Herbert Lom

  • Name: Herbert Lom
  • Date of Birth: September 11, 1917
  • Place of Birth: Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic)
Mini-bio: Herbert Lom is an international film actor. He was born Herbert Charles Angelo Kuchacevich ze Schluderpacheru in Prague to upper-class Jewish parents on 11 September 1917. Lom's film debut was in the ...( read more)Czech film Žena pod k?ížem (1937). His early films roles included supporting roles, but also the occasional top billing.




He moved to Britain in 1939 and made many appearances in British films throughout the 1940s, usually in villainous roles, although he later appeared in comedies as well. He managed to escape being typecast as a European heavy by securing a diverse range of castings, including as Napoleon Bonaparte in The Young Mr. Pitt (1942) (and again in the 1956 version of War and Peace). In a rare starring role Lom played twin trapeze artists in Dual Alibi (1946). He continued into the 1950s with roles opposite Alec Guinness and Peter Sellers in The Ladykillers, and opposite Robert Mitchum, Jack Lemmon and Rita Hayworth in Fire Down Below (1957).
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Replace this image with an actor photoHerbert Lom mini-bio: Herbert Lom is an international film actor. He was born Herbert Charles Angelo Kuchacevich ze Schluderpacheru in Prague to upper-class Jewish parents on 11 September 1917. Lom's film debut was in the Czech film Žena pod k?ížem (1937). His early films roles included supporting roles, but also the occasional top billing.

He moved to Britain in 1939 and made many appearances in British films throughout the 1940s, usually in villainous roles, although he later appeared in comedies as well. He managed to escape being typecast as a European heavy by securing a diverse range of castings, including as Napoleon Bonaparte in The Young Mr. Pitt (1942) (and again in the 1956 version of War and Peace). In a rare starring role Lom played twin trapeze artists in Dual Alibi (1946). He continued into the 1950s with roles opposite Alec Guinness and Peter Sellers in The Ladykillers, and opposite Robert Mitchum, Jack Lemmon and Rita Hayworth in Fire Down Below (1957).

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    His work as a straight man in the Pink Panther movies makes him one of the most brilliant actors who ever lived.
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