I just realized that you and Alison had both mentioned admiring the versatile Herbert Lom. Ever since seeing him as the shrink trying to keep from falling in love with his patient Ann Todd in The Seventh Veil, I've enjoyed him whenever he pops up in a movie, though I don't find The Pink Panther movies very funny (sorry).JackFavell wrote:Herbert Lom is overlooked a lot as an actor! He was always cast as gangsters, but seemed rather too expressive to be cast that way all the time. He was able to convey something different inside each one. I like him in Night and the City as well as The LadyKillers. He was the original KIng in the London version of The King and I, which seems like inspired casting. He also wrote two historical novels. A good looking man whom I fear will always be remembered in the U.S. anyway, as Chief Inspector Dreyfus, with no nose.
I recently discovered that a 1960s program called The Human Jungle on British television featured Lom as a psychiatrist again, which he enjoyed according to his comments later. It also employed some good British actors, including Roger Livesey, Rita Tushingham, Flora Robson, and Margaret Lockwood, among others. The show also had an innovative jazz theme that is apparently still played by musicians. Many of the episodes of this series are on youtube and can be seen in their entirety there (the video quality is not great but the stories are engrossing). Enjoy!
, I think from the movie Wyoming.
