Cast: Herbert Lom

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Herbert Lom. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Spartacus

1960 · Movie · 196 min. · United States

Direction Stanley Kubrick

Cast Kirk Douglas · Tony Curtis · Laurence Olivier · Peter Ustinov

Synopsis Based on the homonymous novel by Howard Fast about the historical life of Spartacus and the Third Servile War. Spartacus (Kirk Douglas) is a rebellious slave who leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman empire. Word of the rebellion...

8.0

68K votes

8.0

68K votes

Night and the City

1950 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Jules Dassin

Cast Richard Widmark · Gene Tierney · Googie Withers · Hugh Marlowe

Synopsis Harry Fabian (Richard Widmark) is a London hustler with ambitious plans that never work out. One day, when he encounters the most famous Greco-Roman wrestler in the world, Gregorius, at a London wrestling arena run by his son Kristo, he...

7.7

3K votes

7.7

3K votes

The Ladykillers

1955 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alexander Mackendrick

Cast Alec Guinness · Kate Johnson · Herbert Lom · Peter Sellers

Synopsis A gang of five diverse oddball criminal types rent a two room apartment in an isolated house on a London cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow with three pet parrots. The group's mastermind, Professor Marcus, tells her a cover story that...

7.5

7K votes

7.5

7K votes

War and Peace

1956 · Movie · 208 min. · United States

Direction King Vidor

Cast Audrey Hepburn · Henry Fonda · Mel Ferrer · Vittorio Gassman

Synopsis Set against the backdrop of Napoleon's 1812 invasion of Russia, King Vidor's adaptation of the Tolstoy sprawling classic stars Henry Fonda as Pierre Bezhukov. Despite the vast scope of the author's detailed portrait of the classes, regions, and characters of...

7.3

10K votes

7.3

10K votes

Hell Drivers

1957 · Movie · 108 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Cy Endfield

Cast Stanley Baker · Herbert Lom · Peggy Cummins · Patrick McGoohan

Synopsis Joe 'Tom' Yateley is an ex-convict. Trying to leave his past behind, he decides to starts working for the Hawlett Trucking company, which transports gravel. It's an aggressive company, where speed is everything. Doing too less runs in a day?...

6.9

339 votes

6.9

339 votes

State Secret (The Great Manhunt)

1950 · Movie · 104 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Sidney Gilliat

Cast Douglas Fairbanks Jr. · Jack Hawkins · Glynis Johns · Walter Rilla

Synopsis Visiting in England, famed American surgeon Doctor John Marlowe is decoyed to a middle European country, and discovers the operation he is to perform is on the Vosnian dictator. When the latter dies, he is replaced by a look-alike, but...

6.7

42 votes

6.7

42 votes

El Cid

1961 · Movie · 184 min. · United States

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast Charlton Heston · Sophia Loren · Raf Vallone · John Fraser

Synopsis Eleventh-century Spain is divided into Christian kingdoms and Moorish strongholds. The young Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar--dubbed El Cid by his followers--vows to see his country at peace, free from the invader. Vigorously brave and resourceful, the noble knight hates bloodshed...

6.7

8K votes

6.7

8K votes

Chase a Crooked Shadow

1958 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael Anderson

Cast Richard Todd · Anne Baxter · Herbert Lom · Faith Brook

Synopsis A man shows up at Kimberley Prescott's villa claiming to be her brother. But Ward Prescott died in a car accident a year ago, so how can this man be him? Despite Kim's protests that the stranger isn't her brother,...

6.7

200 votes

6.7

200 votes

The Dead Zone

1983 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction David Cronenberg

Cast Christopher Walken · Martin Sheen · Brooke Adams · Tom Skerritt

Synopsis Adapted from a Stephen King novel, it stars Christopher Walken as Johnny, a man who has been in a coma for five years and wakes up to realize that he can tell a person's fate just by touching them. Realizing...

6.6

10K votes

6.6

10K votes

A Shot in the Dark

1964 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Blake Edwards

Cast Peter Sellers · Elke Sommer · Herbert Lom · George Sanders

Synopsis The second in the series of films involving bumbling French inspector Jacques Clouseau has the the inept detective trying to clear a maid accused of murdering her lover--even though all clues point to her. -Peter Sellers returns as the world's...

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6.6

3K votes

6.6

3K votes

Peter and Paul (TV Miniseries)

1981 · Movie · 197 min. · United States

Direction Robert Day

Cast Anthony Hopkins · Robert Foxworth · Eddie Albert · Raymond Burr

Synopsis Peter the Fisherman and Paul of Tarsus assume leadership of the Church as they struggle against violent opposition to the teachings of Jesus Christ and their own personal conflicts.

6.6

28 votes

6.6

28 votes

Return from the Ashes

1965 · Movie · 105 min. · United Kingdom

Direction J. Lee Thompson

Cast Maximilian Schell · Ingrid Thulin · Samantha Eggar · Herbert Lom

Synopsis Stanislaus Pilgrin, a Polish chess master and handsome gigolo, marries wealthy Jewish widow, Dr. Michele Wolf, an X-ray technician and has an affair with her step-daughter, Fabienne and then plots to murder them both in a scheme that will have...

6.5

123 votes

6.5

123 votes

The Seventh Veil

1945 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Compton Bennett

Cast James Mason · Ann Todd · Herbert Lom · Hugh McDermott

Synopsis A childhood trauma has left pianist Francesca Cunningham deeply disturbed and suicidal. Many hazy thoughts cloud her mind -- memories of abuse, memories of submission to her seemingly overbearing mentor, Nicholas. But she cannot tell the true from the false,...

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6.5

156 votes

6.5

156 votes

The Phantom of the Opera

1962 · Movie · 84 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terence Fisher

Cast Herbert Lom · Heather Sears · Edward de Souza · Michael Gough

Synopsis Hammer's version of the Phantom starts right in with odd happenings at the opera like missing music, destroyed instruments and stories of ghosts. On opening night of the opera (which is about Joan of Arc) a man is hanged and...

6.4

919 votes

6.4

919 votes

6.4

465 votes

I Accuse!

1958 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom

Direction José Ferrer

Cast José Ferrer · Anton Walbrook · Viveca Lindfors · Leo Genn

Synopsis The famous "Dreyfus Case" where a Jewish captain in the French Army is falsely accused of treason. He is sentenced to imprisonment on Devil's Island. When the real traitor is found the French Army tries to hide the truth.

6.4

30 votes

6.4

30 votes

The Pink Panther Strikes Again

1976 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Blake Edwards

Cast Peter Sellers · Herbert Lom · Lesley-Anne Down · Burt Kwouk

Synopsis In the fourth film of the long-running series, bumbling Inspector Jacques Clouseau's (Peter Sellers) long-suffering boss, Dreyfus (Herbert Lom), finally has been driven to a nervous breakdown by the detective and has been hospitalized in an asylum. Meanwhile, the hapless...

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6.3

3K votes

6.3

3K votes

The Return of the Pink Panther

1975 · Movie · 113 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Blake Edwards

Cast Peter Sellers · Christopher Plummer · Catherine Schell · Herbert Lom

Synopsis RETURN is the third installment in the popular Pink Panther series and a reunion for director Blake Edwards and comedian Peter Sellers, who had not made a Panther film since A SHOT IN THE DARK a decade earlier. This time...

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6.3

3K votes

6.3

3K votes

Direction Charles Palmer

Cast Geraldine McEwan · John Owens · Jana Carpenter · Tim McInnerny

Synopsis Colonel Lucius Protheroe is probably the least-liked individual in St Mary Mead. All resent his superior and demanding attitude. So, when he is found dead in the vicarage study, there is no end of suspects. His wife Ann was having...

6.2

102 votes

6.2

102 votes