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Peter Lorre sits in a chair while Charles Boyer, wearing a fedora and trench coat, points a gun at him in a tense scene from Confidential Agent (1945). Fritz Lang: M Edward Arnold, Peter Lorre, and Robert Allen in a dramatic black-and-white scene from the 1935 film Crime and Punishment, with Lorre seated between the other two actors. Peter Lorre as Mr. Moto in the 1938 film Mysterious Mr. Moto, wearing round glasses and a light-colored suit, looking over his shoulder in dramatic lighting. The Maltese Falcon Lobby card for The Comedy of Terrors shows Peter Lorre on the left and Vincent Price on the right, with Price holding a bottle labeled poison as they stare at each other.
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Peter Lorre sits in a chair while Charles Boyer, wearing a fedora and trench coat, points a gun at him in a tense scene from Confidential Agent (1945).
Peter Lorre (left) and Charles Boyer in Confidential Agent (1945).

Peter Lorre

Hungarian-born American actor
Also known as: László Loewenstein
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Peter Lorre (born June 26, 1904, Rózsahegy, Hung.—died March 23, 1964, Hollywood, Calif., U.S.) was a Hungarian-born American motion-picture actor who projected a sinister image as a lisping, round-faced, soft-voiced villain in thrillers. A player of bit parts with a German theatrical troupe from 1921, Lorre achieved international fame as the psychotic child murderer in the German classic film M (1931), directed by Fritz Lang. His portrayal is considered one of the screen’s greatest criminal...

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