Fuck Yeah Peter Lorre!

Movie Classic, February 1936

Joyce Jameson, Peter Lorre and Vincent Price.

Happy birthday Peter Lorre!! I drew this a couple years ago, don’t have time or energy to draw something new. Lorre would have called me a bloated sack.

Peter Lorre, June 26, 1904 - March 23, 1964.

I am less complicated than anyone I know. My interest and instincts, I am afraid, are strictly normal, but I have always had, even as a child, a fantastical absorption into getting into people’s character - in trying to unmask them and their motives. This, I suppose is what has interested me so much in playing pathological roles, but has not, I want to say emphatically, circumscribed my ambitions, for I want to play all kinds of parts. I don’t care whether it is tragedy or comedy if it is authentic portrayal of life. - Peter Lorre

From What Actors Eat When They Eat, compiled by Kenneth Harland and Rex Lease, Lyman House, 1939.

Peter Lorre in “Mr. Moto’s Last Warning” (1939)

Peter Lorre

Mystery in the Air presents “The Horla,” with Peter Lorre.

Peter Lorre in Invisible Agent (1942)

From the program for a 1927 production of the play “Broadway” in Vienna starring Marlene Dietrich. Peter played Joe the bartender. He would have been about twenty-three.

publicity still for “The Maltese Falcon”, 1941

Peter Lorre as The General (The Hairless Mexican) in Secret Agent [d: Alfred Hitchcock, 1936]