The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre

Often typecast as a menacing figure, Peter Lorre achieved Hollywood fame first as a featured player and later as a character actor, trademarking his screen performances with a delicately strung balance between good and evil. His portrayal of the child murderer in Fritz Lang's masterpiece M (1931) catapulted him to international fame. Lang said of Lorre: "He gave one of the best performances in film history and certainly the best in his life." Today, the Hungarian-born actor is also recognized fo

Author: Stephen D. Youngkin
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 09/30/2005
Pages: 680
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.47lbs
Size: 9.46h x 6.42w x 1.76d
ISBN13: 9780813123608
ISBN10: 0813123607
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Entertainment & Performing Arts
- Performing Arts | Film | History & Criticism
- Biography & Autobiography | Rich & Famous

About the Author

Stephen D. Youngkin is coauthor of The Films of Peter Lorre and Peter Lorre: Portrait des Schauspielers auf der Flucht. He appeared as an expert biographer on the German television documentary Das Doppelte Gesicht (The Double Face) and A&E's Biography tribute to Peter Lorre.

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