Herbert Lom

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Herbert Lom (actually Herbert Karel Angelo Kuchacevič ze Schluderpacheru ; born September 11, 1917 in Prague , † September 27, 2012 in London ) was a British actor and author of Austrian- Czech origin.

Life

Herbert Lom began his film career in Czechoslovakia in 1937 and emigrated to Great Britain in January 1939, where he played Napoleon Bonaparte in The Young Mr. Pitt in 1942 . He later embodied this again in the monumental film War and Peace (1956). In 1946, Lom starred in the film Circus Barney ( Dual Alibi , 1946), in which he appeared in a double role. 1953 Lom played the lead role of the King of Siam in the original London production of the musical The King and I ( The King and I ) in the Drury Lane Theater , which brought it there for 926 performances. Yul Brynner took on this role in the theatrical version of the musical and later also in a London theater production.

In addition to Alec Guinness , Lom played the most dangerous of all gangsters in the black comedy Ladykillers (1955). In Spartacus (1960) he was seen as a Cilician trader. In 1961 he played Captain Nemo in the Jules Verne film adaptation of The Mysterious Island and he played the role of Yusuf ibn Tashfin alongside Charlton Heston in the monumental film El Cid . In 1962 he was the phantom of the opera in the horror film The Mystery of the Eerie Mask of the British Hammer Films .

Shortly thereafter, he played in the comedy A Shot in the Dark (1964) alongside Peter Sellers , directed by Blake Edwards, for the first time the role with which he was probably best known, the neurotic chief inspector Charles Dreyfus in the Pink Panther series . He embodied this in six other films in the series.

German moviegoers also know him as the villain Colonel Brinkley in the Karl May film Der Schatz im Silbersee (1962). In this role, Lom, who spoke fluent German, didn't have to be dubbed. In 2003, Lom was awarded the Scharlih for this role , an award associated with the name Karl May . His other roles in German films in 1964 as narbengesichtiger slavers Simon Legree in the novel adaptation Uncle Tom's Cabin , 1966 in Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's revenge as Huns -König Etzel and 1969 as a witch hunter in the horror shocker witches to the death tortured .

In addition, Herbert Lom was also active as an author. He has authored two novels, one on the writer Christopher Marlowe , Enter a Spy: The Double Life of Christopher Marlowe (1971), and the historical novel Dr. Guillotin: The Eccentric Exploits of an Early Scientist (1992), set at the time of the French Revolution .

He died on September 27, 2012 at the age of 95.

Filmography (selection)

bibliography

  • Enter a Spy: The Double Life of Christopher Marlowe. Rowman & Littlefield, ISBN 0-8476-6258-6 .
  • Dr. Guillotin: The Eccentric Exploits of an Early Scientist. Trafalgar Square Publishing, ISBN 1-85619-111-7 .

literature

  • Reiner Boller: The man who hated Inspector Clouseau - Herbert Lom and his film roles. (Biography), Verlag Verlagsallianz, December 2015, ISBN 978-3-938109-40-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Herbert Lom, Pink Panther star, dies aged 95. Retrieved September 27, 2012 .
  2. ^ Stanley Green, Encyclopedia of the Musical Theater, (New York, 1976: Dodd, Mead & Company, rpt. Cambridge, Mass .: Da Capo Press, 1980), p. 233