Anecdotes

Early in 1939, shortly before Germany and Hungary overran the remainder of Czechoslovakia, he arrived in Britain with his Jewish girlfriend, Didi, but she was sent back at Dover because she did not have the correct papers. Her subsequent death in a concentration camp haunted him all his life. Lom said in a 2004 interview that he did not even know she was Jewish. He studied philosophy at Cambridge University and worked for the BBC's European Service during World War II.

The son of a Christian father, Karl Kuchacevich ze Schluderpacheru, and a mother of Jewish descent, Olga Gottlieb, Lom's parents wanted him to be a doctor but he was always interested in acting.

When asked about his various roles in low-budget movies, he said he felt it was better to be miscast than not be cast at all.

In 1978, he published a book about the Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe.

Had a daughter with Brigitta Appleby.

Had two sons with Diana Scheu: Alec and Nick.

Lom was cremated. His ashes were sprinkled outside downtown London.

Lom became part of the retinue of director Jesús Franco, the uncle of noted Spanish writer Javier Marías, who placed them in his novel, "Thus Bad Begins," where Lom narrates a scandal involving a movie producer who employed Franco.

His hobby was painting.

Both he and his Asylum (1972) and And Now the Screaming Starts! (1973) co-star Peter Cushing played Professor Van Helsing in films starring Christopher Lee as Count Dracula: Cushing in Le Cauchemar de Dracula (1958), Dracula 73 (1972) and Dracula vit toujours à Londres (1973) and Lom in Les nuits de Dracula (1970). Cushing also played the role in Les Maîtresses de Dracula (1960) and Les 7 Vampires d'or (1974), in which Lee did not appear.

Owned a Xmas tree farm in Kent.

He trained at the London Embassy School, The Old Vic and Saddlers Wells.

He made his film debut in 1941.

He trained at the London Embassy School, at the Old Vic and Saddlers Wells.