Date of birth: 1917-09-12
Place of birth: Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Herbert Karel Kuchačevič ze Schluderpacheru, هربرت لوم
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.
1960-10-13
The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. A
1964-06-23
Inspector Jacques Clouseau, smitten with the accused maid Maria Gambrelli, unwittingly turns a strai
1979-04-30
On the eve of World War II, zany heiress Amanda Kelly travels by train to Switzerland. While passing
1986-05-06
When a small British owned island in the Caribbean is invaded and the world's most dangerous terrori
1974-09-24
Ten people are invited to a hotel in the Iranian desert, only to find that an unseen person is killi
1955-12-08
Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow
1983-10-21
Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's ho
1967-02-16
Now Brunhild knows by which treason she was won for king Gunther of Burgund by Siegfried of Xanthen,
1970-04-03
A faithful adaptation of the classic tale portrays Dracula as an old man who grows younger whenever
1962-12-12
Fred Engel's father is murdered by Colonel Brinkley in order to acquire a treasure map, however the
1989-11-09
Lovely photographer Rebecca winds up in a Bavarian castle at a "Masque of the Red Death" party hoste
1978-01-08
Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau is dead. At least that is what the world—and Charles Dreyfus—believ
1958-01-16
A woman who lives in Spain has trouble convincing anybody that a complete stranger has taken her dea
1984-01-01
Retrospective of the life and movie work of British actor James Mason. The documentary presents inte
1956-08-21
The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Gr
1967-04-07
International spies Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin travel around the globe in an effort to track d
1975-05-21
The famous Pink Panther jewel has once again been stolen and Inspector Clouseau is called in to catc
1980-09-26
When CIA operative Miles Kendig deliberately lets KGB agent Yaskov get away, his boss threatens to r
1976-12-15
Charles Dreyfus, who has finally cracked over inspector Clouseau's antics, escapes from a mental ins
1972-11-17
A young psychiatrist applies for a job at a mental asylum and must pass a test by interviewing four
1985-11-22
Ever in search of adventure, explorer Allan Quatermain agrees to join the beautiful Jesse Huston on
1982-12-03
The Pink Panther diamond is stolen once again from Lugash and the authorities call in Chief Inspecto
1946-01-08
British intelligence officers head off a Nazi plot to kidnap an atomic scientist.
1969-03-05
Female prisoners endure the horrors of drug abuse, prostitution and rampant sadism at an island pris
1966-12-21
Harry Dean is a career burglar set on stealing a piece of priceless art from the world's wealthiest
1969-08-27
A planet is discovered in the same orbit as Earth's but is located on the exact opposite side of the
1983-08-12
Inspector Clouseau disappears, and the Surete wants the world's second best detective to look for hi
1973-04-27
In the late 18th century, two newlyweds move into the stately mansion of husband Charles Fengriffen.
1980-10-03
In this send-up of the Humphrey Bogart detective films of the 1940s, a man idolizes Bogart so much t
1958-12-02
British melodrama about a cabbie befriending a girl caught up in the white slave trade.
1954-01-30
Rex Allerton is a top Hollywood star and an idol of the female population. To get away from the pres
1952-12-01
A Dutch company's owner bankrupts his own company, burns the incriminating ledgers and plans to run
1945-10-18
A concert pianist with amnesia fights to regain her memory.
1951-12-18
When well-off aircraft designer Denning finds his daughter's current boyfriend is a nasty character
1957-08-22
A woman hires soldier-of-fortune Carson to smuggle her into Albania by way of Greece. Their trouble
1971-07-21
In Paris, in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Cesar Charron owns a theater at the Rue Morgue
1957-07-23
An ex-con trying to go clean ends up working for a crooked trucking company swindling money.
1991-03-01
A spree of grisly murders is perpetrated in Frankfurt by a group of Satan worshippers. A lonely scho
1989-09-29
An adventurer (Hamilton) decides to go in search of the Lost City in the Amazon jungle. A motley cre
1959-11-10
Famous British mountaineer Winter wants to climb a difficult summit, the Citadel. He goes to a small
1962-06-25
A London opera house is haunted by tragic events on its opening night, but when its star is kidnappe
1977-03-05
Charleston is a 1977 Italian comedy film written and directed by Marcello Fondato. It reprises the s
1970-04-24
London, England. Dorian Gray is a young man who somehow keeps his beauty eternally, while a mysterio
1993-08-27
The illegitimate son of Inspector Clouseau is on the case of the kidnapped Princess Yasmin.
1970-02-19
In 1700s Austria, a witch-hunter's apprentice has doubts about the righteousness of witch-hunting wh
1968-05-29
Pulled into the Mexican Revolution by his own greed, Texas gunrunner and pilot Lee Arnold joins band
1961-12-19
During the US Civil War, Union POWs escape in a balloon and end up stranded on a South Pacific islan
1966-05-05
One of six travelers who catch the bus from Casablanca airport to Marrakesh is carrying $2 million t
1950-06-15
Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with
1961-04-04
Mr. Topaze is an unassuming school teacher in an unassuming small French town, who is honest to a fa
1988-04-14
A retired Army colonel attempts to rescue his imprisoned son in this action packed thriller. To save
1961-09-01
A small time thief is recruited by a mobster to help with the racketeering. He doesn't like the job,
1965-11-16
A Jewish woman, Dr. Michele Wolf, interred in a Nazi concentration camp during WWII returns to her P
1957-05-30
Tony and Felix own a tramp boat, and sail around the Caribbean doing odd jobs and drinking a lot. Th
1946-05-13
Small-time jewel thief Leo Martin is deserted by his partners-in-crime, club owner Gus Loman and dri
1948-04-28
Sent to a home for "problem" girls, incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen receives a crash course in p
1958-07-16
While resisting pressure from his upper-class wife to take a higher-paying job in London, a Montreal
1959-10-13
In the rebellious northern frontier province of colonial India, British Army Captain Scott, a young
1947-06-03
A French PR man and his girlfriend steal a lottery ticket from twin trapeze artists, prompting murde
1950-02-01
An archaeologist stumbles into the territory of an evil crime syndicate and struggles to set things
1954-07-13
An ex-chorus girl lives on the Riviera, supported by a married man she doesn't know is a crook.
1944-06-01
A hunt for a spy, in a hotel in the South of France just before World War Two.
1989-11-29
Ten people are invited to go on an African safari, only to find that an unseen person is killing the
1960-08-19
The life story of the famed rocket scientist Dr. Werner von Braun, one of the most brilliant and con
1973-05-01
A scheming couple plot to conceal a hidden cache of stolen money from its rightful owner. The only p
1968-07-19
Adventurer and treasure hunter Mike Yates is hoping to find a cache of Incan treasure lost in the Am
1953-03-30
An American military officer and his wife move to a cottage in what they think is the peaceful Engli
1972-05-05
An atmospheric essay, which is an alternative version of Count Dracula, a film directed by Jess Fran
1950-10-23
The love that Judy, a young painter, feels for Alan, a promising doctor to whom she is engaged, falt
1940-09-13
Allied propaganda in the form of cartoons and newsreels shows the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis
1948-03-23
Good and bad characters are stuck in a ski chalet near buried Nazi gold in the Alps.
1950-09-11
While working in England, an American surgeon Dr. John Marlowe is invited to Vosnia (a fictitious Ea
1968-05-01
A private eye is hired by an insurance company to investigate a shipping magnate suspected of delibe
1965-04-13
In the pre-Civil War South, a sadistic plantation owner brutalizes his slaves to the point of rebell
1959-11-06
"Perilous Assignment" is an episode of ABC's Walt Disney Presents. Disney loved to show viewers behi
1943-10-18
While working at a circus, a man hypnotizes a trapezist to kill her partner.
1943-04-05
British World War II film set in occupied France, portraying the activities of members of the French
1948-12-01
Carroll Levis, a radio variety host, gets involved in murder and theft.
1959-08-04
Drama that focuses on the later life of Peter, one of the closest disciples of Jesus.
1958-03-05
Alfred Dreyfus, a German-Jewish captain serving in the French Army, is falsely accused of treason an
2002-01-01
DA-DUN DA-DUN DA-DUN-DA-DUN-DA-DUN-DA-DUN-DA-DUUUUN Henry Mancini’s iconic score, Peter Sellers’ bu
1970-03-03
Con man Dudley Jerico sets out to rob corrupt millionaire Victor Rosso of his legendary Gemini diamo
1951-06-01
A supposedly dead writer suddenly turns up to confront the young woman who is using his penname.
1952-01-01
Mystery directed by Francis Searle.
1984-05-10
In 1920s Turkey, a young peasant is smitten with a beautiful young girl, who has been promised in ma
1952-11-24
An underhand solicitor receives threatening notes, and the police are called in to protect him.
1959-03-03
Based on the play by Ted Willis, the film is set in the years just before World War II, when England
1948-12-01
A British army officer becomes fascinated by the portrait of a young woman. He travels to Germany to
1954-01-02
Squire Pierre St. Laurent returns from wars in India to 17th-century provincial France to find his e
2012-10-06
In 1970, the iconoclast Jess Franco directs a version of Dracula with Christopher Lee and Klaus Kins
1958-10-15
In French Equatorial Africa, an idealist campaigns to save the African elephant, gaining support fro
1991-06-21
A less-than-qualified and far-from-perfect priest is mistakenly named the new pope. As the pontiff,
1987-05-13
In the 18th-century British Caribbean colony of St. Joseph's, decadent and hedonistic aristocrats ru
1982-03-24
Guests at a small hotel are disquieted by the insistence of a mysterious doctor that he has been the
1950-09-01
In the 13th century, Walter of Gurnie, a disinherited Saxon youth, is forced to flee England. With h
1962-07-01
James Mason and John Mills star in this comedy-drama about a tough colonel and a refined captain who
1942-09-21
This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Brit
1953-02-09
A secret jet aircraft capable of traveling three times the speed of sound is being developed by a gr
1951-09-01
A married couple both face temptations while separated for a few days. The husband meets an attracti
1942-10-05
World War II drama in which a member of the French Resistance and three British agents undertake a h
1961-10-24
Epic film of the legendary Spanish hero, Rodrigo Diaz ("El Cid" to his followers), who, without comp
1938-02-25
An old peasant from Chodský, Záhor, claims to the young Podestát that he returned three hundred gold
1937-09-24
1976-03-11
A sadistic plantation owner pushes his slaves to the point of rebellion.
1964-03-09
Five pampered French children with their wheeled, headless, toy horse accidentally become tangled up
1987-08-05
An evil circus owner chases a chimp and his friends through Africa. Not necessarily 'Dyn-O-Mite!', b
2007-02-27
Cult director Jess Franco recalls the making of his adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula starring Chr
1939-10-20
The "Our Gang" kids encourage a shy man to take a widow and her son to a picnic.