Herbert Lomas
Birthday: 1887-01-17
Place of Birth: Burnley, Lancashire, England
Biography: Herbet Lomas (17 January 1887 – 12 April 1961) was a British actor who appeared in more than forty films in a career lasting between 1931 and 1955. He was born in Burnley, Lancashire and made his first film appearance in an early sound version of Hobson's Choice (1931).
Movies
Jamaica Inn
In early 19th-century Cornwall, young Mary Yellan travels to live with her aunt and uncle at the rem...
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The Sign of Four: Sherlock Holmes' Greatest Case
A young woman turns to Holmes for protection when she's menaced by an escaped killer seeking missing...
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Ask a Policeman
The mirthful adventures of Police-Sergeant Samuel Dudfoot and his two constables, Albert Brown and J...
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Rembrandt
A character study depicting the life of Rembrandt Van Rijn at the height of his fame in the mid 1600...
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Knight Without Armour
British agent working in Russia is forced to remain longer than planned once the revolution begins. ...
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Over the Moon
Young Jane Benson just about manages to make ends meet running the large family house in Yorkshire. ...
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The Phantom Light
Criminals pose as ghosts to scare a lighthouse keeper on the Welsh coast, in attempt to distract him...
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Perfect Understanding
A young couple decide to marry under the condition that they agree never to disagree. That agreement...
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Undercover
Occupied Yugoslavia. With organised resistance shattered by the Nazi onslaught it is only the activi...
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Inquest
A woman is suspected of killing her husband after a revolver is found in her attic. A coroner is det...
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Bonnie Prince Charlie
Scotland, 1745. After decades of exile, Prince Charles Edward Stuart secretly lands with the purpose...
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South Riding
Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but '...
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The Man from Toronto
According to the terms of a will two strangers must marry. Leila (Jessie Matthews) is an English wi...
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Fighting Stock
The Aldwych Theater farceurs are at it again in Fighting Stock. The punning title refers to a well-s...
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Q Planes
In England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter team u...
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The Other Mrs. Phipps
'Broke lord poses as widow's lady companion and saves girl from kidnap.' (British Film Catalogue)...
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Frail Women
Lilian has an illegitimate war-baby which is then adopted by a wealthy spinster....
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Lorna Doone
High drama, set in the English moorland of the 1600s. John Ridd wants revenge on the criminal Doone ...
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The Ghost Train
Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. They soon learn of l...
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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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Hobson's Choice
A coarse boot-shop owner becomes outraged when his eldest daughter decides to marry a meek cobbler....
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When London Sleeps
Slippery Rodney Haines runs a high-class gambling joint in Hampstead, while elsewhere in London Lamb...
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The Guinea Pig
A working-class boy wins a scholarship to a public school, as part of a post-World War Two experimen...
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Java Head
The port city of Bristol, England, in the 1800s is home to Java Head, a sailing ship line company. T...
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The Ghost Goes West
Donald Glourie shares his crumbling ancestral home with the ghost of his Highland ancestor, Murdoch,...
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The Lion Has Wings
This early, influential propaganda film blends documentary and studio footage to show the valiant ef...
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The Magic Box
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young a...
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Land of Promise
Described as a 'film argument' about homes and houses, this film is in three parts showing houses as...
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Penn of Pennsylvania
Penn of Pennsylvania is a 1941 British historical drama film directed by Lance Comfort and starring ...
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I Know Where I'm Going!
Plucky Englishwoman Joan Webster travels to the remote islands of the Scottish Hebrides in order to ...
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They Met in the Dark
A Royal navy Commander is tricked by a pretty girl who is working for the Nazis. She tricks him into...
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South American George
To help out his exact double, George Formby (in a dual role) takes the place of a noted South Americ...
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The Master of Bankdam
Generational family struggles for control of a family business in 19th century Yorkshire, and to be ...
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