Herbert Lomas


Biography

Herbert Lomas was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Lomas's career beginnings included film roles in "The Ghost Goes West" (1935) and the historical drama "Knight Without Armour" (1937) with Robert Donat. Lomas made film his next project, appearing in the adventure "Jamaica Inn" (1939) with Charles Laughton, the Arthur Askey comedic adaptation "The Ghost Train" (1941...

Biography

Herbert Lomas was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Lomas's career beginnings included film roles in "The Ghost Goes West" (1935) and the historical drama "Knight Without Armour" (1937) with Robert Donat. Lomas made film his next project, appearing in the adventure "Jamaica Inn" (1939) with Charles Laughton, the Arthur Askey comedic adaptation "The Ghost Train" (1941) and "I Know Where I'm Going" (1945). Later in his career, Lomas acted in the Richard Attenborough drama "The Guinea Pig" (1948).

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I Know Where I'm Going (1945) -- (Movie Clip) Do You Think You Could Dance the Scottish? Torquil (Roger Livesy) and Joan (Wendy Hiller) are but observers at a country dance, the Glasgow Orpheus Choir playing the local singers, in Michael Powell's I Know Where I'm Going, 1945.
Knight Without Armor (1937) -- (Movie Clip) Countess Alexandra Moscow, 1913, the Countess Alexandra (Marlene Dietrich), just returned from a visit to England, is presented to the Czar, whose compliment she then passes along to her betrothed Col. Adraxine (Austin Trevor) in Knight Without Armor, 1937, from a James Hilton novel.
Over The Moon (1940) -- (Movie Clip) The Ways Of Other Crooks Previously penniless orphan Yorkshire landowner Jane (Merle Oberon) has just inherited millions, causing brazen quasi-relative Julie (Zena Dare) to visit from London, followed by Millie (Ursula Jeans), the doctor boyfriend Freddie (Rex Harrison) just finding out, in Over The Moon, 1940.
Over The Moon (1940) -- (Movie Clip) With Unslaked Desire Over the top Yorkshire gloom on the road signs, director Thornton Freeland introduces doctor Freddie (Rex Harrison), impecunious orphan Jane (Merle Oberon) and her needy butler Ladbrooke (Herbert Lomas), opening Over The Moon, 1940, from a story by Robert Sherwood and Lajos Biro.
Ghost Goes West, The (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Every American His ancestral home crawling with creditors, dissolute Scot Donald (Robert Donat, identical to his ancestor "Murdoch") greets house-hunting American heiress Peggie (Jean Parker), early in Rene Clair's The Ghost Goes West, 1936.

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