Peter Lorre 's life ended 50 years ago this year. ... “He was cross-eyed and had a dimple in his cheek,” my dad remembered. “There was something very appealing about him. . . . ...

After his groundbreaking performance in 'M', Peter Lorre was typecast as a villain. ... "the look of a demonic, pop-eyed frog", he had spent more than 30 years playing screen bogeymen.

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.

Peter Lorre was born in 1904, of Jewish Austro-Hungarian descent, ... In Hollywood his accent and slightly bug-eyed look landed him signature roles as a mad scientist, a Japanese detective, ...

The FT’s film critic looks forward to a BFI season of one of the brilliant immigrants to Hollywood who ‘carried film noir across the world’ ...

Lorre, on the other hand, was The Foreigner: devious, slippery, bug-eyed, with a lisping Hungarian accent that stood in for French, Egyptian, Russian, Japanese—whatever outsider dialect the ...

Because Lorre was also rather small and chubby (though his weight fluctuated wildly), at least one film writer of the 1930s thought him Buddha-like – a ‘Buddha contemplating the mysteries and miseries ...

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 as a child ...

Peter Lorre could simultaneously creep you out and inspire sympathy. Boris Karloff remained a movie star when he was pushing 80 and could barely walk. Island of Doomed Men $17.95 (DVD), Sony ...

Even if you don’t know his name, and even if you were born 30 years after he died, chances are you recognize the actor who played the creepy guy in the 1942 film Casablanca. Peter Lorre 's life ...