Peter Lorre (June 26 –March 23 ), born László Löwenstein, was a Hungarian - Austrian - American actor frequently typecast as a sinister foreigner. He made an international sensation in 1931 with his portrayal of a serial killer who preys on little girls in the German film M. Later he became a popular featured player in Hollywood crime films and mysteries, notably alongside Humphrey Bogart and Sydney Greenstreet, and as the star of the successful Mr. Moto detective series. ==Biography== Lorre was born into a Jewish family in Rózsahegy (Hungarian)/Rosenberg (German), Kingdom of Hungary, part of Austria-Hungary, now Ružomberok, Slovakia. His parents were Alois and Elvira. When he was a child his family moved to Vienna where Lorre attended school. During his youth, Lorre was a student of Sigmund Freud. He began acting on stage in Vienna at the age of 17, where he worked with Richard Teschner, then moved to Breslau, and Zürich. In the late 1920s the young 5' 5" (1.65 m) actor moved to Berlin where he worked with German playwright Bertolt Brecht, most notably in his Mann ist Mann. He also appeared as Dr. Nakamura in the infamous musical Happy End by Brecht and composer Kurt Weill, alongside Brecht's wife Helene Weigel and other impressive co-stars such as Carola Neher, Oskar Homolka and Kurt Gerron. The German-speaking actor became famous when Fritz Lang cast him as a child killer in his 1931 film M. In 1941, Peter Lorre became a naturalized citizen of the United States. (via Wikipedia)


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Spouse: Annemarie Brenning
(1934-1945)
(1953-1964) 1 child
Celia Lovsky
Kaaren Verne
(1945-1950)

Place of Death: Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Name: Löwenstein, László
Peter Lorre
Lorre, Peter

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Birthplace: Ružomberok, Austria-Hungary (now Slovakia)
Rózsahegy (now Ružomberok), Austria-Hungary (now Slovakia)

Name At Birth: László Löwenstein

Birth Date: Jun 26, 1904

Death Date: Mar 23, 1964


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