Peter Lorre


 
 
Peter Lorre

Peter Lorre (June 26, 1904 – March 23, 1964) was an actor especially known for playing roles with sinister overtones in Hollywood crime films and mysteries.

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He was born Ladislav (L?szl?) L?wenstein into a Jewish family in R?zsahegy/Rosenberg, Austria-Hungary, now Ru?omberok, Slovakia. He began acting on stage in Vienna, Austria; Breslau, Germany; and Z?rich, Switzerland. In the late 1920s he moved to Berlin where he worked with German playwright Bertolt Brecht. Lorre became famous when Fritz Lang cast him as a child killer in his 1931 film M.


 

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