Herbert Lom

• Birthplace: Prague, Czechoslovakia
• Birthday: September 11, 1917

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), …more