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Blocky, steely-eyed, flamboyantly talented character actor who has played comic foils and glowering villains with equal aplomb in a score of British and international features. His role as Ann Todd's psychiatrist in the glossy romantic melodrama "The Seventh Veil" (1945) gave him considerable prominence in British features for some time, and he later enlivened many films including "Good Time Girl" (1948), "State Secret" (1950), "The Ringer" (1952), "Beautiful Stranger/Twist of Fate" (1954), the famous black comedy "The Ladykillers" (1955), and "Northwest Frontier/Flame Over India" (1959)....
Full Bio & Milestones

Filmography

Marco Polo - ( / 2000 / Released / )
Blake Edwards' Son of the Pink Panther - ( Inspector Dreyfus / 1993 / Released / )
The Masque of the Red Death - ( / 1991 / Released / )
The Pope Must Diet - ( Corelli / 1991 / Released / )
The Sect - ( Gran Vecchio / 1991 / Released / )
River of Death - ( Colonel Ricardo Diaz / 1989 / Released / )
Ten Little Indians - ( General Romensky / 1989 / Released / Humax/GAGA Communications )
The Crystal Eye - ( / 1989 / Released / )
Going Bananas - ( Mackintosh / 1988 / Released / )
Skeleton Coast - ( Elia--Angolan Contact / 1988 / Released / )
Whoops Apocalypse - ( General Mosquera / 1988 / Released / )
Memed My Hawk - ( Ali Safa Bey / 1987 / Released / Focus Films )
King Solomon's Mines - ( Colonel Bockner / 1985 / Released / )
Curse of the Pink Panther - ( Chief Inspector Dreyfus / 1983 / Released / UIP The Film Consortium )
The Dead Zone - ( Dr Sam Weizak / 1983 / Released / Columbia-EMI-Warner )
Trail of the Pink Panther - ( Dreyfus / 1982 / Released / )
Hopscotch - ( Mikhail Yaskov / 1980 / Released / )
The Man With Bogart's Face - ( Mr Zebra / 1980 / Released / )
The Lady Vanishes - ( Dr Hartz / 1979 / Released / )
Charleston - ( Inspector Watkins / 1978 / Released / Analysis Films Releasing Corporation )
Revenge of the Pink Panther - ( Chief Inspector Dreyfus / 1978 / Released / )
The Pink Panther Strikes Again - ( Dreyfus / 1976 / Released / )
And Then There Were None - ( Dr Armstrong / 1975 / Released / )
The Return of the Pink Panther - ( Chief Inspector Dreyfus / 1975 / Released / )
And Now the Screaming Starts - ( Henry Fengriffen / 1973 / Released / )
Dark Places - ( Prescott / 1973 / Released / )
Asylum - ( Byron / 1972 / Released / Harbor Productions )
Murders in the Rue Morgue - ( Marot / 1971 / Released / AIP )
Brenn, Hexe, brenn - ( / 1970 / Released / )
Count Dracula - ( / 1970 / Released / )
Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray - ( / 1970 / Released / )
99 Women - ( Governor / 1968 / Released / Commonwealth United Productions )
Assignment to Kill - ( Matt Wilson / 1968 / Released / )
Villa Rides - ( General Huerta / 1968 / Released / )
Gambit - ( Shahbandar / 1967 / Released / )
The Karate Killers - ( Randolph / 1967 / Released / )
Our Man in Marrakesh - ( Narim Casimir / 1966 / Released / )
Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy - ( Attila / 1966 / Released / Golden Era )
Return From the Ashes - ( Dr Charles Bovard / 1965 / Released / )
A Shot in the Dark - ( Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus / 1964 / Released / )
The Phantom of the Opera - ( The Pantom / 1962 / Released / )
Tiara Tahiti - ( Chong Sing / 1962 / Released / )
El Cid - ( Ben Yussuf / 1961 / Released / )
I Like Money - ( Castel Benac / 1961 / Released / )
Mysterious Island - ( Captain Nemo / 1961 / Released / Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group )
The Frightened City - ( Waldo Zhernikov / 1961 / Released / Allied Artists )
I Aim at the Stars - ( Anton Berger / 1960 / Released / )
North West Frontier - ( Van Leyden / 1960 / Released / Fox Films, Ltd. )
Spartacus - ( Tigranes / 1960 / Released / )
The Big Fisherman - ( Herod-Antipas / 1959 / Released / Buena Vista Pictures Distribution )
Third Man on the Mountain - ( Emil Saxo / 1959 / Released / )
Chase a Crooked Shadow - ( Vargas / 1958 / Released / Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution )
Hell Drivers - ( Gino / 1958 / Released / )
I Accuse - ( Major Du Paty De Clam / 1958 / Released / )
Intent to Kill - ( Juan Menda / 1958 / Released / Fox Films, Ltd. )
The Roots of Heaven - ( Orsini / 1958 / Released / Fox Films, Ltd. )
Fire Down Below - ( Harbor Master / 1957 / Released / Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group )
The Ladykillers - ( Louis Harvey / 1955 / Released / Continental Distributing Inc )
The Beautiful Stranger - ( Emil Landosh / 1954 / Released / )
The Seventh Veil - ( Dr Larsen / 1945 / Released / )
Secret Mission - ( / 1942 / Released / )
TV Credits
Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage ( 2004 / Released ): Actor
Scoop ( 1990 / Released ): Actor
Lace ( 1984 / Released ): Actor
Peter and Paul ( 1981 / Released ): Actor
Mister Jerico ( 1970 / Released ): Actor
Full Biography (Back to top)

Blocky, steely-eyed, flamboyantly talented character actor who has played comic foils and glowering villains with equal aplomb in a score of British and international features. His role as Ann Todd's psychiatrist in the glossy romantic melodrama "The Seventh Veil" (1945) gave him considerable prominence in British features for some time, and he later enlivened many films including "Good Time Girl" (1948), "State Secret" (1950), "The Ringer" (1952), "Beautiful Stranger/Twist of Fate" (1954), the famous black comedy "The Ladykillers" (1955), and "Northwest Frontier/Flame Over India" (1959). By the later 1950s Lom was regularly appearing in American and international productions as well, including "Spartacus" (1960) and "Mysterious Island" (1961, making a highly memorable, sympathetic Captain Nemo). Lom is perhaps best known as Chief Inspector Dreyfus, long-suffering boss of Inspector Clouseau (Peter Sellers), in the "Pink Panther" movies.

Profession(s):
Actor
Sometimes Credited As:
Herbert Charles Angelo Kuchacevich ze Schluderpacheru

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Education
University of Prague Prague, Czechoslovakia
Sadlers Wells Theatre School London, England
Bristol Old Vic Theatre School Bristol, England
Milestones (Back to top)
1951 West End stage debut in "The Seventh Veil"
1939 Moved to England

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