Wow!!!! The earliest ones are absolutely amazing!!!
Peter Lorre Movie Timeline
Peter Lorre was never a “horror” actor. At least, he didn’t want to be, and he tried his hardest not to be. Psychological terror, yes - the kind that takes intellect and insightfulness, and Lorre was overflowing with that. Horror was Hollywood’s ham-fisted label and unthinking approach.
He was also a delightful comedian, a romantic, and overall a marvelously nuanced, talented actor. It’s a damned shame he wasn’t given more of the scripts he should have been. Anyway: I have linked to YouTube and archive.org where I could find full movies. There is a pack in this archive.org page as well. See below this list for more notes.
1929 Die verschwundene Frau (The Missing Wife)* - Patient of a Dentist. (Silent film; Lorre was uncredited.) *If you can source a copy, let me know!
1930 Der weiße Teufel (The White Devil) - Unestablished
1931 M - Hans Beckert - and - Lorre dubbing in English! (The original is still superior.)
1931 Bomben auf Monte Carlo - Pawlitschek. (Peter is a glorified extra; 30 seconds of footage.)
1931 Die Koffer des Herrn O.F. - Redakteur Stix (Editor Stix). Also located here.
1931 Mann ist Mann (A Man’s a Man) - Galy Gay [Bertolt Brecht]
1932 Fünf von der Jazzband (The Jazzband Five) - Car thief. (Another small role.)
1932 Schuß im Morgengrauen (A Shot at Dawn)* - Klotz. (*If you can source a copy, let me know!)
1932 Der Weisse Damon (The White Demon) - Hunchback (Film originally titled Rauschgift.)
1932 Narcotics (French version of above) - Hunchback
1932 F.P.1 antwortet nicht - Bildreporter Johnny
1933 Was Frauen Traumen (What Women Dream) - Otto Fuesslli. Lorre sings!
1933 Unsichtbare Gegner (Invisible Opponent) - Henry Pless
1933 Du haut en bas (From Top to Bottom) - Beggar G. W. Pabst
1934 The Man Who Knew Too Much - Abbott. (Alfred Hitchcock; Lorre’s first English-speaking role!)
1935 Mad Love - Dr. Gogol
1935 Crime and Punishment - Roderick Raskolnikov
1936 Secret Agent - The General. (Alfred Hitchcock.)
1936 Crack-Up - Colonel Gimpy / Baron
1937 Nancy Steele Is Missing! - Prof. Sturm
1937 Think Fast, Mr. Moto (1) - Mr. Kentaro Moto
1937 Lancer Spy - Maj. Sigfried Gruning. (He is barely in this and in my opinion, this isn’t a great part.)
1937 Thank You, Mr. Moto (2) - Mr. Kentaro Moto
1938 Mr. Moto’s Gamble (3) - Mr. Kentaro Moto
1938 Mr. Moto Takes a Chance (4) - Mr. Kentaro Moto
1938 I’ll Give a Million - Louis ‘The Dope’ Monteau. (With John Carradine in a bit part.)
1938 Mysterious Mr. Moto (5) - Mr. Kentaro Moto
1939 Mr. Moto’s Last Warning (6) - Mr. Kentaro Moto
1939 Mr. Moto in Danger Island (7) - Mr. Kentaro Moto
1939 Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation (8) - Mr. Kentaro Moto
1940 Strange Cargo - M'sieu Pig. (With Clark Gable and Joan Crawford.)
1940 I Was an Adventuress - Polo. (With Erich von Stroheim and ballerina Tanya Vronsky.)
1940 Island of Doomed Men - Stephen Danel
1940 Stranger on the Third Floor - The Stranger. (Reportedly launched the film noir genre. And rightly so! Peter doesn’t appear for awhile, but when he does…)
1940 You’ll Find Out - Fenninger. (With Kay Kyser, Bela Lugosi, and Boris Karloff.)
1941 The Face Behind the Mask - Janos 'Johnny’ Szabo
1941 Mr. District Attorney - Paul Hyde
1941 They Met in Bombay - Captain Chan. (With Clark Gable and Rosalind Russell.)
1941 The Maltese Falcon - Joel Cairo (Sydney Greenstreet pairing #1)
1942 All Through the Night - Pepi. (This film is where Peter Lorre met his second-wife-to-be, Karen (Kaaren) Verne.) Here’s a clip. And another.
1942 Invisible Agent - Baron Ikito
1942 The Boogie Man Will Get You - Dr. Arthur Lorencz. (With Boris Karloff.)
1942 Casablanca - Signor Ugarte. (Sydney Greenstreet pairing #2)
1943 The Constant Nymph - Fritz Bercovy. Lorre’s role was significantly cut in editing.
1943 Background to Danger - Nikolai Zaleshoff. (Sydney Greenstreet pairing #3)
1943 The Cross of Lorraine - Sergeant Berger
1944 Passage to Marseille - Marius. (Sydney Greenstreet pairing #4. With Humphrey Bogart and Claude Rains.)
1944 The Mask of Dimitrios - Cornelius Leyden. (Sydney Greenstreet pairing #5.)
1944 Arsenic and Old Lace - Dr. Einstein
1944 The Conspirators - Jan Bernazsky. (Sydney Greenstreet pairing #6.)
1944 Hollywood Canteen (segment). (Sydney Greenstreet pairing #7.)
1945 Hotel Berlin - Johannes Koenig
1945 Confidential Agent - Contreras
1946 Three Strangers - Johnny West. (Sydney Greenstreet pairing #8; Joan Lorring pairing #1.)
1946 Black Angel - Marko
1946 The Chase - Gino
1946 The Verdict - Victor Emmric. (Sydney Greenstreet pairing #9; Joan Lorring pairing #2.)
1946 The Beast with Five Fingers - Hilary Cummins
1947 My Favorite Brunette - Kismet. (With Bob Hope and Lon Chaney Jr.)
1948 Casbah - Slimane
1949 Rope of Sand - Toady
1950 Quicksand - Nick
1950 Double Confession - Paynter. (With William Hartnell, the first Doctor Who.)
1951 Der Verlorene (The Lost One) - Dr. Karl Rohte / Dr. Karl Neumeister. Lorre’s directorial debut.
1953 Beat the Devil - Julius O'Hara
1954 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Conseil
1956 Meet Me in Las Vegas - as Peter Lorre (uncredited)
1956 Congo Crossing - Colonel John Miguel Orlando Arragas
1956 Around the World in Eighty Days - Japanese Steward on S.S. Carnatic
1957 The Buster Keaton Story - Kurt Bergner
1957 Silk Stockings - Brankov
1957 The Story of Mankind - Nero
1957 The Sad Sack - Abdul
1957 Hell Ship Mutiny - Commissioner Lamoret. (With John Carradine.)
1959 The Big Circus - Skeeter
1960 Scent of Mystery (Smellovision!) - Smiley; re-released without Smellovision as Holiday in Spain
1961 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Comm. Lucius Emery
1962 Tales of Terror: Montresor in “The Black Cat”
1962 Five Weeks in a Balloon - Ahmed
1963 The Raven - Dr. Adolphus Bedlo
1964 The Comedy of Terrors - Felix Gillie
1964 Muscle Beach Party - Mr. Strangdour (posthumous release)
1964 The Patsy - Morgan Heywood (posthumous release). (Jerry Lewis.)
Start with the earliest movies you can find and work your way up the years so you can see how Peter Lorre absorbed, learned, and crafted his art.
YouTube and archive.org have a fair number of these as full-length movies.
Also in my opinion: Post Der Verlorene, you can see his health start to fail and his unhappiness grow, both with his illness and with the often lousy scripts. He was still working because he had to.
See also:
Peter Lorre Television Show List
Peter Lorre Radio Show List
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Dr Bedlo no longer wants to be with his wife (and would rather go be a wizard for the rest of his life), but he only stays with her for his son's sake. 🥺🤷♀️
Uhhh random baseless Headcanons for Peter Lorre characters
-Joel Cairo is surprisingly patient and considerate of serving staff in restaurants. He tips generously, rarely complains about small things being wrong with his order or being made to wait too long and makes a particular effort to be kind and reassuring to people who are obviously new to the job or had bad experiences with rude customers in the past. He also takes note of how people he eats with treat waiting staff-be they dates or business meals
-Professor Karl Fenningers real name is Moritz Veidt. Both Saliano and Mainwaring know it. Saliano is much more casual about calling him Moritz, while Mainwaring almost exclusively calls him Veidt or Mr Veidt, unless they're alone
-Louie Monteau bruises very easily, to the point that he has sizeable bruises on his body that he has no idea where they came from(I stole this one from me, I sleep too long on one side and it looks like a zombie bit my hip)
-Abbott tells people that he got the white streak in his hair in the same accident that resulted in the scar on his face, but of course, he just bleached it in because he thought it would look cool. I kinda want to push that one even farther and say he either gave himself the scar on purpose to look more dangerous or actually got it in a really stupid accident like tripping over dirty laundry and falling with a pair of scissors in his hand or something, but that might be a little too goofy
-It just so happens that Herman Einstein has a slight crush on Boris Karloff, particularly as Morgan in 'The old dark house'(yes ik that makes things very weird). I don't think he knowingly made Jonathan look like him or anything, but in his drunken state he might have done it subconsciously
-When Polo had his pet mouse in prison, he was so impressed with her ability to preform tricks that he had brief aspirations of going straight and making money by taken her from town to town preforming for captivated audiences
Uhhh that's all I got for now. Leave your Peter Lorre character HCs in the tags and notes. Or don't, I'm not the boss of you
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