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Old 09-27-12, 09:12 AM
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Herbert Lom dies at age 95

Herbert Lom, Pink Panther star, dies aged 95

Actor Herbert Lom, best known for playing Charles Dreyfus in the Pink Panther films, has died aged 95.
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"Give me ten men like Clouseau and I could destroy the world."

Herbert "Chief Inspector Dreyfus" Lom
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Obligitory: "I thought he died years ago"

RIP. Was a huge fan of The Pink Panther series growing up. Also remember him from all the old horror films.
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RIP. Always good to see him in his horror work.
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All right. All right. I'll give you an answer. I'm a man of medicine. I'm expected to save lives and ease suffering.
I love people. Therefore, I would have no choice but to kill the son of a bitch.

RIP
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He's great in a number of films stretching back to the early 1940s, but I most remember him and revere him as Captain Nemo in MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (1961).

He's also, like, the sixth 95-year-old actor to die this year, after Ernest Borgnine, Celeste Holm, R.G. Armstrong and Phyllis Diller, plus Japanese actress Isuzu Yamada.
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RIP, Chief Inspector.

"Every day, and in every way, I'm getting better and better! heeheehee!"
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Didn't recognize the name but recognize the face. RIP.
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One of the greats -- and he sure beat Clouseau in the end (outliving Sellers by 30+ years). RIP
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Re: Herbert Lom dies at age 95

Originally Posted by rexinnih
Didn't recognize the name but recognize the face. RIP.
It's always been other way around for me...Untill I finally started watching the Pink Panther films earlier this year...And his name always popped up whenever I was participating at the horror/cult challenges here.

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Re: Herbert Lom dies at age 95

Originally Posted by wishbone
Herbert "Chief Inspector Dreyfus" Lom
"Former Chief Inspector Dreyfus"
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RIP

Funny and great actor.
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Forget Star Wars, forget LOTR,

Pink Panther is the BEST MOVIE SERIES OF ALL TIME.

And people do not REALIZE how important Dreyfus was to the series at all. At all.
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The Pink Panther Strikes Again is the first PG rated movie I saw in the theater.

If there is a heaven, Herbert Lom is there with the angels now, choking the shit out of Peter Sellers.
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Herbert Lom was a great actor. Chief Inspector Dreyfus is only the top of the list. He will be missed.

RIP.
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I saw him in many movies growing up. He had a really great voice.

I had forgotten until looking just now that he also played Christopher Walken's doctor in The Dead Zone (the two actors share the "If you could go back in time and kill Hitler, would you do it?" conversation that has become semi-famous over the years).

Rest in peace.
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Re: Herbert Lom dies at age 95

Anytime someone tells me they have a twitch in their eye (like someone did just last week), I immediately think of Lom. RIP Herbert.
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Re: Herbert Lom dies at age 95

Originally Posted by Nazgul
"Former Chief Inspector Dreyfus"
That's what I thought of

Psychiatrist: "CLOUSEAU!"

RIP. Saw all the movies in theaters as a kid (well, at least the '70s ones).

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