Conrad Veidt and Max Linder

Clara Bow by Eugene Robert Richee, 1928

Au bal de Flore (Alice Guy-Blaché, 1910)

Happy Birthday Peter Lorre [László Löwenstein]: 26th June 1904 - 23rd March 1964

Lorre - perhaps it is a misfortune - can do almost anything. He is a genius who sometimes gets the finest effects independently of his director, but he is also a throroughly reliable repertory actor…I have a horrible fear that film directors will find it easier to follow in Hitchcock’s footsteps and provide Lorre with humorous character parts than discover stories to suit his powerful genius, his overpowering sense of spiritual corruption. He is an actor of great profundity in a superficial art. - Graham Greene writing in 1936

He was a delight to work with and a joy to have as a friend, as he possessed a rare talent for gaiety. There was not a pompous or even solemn bone in his body. - John Huston

Peter was a very cultured man, a very sensitive person, a very loveable man, and with a great sense of humour. - Robert Mamoulian.

He was a remarkable innovator…a man who built his part with little tricks that were almost indiscernible, with his eyes, his face, with his body, and with a little look at the right time, a little shrug of the shoulder. Each of these built a character and built up a love in the director for that person who’s thinking of things that he should be thinking of. - Frank Capra

“To me, he was the best.  And he was so understanding.  He was a great humanitarian, too, to people, and I think that rubbed off on family. You could go to him with any question - it was such a comforting feeling.  We understood each other very well; we really did.  I miss him a lot - he had so many good ideals about living with people and how to treat them - and he was such a cheerful man.”  - Gloria Lloyd in 2005