Herbert Lomas (actor)
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Herbet Lomas was a British actor who appeared in more than forty films in a career lasting between 1931 and 1955. He was born in Burnley
Burnley
Burnley is a market town in the Burnley borough of Lancashire, England, with a population of around 73,500. It lies north of Manchester and east of Preston, at the confluence of the River Calder and River Brun....

, Lancashire
Lancashire
Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England. It takes its name from the city of Lancaster, and is sometimes known as the County of Lancaster. Although Lancaster is still considered to be the county town, Lancashire County Council is based in Preston...

 in 1887 and made his first screen appearance in the 1931 film Hobson's Choice
Hobson's Choice (1931 film)
Hobson's Choice is a 1931 British comedy drama film directed by Thomas Bentley and starring James Harcourt, Viola Lyel, Frank Pettingell and Herbert Lomas. A coarse bootshop owner is outraged when his eldest daughter decides to marry a meek cobbler...

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Filmography

  • Hobson's Choice
    Hobson's Choice (1931 film)
    Hobson's Choice is a 1931 British comedy drama film directed by Thomas Bentley and starring James Harcourt, Viola Lyel, Frank Pettingell and Herbert Lomas. A coarse bootshop owner is outraged when his eldest daughter decides to marry a meek cobbler...

    (1931)
  • Many Waters
    Many Waters (film)
    Many Waters is a 1931 British romance film directed by Milton Rosmer and starring Lillian Hall-Davis, Arthur Margetson and Elizabeth Allan. It was based on a play by Leon M. Lion. An elderly couple reminisce about the romantic adventures of their youth...

    (1931)
  • The Other Mrs. Phipps (1932)
  • Frail Woman
    Frail Woman
    Frail Women is a 1932 British drama film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Mary Newcomb, Owen Nares, Frank Pettingell and Herbert Lomas. In the years after the First World War a Colonel marries his war-time mistress....

    (1932)
  • When London Sleeps
    When London Sleeps
    When London Sleeps is a British crime film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott and starring Harold French, Francis L. Sullivan, Diana Beaumont and René Ray. It was filmed at Twickenham Studios in west London. It was based on a play by Charles Darrell....

    (1932)
  • The Missing Rembrandt
    The Missing Rembrandt
    The Missing Rembrandt is a British mystery film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott and starring Arthur Wontner, Jane Welsh, Miles Mander, and Francis L. Sullivan. Sherlock Holmes goes on the trail of a Rembrandt painting, stolen by a drug-addicted artist...

    (1932)
  • The Sign of Four
    The Sign of Four (1932 film)
    The Sign of Four is a 1932 British crime film directed by Graham Cutts and starring Arthur Wontner, Ian Hunter and Graham Soutten. The film is based on Arthur Conan Doyle's second Sherlock Holmes story The Sign of the Four and was made at Ealing Studios.The film is also known as The Sign of Four:...

    (1932)
  • The Man from Toronto
    The Man from Toronto
    The Man from Toronto is a 1933 British romance film directed by Sinclair Hill and starring Jessie Matthews, Ian Hunter, Kathleen Harrison and Herbert Lomas. After an inheiritance is left to them if they marry an Englishwoman and a Canadian must meet for the first time to investigate the other -...

    (1933)
  • Perfect Understanding
    Perfect Understanding
    Perfect Understanding is a 1933 British comedy film directed by Cyril Gardner and starring Laurence Olivier, Gloria Swanson and John Halliday.-Plot:...

    (1933)
  • Daughters of Today (1933)
  • Java Head
    Java Head (1934 film)
    Java Head is a 1934 British historical drama film directed by Thorold Dickinson and J. Walter Ruben. It starred Anna May Wong, Elizabeth Allan, Ralph Richardson, Herbert Lomas and George Curzon...

    (1934)
  • Lorna Doone
    Lorna Doone (1934 film)
    Lorna Doone is a 1934 British drama film directed by Basil Dean and starring Victoria Hopper, John Loder and Margaret Lockwood. It is based on the novel Lorna Doone by R.D...

    (1934)
  • Fighting Stock
    Fighting Stock
    Fighting Stock is a 1935 British comedy film directed by and starring Tom Walls. It also features Robertson Hare, Lesley Wareing and Herbert Lomas. A Brigadier retires to a country cottage for some quiet fishing, but it soon overtaken by madcap events. The film is based on the farce by Ben Travers....

    (1935)
  • The Phantom Light
    The Phantom Light
    The Phantom Light is a 1935 British Thriller film directed by Michael Powell and starring Binnie Hale, Gordon Harker, Milton Rosmer and Herbert Lomas. Criminals pose as ghosts to scare a lighthouse keeper on the Welsh coast, in attempt to distract him....

    (1935)
  • The Ghost Goes West
    The Ghost Goes West
    The Ghost Goes West is a British romantic comedy/fantasy film starring Robert Donat, Jean Parker, and Eugene Pallette, and directed by René Clair, his first English-language film...

    (1935)
  • The Black Mask
    The Black Mask
    The Black Mask is the second collection of stories written by Ernest William Hornung in the A. J. Raffles series concerning a gentleman thief in late Victorian London...

    (1935)
  • Fame (1936)
  • Rembrandt (1936)
  • Fire Over England
    Fire Over England
    Fire Over England is a 1937 London Film Productions film drama, notable for providing the first pairing of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. It was directed by William K. Howard and written by Clemence Dane from the novel Fire Over England by A. E. W. Mason. Leigh's performance in the movie...

    (1937)
  • Knight Without Armour
    Knight Without Armour
    Knight Without Armour is a 1937 British historical drama film made by London Films and distributed by United Artists. It was directed by Jacques Feyder and produced by Alexander Korda from a screenplay by Lajos Biró adapted by Frances Marion from the novel by James Hilton. The music score was by...

    (1937)
  • South Riding
    South Riding (film)
    South Riding is a 1938 British drama film directed by Victor Saville and produced by Alexander Korda, starring Edna Best, Ralph Richardson, Edmund Gwenn and Ann Todd. A squire becomes involved in local politics. It is based on the novel South Riding by Winifred Holtby...

    (1938)
  • Ask a Policeman
    Ask A Policeman
    Ask a Policeman is a 1939 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel which stars Will Hay, Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt. The title comes from the popular music hall song Ask a Policeman. The Turnbottom Round police force are threatened with dismissal by their Chief Constable and decide to...

    (1938)
  • Glorious Morning (1938)
  • Jamaica Inn
    Jamaica Inn (film)
    Jamaica Inn is a 1939 film made by Alfred Hitchcock adapted from Daphne du Maurier's 1936 novel of the same name, the first of three of du Maurier's works that Hitchcock adapted ....

    (1939)
  • Over The Moon
    Over the Moon
    Over the Moon is the title of a live album by singer-songwriter Judie Tzuke, released in 1997.-Track listing:# "Wonderland" # "Under the Angels" # "Man and a Gun"...

    (1939)
  • The Lion Has Wings
    The Lion Has Wings
    The Lion Has Wings is a 1939 British, black-and-white, documentary-style, propaganda, war film. The film was directed by Adrian Brunel, Brian Desmond Hurst, Alexander Korda and Michael Powell...

    (1939)
  • Inquest
    Inquest (1939 film)
    Inquest is a 1939 British crime film directed by Ray Boulting and starring Elizabeth Allan, Herbert Lomas, Hay Petrie and Barbara Everest. A young widow is accused of murder, and enlists the support of a King's Counsel to help prove her innocence...

    (1939)
  • The Ghost Train
    The Ghost Train (1941 film)
    The Ghost Train is a 1941 British film directed by Walter Forde and was based on the 1923 play of the same name written by Arnold Ridley, who in later years played Private Godfrey in Dad's Army.- Plot:...

    (1941)
  • South American George
    South American George
    South American George is a 1941 British, black-and-white, comedy film, directed by Marcel Varnel and starring George Formby, Linden Travers, Enid Stamp-Taylor, Felix Aylmer, Ronald Shiner as Swifty, Mavis Villiers and Herbert Lomas. It was produced by Columbia Productions....

    (1941)
  • Penn of Pennsylvania
    Penn of Pennsylvania
    Penn of Pennsylvania is a 1941 British historical drama film directed by Lance Comfort and starring Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans, Dennis Arundell, Henry Oscar, Herbet Lomas and Edward Rigby. The film depicts the life of the Quaker founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn...

    (1942)
  • They Met in the Dark
    They Met in the Dark
    They Met in the Dark is a 1943 British thriller film directed by Karel Lamac and starring James Mason, Joyce Howard and Edward Rigby. A cashiered Royal Naval officer and a young woman join forces to solve a murder and hunt down a German spy ring.-Cast:...

    (1943)
  • The Dark Tower
    The Dark Tower (1943 film)
    The Dark Tower is a 1943 film starring Herbert Lom, Anne Crawford, David Farrar and Ben Lyon.-Plot:Stephen Torg seeks work at a struggling traveling circus. While there, a lion escapes; Torg is able to control it with his skill at hypnotism. Phil Danton , the head of the circus, is so impressed,...

    (1943)
  • Welcome, Mr. Washington
    Welcome, Mr. Washington
    Welcome, Mr. Washington is a 1944 British drama film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott and starring Barbara Mullen, Donald Stewart, Peggy Cummins, Martita Hunt and Herbert Lomas. Two sisters are left almost peniless by their father's sudden death, and are forced to lease their estate as an airbase to...

    (1944)
  • I Know Where I'm Going!
    I Know Where I'm Going!
    I Know Where I'm Going! is a 1945 romance film by the British-based film-makers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It stars Wendy Hiller and Roger Livesey, and features Pamela Brown, Finlay Currie and Petula Clark in her fourth film appearance....

    (1945)
  • The Man Within
    The Man Within (film)
    The Man Within is a 1947 British, Technicolor, adventure, crime, drama film, directed by Bernard Knowles and starring Ronald Shiner as Cockney Harry, Michael Redgrave, Jean Kent, Joan Greenwood and Richard Attenborough. It was produced by Triton Films and Production Film Service. The film was also...

    (1947)
  • Master of Bankdam
    Master of Bankdam
    The Master of Bankdam is a 1947 British historical film directed by Walter Forde from the novel, The Crowthers of Bankdam, by Thomas Armstrong. It starred Anne Crawford, Dennis Price, Tom Walls, Stephen Murray, Linden Travers and David Tomlinson...

    (1947)
  • Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948)
  • The Guinea Pig (1948)
  • The Magic Box
    The Magic Box
    The Magic Box is a fictional magic shop in the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, created by Joss Whedon. It is located in Sunnydale and was last owned and operated by Rupert Giles, and served as the primary headquarters of the Scooby Gang for seasons five and six.-Ownership history:The shop went...

    (1952)
  • The Net
    The Net (1953 film)
    The Net is a 1953 British film made by Two Cities Films, directed by Anthony Asquith and starring James Donald, Phyllis Calvert, Robert Beatty and Herbert Lom...

    (1953)
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