Trivia

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.

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

Had a daughter with Brigitta Appleby.

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

Had two sons with Diana Scheu: Alec and Nick.

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.

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 Horror of Dracula (1958), Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972) and The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973) and Lom in Count Dracula (1970). Cushing also played the role in The Brides of Dracula (1960) and The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974), in which Lee did not appear.

Owned a Xmas tree farm in Kent.

His hobby was painting.

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.