Often typecast as a menacing figure, Peter Lorre achieved Hollywood fame first as a featured player and later as a character actor, trademarking his screen performances with a delicately strung balance between good and evil.
His portrayal of the child murderer in Fritz Lang's masterpiece M (1931) catapulted him to international fame.
Lang said of Lorre: He gave one of the best performances in film history and certainly the best in his life.
Today, the Hungarian-born actor is also recognized fo About author(s): Stephen D.
Youngkin is coauthor of The Films of Peter Lorre and Peter Lorre: Portrait des Schauspielers auf der Flucht.
He appeared as an expert biographer on the German television documentary Das Doppelte Gesicht (The Double Face) and A&E's Biography tribute to Peter Lorre.
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| About author(s) | Stephen |
University Press Of Kentucky The lost one: a life of peter lorre, paperback/stephen d. youngkin
