Actor Vincent Price, who made his last five movies, most of them horror tales, with Lorre called his death a “tragedy.” “I am just crushed,” Price said. “Peter was the most inventive ...

Peter Lorre was born in 1904 ... They had faces then, the great horror movie stars; they weren't like the anonymous, interchangeable masked bogeymen of the slasher movie era.

So I just imagined the raven was Peter Lorre. What people didn't realize about the so-called horror actors was how funny they could be.'' Says Price about the teaming with Lorre and Karloff ...

The film blends elements of comedy and supernatural intrigue, featuring performances by Vincent Price and Peter Lorre ...

Peter Lorre could simultaneously creep you out and inspire sympathy. Boris Karloff remained a movie star when he was ... Two 1940s films that teeter on horror — another genre Lorre was known ...

And Peter Lorre almost did. For a while ... He bec­ame a kind of Buddha in B-movie horror films, though for director Roger Corman he could still sometimes conjure the magical-mysterious.