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Herbert Lom
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Herbert Lom has been one of world cinema's foremost character actors for 60 years. He will soon emerge from a lengthy acting hiatus to appear in The Birth of the Pink Panther with Mike Myers as the imbecilic Inspector Clouseau. Lom may ... appear in a film based on his novel Dr. Guillotine: The Eccentric Exploits of an Early Scientist (published by Trafalgar Square Books in 1993). English director Robert Young (Fierce Creatures) has an option on Lom's thriller and may direct this biopic of the strange idealist who invented the 'head-chopper.'
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London, 1961: It’s a city where gangs control the streets and extortion thugs call the shots until a ruthless accountant (Herbert Lom of NIGHT AND THE CITY) organizes the major racketeers into one ruling syndicate. But when the crime ring double-crosses mob enforcer Paddy Damion (Sean Connery), the fuse is lit on a brutal war that explodes in every pub, club and street corner of the West End. Now Paddy is trapped between the strong-arm of the mob and the long arm of the law, a hunted man alone in THE FRIGHTENED CITY. Sean Connery co-starred in this hard-boiled British crime thriller less than one year before shooting to international stardom as James Bond in DR. NO. Filmed with the cooperation of Scotland Yard’s notorious ‘Flying Squad,’ THE FRIGHTENED CITY has been completely restored from original UK vault elements. Includes a 5x7 Theatrical Poster Replica
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Born Herbert Charles Angelo Kuchacevich ze Schluderpacheru, Herbert Lom enjoyed a successful acting career in his native Czechoslovakia, principally in theater. He made his screen debut in Zena Pod Krizem (1937) and made one more movie in Czechoslovakia before emigrating to England in 1938. He acted at The Old Vic in London, among other companies, before turning to British films, where his good looks, cultured accent and mannerisms, and intense eyes got him cast in such unusual roles as Napoleon Bonaparte (in The Young Mr. Pitt) in between slightly more anonymous parts. Lom's real breakthrough role was in Compton Bennett's 1946 psychological drama The Seventh Veil, as Dr. Larsen, the psychiatrist treating neuroses of the pianist portrayed by Ann Todd. Lom might have become a kind of Eastern (or Middle) European successor to Charles Boyer, but he was too good an actor to limit himself to romantic parts; instead, he was more like a Czech Jean Gabin. Lom often played highly motivated villains in the 1950s and '60s, most notably in Jules Dassin's Night and the City (1950), in which he brought surprising humanity to the role of a brutal, vengeful gangster, and Sidney Gilliat's State Secret (1950).
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In den letzten Jahren ist Herbert Lom auch als Autor aktiv gewesen. Er hat zwei Romane verfasst, einen über den Schriftsteller Christopher Marlowe, Enter a Spy: The Double Life of Christopher Marlowe (1971), und den historischen Roman Dr. Guillotin: The Eccentric Exploits of an Early Scientist (1992), der zur Zeit der französischen Revolution spielt.
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Lom teamed up with Christopher Lee once again for Dark Places (1974), a tepid horror thriller directed by Don Sharp. The plot follows the misadventures of an heir to an estate (Robert Hardy) who searches for a hidden fortune in the house of a deceased maniac. As he does so, images from the house's past begin to haunt him, and his own personality is slowly overshadowed by that of the former, homicidal occupant, played by Lom.
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