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Blocky, steely-eyed, flamboyantly talented character actor who has played comic foils and glowering villains with equal aplomb in a score of British and international features. His role as Ann Todd's psychiatrist in the glossy romantic melodrama "The Seventh Veil" (1945) gave him considerable prominence in British features for some time, and he later enlivened many films including "Good Time Girl" (1948), "State Secret" (1950), "The Ringer" (1952), "Beautiful Stranger/Twist of Fate" (1954), the famous black comedy "The Ladykillers" (1955), and "Northwest Frontier/Flame Over India" (1959). By the later 1950s Lom was regularly appearing in American and international productions as well, including "Spartacus" (1960) and "Mysterious Island" (1961, making a highly memorable, sympathetic Captain Nemo). Lom is perhaps best known as Chief Inspector Dreyfus, long-suffering boss of Inspector Clouseau (Peter Sellers), in the "Pink Panther" movies.

Blocky, steely-eyed, flamboyantly talented character actor who has played comic foils and glowering villains with equal aplomb in a score of British and international features. His role as Ann Todd's psychiatrist in the glossy romantic melodrama "The Seventh Veil" (1945) gave him considerable prominence in British features for some time, and he later enlivened many films including "Good Time Girl" (1948), "State Secret" (1950), "The Ringer" (1952), "Beautiful Stranger/Twist of Fate" (1954), the famous black comedy "The Ladykillers" (1955), and "Northwest Frontier/Flame Over India" (1959). By the later 1950s Lom was regularly appearing in American and international productions as well, including "Spartacus" (1960) and "Mysterious Island" (1961, making a highly memorable, sympathetic Captain Nemo). Lom is perhaps best known as Chief Inspector Dreyfus, long-suffering boss of Inspector Clouseau (Peter Sellers), in the "Pink Panther" movies.

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CAST: (feature film)

1.
 Marco Polo (2000) Actor
2.
 Blake Edwards' Son of the Pink Panther (1993) Inspector Dreyfus
3.
 Crystal Eye, The (1993) Actor
4.
 Pope Must Diet, The (1991) Corelli
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 Sect, The (1991) Gran Vecchio
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 River Of Death (1990) Colonel Ricardo Diaz
8.
 Ten Little Indians (1989) General Romensky
9.
 Going Bananas (1988) Mackintosh
10.
 Skeleton Coast (1988) Elia--Angolan Contact
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Milestones close milestones

1939:
Moved to England
1951:
West End stage debut in "The Seventh Veil"

Education

University of Prague: -
Sadlers Wells Theatre School: -
Bristol Old Vic Theatre School: -

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