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  • 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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Peter Lorre is a Hungarian-born film actor often typecast as a sinister foreigner. He was first recognized internationally for his portrayal of the psychotic murderer in M. In 1954 he became the first actor to play the James Bond villan Le Chiffre in a television adaptation of Casino Royale. Lorre suffered from chronic gallbladder pain and was addicted to morphine. He died of a stroke at age 60.

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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).

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