by a gr...
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Two on the Tiles
A married couple both face temptations while separated for a few days. The husband meets an attracti...
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Secret Mission
World War II drama in which a member of the French Resistance and three British agents undertake a h...
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El Cid
Epic film of the legendary Spanish hero, Rodrigo Diaz ("El Cid" to his followers), who, without comp...
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Boží mlýny
An old peasant from Chodský, Záhor, claims to the young Podestát that he returned three hundred gold...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
A sadistic plantation owner pushes his slaves to the point of rebellion....
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The Horse Without a Head
Five pampered French children with their wheeled, headless, toy horse accidentally become tangled up...
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Going Bananas
An evil circus owner chases a chimp and his friends through Africa. Not necessarily 'Dyn-O-Mite!', b...
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Beloved Count
Cult director Jess Franco recalls the making of his adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula starring Chr...
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Dad for a Day
The "Our Gang" kids encourage a shy man to take a widow and her son to a picnic....
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Titans of Destruction: The Evolution of Giant Monster Movies
Documentary on the evolution of Giant Monsters in cinema from the original 1933 King Kong onward....
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