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This post is part of the What a Character! To see more, click graphic above.? Acting is a ridiculous profession unless it is part of your very soul.? Peter Lorre. Even people who have never seen Peter Lorre in a movie know his nasal, dreamy voice and instantly recognizable bug-eyed face, a caricaturist? Lorre was born Laszlo Loewenstein in in Hungary and died in Los Angeles not quite 60 years and 79 films and a lot of radio and TV later.

His phenomenal screen debut came via?

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Fritz Lang? M , playing the child molester and murderer Hans Beckert, and the year-old Lorre? This, along with his long-term morphine addiction, appear to have been his central tragedies. His huge success in? His last appearance on film was in Jerry Lewis? The Patsy , a satire of Hollywood phoniness that Lorre, with his cordial hatred of the studio bosses whose failure of imagination kept him from the roles he fought so hard for, might well have approved.

In between there were great films, good films, and stinkers, and while I cannot claim to have seen anywhere near all of them, I do feel safe in saying that he always added? Lorre made no film worse, and a great many were better or even succeeded because of his contribution. But he knew he could do so much more. And in the rare instances when he got to play outside type, like?