Peter Lorre

Peter Lorre was born László Löwenstein in 1904 in Rózsahegy, in Upper Hungary, into a German-speaking Jewish family, and grew up in Vienna. An actor in Vienna, Breslau and Zurich, then in Berlin, where he acted notably under Brecht's direction, he became famous in 1931 in a role as a child murderer. He left Germany in 1933 and settled in Hollywood, where he mostly played sinister characters. Returning to Germany at the end of 1950 to direct a film, he then went back to the United States. He died in Los Angeles in 1964.

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• CinemaThe Lost OneDer VerlorenePeter Lorre · 1951Cinema