Herbert Lom

Born: 1917-09-12

Herbert Lom (born Herbert Charles Angelo Kuchačevič ze Schluderpacheru; 11 September 1917 – 27 September 2012) was a Czech-born British film and television actor who moved to the United Kingdom in 1939. In a career lasting more than 60 years, he appeared in character roles, often portraying criminals or villains early in his career and professional men in later years. Lom was noted for his precise, elegant enunciation of English. He is best known for his roles in The Ladykillers, The Pink Panther film series and the television series The Human Jungle.


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Night and the City

as Kristo
Released: 1950-06-15

Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up...

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as Tigranes Levantus
Released: 1960-10-13

The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer...

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Mysterious Island

as Captain Nemo
Released: 1961-12-19

During the US Civil War, Union POWs escape in a balloon and end up stranded on a South Pacific...

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The Return of the Pink Panther

as Chief Inspector Dreyfus
Released: 1975-05-21

The famous Pink Panther jewel has once again been stolen and Inspector Clouseau is called in to...

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A Shot in the Dark

as Charles Dreyfus
Released: 1964-06-23

Inspector Jacques Clouseau, smitten with the accused maid Maria Gambrelli, unwittingly turns a...

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as Colonel Bockner
Released: 1985-11-22

Ever in search of adventure, explorer Allan Quatermain agrees to join the beautiful Jesse Huston...

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The Dead Zone

as Dr. Sam Weizak
Released: 1983-10-21

Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his...

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The Pink Panther Strikes Again

as Dreyfus
Released: 1976-12-15

Charles Dreyfus, who has finally cracked over inspector Clouseau's antics, escapes from a mental...

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Curse of the Pink Panther

as Chief Insp. Charles LaRousse Dreyfus
Released: 1983-08-12

Inspector Clouseau disappears, and the Surete wants the world's second best detective to look...

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War and Peace

as Napoleon
Released: 1956-08-21

Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia including his disastrous 1812 invasion serve as the...

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El Cid

as Ben Yussuf
Released: 1961-10-24

Epic film of the legendary Spanish hero, Rodrigo Diaz ("El Cid" to his followers), who, without...

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Trail of the Pink Panther

as Chef Inspektor Charles Dreyfus
Released: 1982-12-03

The Pink Panther diamond is stolen once again from Lugash and the authorities call in Chief...

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Son of the Pink Panther

as Police Commisioner Charles Dreyfus
Released: 1993-08-27

The illegitimate son of Inspector Clouseau is on the case of the kidnapped Princess Yasmin.

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Revenge of the Pink Panther

as Chief Inspector Dreyfus
Released: 1978-01-08

Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau is dead. At least that is what the world—and Charles...

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Hopscotch

as Yaskov
Released: 1980-09-26

When CIA operative Miles Kendig deliberately lets KGB agent Yaskov get away, his boss threatens...

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Treasure of Silver Lake

as Colonel Brinkley
Released: 1962-12-12

Fred Engel's father is murdered by Colonel Brinkley in order to acquire a treasure map, however...

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Gambit

as Shahbandar
Released: 1966-12-21

Harry Dean is a career burglar set on stealing a piece of priceless art from the world's...

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Count Dracula

as Van Helsing
Released: 1970-04-03

Jess Franco's version of the Bram Stoker classic has Count Dracula as an old man who grows...

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The Phantom of the Opera

as The Phantom (Prof. L. Petrie)
Released: 1962-06-25

A London opera house is haunted by tragic events on its opening night, but when its star is...

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Asylum

as Byron
Released: 1972-11-17

A young psychiatrist applies for a job at a mental asylum, and must pass a test by interviewing...

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And Then There Were None

as Dr. Edward Armstrong
Released: 1974-09-24

Ten people are invited to a hotel in the Iranian desert, only to find that an unseen person is...

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The Sect

as Moebius Kelly
Released: 1991-03-01

A spree of grisly murders is perpetrated in Frankfurt by a group of Satan worshippers. A lonely...

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Hell Drivers

as Gino Rossi
Released: 1957-07-23

An ex-con trying to go clean ends up working for a crooked trucking company swindling money.

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99 Women

as Governor Santos
Released: 1969-03-05

Female prisoners endure the horrors of drug abuse, prostitution and rampant sadism at an island...

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The Lady Vanishes

as Dr. Egon Hartz
Released: 1979-04-30

On the eve of World War II, zany heiress Amanda Kelly travels by train to Switzerland. While...

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The Ladykillers

as Louis, alias 'Mr. Harvey'
Released: 1955-12-08

Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian...

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The Black Rose

as Anthemus
Released: 1950-09-01

In the 13th century, Walter of Gurnie, a disinherited Saxon youth, is forced to flee England....

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Villa Rides

as General Huerta
Released: 1968-05-29

Pulled into the Mexican Revolution by his own greed, Texas gunrunner and pilot Lee Arnold joins...

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Ten Little Indians

as Gen. Brancko Romensky
Released: 1989-11-29

Ten people are invited to go on an African safari, only to find that an unseen person is killing...

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Doppelgänger

as Doctor Hassler
Released: 1969-08-27

A planet is discovered in the same orbit as Earth's but is located on the exact opposite side of...

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River of Death

as Colonel Ricardo Diaz
Released: 1989-09-29

An adventurer (Hamilton) decides to go in search of the Lost City in the Amazon jungle. A motley...

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The Roots of Heaven

as Orsini
Released: 1958-10-15

In French Equatorial Africa, an idealist campaigns to save the African elephant, gaining support...

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North West Frontier

as Van Layden
Released: 1959-10-13

In the rebellious northern frontier province of colonial India, British Army Captain Scott, a...

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Murders in the Rue Morgue

as Rene Marot
Released: 1971-07-21

In Paris, in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Cesar Charron owns a theater at the Rue...

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Passport to Shame

as Nick Biaggi
Released: 1958-12-02

British melodrama about a cabbie befriending a girl caught up in the white slave trade.

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The Karate Killers

as Randolph
Released: 1967-04-07

International spies Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) and Illya Kuryakin (David McCallum) travel...

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Third Man on the Mountain

as Emil Saxo
Released: 1959-11-10

Third Man on the Mountain is an American film directed by Ken Annakin and produced by Walt...

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The Man with Bogart's Face

as Mr. Zebra
Released: 1980-10-03

In this send-up of the Humphrey Bogart detective films of the 1940s, a man idolizes Bogart so...

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And Now the Screaming Starts!

as Henry Fengriffen
Released: 1973-04-27

In the late 18th century, two newlyweds move into the stately mansion of husband Charles...

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Dorian Gray

as Henry Wotton
Released: 1970-04-24

London, England. Dorian Gray is a young man who somehow keeps his beauty eternally, while a...

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Mark of the Devil

as Lord Cumberland
Released: 1970-02-19

In 1700s Austria, a witch-hunter's apprentice has doubts about the righteousness of...

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Dark Places

as Prescot
Released: 1973-05-01

A scheming couple plot to conceal a hidden cache of stolen money from its rightful owner. The...

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State Secret

as Karl Theodor
Released: 1950-09-11

Visiting in England, an American surgeon Doctor John Marlowe is decoyed to a middle European...

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The Man Who Watched Trains Go By

as Julius de Koster, Jr.
Released: 1952-12-01

A meek teller thinks he's killed his boss. He flees with a box of cash hoping for a new life...

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Charleston

as Inspector Watkins
Released: 1977-03-05

Charleston is a 1977 Italian comedy film written and directed by Marcello Fondato. It reprises...

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I Accuse!

as Maj. DuPaty de Clam
Released: 1958-03-05

Alfred Dreyfus, a German-Jewish captain serving in the French Army, is falsely accused of...

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Beautiful Stranger

as Emil Landosh
Released: 1954-07-13

An ex-chorus girl lives on the Riviera, supported by a married man she doesn't know is a crook.

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Fire Down Below

as Harbour Master
Released: 1957-05-30

Tony and Felix own a tramp boat, and sail around the Caribbean doing odd jobs and drinking a...

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Golden Salamander

as Rankl
Released: 1950-02-01

An archaeologist stumbles into the territory of an evil crime syndicate and struggles to set...

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Return from the Ashes

as Dr. Charles Bovard
Released: 1965-11-16

A Jewish woman, Dr. Michele Wolf, interred in a Nazi concentration camp during WWII returns to...

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Memed My Hawk

as Ali Safa Bey
Released: 1984-05-10

In 1920s Turkey, a young peasant is smitten with a beautiful young girl, who has been promised...

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Vampir Cuadecuc

as Self
Released: 1972-05-05

An atmospheric essay, which is an alternative version of Count Dracula, a film directed by Jess...

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Assignment to Kill

as Matt Wilson
Released: 1968-05-01

A private eye is hired by an insurance company to investigate a shipping magnate suspected of...

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The Love Lottery

as André Amico
Released: 1954-01-30

Rex Allerton is a top Hollywood star and an idol of the female population. To get away from the...

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The Pope Must Diet

as Vittorio Corelli
Released: 1991-06-21

A less-than-qualified and far-from-perfect priest is mistakenly named the new pope. As the...

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Chase a Crooked Shadow

as Police Commissar Vargas
Released: 1958-01-16

A woman who lives in Spain has trouble convincing anybody that a complete stranger has taken her...

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Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy 2

as Etzel
Released: 1967-02-16

Now Brunhild knows by which treason she was won for king Gunther of Burgund by Siegfried of...

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Uncle Tom's Cabin

as Simon Legree
Released: 1965-04-13

In the pre-Civil War South, a sadistic plantation owner brutalizes his slaves to the point of...

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The Young Mr. Pitt

as Napoleon
Released: 1942-09-21

This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great...

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Night Boat to Dublin

as Keitel
Released: 1946-01-08

British intelligence officers head off a Nazi plot to kidnap an atomic scientist.

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The Dark Tower

as Stephen Torg
Released: 1943-10-18

While working at a circus, a man hypnotizes a trapezist to kill her partner.

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The Seventh Veil

as Dr. Larsen
Released: 1945-10-18

A concert pianist with amnesia fights to regain her memory.

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Master of Dragonard Hill

as Le Farge
Released: 1987-05-13

In the 18th-century British Caribbean colony of St. Joseph's, decadent and hedonistic...

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Our Man in Marrakesh

as Mr. Casimir
Released: 1966-05-05

One of six travelers who catch the bus from Casablanca airport to Marrakesh is carrying $2...

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Tomorrow We Live

as Kurtz
Released: 1943-04-05

British World War II film set in occupied France, portraying the activities of members of the...

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The Frightened City

as Waldo Zhernikov
Released: 1961-09-01

A small time thief is recruited by a mobster to help with the racketeering. He doesn't like the...

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Star of India

as Governor Narbonne
Released: 1954-01-02

Squire Pierre St. Laurent returns from wars in India to 17th-century provincial France to find...

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Action of the Tiger

as Trifon, Albania Bandit
Released: 1957-08-22

A woman hires soldier-of-fortune Carson to smuggle her into Albania by way of Greece. Their...

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Portrait from Life

as Fritz Kottler Hendlemann
Released: 1948-12-01

A British army officer becomes fascinated by the portrait of a young woman. He travels to...

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Cage of Gold

as Rahman
Released: 1950-10-23

The love that Judy, a young painter, feels for Alan, a promising doctor to whom she is engaged,...

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The Ringer

as Maurice Meister
Released: 1952-11-24

An underhand solicitor receives threatening notes, and the police are called in to protect him.

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Mr. Denning Drives North

as Mados
Released: 1951-12-18

When well-off aircraft designer Denning finds his daughter's current boyfriend is a nasty...

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Secret Mission

as Medical Officer
Released: 1942-10-05

World War II drama in which a member of the French Resistance and three British agents undertake...

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Whoops Apocalypse

as Gen. Mosquera
Released: 1986-05-06

When a small British owned island in the Caribbean is invaded and the world's most dangerous...

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Rough Shoot

as Sandorski
Released: 1953-03-30

An American military officer and his wife move to a cottage in what they think is the peaceful...

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Snowbound

as Von Kellerman, alias Keramikos
Released: 1948-03-23

Good and bad characters are stuck in a ski chalet near buried Nazi gold in the Alps.

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The Curious Case of Inspector Clouseau

as self
Released: 2002-01-01

DA-DUN DA-DUN DA-DUN-DA-DUN-DA-DUN-DA-DUN-DA-DUUUUN Henry Mancini’s iconic score, Peter...

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The Big Fisherman

as Herod Antipas
Released: 1959-08-04

Drama that focuses on the later life of Peter, one of the closest disciples of Jesus.

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Skeleton Coast

as Elia
Released: 1988-04-14

A retired Army colonel attempts to rescue his imprisoned son in this action packed thriller. To...

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Appointment with Crime

as Gregory Lang
Released: 1946-05-13

Small-time jewel thief Leo Martin is deserted by his partners-in-crime, club owner Gus Loman and...

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Intent to Kill

as Juan Menda
Released: 1958-07-16

While resisting pressure from his upper-class wife to take a higher-paying job in London, a...

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Uncle Tom's Cabin

as Simon Legree (archive)
Released: 1976-03-11

A sadistic plantation owner pushes his slaves to the point of rebellion.

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The Net

as Dr. Alex Leon
Released: 1953-02-09

A secret jet aircraft capable of traveling three times the speed of sound is being developed by...

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Mr. Topaze

as Castel Benac
Released: 1961-04-04

Mr. Topaze is an unassuming school teacher in an unassuming small French town, who is honest to...

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Hell Is Sold Out

as Dominic Danges
Released: 1951-06-01

A supposedly dead writer suddenly turns up to confront the young woman who is using his penname.

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Good-Time Girl

as Max Vine
Released: 1948-04-28

Good Time Girl stars Jean Kent as incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen Rawlings. Sent to a home...

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Hotel Reserve

as Andre Roux
Released: 1944-06-01

A hunt for a spy, in a hotel in the South of France just before World War Two.

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Eve

as Diego
Released: 1968-07-19

Adventurer and treasure hunter Mike Yates is hoping to find a cache of Incan treasure lost in...

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Whispering Smith Vs. Scotland Yard

as Roger Ford
Released: 1952-01-01

Mystery directed by Francis Searle.

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The Horse Without a Head

as Schiapa
Released: 1964-03-09

Five pampered French children with their wheeled, headless, toy horse accidentally become...

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Perilous Assignment

as Self
Released: 1959-11-06

"Perilous Assignment" is an episode of ABC's Walt Disney Presents. Disney loved to show viewers...

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Dual Alibi

as Jules de Lisle / Georges de Lisle
Released: 1947-06-03

A French PR man and his girlfriend steal a lottery ticket from twin trapeze artists, prompting...

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Going Bananas

as Captain Mackintosh
Released: 1987-08-05

An evil circus owner chases a chimp and his friends through Africa. Not necessarily...

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No Trees in the Street

as Wilkie
Released: 1959-03-03

Based on the play by Ted Willis, the film is set in the years just before World War II, when...

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Dad for a Day

as Gas Station Patron
Released: 1939-10-20

The "Our Gang" kids encourage a shy man to take a widow and her son to a picnic.

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I Aim at the Stars

as Anton Reger
Released: 1960-08-19

The life story of the famed rocket scientist Dr. Werner von Braun, one of the most brilliant and...

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Tiara Tahiti

as Chong Sing
Released: 1962-07-01

James Mason and John Mills star in this comedy-drama about a tough colonel and a refined captain...

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James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate

as Dr. Larsen (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: 1984-01-01

Retrospective of the life and movie work of British actor James Mason. The documentary presents...

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Beloved Count

as (archive footage)
Released: 2007-02-27

Cult director Jess Franco recalls the making of his adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula starring...

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After Mein Kampf

as uncredited
Released: 1940-09-13

Allied propaganda in the form of cartoons and newsreels shows the rise of Adolf Hitler and the...

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I Have Been Here Before

as Dr. Görtler
Released: 1982-03-24

Guests at a small hotel are disquieted by the insistence of a mysterious doctor that he has been...

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The Masque of the Red Death

as Ludwig
Released: 1989-11-09

Lovely photographer Rebecca winds up in a Bavarian castle at a "Masque of the Red Death" party...

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Brass Monkey

as Peter Hobart
Released: 1948-12-01

Carroll Levis, a radio variety host, gets involved in murder and theft.

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Mister Jerico

as Victor Russo
Released: 1970-03-03

Con man Dudley Jerico sets out to rob corrupt millionaire Victor Rosso of his legendary Gemini...

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Two on the Tiles

as Ford
Released: 1951-09-01

A married couple both face temptations while separated for a few days. The husband meets an...

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Hawaii Five-O

as Mondrago
First aired: 1968-09-20

Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and...

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The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

as Randolph
First aired: 1964-09-22

Agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin work for a secret intelligence service working under the...

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The Detectives

as Van der Dyck
First aired: 1993-01-27

The absurd adventures of two defective detectives, who - despite unbelievable incompetence -...

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The Human Jungle

as Doctor Roger Corder M. D., D. P. M.
First aired: 1963-03-30

The Human Jungle is a British TV series about a psychiatrist, made for ABC Television by the...

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Lace

as Monsier Chardin
First aired: 1984-02-26

A young actress gathers three former school friends to find out which one is her natural mother,...

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Peter and Paul

as Barnabas
First aired: 1981-04-12

Peter and Paul assume leadership of the Church as they struggle against violent opposition to...

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