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Despite playing the occasional heroic role, Lorre remained typecast as misfits and miscreants. Plagued by ill health and drug addiction, Lorre capped his career with a run of tongue-in-cheek horror films, including "The Raven" (1963) and "Comedy of Terrors" (1963) with horror kings Boris Karloff and Vincent Price.
And there is also the biography – The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre, by Stephen D. Youngkin. In The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre , Youngkin goes beyond the actor’s on-screen image: For the first time, directors Fritz Lang, Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, John Huston, Frank Capra, Rouben Mamoulian and many more filmmakers open up about ...
Jan 1, 2012 · German audiences rejected Lorre's dark vision of their recent past, and the actor returned to America, wearily accepting roles that parodied his sinister movie personality.The first biography of this major actor, The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre draws upon more than three hundred interviews, including conversations with directors Fritz Lang ...
- Stephen Youngkin
Dec 2, 2008 · Biography by Gerd Gemünden Professor of German Studies, Film and Media Studies, and Comparative Literature Dartmouth College (b. Rózsahegy, Hungary 1904 – d. Hollywood 1964) Photo from Lorre ...
Signed to a 20th Century Fox contract in 1936, Lorre asked for and received a chance to play a good guy for a change. He starred in eight installments of the Mr. Moto series, playing an ever-polite (albeit well versed in karate) Japanese detective. When the series folded in 1939, Lorre freelanced in villainous roles at several studios.
German audiences rejected Lorre's dark vision of their recent past, and the actor returned to America, wearily accepting roles that parodied his sinister movie personality.The first biography of this major actor, The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre draws upon more than three hundred interviews, including conversations with directors Fritz Lang ...
