Herbert Lom

1917-2012

Biography: life and films

Herbert Lom was a Czech actor whose birth name was Herbert Charles Angelo Kuchacevich ze Schluderpacheru. He was born in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary on 11th September 1917 and died in London, England on 27th September 2012, aged 95.

His best films as an actor include Alexander Mackendrick's comedy-thriller The Ladykillers (1955), Jack Cardiff's thriller Intent to Kill (1958), Roy Ward Baker's Asylum (1972), -- And Now the Screaming Starts! (1973) and Blake Edwards's The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976).

Herbert Lom appeared in 96 films.

He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Blake Edwards (7 films), J. Lee Thompson (5), Ronald Neame (3), Robert Parrish (3), Terence Fisher (2), Roy Ward Baker (2), Michael Anderson (2), John Harlow (2), Jesus Franco (2), Harold French (2), Harald Reinl (2), Don Sharp (2), David MacDonald (2) and Cy Endfield (2).

His most frequent genres include: drama (43 films), Thriller (24), comedy (21), Horror (12), crime-thriller (7), War (6), history (5), Biography (5), romance (4), comedy-thriller (4), Documentary (3), comedy-romance (2), comedy-drama (2), Western (2) and Fantasy (2).

Our average rating for Herbert Lom over all films is: 2.9

Filmography

Key: a = actor

Mein Kampf - My Crimes (1940) [a]

Secret Mission (1942) [a]

The Young Mr. Pitt (1942) [a]

The Dark Tower (1943) [a]

Hotel Reserve (1944) [a]

The Seventh Veil (1945) [a]

Appointment with Crime (1946) [a]

Night Boat to Dublin (1946) [a]

Brass Monkey (1948) [a]

Dual Alibi (1948) [a]

Good-Time Girl (1948) [a]

Portrait from Life (1948) [a]

Snowbound (1948) [a]

The Lost People (1949) [a]

Cage of Gold (1950) [a]

Golden Salamander (1950) [a]

Night and the City (1950) [a]

State Secret (1950) [a]

The Black Rose (1950) [a]

Hell Is Sold Out (1951) [a]

Two on the Tiles (1951) [a]

Whispering Smith Hits London (1951) [a]

Mr. Denning Drives North (1952) [a]

The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By (1952) [a]

The Ringer (1952) [a]

Rough Shoot (1953) [a]

The Net (1953) [a]

Beautiful Stranger (1954) [a]

Star of India (1954) [a]

The Love Lottery (1954) [a]

The Ladykillers (1955) [a]

War and Peace (1956) [a]

Action of the Tiger (1957) [a]

Fire Down Below (1957) [a]

Hell Drivers (1957) [a]

Chase a Crooked Shadow (1958) [a]

I Accuse! (1958) [a]

Intent to Kill (1958) [a]

Passport to Shame (1958) [a]

The Roots of Heaven (1958) [a]

No Trees in the Street (1959) [a]

North West Frontier (1959) [a]

The Big Fisherman (1959) [a]

Third Man on the Mountain (1959) [a]

Spartacus (1960) [a]

Wernher von Braun (1960) [a]

El Cid (1961) [a]

Mr. Topaze (1961) [a]

Mysterious Island (1961) [a]

The Frightened City (1961) [a]

Der Schatz im Silbersee (1962) [a]

The Phantom of the Opera (1962) [a]

Tiara Tahiti (1962) [a]

A Shot in the Dark (1964) [a]

Onkel Toms Hütte (1965) [a]

Return from the Ashes (1965) [a]

Gambit (1966) [a]

Our Man in Marrakesh (1966) [a]

Die Nibelungen, Teil 2 - Kriemhilds Rache (1967) [a]

The Karate Killers (1967) [a]

Assignment to Kill (1968) [a]

The Face of Eve (1968) [a]

Villa Rides (1968) [a]

Der heiße Tod (1969) [a]

Doppelgänger (1969) [a]

Dorian Gray (1970) [a]

Hexen bis aufs Blut gequält (1970) [a]

Nachts, wenn Dracula erwacht (1970) [a]

Cuadecuc, vampir (1971) [a]

Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971) [a]

Asylum (1972) [a]

-- And Now the Screaming Starts! (1973) [a]

Dark Places (1973) [a]

Ein Unbekannter rechnet ab (1974) [a]

The Return of the Pink Panther (1975) [a]

The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976) [a]

Charleston (1977) [a]

Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978) [a]

The Lady Vanishes (1979) [a]

Hopscotch (1980) [a]

The Man with Bogart's Face (1980) [a]

Trail of the Pink Panther (1982) [a]

Curse of the Pink Panther (1983) [a]

The Dead Zone (1983) [a]

Memed My Hawk (1984) [a]

King Solomon's Mines (1985) [a]

Going Bananas (1987) [a]

Master of Dragonard Hill (1987) [a]

Skeleton Coast (1988) [a]

Whoops Apocalypse (1988) [a]

River of Death (1989) [a]

Ten Little Indians (1989) [a]

La Setta (1991) [a]

The Pope Must Die (1991) [a]

Son of the Pink Panther (1993) [a]

Chris & Don. A Love Story (2007) [a]



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