High Lama — Lost Horizon Character Profile

About High Lama

The mysterious leader of Shangri-La and the valley's founder, formerly a European priest named Father Perrault. As he nears death, he anoints Conway as his successor and then passes away peacefully.

Character Facts

Played by

Sam Jaffe

Appears in

Lost Horizon (1937)

Role

Supporting

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• Robert " Bob " Conway (Ronald Colman)
• Sondra Bizet (Jane Wyatt)
• Alexander P. " Lovey " Lovett (Edward Everett Horton)
• George Conway (John Howard)
• Fenner (uncredited) (Milton Owen)
• Henry Barnard (Thomas Mitchell)
• Chinese Priest (uncredited) (George Chan)
• Englishman (uncredited) (Wedgwood Nowell)
• Bandit Leader (uncredited) (Victor Wong)
• Meeker (uncredited) (John T. Murray)
• Missionary (uncredited) (Wyrley Birch)
• Bandit Leader at Fuel Stop-over (uncredited) (Willie Fung)