Often typecast as a menacing figure, Peter Lorre achieved Hollywood fame during the 1930s, first as a featured player and later as a character actor who trademarked his screen performances with a delicately strung balance between good and evil. To...

Peter Lorre (June 26 1904 – March 23 1964), born László Löwenstein, was an Hungarian[1] - born actor frequently typecast as a sinister foreigner in many American films. He made an international sensation in 1931 with his portrayal of a serial...

The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre by Stephen D. Youngkin. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2005. 613 pp, illus. Hardcover: $39.95. "This man was the most identifiable actor I ever knew," said Vincent Price in his moving eulogy for Peter...

VIENNA This summer, though my fifth in Europe, I have never felt closer to Hollywood. It's not the explosion of global day-and-date Hollywood releases, or even the preponderance of Euro talent on the summer B.O. behemoths, from the largely British lineup on...

Thanks to the auteur theory, instead of a lot of antiquated factory product and the studio P. and L. of yesteryear, we have the greats-Ford, Hawks, Lubitsch, Sturges, Cukor, Wyler, Lang, Wilder, Fuller, Hitchcock (and this is just a quick Monday-morning skim off the top...

Let the countdown begin. In addition to the rest of the holiday-season avalanche of awards announcements, 10-Best and 10-Worst lists, and last-minute openings to lure Christmas shoppers, moviegoers are now scratching their heads over two movies with titles similar enough to result in shopping-mall panic....