MUMBAI: Herbert Lom, best known for playing Inspector Clouseau‘s irritable boss Charles Dreyfus in all the Pink Panther‘ films has expired at the age of 95. Lom‘s family said he died peacefully in his sleep on Thursday.
The Czech-born, London-based actor starred opposite Peter Sellers in several Pink Panther films beginning with 1964‘s A Shot In The Dark. The actor appeared in more than 100 films during his 60-year acting career including classics as The Ladykillers, Spartacus and El Cid.
Lom also portrayed Napoleon Bonaparte on two instances. One of them came in the 1956 screen adaptation of Tolstoy‘s War And Peace that also starred Audrey Hepburn and Henry Fonda.
His later acting career saw him work with director David Cronenberg in a 1983 adaptation of Stephen King novel The Dead Zone opposite Christopher Walken.