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Lorre, Peter
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Lorre, Peter

 orig. László Loewenstein

(born June 26, 1904, Rózsahegy, Hung.—died March 23, 1964, Hollywood, Calif., U.S.) Hungarian-born U.S. film actor. He played bit parts with a German theatrical troupe before earning international fame as the psychotic murderer in the German film M (1931). He left Germany in 1933 and made his English-language debut in The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934). He went to Hollywood, where he played malevolent characters in movies such as Mad Love (1935), The Maltese Falcon (1941), Casablanca (1942), and The Beast with Five Fingers (1946). He also starred in the eight Mr. Moto detective movies (1937–39). He later directed and starred in the German film The Lost One (1951).
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Yet Sasaki, who looks like a tall, benign version of Peter Lorre and who doesn't have much to say beyond a Gary Cooper-like "yup" or "nope," quietly serves as a life mentor to Daigo, whose own father left years before.
TOUCHING THE VOID by The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)
Huston's "The Maltese Falcon" (1941) - with Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George, Sidney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre - shows at 1 p.
BRIEFLY SCREEN by The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
I'll do Barbra Streisand, and Jimmy Stewart, Mae West and Peter Lorre, Zsa Zsa Gabor and Katharine Hepburn.
Debbie Reynolds celebrates homecoming at El Portal by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
 
 
 
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