Herbert Lomas

Born: 1887-01-17

Herbet Lomas (17 January 1887 – 12 April 1961) was a British actor who appeared in more than forty films in a career lasting between 1931 and 1955. He was born in Burnley, Lancashire and made his first film appearance in an early sound version of Hobson's Choice (1931).


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Jamaica Inn

as Dowland
Released: 1939-05-11

In coastal Cornwall, England, during the early 19th Century, a young woman who's come there to...

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I Know Where I'm Going!

as Mr. Campbell
Released: 1945-11-16

Plucky Englishwoman Joan Webster travels to the remote islands of the Scottish Hebrides in order...

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The Phantom Light

as Claff Owen
Released: 1935-08-05

Criminals pose as ghosts to scare a lighthouse keeper on the Welsh coast, in attempt to distract...

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The Magic Box

as Warehouse Manager
Released: 1952-01-01

Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As...

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Hobson's Choice

as Jim Heeler
Released: 1931-10-02

A coarse boot-shop owner becomes outraged when his eldest daughter decides to marry a meek cobbler.

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Rembrandt

as Harmenzs van Rijn
Released: 1936-11-06

A character study depicting the life of Rembrandt Van Rijn at the height of his fame in the mid...

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Over the Moon

as Ladbrooke
Released: 1939-10-12

Young Jane Benson just about manages to make ends meet running the large family house in...

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The Sign of Four: Sherlock Holmes' Greatest Case

as Maj. John Sholto
Released: 1932-05-12

A young woman turns to Holmes for protection when she's menaced by an escaped killer seeking...

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Java Head

as Barzil Dunsack
Released: 1934-07-31

The port city of Bristol, England, in the 1800s is home to Java Head, a sailing ship line...

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They Met in the Dark

as Van Driver
Released: 1943-08-11

A Royal navy Commander is tricked by a pretty girl who is working for the Nazis. She tricks him...

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The Guinea Pig

as Sir James Corfield
Released: 1948-10-26

A working-class boy wins a scholarship to a public school, as part of a post-World War Two...

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Lorna Doone

as Sir Ensor Doone
Released: 1934-12-09

High drama, set in the English moorland of the 1600s. John Ridd wants revenge on the criminal...

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The Man Within

as Farmer
Released: 1947-05-19

A man goes on the run from hardened smugglers.

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The Lion Has Wings

as Holveg
Released: 1939-11-03

This early, influential propaganda film blends documentary and studio footage to show the...

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The Man from Toronto

as Jake
Released: 1933-01-01

According to the terms of a will two strangers must marry. Leila (Jessie Matthews) is an...

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Knight Without Armour

as General Gregor Vladinoff
Released: 1937-07-23

British agent working in Russia is forced to remain longer than planned once the revolution...

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Bonnie Prince Charlie

as Kinloch Moidart
Released: 1948-10-26

Scotland, 1745. After decades of exile, Prince Charles Edward Stuart secretly lands with the...

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The Net

as George Jackson
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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Q Planes

as Mattie - Fisherman
Released: 1939-02-21

In England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter...

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The Ghost Goes West

as Fergus
Released: 1935-12-17

Donald Glourie shares his crumbling ancestral home with the ghost of his Highland ancestor,...

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The Ghost Train

as Saul Hodgkin
Released: 1941-05-05

Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. They soon learn...

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Land of Promise

as History
Released: 1946-01-02

Described as a 'film argument' about homes and houses, this film is in three parts showing...

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Undercover

as Schoolteacher (uncredited)
Released: 1943-07-26

Occupied Yugoslavia. With organised resistance shattered by the Nazi onslaught it is only the...

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Ask a Policeman

as Coastguard
Released: 1939-04-29

The mirthful adventures of Police-Sergeant Samuel Dudfoot and his two constables, Albert Brown...

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Perfect Understanding

as Bradley, Nick's Counsel
Released: 1933-01-15

A young couple decide to marry under the condition that they agree never to disagree. That...

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South Riding

as Castle
Released: 1938-08-01

Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:-...

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When London Sleeps

as Pollard
Released: 1932-07-22

Slippery Rodney Haines runs a high-class gambling joint in Hampstead, while elsewhere in London...

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Inquest

as Thomas Knight
Released: 1939-12-01

A woman is suspected of killing her husband after a revolver is found in her attic. A coroner is...

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Many Waters

as Everett
Released: 1931-11-01

An elderly couple reminisce about the romantic adventures of their youth.

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Penn of Pennsylvania

as Cockle
Released: 1942-01-24

Penn of Pennsylvania is a 1941 British historical drama film directed by Lance Comfort and...

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South American George

as Mr. Butters
Released: 1941-12-27

To help out his exact double, George Formby (in a dual role) takes the place of a noted South...

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