Scrap, Herbert

Herbert Lom was born on September 11, 1917 in Prague in the family of Olga (Gottlieb in girlhood) and Charles. ^[7] His father was an impoverished earl . ^[8] Herbert's first film was Žena pod křížem, after which he began to play supporting roles in Czech films.

In 1939 he moved to England , starred in many British films of the 1940s, playing, as a rule, negative roles, among which there were several comedic ones. He played Napoleon in the black and white film Young Mr. Pitt , and a few years later he played the same role in King Widor 's color film War and Peace . He was going to move to the United States , but he was denied a visa for political reasons. Among the rare main roles of Loma were the twins in the movie Double Alibi , the King of Siam in the movie King and Me , one of the criminals in the movie Dunk the Old Woman .

In 1953, in a roundabout way through Canada , Lom finally reached America. In the 1960s, the actor played the most diverse roles in such films as Spartak , El Cid , Mysterious Island and others. He starred in countless low-budget horror films, including Hammer Film Productions ' Phantom of the Opera , and several notable German films - The Devil's Seal , Count Dracula . They are often confused with films from Hammer Film Productions , but they have nothing to do with this studio. For two years, Lom played a psychiatrist with Harley Street in the British series The Human Jungle .

Herbert's most famous image was the long-suffering inspector Charles Dreyfus in seven films by Blake Edwards : “ Shot in the Dark ” (1964), “The Return of the Pink Panther ” (1975), “The Pink Panther Strikes Again ” (1976), “The Revenge of the Pink Panther ” ( 1978), The Trail of the Pink Panther (1982), The Curse of the Pink Panther (1983), The Son of the Pink Panther (1993). In addition, he played in two adaptations of Agatha Christie ’s famous novel “ Ten Little Indians ”: Dr. Armstrong in the 1975 version and General MacArthur in the 1989 version.

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