Erwin Rommel in The Desert Rats and The Desert Fox. Were there others? 
“If I wanted to take Tobruch, I would crush it as if it were a fly!”
He was also the perfect Humbert Humbert for Kubrick’s Lolita.
D’oh! :smack:
Herbert Lom also holds another unique distinction: He was able to act, without any discernible accent(!), in three different languages: Czech (his native tongue), English (he moved to the UK when he was 22 year old) and German (he probably came from a family with Austrian roots).
(It’s been almost two years since Herbert Lom was last mentioned in this thread, so I guess it was about time).
Not French?
Yes, of course, but that was deliberately and part of his role as Chief Inspector Dreyfus.
Edit:
I don’t know whether Lom actually also spoke French (not just faking a French accent).
He played a German general in “The Blue Max”-got mad at George Peppard (who was banging his wife).
Took almost two years for that joke. Well spotted.
Also memorable as Christopher Walken’s Polish physician in “The Dead Zone”.
Ach, ja! :smack:
“Please? If anyone has been murdered … let it be Clouseau? Hm? Hm?”