Peter Lorre

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1904 age 0

   Born

2. 1931 age 27

   CreditM

3. 1940 age 36

   CreditThe Eternal Jew

4. 1941 age 37

   CreditThe Maltese Falcon

5. 1942 age 38

   CreditCasablanca

6. 1944 age 40

   CreditArsenic and Old Lace

7. 1953 age 49

   CreditBeat the Devil

8. 1954 age 50

   Credit20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

9. 1956 age 52

   CreditAround the World in 80 Days

10. 1964 age 59

    Died

• HBHumphrey Bogart3 titles
• JEJulius J. Epstein2 titles
• PEPhilip G. Epstein2 titles
• MSMax Steiner2 titles
• SGSydney Greenstreet2 titles
• CBCurt Bois2 titles
• BNBarry Norton2 titles
• CHCreighton Hale2 titles
• HWHal B. Wallis2 titles
• AEArthur Edeson2 titles

• Spouse

  • CLCelia Lovsky
  • KVKaaren Verne

Nothing recorded for: Partner, Parents, Children, Siblings, Influenced by, Studied under, Taught.

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  Photo:Yousuf KarshPublic domain

• Me act? Why, I just make faces! Really, that's all I do, I make lots of faces and they pay me for it. The director says: "You're mad, Peter. Make like you're mad.” Then pretty soon someone calls out “one hour for lunch”! I follow the others to the commissary and later return to the set. "Make like you did before lunch, Peter," says the director. "Make like you're mad." So I make like I'm mad again and before long someone says, "wrap 'em up. That's all for today." So I go home, have dinner, go to bed, get up, report for work again and the director says: "Make like you're mad again, Peter. Make like you did yesterday." I find it so easy. I just look mad and like old man river I keep rolling along doing devilish things in motion pictures.

  Peter Lorre, CC BY-SA 4.0

• [Speaking of his horror roles] You know I can get away with murder. The audience loves me.

  Peter Lorre, CC BY-SA 4.0

• For a lazy man I work awfully hard, I couldn't live without acting. In fact anybody who can live without that feeling is a complete idiot.

  Peter Lorre, CC BY-SA 4.0