Herbert Lom (born Herbert Charles Angelo KuchaÄeviÄ 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.
Herbert Lom Biography / Wiki
Name | Herbert Lom |
Also Know | Херберт Лом, Герберт Лом |
Gender | Male |
Known For | Acting |
Place of Birth | Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary |
Date of Birth | 1917-09-12 |
Age(as in 2022) | 95 |
Deathday | 2012-09-27 |
Herbert Lom Acting Movies
Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
The Phantom of the Opera | The Phantom (Prof. L. Petrie) | 1962-06-25 | The corrupt Lord Ambrose D’Arcy steals the life’s work of the poor musical Professor Petry. In an attempt to stop the printing of music with D’Arcy’s … |
Mark of the Devil | Lord Cumberland | 1970-02-19 | In 1700s Austria, a witch-hunter’s apprentice has doubts about the righteousness of witch-hunting when he witnesses the brutality, the injustice, the … |
The Frightened City | Waldo Zhernikov | 1961-09-01 | A London accountant (Herbert Lom) forms six gangs into a syndicate which he tries to control with a killer (Sean Connery)…. |
Mr. Topaze | Castel Benac | 1961-04-04 | Mr. Topaze (Peter Sellers) is an unassuming school teacher in an unassuming small French town, who is honest to a fault. He is fired when he refuses t… |
Dual Alibi | Jules de Lisle / Georges de Lisle | 1947-06-03 | A French PR man (Terence de Marney) and his girlfriend (Phyllis Dixey) steal a lottery ticket from twin trapeze artists (Herbert Lom), prompting murde… |
The Ringer | Maurice Meister | 1952-11-24 | An underhand solicitor receives threatening notes, and the police are called in to protect him…. |
Two on the Tiles | Ford | 1951-09-01 | A married couple both face temptations while separated for a few days. The husband meets an attractive female fellow traveler in Paris while the wife … |
Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy 2 | Etzel | 1967-12-16 | Now Brunhild knows by which treason she was won for king Gunther of Burgund by Siegfried of Xanthen, and has been revenged by his foul murder by Hagen… |
Revenge of the Pink Panther | Chief Inspector Dreyfus | 1978-01-08 | Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau is dead. At least that is what the world—and Charles Dreyfus—believe when a dead body is discovered in Clouseau’s… |
The Pink Panther Strikes Again | Dreyfus | 1976-12-15 | Charles Dreyfus, who has finally cracked over inspector Clouseau’s antics, escapes from a mental institution and launches an elaborate plan to get rid… |
Trail of the Pink Panther | Chef Inspektor Charles Dreyfus | 1982-12-03 | The Pink Panther diamond is stolen once again from Lugash and the authorities call in Chief Inspector Clouseau from France. His plane disappears en-ro… |
99 Women | Governor Santos | 1969-03-05 | Jesus Franco’s campy women’s prison film is worthwhile for genre devotees primarily due to an outstanding cast. Mercedes McCambridge is unintentionall… |
Passport to Shame | Nick Biaggi | 1958-12-12 | British melodrama about a cabbie befriending a girl caught up in the white slave trade…. |
Hell Drivers | Gino Rossi | 1957-07-23 | An ex-con trying to go clean ends up working for a crooked trucking company swindling money…. |
Murders in the Rue Morgue | Rene Marot | 1971-07-21 | In Paris, in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Cesar Charron owns a theater at the Rue Morgue where he performs the play “Murders in the Rue Mor… |
The Sect | Moebius Kelly | 1991-03-01 | This stylishly photographed horror movie centers upon a beautiful, good-hearted schoolteacher whose life becomes a living hell after she is chosen to … |
Charleston | Inspector Watkins | 1977-03-05 | Charleston is a 1977 Italian comedy film written and directed by Marcello Fondato. It reprises the style of the film The Sting…. |
Son of the Pink Panther | Police Commisioner Charles Dreyfus | 1993-08-27 | The eighth and last of the Pink Panther series. The illegitimate son of Inspector Clouseau is on the case of the kidnapped Princess Yasmin…. |
Beautiful Stranger | Emil Landosh | 1954-07-13 | An ex-chorus girl lives on the Riviera, supported by a married man she doesn’t know is a crook…. |
I Aim at the Stars | Anton Reger | 1960-08-19 | The life story of the famed rocket scientist Dr. Werner von Braun, one of the most brilliant and controversial figures of the space age. Dr. von Braun… |
Cuadecuc, Vampir | Himself / Professor van Helsing | 1972-05-05 | Initially a documentary about the making of Jess Franco’s “Count Dracula†(a 1970 vampire movie starring Christopher Lee), “Cuadecuc, Vampir” pr… |
Uncle Tom’s Cabin | Simon Legree | 1965-04-13 | In the pre-Civil War South, a sadistic plantation-owner brutalizes his slaves to the point of them heaving no other choice but to rebel. Always obedie… |
Hell Is Sold Out | Dominic Danges | 1951-06-01 | A supposedly dead writer suddenly turns up to confront the young woman who is using his penname…. |
Memed My Hawk | Ali Safa Bey | 1984-05-10 | In 1920s Turkey, a young peasant is smitten with a beautiful young girl, who has been promised in marriage to the fat, dullard cousin of the province’… |
No Trees in the Street | Wilkie | 1959-01-01 | Based on the play by Ted Willis, the film is set in the years just before World War II, when England hadn’t completely dug itself out of the worldwide… |
Uncle Tom’s Cabin | Simon Legree (archive) | 1976-03-11 | A sadistic plantation owner pushes his slaves to the point of rebellion…. |
The Horse Without a Head | Schiapa | 1964-03-09 | Five pampered French children with their wheeled, headless, toy horse accidentally become tangled up in a plot to rob the Dijon- Paris express of 100,… |
Dracula vs. Vampir | 2012-10-06 | In 1970, the iconoclast Jess Franco directs a version of Dracula with Christopher Lee and Klaus Kinski. Making the most of the occasion, Pere Portabel… | |
The Ladykillers | Louis, alias ‘Mr. Harvey’ | 1955-12-08 | Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicia… |
Count Dracula | Van Helsing | 1970-04-03 | Jess Franco’s version of the Bram Stoker classic has Count Dracula as an old man who grows younger whenever he dines on the blood of young maidens…. |
The Masque of the Red Death | Ludwig | 1989-11-09 | Lovely photographer Rebecca winds up in a Bavarian castle at a “Masque of the Red Death” party hosted by the wealthy Ludwig. Mayhem ensues as assorted… |
Chase a Crooked Shadow | Police Commissar Vargas | 1958-01-21 | A woman who lives in Spain has trouble convincing anybody that a complete stranger has taken her dead brother’s identity…. |
Asylum | Byron | 1972-11-17 | A young psychiatrist applies for a job at a mental asylum, and must pass a test by interviewing four patients. He must figure out which of the patient… |
King Solomon’s Mines | Colonel Bockner | 1985-11-22 | Ever in search of adventure, explorer Allan Quatermain agrees to join the beautiful Jesse Huston on a mission to locate her archaeologist father, who … |
Gambit | Shahbandar | 1966-12-21 | Harry Dean is a career burglar set on stealing a piece of priceless art from the world’s wealthiest man, Mr. Shahbandar. With the help of exotic showg… |
Curse of the Pink Panther | Chief Insp. Charles LaRousse Dreyfus | 1983-08-12 | Inspector Clouseau disappears, and the Surete wants the world’s second best detective to look for him. However, Clouseau’s enemy, Dreyfus, rigs the Su… |
The Love Lottery | André Amico | 1954-01-30 | Rex Allerton is a top Hollywood star and an idol of the female population. To get away from the pressure of the fans who won’t leave him alone, he rel… |
The Seventh Veil | Dr. Larsen | 1945-10-18 | A concert pianist with amnesia fights to regain her memory…. |
Action of the Tiger | Trifon, Albania Bandit | 1957-08-22 | A woman hires soldier-of-fortune Carson to smuggle her into Albania by way of Greece. Their trouble is just beginning when they get there…. |
Dorian Gray | Henry Wotton | 1970-04-24 | London, England. Dorian Gray is a young man who somehow keeps his beauty eternally, while a mysterious portrait of himself gradually reveals his moral… |
Our Man in Marrakesh | Mr. Casimir | 1966-05-05 | One of six travelers who catch the bus from Casablanca airport to Marrakesh is carrying $2 million to pay a local operator to fix United Nations votes… |
Intent to Kill | Juan Menda | 1958-07-16 | While resisting pressure from his upper-class wife to take a higher-paying job in London, a Montreal physician prepares to carry out brain surgery on … |
North West Frontier | Van Layden | 1959-10-13 | In the rebellious northern frontier province of colonial India, British Army Captain Scott, a young prince and the boy’s governess escape by an obsole… |
Golden Salamander | Rankl | 1950-02-01 | An archaeologist stumbles into the territory of an evil crime syndicate and struggles to set things right…. |
Dark Places | Prescot | 1973-05-01 | A scheming couple plot to conceal a hidden cache of stolen money from its rightful owner. The only problem is that the house they plan to hide it in i… |
Rough Shoot | Sandorski | 1953-05-15 | An American military officer (Joel McCrea) and his wife (Evelyn Keyes) move to a cottage in what they think is the peaceful English countryside, only … |
Eve | Diego | 1968-07-19 | Adventurer and treasure hunter Mike Yates is hoping to find a cache of Incan treasure lost in the Amazon jungle. While looking for his missing partner… |
After Mein Kampf | 1940-09-13 | Allied propaganda in the form of cartoons and newsreels shows the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis…. | |
Brass Monkey | Peter Hobart | 1948-12-01 | Carroll Levis, a radio variety host, gets involved in murder and theft…. |
Mister Jerico | Victor Russo | 1970-03-03 | Con man Dudley Jerico sets out to rob corrupt millionaire Victor Rosso of his legendary Gemini diamond, but there’s another operator in town who is ou… |
Tiara Tahiti | Chong Sing | 1962-07-01 | James Mason and John Mills star in this comedy-drama about a tough colonel and a refined captain who clashed during the war, and continue their person… |
Master of Dragonard Hill | Le Farge | 1987-05-13 | In the 18th-century British Caribbean colony of St. Joseph’s, decadent and hedonistic aristocrats rule with an iron fist and terrorize slaves and susp… |
A Shot in the Dark | Charles Dreyfus | 1964-06-23 | Inspector Jacques Clouseau investigates the murder of Mr. Benjamin Ballon’s driver at a country estate…. |
The Lady Vanishes | Dr. Egon Hartz | 1979-04-30 | Remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1938 classic. On the eve of the Second World War, a train carrying an assortment of passengers, pulls out of a small town… |
Whoops Apocalypse | Gen. Mosquera | 1986-05-06 | When a small British owned island in the Caribbean is invaded and the world’s most dangerous terrorist kidnaps a member of the Royal family, the count… |
The Dead Zone | Dr. Sam Weizak | 1983-10-21 | Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee’s home one night, is involved in a car crash which lea… |
The Return of the Pink Panther | Chief Inspector Dreyfus | 1975-05-21 | The famous Pink Panther jewel has once again been stolen and Inspector Clouseau is called in to catch the thief. The Inspector is convinced that ‘The … |
And Now the Screaming Starts! | Henry Fengriffen | 1973-04-27 | In the late 18th century, two newlyweds move into the stately mansion of husband Charles Fengriffen. The bride, Catherine, falls victim to a curse pla… |
River of Death | Colonel Ricardo Diaz | 1989-09-29 | An adventurer (Hamilton) decides to go in search of the lost city in the Amazon jungle. A motley crew of other people with reasons of their own decide… |
Skeleton Coast | Elia | 1988-04-14 | A retired Army colonel attempts to rescue his imprisoned son in this action packed thriller. To save his CIA operative son from terrorists, Col. Smith… |
Return from the Ashes | Dr. Charles Bovard | 1965-11-16 | A Jewish woman, Dr. Michele Wolf, interred in a Nazi concentration camp during WWII returns to her Paris home after the war’s end. She’s unaware that … |
Fire Down Below | Harbour Master | 1957-05-30 | Tony and Felix own a tramp boat, and sail around the Caribbean doing odd jobs and drinking a lot. They agree to ferry the beautiful but passportless I… |
Appointment with Crime | Gregory Lang | 1946-05-13 | Small-time jewel thief Leo Martin (William Hartnell) is deserted by his partners-in-crime, club owner Gus Loman (Raymond Lovell) and driver Hatchett (… |
Good-Time Girl | Max Vine | 1948-04-28 | Good Time Girl stars Jean Kent as incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen Rawlings. Sent to a home for “problem” girls, Gwen receives a crash course in pet… |
Ten Little Indians | Gen. Brancko Romensky | 1989-11-29 | An unknown judge invites a guilty governess and others to a 1930s safari, for justice one by one…. |
Cage of Gold | Rahman | 1950-09-21 | A young woman, Judith Moray, deserts her prospective fiance, the nice doctor Alan Kearn, for an old flame, the dashing but roguish former wing command… |
Assignment to Kill | Matt Wilson | 1968-08-15 | A private eye is hired by an insurance company to investigate a shipping magnate suspected of deliberately sinking his own ships for the insurance mon… |
State Secret | Karl Theodor | 1950-09-11 | Visiting in England, an American surgeon Doctor John Marlowe is decoyed to a middle European country, and discovers the operation he is to perform is … |
The Dark Tower | Stephen Torg | 1943-10-18 | While working at a circus, a man hypnotizes a trapezist to kill her partner…. |
Portrait from Life | Fritz Kottler Hendlemann | 1948-12-15 | A British army officer becomes fascinated by the portrait of a young woman. He travels to Germany to find her, only to discover that she is suffering … |
Star of India | Governor Narbonne | 1954-01-02 | Squire Pierre St. Laurent returns from wars in India to 17th-century provincial France to find his estate confiscated by governor Narbonne, for back t… |
The Net | Dr. Alex Leon | 1953-02-09 | A secret jet aircraft capable of traveling three times the speed of sound is being developed by a group of scientists. On the day of the test flight, … |
Whispering Smith Vs. Scotland Yard | Roger Ford | 1952-01-01 | Mystery directed by Francis Searle…. |
The Treasure of the Silver Lake | Colonel Brinkley | 1962-12-12 | Fred Engel’s father is murdered by Colonel Brinkley in order to acquire a treasure map, however the Colonel only acquires half of it, the other half a… |
The Karate Killers | Randolph | 1967-04-07 | International spies Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) and Illya Kuryakin (David McCallum) travel around the globe in an effort to track down a secret form… |
War and Peace | Napoleon | 1956-08-21 | Napoleon’s tumultuous relations with Russia including his disastrous 1812 invasion serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two aristoc… |
Hopscotch | Yaskov | 1980-09-26 | When CIA operative Miles Kendig deliberately lets KGB agent Yaskov get away, his boss threatens to retire him. Kendig beats him to it, however, destro… |
Night Boat to Dublin | Keitel | 1946-04-01 | British intelligence officers (Robert Newton, Guy Middleton) head off a Nazi plot to kidnap an atomic scientist…. |
The Man Who Watched Trains Go By | Julius de Koster, Jr. | 1952-12-01 | A meek teller thinks he’s killed his boss. He flees with a box of cash hoping for a new life with his younger mistress…. |
Mr. Denning Drives North | Mados | 1951-12-18 | When well-off aircraft designer Denning finds his daughter’s current boyfriend is a nasty character he tries to buy him off, ending up hitting him and… |
Third Man on the Mountain | Emil Saxo | 1959-11-10 | The thrilling, critically acclaimed account of Rudi Matt (James MacArthur), a young kitchen worker who is determined to conquer the Citadel — the jag… |
Villa Rides | General Huerta | 1968-05-29 | Pulled into the Mexican Revolution by his own greed, Texas gunrunner and pilot Lee Arnold joins bandit-turned-patriot Pancho Villa and his band of ded… |
Mysterious Island | Captain Nemo | 1961-12-19 | During the US Civil War, Union POWs escape in a balloon and end up stranded on a South Pacific island, inhabited by giant plants and animals. They mus… |
Hotel Reserve | Andre Roux | 1944-06-01 | A hunt for a spy, in a hotel in the South of France just before World War Two…. |
Snowbound | Von Kellerman, alias Keramikos | 1948-03-23 | Good and bad characters are stuck in a ski chalet near buried Nazi gold in the Alps…. |
The Big Fisherman | Herod Antipas | 1959-08-04 | Drama that focuses on the later life of Peter, one of the closest disciples of Jesus…. |
Beloved Count | (archive footage) | 2007-02-27 | Cult director Jess Franco recalls the making of his adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula starring Christopher Lee…. |
And Then There Were None | Dr. Edward Armstrong | 1974-09-24 | Ten people are invited to a hotel for a weekend getaway by a Mr. U. N. Owen, who mysteriously isn’t in attendance. When the group gets together for th… |
Night and the City | Kristo | 1950-06-15 | Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry’s schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes fed… |
The Pope Must Die | Vittorio Corelli | 1991-06-21 | A less-than-qualified and far-from-perfect priest is mistakenly named the new pope. As the pontiff, he must deal with Vatican corruption, the Mob and … |
Going Bananas | Captain Mackintosh | 1987-08-05 | An evil circus owner chases a chimp and his friends through Africa. Not necessarily ‘Dyn-O-Mite!’, but this silly monkey business is decent family fun… |
The Man with Bogart’s Face | Mr. Zebra | 1980-10-03 | In this send-up of the Humphrey Bogart detective films of the 1940s, a man idolizes Bogart so much that he has his features altered to look exactly li… |
The Roots of Heaven | Orsini | 1958-10-15 | In Fort Lamy, French Equitorial Africa, idealist Morel launches a one-man campaign to preserve the African elephant from extinction, which he sees as … |
The Black Rose | Anthemus | 1950-09-01 | In the 13th century, Walter of Gurnie, a disinherited Saxon youth, is forced to flee England. With his friend, Tristram, he falls in with the army of … |
I Accuse! | Maj. DuPaty de Clam | 1958-03-05 | Alfred Dreyfus, a German-Jewish captain serving in the French Army, is falsely accused of treason and made a scapegoat for military espionage in an ac… |
Spartacus | Tigranes Levantus | 1960-10-13 | The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the arena,… |
Žena pod křÞem | Gustav | 1937-09-24 | … |
Journey to the Far Side of the Sun | Doctor Hassler | 1969-08-27 | A planet is discovered in the same orbit as Earth’s but is located on the exact opposite side of the sun, making it not visible from Earth. The Europe… |
The Young Mr. Pitt | Napoleon | 1942-09-21 | This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24…. |
Secret Mission | Medical Officer | 1942-10-05 | World War II drama in which a member of the French Resistance and three British agents undertake a hazardous mission to infiltrate a German HQ in sear… |
El Cid | Ben Yussuf | 1961-10-24 | Epic film of the legendary Spanish hero, Rodrigo Diaz (“El Cid” to his followers), who, without compromising his strict sense of honour, still succeed… |
Božà mlýny | 1938-02-25 | … | |
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