Biography
Herbert Lom (born Herbert Charles Angelo Kuchačevič ze Schluderpacheru) 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 serie...
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Complete Filmography
Dracula vs. Vampir
2012
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...

Beloved Count
2007
as (archive footage)
Cult director Jess Franco recalls the making of his adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula starring Christopher Lee.

The Curious Case of Inspector Clouseau
2002
as self
DA-DUN DA-DUN DA-DUN-DA-DUN-DA-DUN-DA-DUN-DA-DUUUUN Henry Mancini’s iconic score, Peter Sellers’ bumbling Inspector Clouseau, and those unforgettable...

Son of the Pink Panther
1993
as Police Commisioner Charles Dreyfus
The illegitimate son of Inspector Clouseau is on the case of the kidnapped Princess Yasmin.

The Pope Must Die
1991
as Vittorio Corelli
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 ...

The Sect
1991
as Moebius Kelly
A spree of grisly murders is perpetrated in Frankfurt by a group of Satan worshippers. A lonely schoolteacher almost runs over an elderly man and take...

Ten Little Indians
1989
as Gen. Brancko Romensky
Ten people are invited to go on an African safari, only to find that an unseen person is killing them one by one. Could one of them be the killer?

The Masque of the Red Death
1989
as Ludwig
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...

River of Death
1989
as Colonel Ricardo Diaz
An adventurer (Hamilton) decides to go in search of the Lost City in the Amazon jungle. A motley crew of other people decide to join him for the wealt...

Skeleton Coast
1988
as Elia
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...

Going Bananas
1987
as Captain Mackintosh
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...

Master of Dragonard Hill
1987
as Le Farge
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...

Whoops Apocalypse
1986
as Gen. Mosquera
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...

King Solomon's Mines
1985
as Colonel Bockner
Ever in search of adventure, explorer Allan Quatermain agrees to join the beautiful Jesse Huston on a mission to locate her archaeologist father, who ...

Memed My Hawk
1984
as Ali Safa Bey
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'...

James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate
1984
as Dr. Larsen (archive footage) (uncredited)
Retrospective of the life and movie work of British actor James Mason. The documentary presents interview footage interspersed with some movie excerpt...

The Dead Zone
1983
as Dr. Sam Weizak
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...

Curse of the Pink Panther
1983
as Chief Insp. Charles LaRousse Dreyfus
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...

Trail of the Pink Panther
1982
as Chef Inspektor Charles Dreyfus
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...

I Have Been Here Before
1982
as Dr. Görtler
Guests at a small hotel are disquieted by the insistence of a mysterious doctor that he has been there before.

The Man with Bogart's Face
1980
as Mr. Zebra
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...

Hopscotch
1980
as Yaskov
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...

The Lady Vanishes
1979
as Dr. Egon Hartz
On the eve of World War II, zany heiress Amanda Kelly travels by train to Switzerland. While passing through Germany, she meets a sweet elderly lady, ...

Revenge of the Pink Panther
1978
as Chief Inspector Dreyfus
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 car...

Charleston
1977
as Inspector Watkins
Charleston is a 1977 Italian comedy film written and directed by Marcello Fondato. It reprises the style of the film The Sting.

The Pink Panther Strikes Again
1976
as Dreyfus
Charles Dreyfus, who has finally cracked over inspector Clouseau's antics, escapes from a mental institution and launches an elaborate plan to get rid...

Uncle Tom's Cabin
1976
as Simon Legree (archive)
A sadistic plantation owner pushes his slaves to the point of rebellion.

The Return of the Pink Panther
1975
as Chief Inspector Dreyfus
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 Then There Were None
1974
as Dr. Edward Armstrong
Ten people are invited to a hotel in the Iranian desert, only to find that an unseen person is killing them one by one. Could one of them be the kille...

Dark Places
1973
as Prescot
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...

And Now the Screaming Starts!
1973
as Henry Fengriffen
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...

Asylum
1972
as Byron
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 patients...

Vampir Cuadecuc
1972
as Self
An atmospheric essay, which is an alternative version of Count Dracula, a film directed by Jess Franco in 1970; a ghostly narration between fiction an...

Murders in the Rue Morgue
1971
as Rene Marot
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...

Dorian Gray
1970
as Henry Wotton
London, England. Dorian Gray is a young man who somehow keeps his beauty eternally, while a mysterious portrait of himself gradually reveals his moral...

Count Dracula
1970
as Van Helsing
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.

Mister Jerico
1970
as Victor Russo
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...

Mark of the Devil
1970
as Lord Cumberland
In 1700s Austria, a witch-hunter's apprentice has doubts about the righteousness of witch-hunting when he witnesses the brutality, the injustice, the ...

Doppelgänger
1969
as Doctor Hassler
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...

99 Women
1969
as Governor Santos
Female prisoners endure the horrors of drug abuse, prostitution and rampant sadism at an island prison. When an escape attempt goes awry, the fugitive...

Eve
1968
as Diego
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...

Villa Rides
1968
as General Huerta
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...

Assignment to Kill
1968
as Matt Wilson
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...

The Karate Killers
1967
as Randolph
International spies Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) and Illya Kuryakin (David McCallum) travel around the globe in an effort to track down a secret form...

Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy 2
1967
as Etzel
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...

Gambit
1966
as Shahbandar
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...

Our Man in Marrakesh
1966
as Mr. Casimir
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...

Return from the Ashes
1965
as Dr. Charles Bovard
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 ...

Uncle Tom's Cabin
1965
as Simon Legree
In the pre-Civil War South, a sadistic plantation owner brutalizes his slaves to the point of rebellion. Always obedient, peaceful and honest old slav...

A Shot in the Dark
1964
as Charles Dreyfus
Inspector Jacques Clouseau, smitten with the accused maid Maria Gambrelli, unwittingly turns a straightforward murder investigation into a comedic ser...

The Horse Without a Head
1964
as Schiapa
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,...

Treasure of Silver Lake
1962
as Colonel Brinkley
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...

Tiara Tahiti
1962
as Chong Sing
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...

The Phantom of the Opera
1962
as The Phantom (Prof. L. Petrie)
A London opera house is haunted by tragic events on its opening night, but when its star is kidnapped, a producer tracks down the Phantom who is inten...

Mysterious Island
1961
as Captain Nemo
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...

El Cid
1961
as Ben Yussuf
Epic film of the legendary Spanish hero, Rodrigo Diaz ("El Cid" to his followers), who, without compromising his strict sense of honour, still succeed...

The Frightened City
1961
as Waldo Zhernikov
A small time thief is recruited by a mobster to help with the racketeering. He doesn't like the job, but with the mob on his back, a femme fatale in h...

Mr. Topaze
1961
as Castel Benac
Mr. Topaze is an unassuming school teacher in an unassuming small French town, who is honest to a fault. He is fired when he refuses to give a passing...

Spartacus
1960
as Tigranes Levantus
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,...

I Aim at the Stars
1960
as Anton Reger
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...

Third Man on the Mountain
1959
as Emil Saxo
Famous British mountaineer Winter wants to climb a difficult summit, the Citadel. He goes to a small village but no guide wants to accompany him. A yo...

Perilous Assignment
1959
as Self
"Perilous Assignment" is an episode of ABC's Walt Disney Presents. Disney loved to show viewers behind the scenes of the daring shoots of its theatric...

North West Frontier
1959
as Van Layden
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...

The Big Fisherman
1959
as Herod Antipas
Drama that focuses on the later life of Peter, one of the closest disciples of Jesus.

No Trees in the Street
1959
as Wilkie
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...

Passport to Shame
1958
as Nick Biaggi
British melodrama about a cabbie befriending a girl caught up in the white slave trade.

The Roots of Heaven
1958
as Orsini
In French Equatorial Africa, an idealist campaigns to save the African elephant, gaining support from a nightclub hostess and an ex-soldier. His cause...

Intent to Kill
1958
as Juan Menda
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 ...

I Accuse!
1958
as Maj. DuPaty de Clam
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...

Chase a Crooked Shadow
1958
as Police Commissar Vargas
A woman who lives in Spain has trouble convincing anybody that a complete stranger has taken her dead brother's identity.

Action of the Tiger
1957
as Trifon, Albania Bandit
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.

Hell Drivers
1957
as Gino Rossi
An ex-con trying to go clean ends up working for a crooked trucking company swindling money.

Fire Down Below
1957
as Harbour Master
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...

War and Peace
1956
as Napoleon
The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invad...

The Ladykillers
1955
as Louis, alias 'Mr. Harvey'
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...

Beautiful Stranger
1954
as Emil Landosh
An ex-chorus girl lives on the Riviera, supported by a married man she doesn't know is a crook.

The Love Lottery
1954
as André Amico
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...

Star of India
1954
as Governor Narbonne
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...

Rough Shoot
1953
as Sandorski
An American military officer and his wife move to a cottage in what they think is the peaceful English countryside, only to discover the area is a hot...

The Net
1953
as Dr. Alex Leon
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, ...

The Man Who Watched Trains Go By
1952
as Julius de Koster, Jr.
A Dutch company's owner bankrupts his own company, burns the incriminating ledgers and plans to run to Paris with the company funds but he is caught i...

The Ringer
1952
as Maurice Meister
An underhand solicitor receives threatening notes, and the police are called in to protect him.

Whispering Smith Vs. Scotland Yard
1952
as Roger Ford
Mystery directed by Francis Searle.

Mr. Denning Drives North
1951
as Mados
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...

Two on the Tiles
1951
as Ford
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 ...

Hell Is Sold Out
1951
as Dominic Danges
A supposedly dead writer suddenly turns up to confront the young woman who is using his penname.

Cage of Gold
1950
as Rahman
The love that Judy, a young painter, feels for Alan, a promising doctor to whom she is engaged, falters when Bill, an old friend, suddenly appears.

State Secret
1950
as Karl Theodor
While working in England, an American surgeon Dr. John Marlowe is invited to Vosnia (a fictitious East-European country) to receive an award and demon...

The Black Rose
1950
as Anthemus
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 ...

Night and the City
1950
as Kristo
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...

Golden Salamander
1950
as Rankl
An archaeologist stumbles into the territory of an evil crime syndicate and struggles to set things right.

Brass Monkey
1948
as Peter Hobart
Carroll Levis, a radio variety host, gets involved in murder and theft.

Portrait from Life
1948
as Fritz Kottler Hendlemann
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 ...

Good-Time Girl
1948
as Max Vine
Sent to a home for "problem" girls, incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen receives a crash course in petty crime. Back on the outside, she falls in with...

Snowbound
1948
as Von Kellerman, alias Keramikos
Good and bad characters are stuck in a ski chalet near buried Nazi gold in the Alps.

Dual Alibi
1947
as Jules de Lisle / Georges de Lisle
A French PR man and his girlfriend steal a lottery ticket from twin trapeze artists, prompting murder.

Appointment with Crime
1946
as Gregory Lang
Small-time jewel thief Leo Martin is deserted by his partners-in-crime, club owner Gus Loman and driver Hatchett, when the robbery they are committing...

Night Boat to Dublin
1946
as Keitel
British intelligence officers head off a Nazi plot to kidnap an atomic scientist.

The Seventh Veil
1945
as Dr. Larsen
A concert pianist with amnesia fights to regain her memory.

Hotel Reserve
1944
as Andre Roux
A hunt for a spy, in a hotel in the South of France just before World War Two.

The Dark Tower
1943
as Stephen Torg
While working at a circus, a man hypnotizes a trapezist to kill her partner.

Tomorrow We Live
1943
as Kurtz
British World War II film set in occupied France, portraying the activities of members of the French Resistance and the Nazi tactic of taking and shoo...

Secret Mission
1942
as Medical Officer
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...

The Young Mr. Pitt
1942
as Napoleon
This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.

After Mein Kampf
1940
Allied propaganda in the form of cartoons and newsreels shows the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.

Dad for a Day
1939
as Gas Station Patron
The "Our Gang" kids encourage a shy man to take a widow and her son to a picnic.
Boží mlýny
1938
An old peasant from Chodský, Záhor, claims to the young Podestát that he returned three hundred gold pieces to his father before the old Podestát died...
Žena pod křížem
1937
as Gustav