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Born into a Jewish family in what is now northern UsefulNotes/{{Slovakia}} and raised in Vienna, Lorre began acting at age seventeen. He first found success onstage, working with German playwright Creator/BertoltBrecht. His [[StarMakingRole breakout role]] came in 1931 when Creator/FritzLang cast him as the child killer in ''Film/{{M}}''. Against all odds Lorre made the character quite sympathetic (if not admirable), and the first of many sad monsters he would play throughout his career. Lorre appeared in several more German movies, mostly comedies, before fleeing Germany after UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler took power in 1933.
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Born into to a Jewish family in what is now northern UsefulNotes/{{Slovakia}} and raised in Vienna, Lorre began his acting career at age seventeen. He first found success onstage, working with the acclaimed German playwright Creator/BertoltBrecht. His [[StarMakingRole breakout role]] in film came in 1931 1931, when Creator/FritzLang cast him as the a child killer in ''Film/{{M}}''. Against all odds Lorre made the character quite sympathetic (if not admirable), and the first of many sad monsters he would play throughout his career. Lorre appeared in several more German movies, mostly comedies, before fleeing Germany after UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler took power in 1933.
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* PopCultureOsmosis: An unfortunate side effect is that [[WeirdAlEffect more modern audiences recognize the caricature than the man himself.]] Creator/TimBurton even admitted that he didn't even know Lorre by name when he wrote the above-mentioned ''WesternAnimation/CorpseBride'' character.
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* PopCultureOsmosis: An unfortunate side effect is that [[WeirdAlEffect [[ParodyDisplacement more modern audiences recognize the caricature than the man himself.]] Creator/TimBurton even admitted that he didn't even know Lorre by name when he wrote the above-mentioned ''WesternAnimation/CorpseBride'' character.
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Born in a Jewish family in what is now northern UsefulNotes/{{Slovakia}} and raised in Vienna, Lorre began acting at age seventeen. He first found success onstage, working with German playwright Creator/BertoltBrecht. His [[StarMakingRole breakout role]] came in 1931 when Creator/FritzLang cast him as the child killer in ''Film/{{M}}''. Against all odds Lorre made the character quite sympathetic (if not admirable), marking the first of many sad monsters he would play throughout his career. Lorre appeared in several more German movies, mostly comedies, before fleeing Germany after UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler took power in 1933.
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Born in into a Jewish family in what is now northern UsefulNotes/{{Slovakia}} and raised in Vienna, Lorre began acting at age seventeen. He first found success onstage, working with German playwright Creator/BertoltBrecht. His [[StarMakingRole breakout role]] came in 1931 when Creator/FritzLang cast him as the child killer in ''Film/{{M}}''. Against all odds Lorre made the character quite sympathetic (if not admirable), marking and the first of many sad monsters he would play throughout his career. Lorre appeared in several more German movies, mostly comedies, before fleeing Germany after UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler took power in 1933.
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* NiceGuy: Despite playing the baddie often, he was a warm, gentle, loving man and a lifelong romantic.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: He's a very popular subject for cartoon parodies, from countless ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'', to the hanging lamp in ''WesternAnimation/TheBraveLittleToaster'', to Maggot in ''WesternAnimation/CorpseBride'', to name a few.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: He's a very popular subject for cartoon parodies, from countless ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'', to the hanging lamp in ''WesternAnimation/TheBraveLittleToaster'', to Maggot in ''WesternAnimation/CorpseBride'', to name a few.
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* NiceGuy: Despite playing the baddie often, he was a warm, gentle, loving man and a lifelong romantic.
romantic. Given some of his most ([[Film/{{M}} in]])famous roles, he's also an example of MeanCharacterNiceActor.
** One story often told about him concerns him going to a famous restaurant in New York. While he was seated almost immediately once the maitre'd recognized him, he asked about a throng of other people waiting to get in. He was told "you're important, Mr. Lorre. They're just tourists." With that, Lorre got up from his seat, took down the velvet rope that barred the restaurant's entrance off, and began personally seating the waiting tourists. He then said to the completely astonished maitre'd "I know what it's like to be excluded."
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: He's a very popular subject for cartoon parodies, from countless ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'', to the hanging lamp in ''WesternAnimation/TheBraveLittleToaster'', to Maggot in ''WesternAnimation/CorpseBride'', to name a few. As of 2021, a caricature of him is a supporting character in ''WesternAnimation/ThePatrickStarShow''.
** One story often told about him concerns him going to a famous restaurant in New York. While he was seated almost immediately once the maitre'd recognized him, he asked about a throng of other people waiting to get in. He was told "you're important, Mr. Lorre. They're just tourists." With that, Lorre got up from his seat, took down the velvet rope that barred the restaurant's entrance off, and began personally seating the waiting tourists. He then said to the completely astonished maitre'd "I know what it's like to be excluded."
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: He's a very popular subject for cartoon parodies, from countless ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'', to the hanging lamp in ''WesternAnimation/TheBraveLittleToaster'', to Maggot in ''WesternAnimation/CorpseBride'', to name a few. As of 2021, a caricature of him is a supporting character in ''WesternAnimation/ThePatrickStarShow''.
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* CampStraight: He was clearly attracted to women, but had an effete acting style which got him cast as AmbiguouslyGay in ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'' and ''The Maltese Falcon''. In any case, ''The Mask of Dimitrios'' is considered by some viewers to practically revolve around gay subtext.
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* CampStraight: He was clearly attracted to women, by all accounts straight, but had an effete acting style which got him cast as AmbiguouslyGay in ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'' and ''The Maltese Falcon''. In any case, ''The Mask of Dimitrios'' is considered by some viewers to practically revolve around gay subtext.
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The speech pattern of Ren C. Hoek from ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' is a ShoutOut to Lorre, as is Creator/TheFiresignTheatre's Rocky Rococo, likewise Agent X Two Zero in Creator/GerryAnderson's ''Series/{{Stingray 1964}}'', [[Creator/RobinWilliams the Genie]] briefly impersonates him when he transforms into a [[EverythingsDeaderWithZombies zombie]] in ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'', and ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' has referenced Lorre and his roles too many times to count. The Creator/WoodyAllen GagDub spy movie ''Film/WhatsUpTigerLily'' gives a Lorre voice to a villain, who at one point complains that "this Peter Lorre impression is ''keeeeling'' my throat!" Music/SpikeJones's spoof version of the song "My Old Flame" features a vocal parody that Jones wanted to call "Peter Gory" until the record company vetoed the idea. The ''VideoGame/QuestForGlory'' series of computer games has Ugarte, Lorre's character in ''Casablanca'', as a minor recurring character alongside Creator/SydneyGreenstreet's Signor Ferrari. Lorre's life and career are the subject of ''Addicted to Bad Ideas'', a musical by Music/TheWorldInfernoFriendshipSociety. Music/AlStewart mentions him in the first verse of "Year of the Cat." Lastly, Music/TomSmith has a song dedicated to him named "I Want to Be Peter Lorre".
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The speech pattern of Ren C. Hoek from ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' is a ShoutOut to Lorre, as is Creator/TheFiresignTheatre's Rocky Rococo, likewise Agent X Two Zero in Creator/GerryAnderson's ''Series/{{Stingray 1964}}'', [[Creator/RobinWilliams the Genie]] briefly impersonates him when he transforms into a [[EverythingsDeaderWithZombies zombie]] in ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'', and ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' has referenced Lorre and his roles too many times to count. The Creator/WoodyAllen GagDub spy movie ''Film/WhatsUpTigerLily'' gives a Lorre voice to a villain, who at one point complains that "this Peter Lorre impression is ''keeeeling'' my throat!" Music/SpikeJones's spoof version of the song "My Old Flame" features a vocal parody that Jones wanted to call "Peter Gory" until the record company vetoed the idea. The ''VideoGame/QuestForGlory'' series of computer games has Ugarte, Lorre's character in ''Casablanca'', as a minor recurring character alongside Creator/SydneyGreenstreet's Signor Ferrari. Lorre's life and career are the subject of ''Addicted to Bad Ideas'', a musical by Music/TheWorldInfernoFriendshipSociety. Music/AlStewart mentions him in the first verse of "Year of the Cat." Lastly, Music/TomSmith has a song dedicated to him named "I Want to Be Peter Lorre".
Lorre". A parody of him is also a recurring character in ''WesternAnimation/ThePatrickStarShow''.
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Born in what is now northern UsefulNotes/{{Slovakia}} and raised in Vienna, Lorre began acting at age seventeen. He first found success onstage, working with German playwright Creator/BertoltBrecht. His [[StarMakingRole breakout role]] came in 1931 when Creator/FritzLang cast him as the child killer in ''Film/{{M}}''. Against all odds Lorre made the character quite sympathetic (if not admirable), marking the first of many sad monsters he would play throughout his career. Lorre appeared in several more German movies, mostly comedies, before fleeing Germany after UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler took power in 1933.
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Born in a Jewish family in what is now northern UsefulNotes/{{Slovakia}} and raised in Vienna, Lorre began acting at age seventeen. He first found success onstage, working with German playwright Creator/BertoltBrecht. His [[StarMakingRole breakout role]] came in 1931 when Creator/FritzLang cast him as the child killer in ''Film/{{M}}''. Against all odds Lorre made the character quite sympathetic (if not admirable), marking the first of many sad monsters he would play throughout his career. Lorre appeared in several more German movies, mostly comedies, before fleeing Germany after UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler took power in 1933.
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* ''Film/DoubleConfession'' (1950)
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* ''Literature/CasinoRoyale'' (1954 episode of the Creator/{{CBS}} anthology series ''Climax!'')
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* NiceGuy: Despite playing the baddie often, he was a warm, gentle, loving man and a lifelong romantic.
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In Creator/KimNewman's ''Literature/{{Drachenfels}}'', an eerie actor cast to play the eponymous villain is named... Laszlo Lowenstein. Lorre himself appears as a character in Newman's ''Literature/DiogenesClub'' story "Seven Stars: The Trouble With Barrymore".
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In Creator/KimNewman's ''Literature/{{Drachenfels}}'', an eerie actor cast to play the eponymous villain is named... Laszlo Lowenstein. Lorre himself appears as a character in Newman's ''Literature/DiogenesClub'' story "Seven Stars: "Literature/SevenStars: The Trouble With Barrymore".
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The speech pattern of Ren C. Hoek from ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' is a ShoutOut to Lorre, as is Creator/TheFiresignTheatre's Rocky Rococo, likewise Agent X Two Zero in Creator/GerryAnderson's ''Series/{{Stingray 1964}}'', [[Creator/RobinWilliams the Genie]] briefly impersonates him when he transforms into a [[EverythingsDeaderWithZombies zombie]] in ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'', and ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' has referenced Lorre and his roles too many times to count. The Creator/WoodyAllen GagDub spy movie ''Film/WhatsUpTigerLily'' gives a Lorre voice to a villain, who at one point complains that "this Peter Lorre impression is ''keeeeling'' my throat!" Music/SpikeJones's spoof version of the song "My Old Flame" features a vocal parody that Jones wanted to call "Peter Gory" until the record company vetoed the idea. The ''VideoGame/QuestForGlory'' series of computer games has Ugarte, Lorre's character in ''Casablanca'', as a minor recurring character alongside Creator/SydneyGreenstreet's Signor Ferrari. Lorre's life and career are the subject of ''Addicted to Bad Ideas'', a musical by Music/TheWorldInfernoFriendshipSociety. Music/AlStewart mentions him in the first verse of "Year of the Cat." Lastly, Music/TomSmith has a song dedicated to him named "I Want to Be Peter Lorre".
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The speech pattern of Ren C. Hoek from ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' is a ShoutOut to Lorre, as is Creator/TheFiresignTheatre's Rocky Rococo, likewise Agent X Two Zero in Creator/GerryAnderson's ''Series/{{Stingray 1964}}'', [[Creator/RobinWilliams the Genie]] briefly impersonates him when he transforms into a [[EverythingsDeaderWithZombies zombie]] in ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'', and ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' has referenced Lorre and his roles too many times to count. The Creator/WoodyAllen GagDub spy movie ''Film/WhatsUpTigerLily'' gives a Lorre voice to a villain, who at one point complains that "this Peter Lorre impression is ''keeeeling'' my throat!" Music/SpikeJones's spoof version of the song "My Old Flame" features a vocal parody that Jones wanted to call "Peter Gory" until the record company vetoed the idea. The ''VideoGame/QuestForGlory'' series of computer games has Ugarte, Lorre's character in ''Casablanca'', as a minor recurring character alongside Creator/SydneyGreenstreet's Signor Ferrari. Lorre's life and career are the subject of ''Addicted to Bad Ideas'', a musical by Music/TheWorldInfernoFriendshipSociety. Music/AlStewart mentions him in the first verse of "Year of the Cat." Lastly, Music/TomSmith has a song dedicated to him named "I Want to Be Peter Lorre".
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* CantUnhearIt: His unmistakeable voice has not only outlived him, but most people's knowledge of him; it has been parodied so often and for so long that has long ceased to have any real connection to him and has simply become a stock "creepy voice."
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Born in what is now northern UsefulNotes/{{Slovakia}} and raised in Vienna, Lorre began acting at age seventeen. He first found success onstage, working with Creator/BertoltBrecht. His [[StarMakingRole breakout role]] came in 1931 when Creator/FritzLang cast him as the child killer in ''Film/{{M}}''. Against all odds Lorre made the character quite sympathetic (if not admirable), marking the first of many sad monsters he would play throughout his career. Lorre appeared in several more German movies, mostly comedies, before fleeing Germany after UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler took power in 1933.
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Born in what is now northern UsefulNotes/{{Slovakia}} and raised in Vienna, Lorre began acting at age seventeen. He first found success onstage, working with German playwright Creator/BertoltBrecht. His [[StarMakingRole breakout role]] came in 1931 when Creator/FritzLang cast him as the child killer in ''Film/{{M}}''. Against all odds Lorre made the character quite sympathetic (if not admirable), marking the first of many sad monsters he would play throughout his career. Lorre appeared in several more German movies, mostly comedies, before fleeing Germany after UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler took power in 1933.
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* ''Film/TheComedyOfTerrors'' (1963)
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* CampStraight: He was clearly attracted to women, but had an effete acting style which got him cast as AmbiguouslyGay in ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'' and ''Film/TheMalteseFalcon''. In any case, ''The Mask of Dimitrios'' is considered by some viewers to practically revolve around gay subtext.
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Throughout his career, Lorre battled typecasting. Hollywood predictably wanted him to play villains and varying shades of TheWoobie, epitomized not only by Lorre's best-known films like ''Film/TheMalteseFalcon'' and ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'' but also many lesser works. Lorre especially disliked appearing in horror movies, a genre he had little respect for. That said, Lorre did have [[SelfDeprecation a sense of humor]] about his typecasting: he once quipped that "with occasional interruptions, I've been killing my way through life." Filming Creator/{{Disney}}'s ''Film/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea'', Lorre expressed surprise that a mechanical squid played the role usually reserved for him!
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Throughout his career, Lorre battled typecasting. Hollywood predictably wanted him to play villains and varying shades of TheWoobie, epitomized not only by Lorre's best-known films like ''Film/TheMalteseFalcon'' ''The Maltese Falcon'' and ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'' but also many lesser works. Lorre especially disliked appearing in horror movies, a genre he had little respect for. That said, Lorre did have [[SelfDeprecation a sense of humor]] about his typecasting: he once quipped that "with occasional interruptions, I've been killing my way through life." Filming Creator/{{Disney}}'s ''Film/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea'', Lorre expressed surprise that a mechanical squid played the role usually reserved for him!
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Lorre did, however, get to play heroic roles in the ''Mr. Moto'' films and ''20,000 Leagues Under the Sea'', comedic characters in ''Film/ArsenicAndOldLace'' and ''Film/SilkStockings'', even a romantic lead in ''Three Strangers''. In 1951 he made his only directorial effort, ''Der Verlorene'' or ''The Lost One'', produced in West Germany. Though Lorre's performance (as a guilt-ridden Nazi scientist) received acclaim, the film drew mixed reviews and flopped at the box office.
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Lorre did, however, get to play heroic roles in the ''Mr. Moto'' films films, ''Film/PassageToMarseille'' and ''20,000 Leagues Under the Sea'', comedic characters in ''Film/ArsenicAndOldLace'' and ''Film/SilkStockings'', even a romantic lead in ''Three Strangers''. In 1951 he made his only directorial effort, ''Der Verlorene'' or ''The Lost One'', produced in West Germany. Though Lorre's performance (as a guilt-ridden Nazi scientist) received acclaim, the film drew mixed reviews and flopped at the box office.
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