Peter Lorre

Peter Lorre (born László Löwenstein), (June 26, 1904 - March 23, 1964 was a Hungarian-American actor, known largely for roles as heavies. He was born in Rózsahegy/Rosenberg, Austria-Hungary , what is now Ruzomberok, Slovakia. He began acting on stage in Vienna, Breslau, Germany and Zurich. At age 21 he moved to Berlin and caught the attention of German playwright Bertolt Brecht. Lorre became famous when Fritz Lang cast him as the child killer in M in 1931. Scenes from that film were re-used by the Nazi propaganda agencies in the anti-Semitic movie Der ewige Jude.

When the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, Lorre moved from Berlin to Paris and, eventually, Hollywood. Typecast as a villain, he found himself with no shortage of work. Moving from a villainous role in Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), he then played Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment[?] in 1935, and followed that up in a series of Mr. Moto movies, in which he played a Japanese detective. He had major roles in The Maltese Falcon and Casablanca.

After the 1940s, he began to gain weight, and played lesser roles, with the exception of Skeeter the clown in the 1959 movie The Big Circus[?]. Lorre's caricature was frequently used in Warner Brothers cartoons, and his persona was used as the basis of the character Flat Top in the Dick Tracy cartoons.

Peter Lorre died in 1964 and was interred in the Hollywood Forever Memorial Park Cemetery in Hollywood, California.

Lorre has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 6619 Hollywood Blvd.

Filmography

• The Patsy[?]
• Muscle Beach Party[?]
• The Comedy of Terrors[?]
• The Raven
• Five Weeks in a Balloon[?]
• Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea[?]
• The Big Circus[?]
• The Buster Keaton Story[?]
• The Sad Sack[?]
• Hell Ship Mutiny[?]
• The Story of Mankind[?]
• Silk Stockings[?]
• Congo Crossing[?]
• Meet Me in Las Vegas[?]
• Operation Cicero[?]
• Around the World in Eighty Days
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
• Casino Royale
• Beat the Devil[?]
• Der Verlorene[?]
• Double Confession[?]
• Quicksand[?]
• Rope of Sand[?]
• Casbah[?]
• My Favorite Brunette[?]
• The Beast with Five Fingers[?]
• The Verdict
• The Chase[?]
• Black Angel[?]
• Three Strangers[?]
• Hotel Berlin[?]
• Confidential Agent[?]
• Passage to Marseille[?]
• The Conspirators[?]
• Arsenic and Old Lace[?]
• The Mask of Dimitrios[?]
• The Cross of Lorraine[?]
• Background to Danger[?]
• The Constant Nymph
• Casablanca
• The Boogie Man Will Get You[?]
• Invisible Agent[?]
• In This Our Life[?]
• All Through the Night[?]
• The Face Behind the Mask
• The Maltese Falcon
• They Met in Bombay[?]
• Mr. District Attorney[?]
• Island of Doomed Men[?]
• Der Ewige Jude[?]
• You'll Find Out[?]
• Stranger on the Third Floor[?]
• I Was an Adventuress[?]
• Strange Cargo[?]
• Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation[?]
• Mr. Moto in Danger Island[?]
• Mr. Moto's Last Warning[?]
• Mr. Moto Takes a Chance[?]
• Mysterious Mr. Moto[?]
• I'll Give a Million[?]
• Mr. Moto's Gamble[?]
• Lancer Spy[?]
• Nancy Steele Is Missing[?]!
• Thank You, Mr. Moto[?]
• Think Fast, Mr. Moto[?]
• Crack-Up[?]
• Secret Agent[?]
• Crime and Punishment[?]
• Mad Love[?]
• The Man Who Knew Too Much
• Du haut en bas[?]
• Les Requins du pétrole[?]
• Unsichtbare Gegner[?]
• Was Frauen träumen[?]
• Schuss im Morgengrauen[?]
• Stupéfiants[?]
• Der Weisse Dämon[?]
• F.P.1 antwortet nicht[?]
• Fünf von der Jazzband[?]
• Mann ist Mann[?]
• Die Koffer des Herrn O.F.[?]
• Bomben auf Monte Carlo[?]
• M
• Die Verschwundene Frau[?]