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Peter Lorre
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Peter Lorre (June 26, 1904 – March 23, 1964) was a Hungarian-American actor frequently typecast as a sinister foreigner. He caused 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.
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The Mind's Eye: Crime Films of Obsession and Interiority
From a detective's haunted pursuit to a killer's fractured psyche, this chain traces cinema's most intimate crime stories, where the real action happens inside...
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The Raven
1963 · Dr. Adolphus Bedlo
Beat the Devil
1953 · Julius O'Hara
My Favorite Brunette
1947 · Kismet
Arsenic and Old Lace
1944 · Dr. Einstein
Casablanca
1943 · Ugarte
Invisible Agent
1942 · Baron Ikito
The Maltese Falcon
1941 · Joel Cairo
Secret Agent
1936 · The General
Crime and Punishment
1935 · Roderick Raskolnikov
The Man Who Knew Too Much
1934 · Abbott
M
1931 · Hans Beckert