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- NAME: Peter Lorre
- OCCUPATION: Film Actor, Television Actor
- BIRTH DATE: June 26, 1904
- DEATH DATE: February 23, 1964
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Rózsahegy, Hungary
- PLACE OF DEATH: Los Angeles, California
- Originally: László Loewenstein
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Hungarian actor Peter Lorre is most often cast as the sinister foreigner. His role as the serial killer in M was the beginning of his prolific acting career.
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(born June 26, 1904, Rózsahegy, Hung.—died March 23, 1964, Hollywood, Calif., U.S.) Hungarian-born U.S. film actor. He played bit parts with a German theatrical troupe before earning international fame as the psychotic murderer in the German film M (1931). He left Germany in 1933 and made his English-language debut in The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934). He went to Hollywood, where he played malevolent characters in movies such as Mad Love (1935), The Maltese Falcon (1941), Casablanca (1942), and The Beast with Five Fingers (1946). He also starred in the eight Mr. Moto detective movies (1937–39). He later directed and starred in the German film The Lost One (1951).Copyright © 1994-2011 Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. For more information visit Britannica.com
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