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Jan 5, 2024 · Letterboxd Rating: 3.6. Marking Peter Lorre’s debut in American cinema and serving as Karl Freund ’s last directorial effort, Mad Love was a horror film as enthralling and dramatic as it was ...
June 1–13, 2004. Peter Lorre. A Sinister Centennial. One of the great character actors of Hollywood cinema, Hungarian-born Peter Lorre (born in June 1904 as Ladislav Loewenstein) left his family home at the age of seventeen and traveled through Switzerland and Austria before settling in Germany, where he became a favorite of playwright ...
The only people at her funeral were Larry Lorre, Cathy’s cousin; Peter Lorre’s attorney, Robert Shutan; his son Peter Shutan (named after the actor); Cathy’s nurse and myself. She was buried at Inglewood Cemetery on June 4, 1985.
May 15, 2024 · Double Confession. Double Confession is a 1950 British crime film directed by Ken Annakin and starring Derek Farr, Joan Hopkins, Peter Lorre and William Hartnell. The screenplay, written by William Templeton, is based on the book All On A Summer's Day by HLV Fletcher, written under the pen name "John Garden".
Jul 7, 2023 · In The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre (2005), author Stephen D. Youngkin recounts the life and career of Peter Lorre through the recollections of family members, friends, directors, fellow actors, and crew on film, stage, radio, and television – recollections that shed light on Lorre’s childhood, his early days in theater, his career on film, radio and television, and his sad final days.
Lorre, Peter (1904-1964)Often typecast as a menacing figure, Peter Lorre achieved Hollywood fame during the 1930s, 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. To villainous parts he added a touch of dark humor, while he shaded comic ...
Biography. Lorre's family was Jewish. Lorre was born in Rózsahegy (Rosenberg) in a country called Austria-Hungary. Now the place where he was born is in the country Slovakia. He began acting in theaters in Vienna, Breslau, and Zürich. In the 1920s, he moved to Berlin to work as an actor. In 1931, the movie director Fritz Lang chose Lorre to ...
