Peter Lorre is an American and Austrian film and theater actor, screenwriter and director. In 1922, Peter graduated from school and began to study banking. He worked as an assistant to the exchange office of the Anglo-Austrian Bank, then an employee of the Vienna branch of the Czech Živnostensky Bank, but later provoked his dismissal.
Soon Peter was accepted into the troupe of the improvisation theater Jacob Moreno, during his further career the actor became interested in psychoanalysis. From 1925
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Peter Lorre is an American and Austrian film and theater actor, screenwriter and director.
In 1922, Peter graduated from school and began to study banking. He worked as an assistant to the exchange office of the Anglo-Austrian Bank, then an employee of the Vienna branch of the Czech Živnostensky Bank, but later provoked his dismissal.
Soon Peter was accepted into the troupe of the improvisation theater Jacob Moreno, during his further career the actor became interested in psychoanalysis. From 1925 to 1928, Lorre performed in Zurich and from 1926 to 1928 in Vienna. At the junction of the twenties and thirties, Peter took part in Brecht’s experiments on the formation of the “epic theater”.
In the spring of 1933, when power came to the Nazis, Peter Lorre decided to leave Germany – first he went to Vienna, and then visited Paris. In 1934, he played the role of a charming villain in the film.
"The man who knew too much" Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
In the summer of 1934, he went to Hollywood, where he often played cunning and evil foreigners. The debut Hollywood movie of the actor was the film “Crazy Love”, where he had the opportunity to play the role of a mad Professor Gogol, who sewed the hands of a dead killer to his wife, a woman he was in love with.
In 1940, Peter Lorre starred in the film “You will know” together with fellow horror writers Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi.
In 1941, the actor obtained U.S. citizenship. At the end of World War II, Peter's career declined, for which reason he concentrated on radio and theater. In 1949 he decided to return to Europe. In 1951, in Germany, Lorre as a director, co-writer and lead actor staged the film “Lost”.
In 1954, the actor played the role of the villain La Chifre in a television production.
Casino Royale . In 1957, he played the role of Commissioner Brankov in the film Silk Stockings. Peter Lorre died of a stroke in 1964.
