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 … ...

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.

Peter Lorre’s fate is a lesson for all of us. Old roles are hard to give up, even for great actors.

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

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.

Numerous sources, both in print and on the interwebs, say that Peter Lorre’s English-language film debut was in Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Man Who Knew Too Much” (1934). But th… ...