Herbert Lom
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)
- 1942: The Young Mr. Pitt
- 1942: Secret Mission
- 1943: The Dark Tower
- 1944: Hotel Reserve
- 1945: The Seventh Veil (The Seventh Veil)
- 1946: Night Boat to Dublin
- 1946: Appointment with Crime
- 1948: Portrait from Life
- 1948: Brass Monkey
- 1949: The Golden Salamander ( The Golden Salamander )
- 1950: The Rat of Soho (Night and the City)
- 1950: state secret ( State Secret )
- 1950: The Black Rose (The Black Rose)
- 1951: Two on the Tiles
- 1951: Hell is Sold Out
- 1952: Whispering Smith Hits London
- 1952: Mr. Denning Drives North
- 1952: The strangler arrives at midnight (The Ringer)
- 1952: The Man Who Watched Trains Go By
- 1953: Rough Shoot
- 1953: The Net
- 1954: The Love Lottery
- 1954: Beautiful Stranger
- 1954: Star of India
- 1955: Ladykillers (The Ladykillers)
- 1956: War and Peace (War and Peace)
- 1957: Playing with Fire (Fire Down Below)
- 1957: Duel at the wheel (Hell Drivers)
- 1958: Whispering Shadows (Chase a Crooked Shadow)
- 1959: The fisherman of Galilee (The Big Fisherman)
- 1959: Burning India (North West Frontier)
- 1959: Wernher von Braun - I reach for the stars
- 1959: The third man in the mountain
- 1960: Spartacus
- 1961: The Mysterious Island
- 1961: The Whip (The Frightened City)
- 1961: El Cid
- 1962: The Mystery of the Eerie Mask (The Phantom of the Opera)
- 1962: The treasure in the Silbersee
- 1964: A Shot in the Dark (A Shot in the Dark)
- 1965: Uncle Tom's hut
- 1966: Marrakech (Our Man in Marrakesh)
- 1966: The girl from the cherry bar (Gambit)
- 1966: The Nibelungs
- 1967: The Karate Killer (The Karate Killers)
- 1968: Pancho Villa rides (Villa Rides)
- 1968: The hot death (99 mujeres)
- 1969: Accident in space (doppelganger)
- 1969: Witches tormented to the core
- 1970: At night when Dracula wakes up
- 1970: The Portrait of Dorian Gray
- 1971: Murders in the Rue Morgue (Murders in the Rue Morgue)
- 1972: Asylum (Asylum)
- 1973: Embryo of Evil (And Now the Screaming Starts!)
- 1973: The Tomb of the Living Dolls (Dark Places)
- 1974: An unknown settles (And Then There Were None)
- 1975: The Return of the Pink Panther (The Return of the Pink Panther)
- 1976: Inspector Clouseau, the "best" man at Interpol (The Pink Panther Strikes Again)
- 1977: Charleston - Two fists clean up (Charleston)
- 1978: Inspector Clouseau - The crazy Flic with the hot look (Revenge of the Pink Panther)
- 1979: Deadly Message (The Lady Vanishes)
- 1980: Agent Poker (Hopscotch)
- 1980: Sam Marlow, private detective (The Man with Bogart's Face)
- 1982: The Pink Panther is hunted (Trail of the Pink Panther)
- 1983: Curse of the Pink Panther (Curse of the Pink Panther)
- 1983: Dead Zone (The Dead Zone)
- 1984: Memed, mein Falke (Memed My Hawk)
- 1985: Quatermain - In Search of the Treasure of the Kings (King Solomon's Mines)
- 1986: Too Late - The Bomb Flies (Whoops Apocalypse)
- 1989: River of Death - River of horror (River of Death)
- 1991: A Pope to Kiss (The Pope Must Die (t))
- 1991: The Sect (La Setta)
- 1993: Son of the Pink Panther (Son of the Pink Panther)
- 2004: Miss Marple : The Murder at the Vicarage
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
- Herbert Lom in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Herbert Lom in the nndb (English)
- Pictures by Herbert Lom In: Virtual History
Individual evidence
- ^ Herbert Lom, Pink Panther star, dies aged 95. Retrieved September 27, 2012 .
- ^ Stanley Green, Encyclopedia of the Musical Theater, (New York, 1976: Dodd, Mead & Company, rpt. Cambridge, Mass .: Da Capo Press, 1980), p. 233
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Lom, Herbert |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ze Schluderpacheru, Herbert Karel Angelo Kuchacevič (real name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British actor and author of Czech origin |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 11, 1917 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Prague |
DATE OF DEATH | September 27, 2012 |
Place of death | London |