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	Peter Lorre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Peter Lorre (June 26, 1904 – March 23, 1964), born Ladislav (László) Löwenstein, was a stage and screen actor of Austrian descent especially known for playing roles with sinister overtones in Hollywood crime films and mysteries.
		Lorre's body was cremated and his ashes interred at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood.
		Lorre is the subject of songs by several bands, notably The World/Inferno Friendship Society.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Lorre (919 words)

	Classic Images: Peter Lorre
		Peter Lorre was also having some career difficulties, but he did not initially see the Moto assignment as a positive career move.
		Lorre was born Laszlo Lowenstein in Rosenberg, Hungary.
		Lorre preferred doing comedy, but after he was cast as a child murderer in his first motion picture, M (1931), he found himself typecast as a screen villain.
	www.classicimages.com /1998/april98/peterlorre.html (2382 words)

	Peter Lorre \| Biography (1904-1964)
		Peter Lorre was born Ladislav Loewenstein on June 26, 1904 in Rozsahegy, Hungary.
		Peter Lorre's performance in M remains one of the greatest in the history of cinema.
		Peter Lorre died in 1964, at the age of 60.
	www.leninimports.com /peter_lorre.html (649 words)

	What's the story, Peter Lorre?,
		Peter Lorre, the 100th year anniversary of whose birth was celebrated 26/06/04, was, and remains still, a contradiction as a Hollywood actor.
		Peter Lorre was born Laszlo (Ladislav) Löwenstein on 26th June 1904 in Rosenberg, a small town in Austria-Hungary.
		Lorre’s tragedy and Hollywood’s blessing was that he was an actor who might have achieved dizzy artistic heights in his own country, but whom the march of history forced into accepting a less-challenging career in another, one that focused on that which made him different, rather than that which made him special.
	www.futuremovies.co.uk /filmmaking.asp?ID=78 (703 words)

	Peter Lorre Biography :: Hollywood.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lorre appeared on the stage and had several small film roles in Europe before coming to international attention in 1931 in Fritz Lang's "M." Lorre's performance as the child-murderer set the standard for all sexual psychopaths on film since.
		Lorre's confession scene is a finely balanced mixture of self-loathing and uncontrollable passion that still produces a painful double blow of revulsion and pity in viewers.
		For instance, Lorre added a judicious amount of pathos to his role as a vengeful, disfigured immigrant in "The Face Behind the Mask" (1941), turning the film into an eloquent statement about the failure of the American dream.
	www.hollywood.com /celebs/fulldetail/id/196422 (614 words)

	Movies \| ‘You despise me, don’t you?’
		Lorre, as the leader of a conspiracy to assassinate a European diplomat during the latter’s visit to London, has little to do, but he gives the film’s most striking and nuanced performance.
		Lorre’s murmuring, self-depreciating intellectual, filled with moral outrage by his contact with corruption, remains in the mind long after Negulesco’s flickering shadows have faded in the light of day.
		Lorre is charming and good-natured in the central role of a gentle, alcoholic weakling who, fallen among bad company, gets railroaded on a murder charge.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/movies/documents/03858761.asp (1078 words)

	Valera Meylis: LRB: A book on Peter Lorre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Many adjectives have been applied to Lorre’s eyes, but none is adequate to convey their peculiar intensity, the way they veered between kindness and madness, and the manner in which he made them protrude even further when he wrinkled his forehead and wiggled his ears, which he often did.
		But Lang and Lorre knew that it is scarier still to show a murderer terrified by himself and rather clumsy, an inept figure who doesn’t notice that someone has daubed a chalk ‘M’ on his back or who drops the knife he uses to peel an orange.
		Lorre’s part, as a shock-haired Mexican mercenary, is ridiculous but he somehow endowed this absurd and nasty clown with depth, making his lust for every woman in sight almost sympathetic.
	heyvalera.blogspot.com /2006/03/lrb-book-on-peter-lorre.html (3726 words)

	Peter Lorre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Peter Lorre (June 26, 1904 – March 23, 1964) was a Hungarian-born actor known both for playing criminals (particularly psychopaths) and comic roles.
		Peter Lorre died in 1964 and was interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood.
		Lorre is the subject of a new biography by Stephen D. Youngkin titled The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre (http://www.kentuckypress.com/viewbook.cfm?Category_ID=1andGroup=42andID=1247)
	www.shakerheights.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Peter_Lorre (543 words)

	Harvard Film Archive: People We Like
		Lorre’s direction was heavily influenced by the prewar expressionist cinema in which he had worked, most notably in Fritz Lang’s M. Characters are always captured in half-light or shadows, and emotional states are given strong physical presence.
		Kentaro Moto (Peter Lorre), a master of disguise, proficient in judo and excellent with firearms, pretends to be a street peddler in order to follow the trail of a gang of international smugglers.
		Peter Lorre contributes to The Cross of Lorraine in an unlikely characterization: that of a despicable, sadistic Nazi soldier.
	www.harvardfilmarchive.org /calendars/04_summer/lorre.html (2135 words)

	Peter Lorre >> German-Hollywood Connection
		Despite his father's disapproval, Lorre was drawn to the stages of Breslau, Zurich, Vienna, and finally Berlin, to which he moved at the age of 21.
		It was on the stage in the German capital that Lorre drew the praise and attention of German playwright Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956).
		By 1962 they were divorced, but Lorre remained good friends with her as well as ex-wives Celia and Kaaren until his death.
	www.germanhollywood.com /lorre.html (822 words)

	Peter Lorre
		On the strength of M, Lorre was initially cast in roles calling for varying degrees of madness, such as the love-obsessed surgeon in Mad Love (1935) and the existentialist killer in Crime and Punishment (1935).
		As far as director Jean Negulesco was concerned, Lorre was the finest actor in Hollywood; Negulesco fought bitterly with the studio brass for permission to cast Lorre as the sympathetic leading man in The Mask of Dimitrios (1946), in which the diminutive actor gave one of his finest and subtlest performances.
		Lorre's last film, completed just a few months before his fatal heart attack in 1964, was Jerry Lewis' The Patsy, in which, ironically, the dourly demonic Lorre played a director of comedy films.
	www.djangomusic.com /actor_bio.asp?pid=P100174 (529 words)

	From Madman to Icon: A Spy-ography of Peter Lorre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lorre's low-key, menacing Danel was using parolees to dig diamonds in a white slavery scheme.
		Lorre has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and in 2004, his centenary year, the Austrian Film Museum had a month-long retrospective of his career in which they showed many of his film and TV performances.
		Without question, Peter Lorre is an important figure in entertainment as an actor, a personality that transcended the characters he played, and his presence in motion picture history.
	home.att.net /~wbritton53/peterlorre.htm (5122 words)

	PETER LORRIE
		The script for GODSPELL instructs the actor to use a Peter Lorre or Bela Lugosi imitation to render the line, "And so angry was the master that he condemned the man to torture until he could pay the debt in full," and the choice is inevitably Lorre.
		Lorre achieves career-high sheer lunacy during the sequence where he claims to be the murderer who has had his head sewn on another body and has come to reclaim his hands, and the film achieves architecturally-designed frames of surreal beauty before reaching its unrestrained finish.
		Lorre improvised left and right, and the results are hilarious, from his extemporized comment to Price that the family crypt must be a "hard place to keep clean, huh?" to his priceless mumblings while searching for a cloak to wear on the trip up to Karloff's castle.
	www.psychotronic.info /archive/peter.htm (1311 words)

	Peter Lorre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lorre became famous when Fritz Lang[For more facts and a topic of this subject, click this link] cast him as the child killer in M M (1931 movie) quick summary:
		Peter Lorre died in 1964 and was interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery Hollywood Forever Cemetery quick summary:
		The face behind the mask is a 1941 film which tells the story of a hopeful new immigrant, janos szaby (peter lorre), arriving in new york city, who is trapped...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pe/peter_lorre.htm (2516 words)

	Peter Lorre
		Peter Lorre was born as László Löwenstein, June 26, 1904 in Rosenberg, (Roszahegy, a Hungarian city) and dead on March 23, of 1964 in Los Angeles, California, (heart attack).
		Both a skilled actor and a unique screen presence, Peter Lorre was one of the movies' most memorable personalities.
		Always beneath the easygoing surface of Lorre's Moto was a threatening edge that made the character far more interesting than most of Hollywood's other series detectives.
	members.xoom.alice.it /darryll101/bio/lorre.htm (660 words)

	Peter Lorre
		And there was Lorre's sad little daughter, Catharine, age 10, a sweet little carbon copy in feminine form of her famous daddy.
		Lorre was afraid that she might be disturbed by the knowledge that herdaddy is one of the country's best-hated spooks.
		Lorre next went to Columbia where he turned in a magnificent performance and won rave reviews as Raskolnikov in CRIME and PUNISHMENT with Edward Arnold as his pursuer and Marian Marsh as the leading lady.
	www.hotad.com /monstermania/2002/peterlorre (1767 words)

	Peter Lorre: A History of Horror
		Peter Lorre was one of the screen's most popular villains--his bulging eyes and sibilant voice were known, and imitated, all over the world.
		Lorre directed with skill but its gloomy subject-matter ensured that it wasn't a financial success at a time when film audiences were hungering for escape.
		Unfortunately, the making of it cost Lorre more than money--during the shooting his friend and co-producer Arnold Pressburger fell ill and died, and shortly after it was completed Lorre himself became very ill. He survived, but the illness left him with a weight increase of 100 lbs and he never really regained his health.
	eric.b.olsen.tripod.com /lorre.html (950 words)

	Peter Lorre - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Image:PeterLorre.jpg Peter Lorre (June 26, 1904 – March 23, 1964), born Ladislav (László) Löwenstein, was a Hungarian actor especially known for playing roles with sinister overtones in Hollywood crime films and mysteries.
		He died in 1964 of a stroke at the age of 59, his body was cremated and the ashes were interned at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood.
		The practice of emulating Peter Lorre's unforgettable voice, look, and mannerisms is quite notable throughout television and cinema, dating from impersonations in various cartoons such as Looney Tunes and characters such as Ren from Ren and Stimpy, Morocco Mole from Secret Squirrel, Marlon Fraggle from Fraggle Rock,Dr.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Peter_Lorre (639 words)

	The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre
		For the first time, Lorre's pivotal relationship with German dramatist Bertolt Brecht and the actor's influence on his "new style" of acting are uncovered.
		For the first time, Lorre's émigré experience is placed in the context of the exodus of artists from Nazi Germany.
		For the first time, the story of Lorre's morphine addiction -- based on medical records, including a personal history of his dependency dictated to federal narcotics authorities -- is told.
	www.peterlorrebook.com (711 words)

	German 43: Resources: Biographies: Lorre, Peter
		Interested in the theater from early on, Lorre acted on various stages in Breslau, Zurich and Vienna before coming to Berlin in 1929 when Bertolt Brecht invited him to play the role of Fabian in his production of Marieluise Fleißer's Pioniere in Ingolstadt.
		In 1933, Lorre emigrated via the much-traveled route first to Vienna, then Paris, then London, before reaching the US through a contract with Columbia Pictures.
		Known in the United States primarily for his performances as the child murderer in M and as the anarchist in Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), Lorre was typecast from the beginning of his US career as a menacing and enigmatic presence, often as a sexual threat or outsider.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~germ43/resources/biographies/lorre-p.html (275 words)

	University Press of Kentucky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Often typecast as a menacing figure, Peter Lorre achieved Hollywood fame first as a featured player and later as a character actor who trademarked his screen performances with a delicately strung balance between good and evil.
		Lang said of Lorre: "He gave one of the best performances in film history and certainly the best in his life." Today, the Hungarian-born actor is also recognized for his riveting performances in The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), The Maltese Falcon (1941), and Casablanca (1942).
		Stephen D. Youngkin is the coauthor of The Films of Peter Lorre and appeared as an expert biographer on AandE's Biography tribute to Peter Lorre.
	www.kentuckypress.com /viewbook.cfm?Category_ID=1&Group=42&ID=1247 (836 words)

	Peter Lorre @ Filmbug
		Peter Lorre (born László Löwenstein), (June 26, 1904 - March 23, 1964 was a Hungarian-American actor, known largely for roles as heavies.
		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.
	www.filmbug.com /db/4270 (318 words)

	MIDNIGHT MARQUEE PRESS \| BOOKS
		While the other entries in the series were predominantly horror film actors, Peter Lorre made many horror film appearances, but was never actually considered a horror film star.
		Instead, it was Lorre's persona, that of a quirky, deviant little man, sometimes charming, sometimes boiling over with venom, that made him a perfect match for horror films.
		Lorre felt just as comfortable enacting supporting roles in A films as he did starring in the Bs.
	www.midmar.com /actorsseries.html (559 words)

	Peter Lorre - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Peter Lorre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lorre twice worked with the English thriller director Alfred Hitchcock:; on The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) and Secret Agent (1936).
		Lorre directed his only film, Der Verlorene/The Lost One (1950), in West Germany, but on his return to Hollywood he was forced to accept supporting roles in increasingly low-budget films, the best of which was Roger Corman's The Raven (1963).
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Peter+Lorre (300 words)

	Amazon.com: Mad Love (1935) (1935) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lorre's performance is a perfect descent into obsession and madness, his bulging, heavy-lidded eyes making him both sinister and pathetic as the crazed Gogol.
		Lorre schemes to get rid of Clive by killing Clive's stepfather with a knife and then getting Clive to believe he was the one who did it.
		Lorre later turns her into a waxwork image to be worshipped, serenaded on the piano, and read poetry to in the privacy of his own weird home...This is by far the best of many versions and variants of Maurice Renard's novel LES MAINS d'ORLAC.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/630250998X?v=glance (1581 words)

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