Peter Lorre
Birthday: 1904-06-26
Place of Birth: Rózsahegy (now Ružomberok), Austria-Hungary (now Slovakia)
Biography: Peter Lorre (June 26, 1904 – March 23, 1964) was a Hungarian-American actor frequently typecast as a sinister foreigner. He caused an international sensation in 1931 with his portrayal of a serial killer who preys on little girls in the German film M. Later he became a popular featured player in Hollywood crime films and mysteries, notably alongside Humphrey Bogart and Sydney Greenstreet, and as the star of the successful Mr. Moto detective series.
Movies
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
A ship sent to investigate a wave of mysterious sinkings encounters the advanced submarine, the Naut...
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Arsenic and Old Lace
Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against ...
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Casablanca
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with un...
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The Maltese Falcon
A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful li...
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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
The crew of an atomic submarine battle to save the world from global destruction....
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F.P.1 Doesn't Answer
F.P.1 is a huge airplane landing dock in the Atlantic where pilots making the transatlantic flight c...
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M
In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the fo...
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Secret Agent
During World War I, a novelist declared dead is recruited by British intelligence and sent to Switze...
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The Movie Orgy
Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloop...
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Around the World in 80 Days
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the wor...
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Black Angel
A falsely convicted man's wife, Catherine, and an alcoholic composer and pianist, Martin, team up in...
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The Boogie Man Will Get You
A young divorcee tries to convert a historic house into a hotel despite its oddball inhabitants and ...
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The Patsy
Eccentric bellhop Stanley Belt is recruited unexpectedly by the comedy team of a recently deceased e...
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Quicksand
Young auto mechanic Dan Brady takes $20 from a cash register at work to go on a date with blonde fem...
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What Women Dream
In this pre-WWII German mystery-comedy, a lovely kleptomaniac with a taste for fine jewelry is unabl...
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The Man Who Knew Too Much
While vacationing in St. Moritz, a British couple receive a clue to an imminent assassination attemp...
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Five from the Jazzband
By pure chance, Jessie and his four jazz musicians are hired to play at the cabaret theatre “Trocade...
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The Hollywood Clowns
Glenn Ford narrates this hilarious look back at the greatest comedians in movie history....
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The Face Behind the Mask
A kindly, enthusiastic, newly-arrived American immigrant from Hungary is forced to turn to a life of...
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Mad Love
An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's han...
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The Mask of Dimitrios
A mystery writer is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose dead bo...
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The Conspirators
A guerilla leader falls in love with a mysterious woman in World War II Lisbon....
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Heroes of Horror
A&E Comprehensive biographies of five of the greatest classic stars of the horror genre. Features lo...
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Three Strangers
On the eve of the Chinese New Year, three strangers, Crystal Shackleford, married to a wealthy phila...
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Invisible Agent
The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany....
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The Verdict
After an innocent man is executed in a case he was responsible for, a Scotland Yard superintendent f...
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The Beast with Five Fingers
Locals in an Italian village believe evil has taken over the estate of a recently deceased pianist w...
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The Chase
Chuck Scott gets a job as chauffeur to tough guy Eddie Roman; but Chuck's involvement with Eddie's f...
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The Raven
A magician who has been turned into a raven turns to a former sorcerer for help....
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Tales of Terror
Three stories adapted from the work of Edgar Allen Poe: 1) A man and his daughter are reunited, but...
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Double Confession
The hero discovers his estranged wife dead and tries to frame her lover for the murder. He becomes i...
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Stranger on the Third Floor
Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has s...
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Mysterious Mr. Moto
The Japanese detective rounds up a league of assassins for Scotland Yard....
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The Comedy of Terrors
An undertaker who hasn't had any 'customers' in a long time is forced to pay one year's back-rent. T...
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All Through the Night
Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship....
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The Sad Sack
Private Meredith Bixby is so out of step in the Army that his six weeks of planned basic training ha...
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Silk Stockings
After three bumbling Soviet agents fail in their mission to retrieve a straying Soviet composer from...
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The Story of Mankind
The devil and the spirit of mankind argue as to whether or not humanity is ultimately good or evil....
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Five Weeks in a Balloon
Professor Fergusson plans to make aviation history by making his way across Africa by balloon. He pl...
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Rope of Sand
Story of a South African diamond mine watched over by a sadistic policeman tasked with looking out f...
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The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute
In this made-for-TV production, Vincent Price and his hunchback sidekick (Billy Van) host a pun-fill...
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High and Low
The intersecting lives of neighbors in a courtyard apartment building in Vienna,including a football...
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Casbah
Pepe Le Moko leads a gang of jewel thieves in the Casbah of Algiers, where he has exiled himself to ...
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Hollywood Canteen
Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entert...
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Mr. Moto Takes a Chance
In the jungle near Angkor Wat in Cambodia, Mr. Moto poses as an ineffectual archaeologist and a vene...
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Meet Me in Las Vegas
Chuck Rodwell is a gambling cowboy who discovers that he's lucky at the roulette wheel if he holds h...
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John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
Biography of risk-taker and raconteur John Huston from his childhood to become one of the most highl...
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My Favorite Brunette
Ronnie Jackson is a lowly baby photographer who secretly fantasizes about being a private detective....
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Mr. Moto's Last Warning
A Japanese man claiming to be Mr. Moto, of the International Police, is abducted and murdered soon a...
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Passage to Marseille
A freedom-loving French journalist sacrifices his happiness and security to battle Nazi tyranny....
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You'll Find Out
The manager of Kay Kyser’s band books them for a birthday party bash for an heiress at a spooky mans...
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Strange Cargo
Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure....
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Creepy Classics
A compilation of trailers for various horror and sci-fi films, narrated and hosted by Vincent Price....
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The Constant Nymph
The daughter of a musical mentor adores a promising composer, who is quite fond of the adolescent. W...
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Think Fast, Mr. Moto
When his import/export business infiltrated by international diamond smugglers, Mr. Moto must follow...
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Mr. Moto's Gamble
Celebrated as supersleuth, Mr. Moto comes out fighting when a brutal boxing match turns into cold-bl...
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Thank You, Mr. Moto
Mr. Moto Heads to China on a quest for seven ancient scrolls that reveal the location of Genghis Kha...
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Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation
Mr. Moto is in Egypt to thwart a criminal mastermind determined to steal the priceless crown of the ...
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Mr. Moto in Danger Island
In Puerto Rico to investigate a glut of contraband diamonds that are flooding the world's jewel mark...
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The Cross of Lorraine
French soldiers surrender to lying Nazis and are herded into a barbaric prison of war camp. From the...
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They Met in Bombay
A jewel thief and a con artist are rivals in the theft of a valuable diamond and gem necklace in Bom...
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The Lost One
A German scientist murders his fiancée during World War II when he learns that she has been selling ...
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Island of Doomed Men
An undercover agent wrongly punished for murder is paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamon...
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Collector’s Item
Mr. Prentiss is an appraiser at his firm, the House of Prentiss. He is about to go to Florida to app...
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Lancer Spy
An Englishman impersonates an imprisoned German officer and "returns" to Germany to become a nationa...
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Nancy Steele Is Missing!
After being in jail for seventeen years a crook is met by the girl he kidnapped as a baby. She now t...
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Moto Is Missing
Featurette about the demise, during the early 1940s, of the once-popular Mr. Moto B-films series tha...
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Bombs Over Monte Carlo
The captain of a battleship of a small Balkan country is fed up with following strange orders from t...
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Scent of Mystery
An Englishman and a cabby try to save an heiress from murder in Spain....
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Mr. District Attorney
An assistant prosecutor and his spunky friend investigate a suddenly hot case....
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The Big Circus
A circus owner tries to keep his financially troubled circus on the road, despite the efforts of a m...
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The Buster Keaton Story
An inaccurate retelling of the life of silent filmmaker and comedian Buster Keaton....
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Confidential Agent
During the Spanish Civil War, an agent on a mission to purchase coal meets with murder and countersp...
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Congo Crossing
Congotanga, West Africa, has no extradition laws; the government is controlled by foreign gangsters,...
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Hotel Berlin
An assortment of diverse characters gather at the Hotel Berlin in World War II Germany as the Third ...
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Hell Ship Mutiny
A ship's captain in the South Seas battles a villainous pearl trader who uses island natives as slav...
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Crack-Up
Betrayal and espionage abound as an experimental aircraft is readied for its maiden voyage....
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Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film
Join foremost experts discussing true Horror Classics - Frankenstein, Dracula, The Black Cat, Wolfma...
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The Trunks of Mr. O.F.
In the very old-fashioned town of Ostend suddenly 13 suitcases are delivered to the Grand Hotel, wit...
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The Horror of It All
A collection of film clips from horror movies and interviews with the actors and directors who made ...
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Five Fingers : Thin Ice
Sebastian must either deliver a young Arab prince to Russia or get him back safely to his own countr...
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A Shot at Dawn
A Berlin policeman tracks down a group of diamond thieves in the outskirts by posing as a gang membe...
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The White Demon
When Albers takes his drug-addicted opera star sister Gerda to a sanitarium, they both become target...
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Casino Royale
American spy James Bond must outsmart card wiz and crime boss LeChiffre while monitoring his actions...
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I'll Give a Million
After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that...
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Stupéfiants
When an up-and-coming singer's career is jeopardized by morphine addiction, her brother takes on the...
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I Was an Adventuress
Posing as the fabulously glamorous Countess Tanya Vronsky, a poor young ballet dancer and her two ac...
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Cole Porter in Hollywood: Satin and Silk
This documentary short subject details the making of the 1957 MGM musical, "Silk Stockings". Hosted ...
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Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb
Our intrepid adventurers Ace Zucco and Mike Flannigan from Terror in the Tropics return for another ...
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The Last Tycoon
Based off the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel of the same title, a movie producer is slowly working himsel...
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The Eternal Jew
A Nazi propaganda film made to promote anti-Semitism among the German people. Newly-shot footage of ...
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Peter Lorre: The Master of Menace
Documentary overview of Peter Lorre's ascension to fame as a master purveyor of silky but disquietin...
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Undercover: How to Operate Behind Enemy Lines
A training film for OSS agents who are to be dropped behind enemy lines....
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Muscle Beach Party
Local beach-goers find that their beach has been taken over by a businessman training a stable of bo...
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No. 5 Checked Out
A young deaf women confronts desperate crooks who are using one of her remote resort cabins for a hi...
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Bogart: The Untold Story
Stephen H. Bogart narrates the rise to fame of his father, Humphrey Bogart through the use of film c...
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The Dinosaur and the Baby
An hour-long discussion between Fritz Lang and Jean-Luc Godard in which they discuss a variety of ar...
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A Physical History of 'M'
This documentary traces the "physical history" of Fritz Lang’s M, from its production and original d...
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A Man's a Man
About a civilian who is press-ganged into a machine-gunner's squadron and transformed into the perfe...
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The Disneyland Story
Walt Disney presents a preview for both his upcoming park called Disneyland and several episodes of ...
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Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman
Famous Monster takes a fast-paced, colorful look at the life of science fiction's greatest fan - For...
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The Double Face of Peter Lorre
Peter Lorre achieved international fame for his performance in the myth-making role in M. This chara...
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Sizeman and Son
Morris Sizeman is a successful garment manufacturer in New York City. His son, Harold Sizeman, retur...
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The Fabulous Irishman
Romanticized life story of Robert Briscoe, the first Jewish Lord Mayor of Dublin....
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Way of Tomorrow: The Evolution of Science Fiction Movies
Documentary on the History of Science Fiction Movies from The Day the Earth Stood Still onward....
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