Labels:text | human face | man | person | forehead OCR: Peter Lorre by Michael H. Price 1904 - 1964 Bom Loszlo Lowenstein in Rosenberg, Hungary, Peter Lorre became one of the first screen players whose career would be defined by portrayal of menace. Lorre's first talking picture, in fact, remains the most terrifying of his extensive body of work. It is the German production of "M", in which Lorre portrays a serial slayer of children, on the run from both the police and the underworld. A stage veteran, Lorre handled modest roles in a few German silent pictures, but it was as a sound- Major Genre Movie Credits on-film player that he blossomed. His indelibly accented speech offering the 1931 M (Germany) perfect complement to that mingling 1934 The Man Who Knew Too Much of pathos and menace the actor 1935 Mad Love could project with seeming Crime and Punishment effortlessness.Although his first 1938 Mr. Moto Series (8 films) American films set the tine for most of 1940 Island of Doomed Men his subsequent work, he also excelled Stranger of the Third Floor at comical and heart-rending roles. You'll Find Out Maltese Falcon 1946 The Beast With Five Fingers 1941 1951 The Lost One 1942 Casablanca 1954 1944 The Mask of Dimitrios 20,000 Leagues Under theSea 1961 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Arsenic and Old Lace 1962 Tales of Terror 1945 Confidential Agent 1963 The Raven
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