Peter Lorre
Actor
Filmography (All Films)
- M... Worst Crime of All (1931)
- Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Peter Lorre
- A chilling expressionist classic starring Peter Lorre as psychotic child molester. Dir. Lang masterfully fills the screen with understated but…
- Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1934)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Leslie Banks, Peter Lorre
- Peter Lorre stars in this original version as the villain who kidnaps an innocent man's child to ensure his silence. Budget limitations are overcome…
- Crime and Punishment (1935)
- Dir. Josef von Sternberg
Feat. Edward Arnold, Peter Lorre, Marian Marsh
- Modest adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel about a criminology student turned murderer who becomes tortured with remorse.
- Secret Agent, The (1936)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Peter Lorre, Madeleine Carroll, John Gielgud
- Peter Lorre plays a reluctant officer assigned to kill a WW2 spy. Good Hitchcock fare from his early career.
- Maltese Falcon, The (1941)
- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre…
- A remarkable debut from director Huston hires Bogart's detective Sam Spade to locate a priceless statuette. Prototype film noir based on Dashiell…
- Face Behind the Mask, The (1941)
- Dir. Robert Florey
Feat. Peter Lorre, Evelyn Keyes
- Film noir following the descent of a kind watch maker whose face is disfigured in a fire shortly after immigrating to America, and despite being a…
- Passage to Marseille (1944)
- Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Peter Lorre
- Distinguished by the use of flashbacks within flashbacks, this WW2 propaganda piece re–unites the director with CASABLANCA alumnae.
- Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
- Dir. Frank Capra
Feat. Cary Grant, Peter Lorre, Raymond Massey
- Renowned black farce features a frenzied Cary Grant trying to convince his two elderly aunts that their habit of poisoning lonely old men, out of…
- Beast with Five Fingers (1946)
- Dir. Robert Florey
Feat. Robert Alda, Andrea King, Peter Lorre
- Psychological horror with Peter Lorre hamming it up as only he can when spooked and stalked by the severed hand of a maddened pianist.
- Black Angel (1946)
- Dir. Roy William Neill
Feat. Dan Duryea, June Vincent, Peter Lorre…
- The husband of a murdered woman and the wife of the man who was convicted for the killing (Duryea and Vincent) team up to prove his innocence, until…