Peter Lorre Fan Page

"I don’t believe in imitation. My trick is to imagine. I live the role." -Peter Lorre || ao3: Aerama || Occasional spillover into Conrad Veidt, Jeremy Brett, Ted Cassidy, et al || Also sometimes soapbox meta b/c I'm more than a meme || She/her

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Peter Lorre Was Not a Horror Actor

Intrigued? Explore:

Peter Lorre Movies - comedy, romance, psychological terror

Peter Lorre Radio - sinister, comedy, heartfelt tales

Peter Lorre Television - comedy, crime spoofs, & more

Peter Lorre Biography - a must-read

Peter Lorre News

Fanfiction (ao3):

Inn - Elizabethan Peter Lorre OC / Blackadder II crossover (WIP)

Hertes āgen - 21st century Peter Lorre OC / Blackadder (Complete)

Vignettes: Island of Doomed Men, The Stranger, Phantom

Fanfiction collective - a growing group of writers!

Photo & Artwork Collections of Note:

Peter Lorre's Fitness Tips (SFW-ish)

Peter Lorre & Kittens

Peter Lorre & Puppies

Peter Lorre Tarot Deck

Eon the Spy

Cyberpunk pulp noir comic

I'm looking for copies / source of these films: 

Die verschwundene Frau (The Missing Wife) (1929) - my search efforts so far

Schuß im Morgengrauen (A Shot at Dawn) (1932) - I started this reddit post

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Clark Gable, Elizabeth Allan and Peter Lorre, photo taken by Phil Burchman in the 1930's at a party for Rouben Mamoulian.

Link.

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This is so beautiful!! I love his smile, his cheeks, how he's standing. Sorry, Clark, I don't have time to look at you.

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Peter Lorre in 1928 Play

Peter Lorre in Scherz, Satire, Ironie und tiefere Bedeutung, Vienna Carltheater, 1928.

Source

Also found in an Austrian biography and in Bilderstunde from October 30, 1928.

From the (translated) wiki:

"Joke, Satire, Irony and Deeper Meaning" is an 1882 play by Christian Dietrich Grabbe and deemed one of the great German comedies.

"In its dazzling mix of drastic situational comedy, rowdy scenes, satire, and the grotesque, the play stands outside both classical and romantic comedy. [...] The schoolmaster has a man-high cage set up in the woods, in which he places sixteen condoms as bait."

OF COURSE PETER LORRE PLAYED THE SCHOOLMASTER

"A sly, alcoholic schoolmaster"

Not surprised, not at all

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living cartoon characters

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THAT FINGER yessssss

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HAPPY PRIDE! 🌈 WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS | S4E05

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Off topic but I love and miss this show

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Peter Lorre & His Amazing Eyes

"His eyes, once seen, are never forgotten...they dominate this actor's every expression on the screen."

By O. Bristol in Picture Show No. 874, February 1, 1936.

Read the article under the cut:

And here's that inset picture:

I mean, those eyes haunt me too, but for different reasons 🔥

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Peter Lorre by Herreros

As Abbott from The Man Who Knew Too Much:

Found in Cinegramas (Madrid), November 10, 1935.

Plus this ad:

This is a long magazine, as in height! The remainder of the page from the top is in scanned pieces under the cut:

Isn't he gorgeous? <3

Here's an item on the artist, Enrique Herreros.

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Thank you for scanning this excellent find! I absolutely love that artwork. Herreros made him look so bright and cheeky, and certainly not a dangerous criminal mastermind, no indeed. :)

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He's quite alluring, isn't he! The fey wickedness in his bright eyes is gorgeous.

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Peter Lorre by Herreros

As Abbott from The Man Who Knew Too Much:

Found in Cinegramas (Madrid), November 10, 1935.

Plus this ad:

This is a long magazine, as in height! The remainder of the page from the top is in scanned pieces under the cut:

Isn't he gorgeous? <3

Here's an item on the artist, Enrique Herreros.

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Women Scream at the Sight of Him

He said, "I am Peter Lorre"--and waited with a strange expression in his eyes.

"Women Scream At the Sight Of Him" by Faith Service, from Motion Picture (February 1935 Vol. XLIX No. 1)

Entire article under the cut. As always, keep a skeptical lookout - this article errs on the side of ridiculous, yet I do think this writer is a fan, whoever they really are.

People dying and falling into fits just from seeing his movies! O the hyperbole.

And Peter would have been AMAZING as "Kasper Hauser." What a loss!

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i found this lovely peter lino print from 2007 by bakingwithmedusa on Flickr :D i believe this is Abbot from the man who knew too much?

peter lorre | micha michelle | Flickr

You are so right! Wonderful find.

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ahh it's so pretty. ^_^ I tried to save it to my computer but flickr won't allow that, apparently.

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Ah, here:

Peter Lorre in "The Man Who Knew Too Much" by micha michelle (baking with medusa)

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i found this lovely peter lino print from 2007 by bakingwithmedusa on Flickr :D i believe this is Abbot from the man who knew too much?

peter lorre | micha michelle | Flickr

You are so right! Wonderful find.

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there's the subbed ver of was frauen traumen 1933 on internet archive + a subless version that's higher quality and im tryna frankenstein em together rn !!! bcs i've booked some time to show it to a friend soon

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Ooh, there's another version? :D I'm guessing it's this one. Thank you for alerting me to it, it really does look a lot clearer! I looked through this user's page and found a wealth of high quality prints of 1920s-1930s German movies there, including Peter's appearance in Unsichtbare Gegner, so I'm going to be exploring that for a while. Good luck with the subs!

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All this is so fabulous!! @snail-cupcakes & @peterlorres21stcentury, you folks bring light into the day. <3 <3 <3

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posting the hilariously misleading/non-representative dvd cover of arsenic and old lace from my library, complete with my crude censorship of the library name to avoid doxxing myself

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This totally makes it look like Cary Grant's character is nicknamed "Arsenic Jones" who with his sunny sidekick "Old Lace" runs a small-town newspaper called the Happydale Gazette, and then they accidentally uncover criminal activity

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Wow. Good Omens 3.

Worth it. Watch it! I am glad Terry Pratchett's daughter took up the cause to get this made and that her father's legacy lives on a little longer.

Still coming down from that ending.

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Totally snagged from the Peter Lorre Appreciation page: Peter Lorre & Margo Lion, "Die Koffer des Herrn O.F." ♥♥♥♥

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Too good to hide in the tags, @lorre-logic!

#but i especially like how shes coming on him and hes being a bit sheepish

Even in that still shot, Peter has this dawning light of hope in his eyes even with his bashful pose. Ooooof how I wish I were the recipient of that gaze!

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I’m tired so Alastor’s tired too - with Lucifer as a nice and soft pillow

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The Return of Sherlock Holmes: The Empty House (1986) 💚🔎

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I can hear that ebullient voice with its husky undertone even now