Peter Lorre

Peter Lorre

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Actor - Germany
Born June 26, 1904 in Rosenburg, Ungarn
Died March 23, 1964 in Hollywood, California, USA

Mini-Biography:
Peter Lorre was born under the given name Laszlo Löwenstein on June 26, 1904 in Rosenburg, Ungarn. He was a German Actor, known for 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), Casablanca (1942), Peter Lorre's first movie on record is from 1929. Peter Lorre died on March 23, 1964 in Hollywood, California, USA. His last motion picture on file dates from 1964.

Biographical Notes
Eigentlich Laszlo Löwenstein, in Rosenburg, in der damaligen k.u.k. Provinz, geboren, aufgewachsen in Braila und Wien, Künstlername Peter Lorre. Erste Engagements in Breslau, Zürich und Wien, durch Bertolt Brecht an das Theater am Schiffbauerdamm nach Berlin.
Sein Durchbruch im Kino erfolgte mit Fritz Lang's "M", wo er den gesuchten Mörder spielte. Im Exil in USA u.a. die beliebte Serienfigur "Mr. Moto" in mehreren Filmen und zahlreiche zweite Rollen als zwielichter Charakter in einigen der besten Filmen der amerikanischen Série Noire. Sein Regieversuch in "Der Verlorene" von 1951 brachte ihm zwar viele positive Kritiken, blieb aber finanziell ein Desaster.

FilmographyFilmography [Auszug]
1964: The Patsy (Cast: Heywood), Directed by Jerry Lewis, with Jerry Lewis, Ina Balin, Everett Sloane,
1964: Casino Royale (Cast: Chiffre), Directed by William H. Brown jr., with Barry Nelson, Linda Christian,
1963: The comedy of terrors (The Graveside Story) (Cast: Felix), Directed by Jacques Tourneur, with Joyce Jameson, Boris Karloff,
1963: Muscle Beach Party (Cast),
1962: The Raven (Cast), Directed by Roger Corman, with Hazel Court, Boris Karloff,
1961: Tales of Terror (Morella) (Cast: Montresor), Directed by Roger Corman, with Joyce Jameson, Debra Paget,
1961: Voyage to the bottom of the Sea (Cast: Emery), Directed by Irwin Allen, with Michael Ansara, Frankie Avalon, Barbara Eden,
1961: Five weeks in a Balloon (Cast),
1960: Scent of Mystery (Cast: Smiley), Directed by Jack Cardiff, with Denholm Elliott, Beverly Bentley,
1959: The Big Circus (Cast), Directed by Joseph M. Newman, with Red Buttons, Victor Mature, Vincent Price,
1957: Silk stockings (Cast: Brankov), Directed by Rouben Mamoulian, with Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse,
1957: The Story of Mankind (Cast), Directed by Lewis Allen, with Ronald Colman, Hedy Lamarr,
1957: The Buster Keaton Story (Cast), Directed by Sidney Sheldon, with Ann Blyth, Donald O'Connor,
1957: The sad sack (Cast), Directed by George Marshall, with Phyllis Kirk, Jerry Lewis,
1957: Hell Ship Mutiny (Cast), Directed by Lee Sholem, with Elmo Williams,
1956: Around the World in Eighty Days (Cast), Directed by Michael Anderson, with Ronald Adam, Charles Boyer, Cantinflas,
1956: Meet me in Las Vegas (Cast: Gastrolle), Directed by Roy Rowland, with Cyd Charisse, Dan Dailey, Lili Darvas,
1956: Congo crossing (Cast), Directed by Joseph Pevney, with Virginia Mayo, George Nader,
1954: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Cast), Directed by Richard Fleischer, with Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Carleton Young,
1953: Beat the Devil (Cast: Julius O'Hara), Directed by John Huston, with Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida,
1951: The Lost One (Director), with Josef Dahmen, Johanna Hofer, Alexander Hunzinger,
1950: Quicksand (Cast), Directed by Irving Pichel, with Jeanne Cagney, Mickey Rooney,
1950: Double Confession (Cast), Directed by Ken Annakin, with Derek Farr, Joan Hopkins,
1949: Rope of Sand (Cast), Directed by Wilhelm Dieterle, with Corinne Calvet, Paul Henreid, Sam Jaffe,
1948: Casbah (Cast), Directed by John Berry, with Yvonne De Carlo, Tony Martin,
1947: My favorite Brunette (Cast), Directed by Elliott Nugent, with Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour,
1946: The Verdict (Cast: Victor Emmric), Directed by Don Siegel, with Sydney Greenstreet, Joan Lorring,
1946: The beast with five fingers (Cast: Hilary Cummins), Directed by Robert Florey, with Robert Alda, Andrea King,
1946: Three strangers (Cast: Johnny West), Directed by Jean Negulesco, with Sydney Greenstreet, Geraldine Fitzgerald,
1946: Black Angel (Cast: Marko), Directed by Roy William Neill, with Broderick Crawford, Constance Dowling, Dan Duryea,
1946: The Chase (Cast), Directed by Arthur Ripley, with Steve Cochran, Lloyd Corrigan, Robert Cummings,
1945: Confidential agent (Cast), Directed by Herman Shumlin, with Lauren Bacall, Dan Seymour, Charles Boyer,
1945: Hotel Berlin (Cast), Directed by Peter Godfrey, with Paul Andor, Helmut Dantine, Faye Emerson,
1944: The Conspirators (Cast: Bernazsky), Directed by Jean Negulesco, with Sydney Greenstreet, Paul Henreid, Hedy Lamarr,
1944: The Mask of Dimitrios (Cast: Leyden), Directed by Jean Negulesco, with Florence Bates, Edward Clannelli, Faye Emerson,
1944: Hollywood Canteen (Cast), Directed by Delmer Daves, with Joan Leslie, Bette Davis,
1944: Arsenic and Old Lace (Cast: Dr. Einstein), Directed by Frank Capra, with Jean Adair, John Alexander, Jack Carson,
1944: Passage to Marseille (Cast: Marius), Directed by Michael Curtiz, with Corinna Mura, Monte Blue, Humphrey Bogart,
1943: Background to Danger (Cast: Nikolai Zaleshoff), Directed by Raoul Walsh, with Brenda Marshall, George Raft, Osa Massen,
1943: The constant nymph (Cast), Directed by Edmund Goulding, with Charles Boyer, Joan Fontaine,
1943: The Cross of Lorraine (Cast), Directed by Tay Garnett, with Jean-Pierre Aumont, Joseph Calleia, Hume Cronyn,
1942: Casablanca (Cast: Ugarte), Directed by Michael Curtiz, with Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid,
1942: Invisible Agent (Cast), Directed by Edwin L. Marin, with Ilona Massey, Jon Hall,
1942: The Boogie Man wil get you (Cast), Directed by Lew Landers, with Boris Karloff, Larry Parks,
1942: In this our life (Cast: Gastrolle), Directed by John Huston, with Olivia de Havilland, Bette Davis, George Brent,
1942: All through the Night (Cast: Pepi), Directed by Vincent Sherman, with Humphrey Bogart, Conrad Veidt, ,
1941: They met in Bombay (Cast: Kapitän Chang), Directed by Clarence Brown, with Matthew Boulton, Eduardo Ciannelli, Clark Gable,
1941: The Maltese Falcon (Cast: Joel Cairo), Directed by John Huston, with Humphrey Bogart, Jerome Cowan, Gladys George,
1941: The Face behind the mask (Cast), Directed by Robert Florey, with Donald T. Beddoe, Evelyn Keyes,
1941: Mr. Distric Attorney (Cast), Directed by William Morgan, with Dennis O'Keefe, Florence Rice,
1940: I was an Adventuress (Cast: Polo), Directed by Gregory Ratoff, with Erich von Stroheim, ,
1940: Island of the doomed men (Cast: Stephen Danel), Directed by Charles T. Barton, with Rochelle Hudson, ,
1940: Stranger on the Third Floor (Cast: The Stranger), Directed by Boris Ingster, with John McGuire, ,
1940: You'll find out (Cast: Prof. Fenninger), Directed by David Butler, with Boris Karloff, Kay Kyser,
1940: Strange Cargo (Cast: M'sieu Pig), Directed by Frank Borzage, with Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Ian Hunter,
1939: Mr. Moto in Danger Island (Cast: Mr.Moto), Directed by Herbert I. Leeds, with Amanda Duff, Jean Hersholt, Warren Hymer,
1939: Mr. Moto's last Warning (Cast: Mr.Moto), Directed by Norman Foster, with John Carradine, Ricardo Cortez, Virginia Field,
1939: Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation (Cast: Mr. Moto), Directed by Norman Foster, with Lionel Atwill, Virginia Field, John King,
1938: Mysterious Mr. Moto (Cast: Mr. Moto), Directed by Norman Foster, with Leon Ames, Harold Huber,
1938: Mr. Moto takes a chance (Cast: Mr. Moto), Directed by Norman Foster, with J. Edward Bromberg, Chick Chandler, Rochelle Hudson,
1938: Mr. Moto's gamble (Cast: Mr. Moto), Directed by James Tinling, with Dick Baldwin, Lynn Bari, Cliff Clark,
1938: I'll give a Million (Cast: Louie), Directed by Walter Lang, with Warner Baxter, ,
1937: Thank you, Mr. Moto (Cast: Mr. Moto), Directed by Norman Foster, with Philip Ahn, Thomas Beck, Sidney Blackmer,
1937: Think fast, Mr.Moto (Cast: Mr. Moto), Directed by Norman Foster, with Thomas Beck, Virginia Field,
1937: The Lancer Spy (Cast: Major Sigfried Gruning), Directed by Gregory Ratoff, with Dolores Del Rio, George Sanders,
1936: Secret agent (Cast: the general), Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, with Madeleine Carroll, Lilli Palmer,
1936: Crack-Up (Cast: Col. Gimpy), Directed by Malcolm St. Clair, with Brian Donlevy, ,
1936: Nancy Steele is missing (Cast: Prof. Sturm), Directed by George Marshall, with June Lang, Victor McLaglen,
1935: Crime and Punishment (Cast: Raskolnikov), Directed by Josef von Sternberg, with Robert Allen, Edward Arnold, Tala Birell,
1935: Mad Love (Chamberof Horrors, The Oar of Orlac, The Hands of Orlac) (Cast: Doctor Gogol), Directed by Karl Freund, with Colin Clive, Frances Drake, Ted Healy,
1934: De haut en bas (Cast), Directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst, with Jeanine Crispin, Jean Gabin,
1934: The Man who knew too much (Cast: Abbott), Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, with Leslie Banks, Edna Best,
1933: Unsichtbare Gegner (Invisible Opponent) (Cast: Henry Pless), Directed by Rudolph Cartier, with Gerda Maurus, Paul Hartmann, Oskar Homolka,
1933: Was Frauen träumen (Cast: Otto Füßli, Kriminalkommissar), Directed by Géza von Bolváry, with Nora Gregor, Gustav Fröhlich, Kurt Horwitz,
1932: F.P. 1 antwortet nicht (Cast: Fotoreporter 'Foto.Johnny'), Directed by Karl Hartl, with Hans Albers, Sybille Schmitz, Paul Hartmann,
1932: Stupéfiants (Cast), Directed by Kurt Gerron, with Louis Brody, Jean Mercanton,
1932: Der weisse Dämon (Cast), Directed by Kurt Gerron, with Alfred Abel, Hans Albers, Raoul Aslan,
1932: Schuss im Morgengrauen (Cast: Klotz), Directed by Alfred Zeisler, with Ernst Behmer, Ery Bos, Karl Ludwig Diehl,
1932: Die Fünf von der Jazz-band (Cast: cameo), Directed by Erich Engel, with Jenny Jugo, ,
1931: Bomben auf Monte Carlo (Cast: Pawlitschek), Directed by Hanns Schwarz, with Hans Albers, Anna Sten, Heinz Rühmann,
1931: Die Koffer des Herrn O.F. (Cast: Redakteur Stix), Directed by Aleksej Granovskij, with Alfred Abel, Harald Paulsen,
1931: Mann ist Mann (Cast), Directed by Bertolt Brecht, Carl Koch, with Theo Lingen, Helene Weigel,
1931: M (Cast: Der Mörder), Directed by Fritz Lang, with Gustaf Gründgens, Julius Eckhoff,
1930: Der weisse Teufel (Hadschi Murat, The white devil) (Cast), Directed by Aleksandr Volkov, with Fritz Alberti, Betty Amann, Henry Bender,
1929: Frühlingserwachen (Cast), Directed by Richard Oswald, with Carl Balhaus, Bernhard Goetzke,
1929: Die verschwundene Frau (Cast: Patient of a Dentist (/xx/) ), Directed by Karl Hans Leiter, with Harry Halm, Iris Arlan, Mary Kid,

Bibliography
Felix Bucher / Leonhard Gmür: Germany, London and New York 1970;
Filmlexikon degli Autori e delle Opere, Vol. III, pg 1103ff;
The BFI Companion to German Cinema, edited by Thomas Elsaesser with Michael Wedel, British FILM Institute, London 1999

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