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Herbert Lom dies at 95

  • 27-09-2012 8:42pm
    #1
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭


    Great character actor best known as the accident prone boss of Inspector Clouseau but in countless other films over 70 years.

    The Greatest Hit of Chief Inspector Dreyfuss

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEcsgbwBFRs


Comments

  • #2
    mr_fortycoats
    Registered Users Posts: 10 ✭mr_fortycoats


    Minkey?

    What?

    YOU SAID MINKEY!!!!


  • #3
    Faith+1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,674 ✭✭✭Faith+1


    95! Wow what a life had. RIP.


  • #4
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,598 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    My eye has already developed a nervous twitch!

    A Pink Panther film* is always guaranteed to cheer you up.

    RIP Herbert.












    *except for the ones starring Steve Martin as Clouseau.


  • #5
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Welsh Megaman wrote: »

    *except for the ones starring Steve Martin as Clouseau.


    Don't forget the awful post death "Sellers" film in the early 80s - Trail of the Pink Panther and Curse of the Pink Panther and the unknown, rather than completely forgotten, Son of the Pink Panther in 1993


  • #6
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,598 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    It was understandable that United Artists wanted Blake Edwards to continue the franchise after Sellers died - they needed an assured hit following the disaster of 'Heaven's Gate'.

    But there is absolutely no excuse for 'Trail'. To create a story from unused footage, then turn the rest of the film into a compilation defies belief. Hollywood greed at its absolute worst.


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  • #7
    LiamMc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 906 ✭✭✭LiamMc


    RIP, Ladykillers was before that too.

    Are any non-English language roles he played?


  • #8
    rednik
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,165 ✭✭✭rednik


    Au revoir Chief Inspector. He had so many great roles in a very long career. RIP


  • #9
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Two films in 37/38 the first looks like a walk on type role.

    http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0007042/bio


  • #10
    Ant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 452 ✭✭Ant


    A very versatile actor. I saw him recently in The Ladykillers and he was the one character in the film who came across as genuinely menacing. RIP.


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