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Peter Lorre 06.26.1904 - 03.23.1964 (60 years old)

Peter Lorre was an American actor who remained for more than 35 years. Born in Hungary, Lorre began his career as a stage artist in Austria. He is most remembered for his role of a serial killer in “M”. Click here to read more about Peter Lorre

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This actor appeared in the following radio shows

Series	Episode title	Date
mr and mrs north	gangster douglas grant
jack benny program	murder at the racquet club	1941-03-09
suspense	the devils saint	1943-01-19
inner sanctum mysteries	black sea gull	1943-03-07
suspense	moment of darkness	1943-04-20
inner sanctum mysteries	the horla	1943-08-01
screen guild theater, the	the maltese falcon	1943-09-20
Duffy's Tavern	duffy's tavern peter lorre & raffles the talking mynah bird	1943-10-19
suspense	back for christmas	1943-12-23
molle mystery theater	criminal at large	1944-04-11
whistler, the	the doctor prescribes death	1944-06-11
mr and mrs north	pam keeps out of trouble	1944-08-09
molle mystery theater	nightmare	1944-11-28
molle mystery theater	crime to fit punishment	1944-12-05
molle mystery theater	bottle imp	1944-12-12
molle mystery theater	the man in the velvet hat	1944-12-19
molle mystery theater	the letter	1944-12-26
mr and mrs north	frisbie proves his point	1945-01-17
molle mystery theater	yours truly jack the ripper	1945-02-27
molle mystery theater	the man who murdered in public	1945-03-06
Nightmare	nightmare chance of a ghost (sonya, a phony medium comes to believe in ghosts)	1945-03-31
command performance	command performance (171) martha stewart, peter lorre, sydney greenstreet	1945-04-19
molle mystery theater	cask of amontillado	1945-04-24
suspense	nobody loves me	1945-08-30
Mystery In The Air (1947)	the marvelous barrastro	1947-08-07
Mystery In The Air (1947)	mystery in the air (07) the lodger	1947-08-14
Mystery In The Air (1947)	the horla	1947-08-21
Mystery In The Air (1947)	mystery in the air (09) beyond good and evil	1947-08-28
Mystery In The Air (1947)	mystery in the air (10) the mask of medusa	1947-09-04
Mystery In The Air (1947)	mystery in the air (11) the queen of spades	1947-09-11
Mystery In The Air (1947)	mystery in the air (12) the black cat	1947-09-18
Mystery In The Air (1947)	mystery in the air (13) crime and punishment	1947-09-25
Nightmare	nightmare coincidence (billy is convicted for killing future father in law)	1953-11-26
Nightmare	nightmare (19) hollow footsteps	1954-02-03
Nightmare	nightmare (28) the leech	1954-04-07

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Peter Lorre (László Löwenstein--his nickname was Lazzy) Born Rózsahegy, Austria-Hungary (now Ružomberok, Slovakia), June 26, 1904 Died Los Angeles, California, March 23, 1964 Age 59 (stroke) Did a number of horror shows.

Mike

Peter Lorre is one of my favorites. I loved him in Arsenic and Old Lace. I always wonder if I have missed any of his great roles.

Teresa

Peter Lorre, another classic.

Ben

A great character actor

Harriet

Such a great actor. Died much too soon.

Ladonna

Peter Lorre was such a great actor

Carol

Peter Lorre was a brilliant actor. He has added to my life with many memorable performances.

Janet

I always enjoyed his way of speaking, also a great horror actor..

Jery

Great actor

Mike

Peter Lorre a strange looking actor, but was great. He made many movies. I always wanted to know his ethnicity.

Willieame

One of the greatest actor of all time

Dawrin

Great actor Funny face with funny voice.

Selwyn

So great in his character roles...never matched in his style and soft voice and so dramatic..truly missed from stage and screen

Ron

So Handsome and Such a Ann Amazing Actor x

Janet

Peter Lorre

Mike

He was such a scary looking wee man but a great actor

Mike

Wonderful actor was memorable in any movie he was In.

Gareth

Happy birthday to Peter Lorre, born on June 26, 1904.

Jack

Peter Lorre

Jack

Great actor and let us not forget his wonderful early role in America as Roderick Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment. Lorre was born in either Romania or Hungary depending on reports as Lazlo Lowenstein and began his career in the German cinema. His early break through role was as a child murderer in the classic film M. He came to America in advance of the Nazi onslaught. And he was the Japanese version of Charlie Chan in the Mr. Moto series. My first notice of him was in the Jerry Lewis comedy The Sad Sack. I had no idea then how fine an actor he had been, nor how thin he was most of his career.

Mike

He was a great actor and lived the part, for me his greatest role was in Casablanca, where he played Ugatti, and pleaded, "Rick save me".

Jay

Lorre was a serious student of abnormal psychology who attended Freud's lectures in Vienna and it shows in his work. Note his sadistic compulsive masturbator right out of Kraft-Ebbing in Mad Love and his perfect malignant narcissist in Island of Doomed Men

Mike

Lorre, Peter (birth name was Ladislav Loewenstein) Born in Rosenberg, Hungary or Ruzonberok, Slovenia 6/26/1904; died 3/23/1964 of a heart attack in Hollywood, California. Married and divorced to Celia Lovsky (1934-1945); actress Kaaren Verne (1945-1949); Annemarie Brenning (1950-1964 his death). Father of actor Peter Lorre, Jr. At age seventeen Lorre ran away from home to join a theatre group. Worked as a bank clerk in 1922. Moved to Viena for two years, then Berlin, Germany where he was discovered by movie director Fritz Lang. On screen in M (1931). Last movies were The Patsy and Muscle Beach Party in 1964.

Mike

Peter Lorre, Jr was not his son. Lorre, Jr's real name was Eugene Weingand. He was a German born, American actor who noticed he looked similar and legally tried to change his name to Peter Lorie Jr. But the real Peter Lorre and American International Pictures objected. So the judge ruled that Weingand was trying to cash in on Lorre's fame and that he couldn't change his name unless Peter Lorre gave him permission. Then a few months after Peter Lorre died, Weingand legally changed his name to Peter Lorre, Jr and told everyone he was really Peter Lorre's son. Peter Lorre only had one child, a girl named Catherine Lorre, who died at age 32 from diabetes complications. She was also almost abducted by the Hillside Stranglers,but they changed their mind when they found out she was Peter Lorre's daughter.

Airihi

Occasional guest star on Inner Sanctum Mysteries for NBC-BLUE (1941-1942); Creeps By Night for NBC-BLUE (1944). Host and star of Mystery In The Air for NBC-Radio (1947). Host of Nightmare on Mutual-Radio (1953-1954).

Mike

Guest star on many television programs including his first major television role in The Taste, presented on The Lux Video Theatre for CBS (1952); Climax for CBS (1954); Alfred Hitchcock Presents for CBS (1960).

Mike