Biography
Peter Lorre (26 June 1904 – 23 March 1964) was an Austrian-American actor frequently typecast as a sinister foreigner. He caused an international sensation in 1931 with his portrayal of a serial killer who preys on little girls in the German film M. Later he became a popular featured player in Hollywood crime films and mysteries, notably alongside Humphrey Bogart and Sydney Greenstreet, and as the star of the successful Mr. Moto detective series. Description above from the Wikipedia article Pe...
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Complete Filmography

Peter Lorre : Derrière le masque du maudit
2024
as Self - Actor (archive footage)

A Physical History of 'M'
2015
as Hans Beckert (archive footage)
This documentary traces the "physical history" of Fritz Lang’s M, from its production and original distribution to the digital restoration used as the...

Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film
2014
as Doctor Gogol (archive footage)
Join foremost experts discussing true Horror Classics - Frankenstein, Dracula, The Black Cat, Wolfman, King Kong, Bride of Frankenstein, and more. Gra...

Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood
2009
as Self (archive footage)
Eight hundred German filmmakers (cast and crew) fled the Nazis in the 1930s. The film uses voice-overs, archival footage, and film clips to examine Be...

Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman
2007
as Self (archive footage)
Famous Monster takes a fast-paced, colorful look at the life of science fiction's greatest fan - Forrest J. Ackerman, whose 85 year love affair with t...

Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb
2007
as Mr. Jekyll (archive footage)
Our intrepid adventurers Ace Zucco and Mike Flannigan from Terror in the Tropics return for another exciting quest in Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb. Ac...

Moto Is Missing
2007
as Mr. Moto (archive footage)
Featurette about the demise, during the early 1940s, of the once-popular Mr. Moto B-films series that starred Peter Lorre.
Cole Porter in Hollywood: Satin and Silk
2003
as Self (archive footage)
This documentary short subject details the making of the 1957 MGM musical, "Silk Stockings". Hosted by its star Cyd Charisse, the film gives behind-th...
Heroes of Horror
2001
as (archive footage)
A&E Comprehensive biographies of five of the greatest classic stars of the horror genre. Features lots or archive footage from some the greatest horro...

Bogart: The Untold Story
1997
as Self (archive footage)
Stephen H. Bogart narrates the rise to fame of his father, Humphrey Bogart through the use of film clips, written material and interviews of friends a...

Peter Lorre: The Master of Menace
1996
as Self (archive footage)
Documentary overview of Peter Lorre's ascension to fame as a master purveyor of silky but disquieting peril.

John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
1988
Biography of risk-taker and raconteur John Huston from his childhood to become one of the most highly respected filmmakers in the world.

Creepy Classics
1987
as Dr. Adolphus Bedlo - (archive footage)
A compilation of trailers for various horror and sci-fi films, narrated and hosted by Vincent Price.

The Double Face of Peter Lorre
1984
as Self (archive footage)
Peter Lorre achieved international fame for his performance in the myth-making role in M. This character has held a peculiar fascination for generatio...

The Horror of It All
1983
as Dr. Adolphus Bedlo (archive footage)
A collection of film clips from horror movies and interviews with the actors and directors who made them.

The Hollywood Clowns
1979
as (archive footage)
Glenn Ford narrates this hilarious look back at the greatest comedians in movie history.

(Sin título) Descartes Arrebato
1979
as Hans Beckert (archive footage)
Recovered Zulueta short.
The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute
1974
as Self (archive footage)
In this made-for-TV production, Vincent Price and his hunchback sidekick (Billy Van) host a pun-filled salute to the horror film genre from its earlie...

The Movie Orgy
1968
as Self (archive footage)
Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and gov...

The Dinosaur and the Baby
1967
as Hans Beckert (archive footage)
An hour-long discussion between Fritz Lang and Jean-Luc Godard in which they discuss a variety of art forms, the role of the cinema, their collaborati...

The Patsy
1964
as Morgan Heywood
Eccentric bellhop Stanley Belt is recruited unexpectedly by the comedy team of a recently deceased entertainer. Stanley struggles to become a song-and...

Muscle Beach Party
1964
as Mr. Strangdour
Local beach-goers find that their beach has been taken over by a businessman training a stable of body builders.

The Comedy of Terrors
1964
as Felix Gillie
An undertaker who hasn't had any 'customers' in a long time is forced to pay one year's back-rent. To get money he starts to kill people, which brings...

The Raven
1963
as Dr. Adolphus Bedlo
A magician who has been turned into a raven turns to a former sorcerer for help.

Five Weeks in a Balloon
1962
as Ahmed
Professor Fergusson plans to make aviation history by making his way across Africa by balloon. He plans to claim uncharted territories in West Africa ...

Tales of Terror
1962
as Montresor ("The Black Cat")
Three stories adapted from the work of Edgar Allen Poe: 1) A man and his daughter are reunited, but the blame for the death of his wife hangs over th...

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
1961
as Comm. Lucius Emery
The crew of an atomic submarine battle to save the world from global destruction.
Five Fingers : Thin Ice
1961
as The Colonel
Sebastian must either deliver a young Arab prince to Russia or get him back safely to his own country. The episode aired in the US in 1959, and in th...

Scent of Mystery
1960
as Smiley
An Englishman and a cabby try to save an heiress from murder in Spain.

The Big Circus
1959
as Skeeter
A circus owner tries to keep his financially troubled circus on the road, despite the efforts of a murderous saboteur who has decided that the show mu...

Hell Ship Mutiny
1957
as Lamoret
A ship's captain in the South Seas battles a villainous pearl trader who uses island natives as slaves for his business.

Collector’s Item
1957
as Mr. Munsey
Mr. Prentiss is an appraiser at his firm, the House of Prentiss. He is about to go to Florida to appraise a vast collection of a recently deceased col...

The Sad Sack
1957
as Abdul
Private Meredith Bixby is so out of step in the Army that his six weeks of planned basic training has now stretched to 17 months. After he loses a tan...

The Story of Mankind
1957
as Nero
The devil and the spirit of mankind argue as to whether or not humanity is ultimately good or evil.

Silk Stockings
1957
as Brankov, Commisar
After three bumbling Soviet agents fail in their mission to retrieve a straying Soviet composer from Paris, the beautiful, ultra-serious Ninotchka is ...

The Buster Keaton Story
1957
as Kurt Bergner
An inaccurate retelling of the life of silent filmmaker and comedian Buster Keaton.

The Last Tycoon
1957
as Pete Zavras
Based off the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel of the same title, a movie producer is slowly working himself to death.

Sizeman and Son
1956
as Karp
Morris Sizeman is a successful garment manufacturer in New York City. His son, Harold Sizeman, returns from the Korean War with new ideas about human ...

Around the World in Eighty Days
1956
as Steward
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a ve...

Congo Crossing
1956
as Colonel John Miguel Orlando Arragas
Congotanga, West Africa, has no extradition laws; the government is controlled by foreign gangsters, headed by Carl Rittner. The latest plane from Eur...

Meet Me in Las Vegas
1956
Chuck Rodwell is a gambling cowboy who discovers that he's lucky at the roulette wheel if he holds hands with dancer Marie. However, Marie doesn't lik...
No. 5 Checked Out
1956
as Willy
A young deaf women confronts desperate crooks who are using one of her remote resort cabins for a hideout.

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
1954
as Conseil
A ship sent to investigate a wave of mysterious sinkings encounters the advanced submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by Captain Nemo.

Operation Undersea
1954
as Self

The Disneyland Story
1954
Walt Disney presents a preview for both his upcoming park called Disneyland and several episodes of the show to come. Then the show focuses primarily ...

Casino Royale
1954
as Le Chiffre
American spy James Bond must outsmart card wiz and crime boss LeChiffre while monitoring his actions.

Beat the Devil
1953
as Julius O'Hara
A group of con artists stake their claim on a bogus uranium mine.

The Lost One
1951
as Dr. Karl Rothe, alias Dr. Karl Neumeister
A German scientist murders his fiancée during World War II when he learns that she has been selling the results of his secret research to the enemy.

The Lost One
1951
Director, Screenplay
A German scientist murders his fiancée during World War II when he learns that she has been selling the results of his secret research to the enemy.

Double Confession
1950
as Paynter
The hero discovers his estranged wife dead and tries to frame her lover for the murder. He becomes involved with the criminals who make various unsucc...

Quicksand
1950
as Nick Dramoshag
Young auto mechanic Dan Brady takes $20 from a cash register at work to go on a date with blonde femme fatale Vera Novak. Brady intends to put the mon...

Rope of Sand
1949
as Toady
Story of a South African diamond mine watched over by a sadistic policeman tasked with looking out for smugglers.

Casbah
1948
as Slimane
Pepe Le Moko leads a gang of jewel thieves in the Casbah of Algiers, where he has exiled himself to escape imprisonment in his native France.

My Favorite Brunette
1947
as Kismet
Ronnie Jackson is a lowly baby photographer who secretly fantasizes about being a private detective. When a lovely baroness actually mistakes him for ...

The Beast with Five Fingers
1947
as Hilary Cummins
Locals in an Italian village believe evil has taken over the estate of a recently deceased pianist where murder has taken place. The alleged killer: t...

The Verdict
1946
as Victor Emmric
After an innocent man is executed in a case he was responsible for, a Scotland Yard superintendent finds himself investigating the murder of his key w...

The Chase
1946
as Gino
Chuck Scott gets a job as chauffeur to tough guy Eddie Roman; but Chuck's involvement with Eddie's fearful wife becomes a nightmare.

Black Angel
1946
as Marko
A falsely convicted man's wife, Catherine, and an alcoholic composer and pianist, Martin team up in an attempt to clear her husband of the murder of a...

Three Strangers
1946
as Johnny West
On the eve of the Chinese New Year, three strangers, Crystal Shackleford, married to a wealthy philanderer; Jerome Artbutny, an outwardly respectable ...

Confidential Agent
1945
as Contreras
During the Spanish Civil War, an agent on a mission to purchase coal meets with murder and counterspies.

Hotel Berlin
1945
as Johannes Koenig
An assortment of diverse characters gather at the Hotel Berlin in World War II Germany as the Third Reich falls.

Hollywood Canteen
1944
as Self
Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club...

The Conspirators
1944
as Jan Bernazsky
A guerilla leader falls in love with a mysterious woman in World War II Lisbon.

Arsenic and Old Lace
1944
as Dr. Einstein
Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married;...

The Mask of Dimitrios
1944
as Cornelius Leyden
A mystery writer is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose dead body was found washed up on the shore in Istanbul. H...

Passage to Marseille
1944
as Marius
A freedom-loving French journalist sacrifices his happiness and security to battle Nazi tyranny.

The Cross of Lorraine
1943
as Sergeant Berger
French soldiers (Jean-Pierre Aumont, Gene Kelly) surrender to lying Nazis and are herded into a barbaric prison camp.

Background to Danger
1943
as Nikolai Zaleshoff
An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.

The Constant Nymph
1943
as Fritz Bercovy
The daughter of a musical mentor adores a promising composer, who is quite fond of the adolescent. When her father dies, an uncle arrives with his own...

Casablanca
1943
as Ugarte
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

Undercover: How to Operate Behind Enemy Lines
1943
as Secret Agent
A training film for OSS agents who are to be dropped behind enemy lines.

The Boogie Man Will Get You
1942
as Dr. Arthur Lorentz
A young divorcee tries to convert a historic house into a hotel despite its oddball inhabitants and dead bodies in the cellar.

Invisible Agent
1942
as Baron Ikito
The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany in this comedy-thriller.

All Through the Night
1942
as Pepi
Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship.

The Maltese Falcon
1941
as Joel Cairo
A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.

They Met in Bombay
1941
as Captain Chang
A jewel thief and a con artist are rivals in the theft of a valuable diamond and gem necklace in Bombay and as the Japanese Army invades China.

Mr. District Attorney
1941
as Paul Hyde
An assistant prosecutor and his spunky friend investigate a suddenly hot case.

The Face Behind the Mask
1941
as Janos 'Johnny' Szabo
A sweet, enthusiastic, newly-arrived American immigrant from Hungary is forced to turn to a life of crime after his face is badly disfigured in a hote...

The Eternal Jew
1940
as Hans Beckert (archive footage)
A Nazi propaganda film made to promote anti-Semitism among the German people. Newly-shot footage of Jewish neighborhoods in recently-conquered Poland ...

You'll Find Out
1940
as Professor Karl Fenninger
The manager of Kay Kyser’s band books them for a birthday party bash for an heiress at a spooky mansion, where sinister forces try to kill her.

Stranger on the Third Floor
1940
as The Stranger
Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.

Island of Doomed Men
1940
as Stephen Danel
An undercover agent wrongly punished for murder is paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine slave labor run by a sadistic foreigner.

I Was an Adventuress
1940
as Polo
Posing as the fabulously glamorous Countess Tanya Vronsky, a poor young ballet dancer and her two accomplices are really a team of skilled con artists...

Strange Cargo
1940
as M'sieu Pig
Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.

Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation
1939
as Mr. Moto
Mr. Moto is in Egypt to thwart a criminal mastermind determined to steal the priceless crown of the Queen of Sheba. When the precious treasure is tran...

Mr. Moto in Danger Island
1939
as Kentaro Moto
In Puerto Rico to investigate a glut of contraband diamonds that are flooding the world's jewel market, Mr. Moto and his sidekick, a wrestler, find th...

Mr. Moto's Last Warning
1939
as Mr. Kentaro Moto
A Japanese man claiming to be Mr. Moto, of the International Police, is abducted and murdered soon after disembarking from a ship at Port Said in Egyp...

Mysterious Mr. Moto
1938
as Mr. Moto
The Japanese detective rounds up a league of assassins for Scotland Yard.

I'll Give a Million
1938
as Louie 'The Dope' Monteau
After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that he will give a million dollars to anyone who is k...

Mr. Moto Takes a Chance
1938
as Mr. Moto
In the jungle near Angkor Wat in Cambodia, Mr. Moto poses as an ineffectual archaeologist and a venerable holy man with mystical powers to help foil t...

Mr. Moto's Gamble
1938
as Kentaro Moto
Celebrated as supersleuth, Mr. Moto comes out fighting when a brutal boxing match turns into cold-blooded murder! Assisted by detective-in-training Le...

Thank You, Mr. Moto
1937
as Mr. Moto
Mr. Moto Heads to China on a quest for seven ancient scrolls that reveal the location of Genghis Khan's tomb—a crypt filled with fabulous treasure! Bu...

Lancer Spy
1937
as Maj. Sigfried Gruning
An Englishman impersonates an imprisoned German officer and "returns" to Germany to become a national hero. A female German spy is assigned to check h...

Think Fast, Mr. Moto
1937
as Kentaro Moto
When his import/export business infiltrated by international diamond smugglers, Mr. Moto must follow a trail of clues littered with beautiful women, g...

Nancy Steele Is Missing!
1937
as Professor Sturm
After being in jail for seventeen years a crook is met by the girl he kidnapped as a baby. She now thinks he's her father. When he returns her to her ...

Crack-Up
1936
as Colonel Gimpy
Betrayal and espionage abound as an experimental aircraft is readied for its maiden voyage.

Secret Agent
1936
as The General
After three British agents are assigned to assassinate a mysterious German spy during World War I, two of them become ambivalent when their duty to th...

Crime and Punishment
1935
as Roderick Raskolnikov
A man is haunted by a murder he's committed.

Mad Love
1935
as Doctor Gogol
An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with the hands of a knife murderer--hands which...

The Man Who Knew Too Much
1934
as Abbott
While vacationing in St. Moritz, a British couple receive a clue to an imminent assassination attempt, only to learn that their daughter has been kidn...

High and Low
1933
as Beggar
The intersecting lives of neighbors in a courtyard apartment building in Vienna,including a football player related to the concierge,a new blonde maid...
Unsichtbare Gegner
1933
as Henry Pless

The Oil Sharks
1933
as Henry Pless
The plot revolves around an oil swindle in a South American country.

What Women Dream
1933
as Otto Fuessli
In this pre-WWII German mystery-comedy, a lovely kleptomaniac with a taste for fine jewelry is unable to resist temptation. Strangely, every time she ...

F.P.1 Doesn't Answer
1932
as Bildreporter Johnny
F.P.1 is a huge airplane landing dock in the Atlantic where pilots making the transatlantic flight can stop. Yet a saboteur tries to sink the technica...

Stupéfiants
1932
as The Hunchback
When an up-and-coming singer's career is jeopardized by morphine addiction, her brother takes on the ruthless dope pushers who are intent on keeping h...

The White Demon
1932
as Hunchback
When Albers takes his drug-addicted opera star sister Gerda to a sanitarium, they both become targets of slimy dope peddler Peter Lorre, who fears tha...

A Shot at Dawn
1932
as Klotz
A Berlin policeman tracks down a group of diamond thieves in the outskirts by posing as a gang member.

Five from the Jazzband
1932
as Car Thief
By pure chance, Jessie and his four jazz musicians are hired to play at the cabaret theatre “Trocadero”. Unfortunately, she knows nothing about music...

A Man's a Man
1931
as Galy Gay
About a civilian who is press-ganged into a machine-gunner's squadron and transformed into the perfect soldier.

The Trunks of Mr. O.F.
1931
as Redakteur Stix
In the very old-fashioned town of Ostend suddenly 13 suitcases are delivered to the hotel, with a note, that O.F. will be here soon and needs 6 rooms ...

Bombs Over Monte Carlo
1931
as Pawlitschek
The captain of a battleship of a small Balkan country is fed up with following strange orders from the country's queen.

M
1931
as Hans Beckert
In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's ...
The Missing Wife
1929
as Patient of a Dentist
An Austrian silent comedy crime film.