After his groundbreaking performance in 'M', Peter Lorre was typecast as a villain. But he never created two-dimensional characters, says Geoffrey Macnab ...

Actor Peter Lorre, the Carpathian mountain boy who became a professional ogre, sleepy-voiced comedian, and bon vivant, died Monday of an apparent stroke in his tiny Hollywood apartment.

A 1940 suspense movie with Peter Lorre is the first true installment in the film noir genre, making it the beginning of a massive trend in Hollywood.

The only movie Peter Lorre ever directed was ”The Lost One,” which he made in Germany in 1951. A personal variation on Fritz Lang`s ”M,” the famous film that featured Lorre … ...

It's 50 years since the death of Peter Lorre. Anne Billson pays tribute to the sinister-looking actor who deserves his place in The Great Horror Actors pantheon ...

Peter Lorre, 59, Hungarian-born actor whose deceptively mild manner and low-pitched voice made him one of motion pictures' favorite villains, died in Hollywod March 23 of a stroke.

And Peter Lorre almost did. For a while. In the 1940s and 1950s, it became hard to imagine the art of cinema without him.