Peter Lorre, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Peter Lorre

Austrian actor

Date of Birth: 26-Jun-1904

Place of Birth: Ružomberok, Slovak Socialist Republic, Slovakia

Date of Death: 23-Mar-1964

Profession: screenwriter, actor, character actor, stage actor, film director, director, television actor, film actor

Nationality: United States, Austria

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Peter Lorre

  • Peter Lorre (born László Löwenstein; 26 June 1904 – 23 March 1964) was a Hungarian-born American character actor of Jewish descent.
  • Lorre began his stage career in Vienna before moving to Germany where he worked first on the stage, then in film in Berlin in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
  • Lorre caused an international sensation in the German film M (1931), directed by Fritz Lang, in which he portrayed a serial killer who preys on little girls. Lorre left Germany when Adolf Hitler came to power.
  • His second English-language film, following the multiple-language version of M (1931), was Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) made in Great Britain.
  • Eventually settling in Hollywood, he later became a featured player in many Hollywood crime and mystery films.
  • In his initial American films, Mad Love and Crime and Punishment (both 1935), he continued to play murderers, but he was then cast playing Mr.
  • Moto, the Japanese detective, in a B-picture series. From 1941 to 1946, he mainly worked for Warner Bros.
  • His first film at Warner was The Maltese Falcon (1941), the first of many films in which he appeared alongside actors Humphrey Bogart and Sydney Greenstreet.
  • This was followed by Casablanca (1942), the second of the nine films in which Lorre and Greenstreet appeared together.
  • Lorre's other films include Frank Capra's Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) and Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954).
  • Frequently typecast as a sinister foreigner, his later career was erratic.
  • Lorre was the first actor to play a James Bond villain as Le Chiffre in a TV version of Casino Royale (1954).
  • Some of his last roles were in horror films directed by Roger Corman.

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