Peter Lorre

Lorre left Germany when Adolf Hitler came to power. His first English-language film was Alfred Hitchcock\'s The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) made in Great Britain. Eventually settling in Hollywood, he later became a featured player in many Hollywood crime and mystery films. In his initial American films, Mad Love and Crime and Punishment, he continued to play murderers, but he was then cast playing Mr. Moto, the Japanese detective, in a run of B pictures. From 1941 to 1946 he mainly worked for Warner Bros. His first film at Warner was The Maltese Falcon (1941), which began a sequence in which he appeared with Humphrey Bogart and Sydney Greenstreet. This was followed by Casablanca (1942), the second of the nine films in which Lorre and Greenstreet appeared together. Lorre\'s other films include Frank Capra\'s Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) and Disney\'s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954). F…