...Claude Rains is Capt. Louis Renault, head of the local police. Conrad Veidt is the Nazi officer General Strasser. Peter Lorre is Ugarte, who makes money by illegally obtaining letters of transit. Throw in Sydney Greenstreet, Dooley Wilson at the piano,...
...was spreading across Europe. There were a dozen Germans and Austrians, nearly as many French, the Hungarians SZ Sakall and Peter Lorre, and a handful of Italians. Bogart and Rains admired each other, and that admiration comes through their scenes...
...other people whos names escape me at the moment... Peter Hess? Yeah. Almost Killed Me, but that's largely because [Franz smiles] Peter and I are musical life partners in a way. All the projects I've always done, he's been involved in, World/Inferno...
...Life, a feelgood film avant le mot. By contrast, the French put at number six Fritz Lang's extraordinary M, starring Peter Lorre - as a child-killer. The French flavour is serious, dark, slow, sometimes lyrical. Yes, it puts John Ford in the top 10, but...
...Peter Lorre come into this world with a sinister sneer fully formed on his lips? Was he at heart a sniveling, treacherous, conniving creep? Not at all, though from the moment American moviegoers set eyes on him, Lorre was a favorite of directors and...
...Peter Lorre come into this world with a sinister sneer fully formed on his lips? Was he at heart a sniveling, treacherous, conniving creep? Not at all, though from the moment American moviegoers set eyes on him, Lorre was a favorite of directors and...
Background
Peter Lorre (June 26, 1904 – March 23, 1964), born László Löwenstein, was a Hungarian - Austrian - American actor frequently typecast as a sinister foreigner.
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