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Peter Lorre was a Hungarian and American actor, active first in Europe and later in the United States. Known for his timidly devious characters, appearance, and accented voice, he was frequently typecast as a sinister foreigner. He was caricatured throughout his life and his cultural legacy remains in the media today.
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entertainment · Hungarian and American actor (1904–1964) · film actor · film director · character actor · screenwriter · stage actor · actor · director · television actor · writer · musician · also Peter Lorre, Laszlo Lowenstein, Lorre
Born 26 June 1904 · Died 23 March 1964 · Q78505
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AOL: Peter Lorre's 'Mad Love' Celebrates 91 Years with a Perfect 100% on Rotten Tomatoes
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And the voice of the General Mills Boo Berry ghost character in their monster-themed cereal campaign since 1973
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The Daily Telegraph named him one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination
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Memphis Flyer: Peter Lorre Lives (and Dies Again) at TheatreWorks
Psychology Today: How the "Psychological Drama" Taught Peter Lorre How to Act
In The Guardian, Michael Newton wrote, "Lorre cannot help but steal each scene; he's a physically present actor, often, you feel, surrounded as he is by the pallid English, the only one in the room with a body
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And 2004, and which won the award for "Best Classic Filk Song" in 2006
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With the intent of abduction and murder, but let her go on learning that she was the daughter of Peter Lorre
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His daughter later made headlines after serial killer Kenneth Bianchi confessed to police investigators that he and his cousin and fellow "Hillside Strangler" Angelo Buono, posing as undercover police officers, had stopped her in 1977 with the intent of abduction and murder, but let her go on learning that she was the daughter of Peter Lorre.
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Died 1964-03-23.
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“For a lazy man I work awfully hard, I couldn't live without acting. In fact anybody who can live without that feeling is a complete idiot.”
To trade on his slight resemblance to the actor by changing his name to "Peter Lorie", but his petition was rejected by the courts
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About the "stock company" he now found himself working with: Humphrey Bogart, Sydney Greenstreet and Claude Rains
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In Rawhide as Victor Laurier in "The Incident of the Slavemaster" and in Wagon Train as Alexander Portlass in "The Alexander Portlass Story"
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And 1960, the latter a version of the Roald Dahl short story "Man from the South" starring Steve McQueen, Lorre and McQueen's wife Neile Adams
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In 1953, Brenning bore Lorre's only child, Catharine.
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Brenning bore Lorre's only child, Catharine
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Lorre's last film for Warner was The Beast with Five Fingers, a horror film in which he played a crazed astrologer who falls in love with a character played by Andrea King
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Film critic Manny Farber described what he called Lorre's "double-take job", a characteristic dramatic flourish "where the actor's face changes rapidly from laughter, love or a security that he doesn't really feel to a f
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Lorre returned to comedy with the role of Dr
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Portrayed the character Ugarte in Casablanca
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Lorre became a naturalized citizen of the United States
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Was You'll Find Out, a musical comedy mystery vehicle for bandleader Kay Kyser in which Lorre spoofed his sinister image alongside horror stars Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff
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Attended a lunch at the request of some visiting Japanese officials; Lorre wore a badge that read "Boycott Japanese goods
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Universal Pictures wanted to borrow Lorre from Fox for the top-billed titular role ultimately performed by Basil Rathbone in Son of Frankenstein (1939) starring Boris Karloff as Frankenstein's monster and Bela Lugosi as
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For the role of Quasimodo in an aborted MGM version of The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, according to a Fox publicist one of two roles Lorre most wanted to play, the other being Napoleon
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To sail for New York a day after shooting had been completed on The Man Who Knew Too Much, having gained visitor's visas to the United States
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Lorre took refuge first in Paris and then London, where he was noticed by Ivor Montagu, associate producer for The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), who reminded the film's director, Alfred Hitchcock, about Lorre's performan
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Lorre appeared alongside Hans Albers in the science fiction film F
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In Rózsahegy, now known as Ružomberok, a town then part of Liptó County, Kingdom of Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Empire, and now part of Slovakia
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Born 1904-06-26.
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