Peter Lorre Net Worth

#Fact1The movie "M" had a formative influence to most of his further almost 80 parts. If he had retired after the movie "M" his myth wouldn't have detracted from. Ten years later, in 1940, Lorres speech for the defense in "M" was abused by the Nazis in order to underpin the inferiority of the Jews.2Immediate after "M" Lorre received 310 film offers which all contained a similar role. However he refused all in order to try not to get personified as a psychopath. But these efforts were more or less ineffective to his death.3According to Peter Lorre in an interview, he and his early friends invented and popularized the slang word "creep" meaning "a creepy, annoying person".though when they invented it, it was spelled "kreap", and did not have the same negative connotation.4Lorre was unhappy when Fox assigned him to the first Moto film, but as he had recently been discharged from a rehab for his morphine addiction, he accepted the part with reluctance,.5Spoke English, German, French and Hungarian.6He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6619 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960.7Peter Lorre passed away on March 23, 1964, three months away from what would have been his 60th birthday on June 26.8He appeared in two Best Picture Academy Award winners: Casablanca (1942) and Around the World in Eighty Days (1956).9Lorre had been signed to reprise his role of Strangdour, from Muscle Beach Party, in the next beach film of the series: Bikini Beach. However, he died before production began on that film.10In the early 1950s, Lorre became seriously ill with a malady that affected his glands, causing a metabolic change. After recuperating, the actor gained almost 100 pounds, which aggravated a chronic high blood pressure condition that permanently altered his appearance and necessitated constant treatment.11In 1936, Universal proposed starring Lorre in a remake of Lon Chaney's "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", but the project never progressed beyond the discussion stage with the actor.12While living as an expatriate in Paris, Lorre lived in the same shabby rooming house as future Hollywood luminaries Paul Lukas, Oscar Homolka and Franz Waxman.13Lorre sold Hitchcock the screen rights to "Secret Agent" in addition to co-starring in the film. The actor liked to collect valuable story properties, which were estimated to value $350,000 by 1944.14He was sought for a role in The Black Sleep (1956), but when the cost-conscious producers deemed his salary request too high he was replaced by Akim Tamiroff.15Alfred Hitchcock was reputed to have said that one of Lorre's nicknames was "The Walking Overcoat". This moniker was given to Lorre because he used to rehearse in a floor-length overcoat, no matter what the season of the year was.16Is mentioned in the lyrics of Al Stewart's 1976 song "Year of the Cat".17Lorre is the inspiration for the ghost mascot of the General Mills cereal, Boo Berry.18Subject of a 1986 Jazz Butcher Conspiracy song.19His performance as Hans Beckert in M (1931) is ranked #79 on Premiere magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time (April, 2004 issue).20His performance as Hans Beckert in M (1931) was ranked at #94 on Premiere magazine's list of 100 Greatest Film Performances of All Time (April, 2006 issue).21Seems to be the object of tribute in many animated works, such as N. Gin in Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex (2001), the Ceiling Lamp in The Brave Little Toaster (1987), Ren Hoek in The Ren & Stimpy Show (1991), the Maggot in Corpse Bride (2005) and a mad scientist and gangster in several Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoons.22Lorre's speech and mannerisms provided the inspiration for the villainous character Rocky Rococo in the Firesign Theater's 1968 radio play "The Adventures of Nick Danger, Third Eye".23Is portrayed by Herbie Braha in Bogie (1980).24He convinced Humphrey Bogart to marry Lauren Bacall, despite the age difference. He did so by saying, "Five good years are better than none!".25Remained friends with all his wives. His third wife's ashes are combined with his, despite their being separated at the time of his death.26Is the subject of a stage show and album by the World/Inferno Friendship Society called Peter Lorre's 20th Century: Addicted to Bad Ideas. The music is meant to outline Lorre's life, and the show is narrated with monologues and dialog between band members.27Host/performer of NBC Radio's "Mystery in the Air" (1947).28It was reported. Joseph Goebbels himself warned Lorre to flee Germany.29When he arrived in Great Britain, his first meeting with a British director was with Alfred Hitchcock. By smiling and laughing as Hitchcock talked, the director was unaware that Lorre had a limited command of the English language. Hitchcock cast him in The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934). Lorre learned much of his part phonetically.30Lorre suggested to Harry Cohn of Columbia Pictures that they make a film version of Crime and Punishment (1935) with him in the role of Raskolnikov. Cohn agreed to the project if Lorre would agree to be loaned out to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for Mad Love (1935).31His distinctive voice gave Lorre a successful career in radio. He guest-starred on all of the comedy/variety series from the mid-1930s into the 1950s, as well as thrillers such as "Inner Sanctum Mysteries" and "Suspense", and had three radio series of his own: "Mystery in the Air", "Nightmare", and for the Armed Forces Radio Services, "Mystery Playhouse".32He established his own production company, Lorre Incorporated. The company was mismanaged and Lorre filed for backruptcy.33John Kricfalusi, creator of the animated series The Ren & Stimpy Show (1991), has said that Lorre inspired the character Ren.34As a young man in Vienna, he was a student of the famous psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and Alfred Adler.35During the House Un-American Activities Committee's investigation of Communist infiltration of Hollywood during the 1940s and 1950s, Lorre was interviewed by investigators and asked to name anyone suspicious he had met since coming to the United States. He responded by giving them a list of everyone he knew.36In the early 1990s, his famous accent was parodied yet again on the animated series Mega Man (1994) as the robot henchman Cutman (possibly a wordplay on Sydney Greenstreet's Gutman in The Maltese Falcon (1941)).37About 1977, his daughter Catharine Lorre was almost abducted in Los Angeles by the serial killers known as the Hillside Stranglers. She was stopped by Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, who were impersonating policemen. When they realized she was Lorre's daughter, they let her go because the actor was famous for playing a serial killer in Fritz Lang's M (1931). Catharine Lorre did not realize that they were killers until after they were arrested.38Spike Jones had a hit record with his wacky cover version of "My Old Flame" with voice actor Paul Frees doing a Lorre impression for the vocal. When Lorre appeared on Jones' radio show he had to learn the "Paul Frees" way of being Peter Lorre, as Peter himself was not quite the madman that Paul had made him out to be. Also imitated by Mel Blanc in a handful of Warner Bros. cartoons, and the vocal inspiration for the character Flat Top in The Dick Tracy Show (1961).39Following his death, he was interred at Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery (now called Hollywood Forever Cemetery) in Hollywood, California, in the Cathedral Mausoleum.40Separated from wife, Annemarie Brenning, in October 1962; a divorce hearing had been scheduled for the day Lorre died, March 23, 1964.41Had one daughter: Catharine Lorre (born 1953). She passed away on May 7, 1985.42His image from M (1931) was unwittingly used on the German poster for the anti-semitic propaganda film, Der ewige Jude (1940), as an example of a typical Jew.43Was the very first James Bond villain; he played Le Chiffre in a 1954 version of Casino Royale on the television series Climax! (1954).44Was a favorite characterization for the famed Warner Bros. cartoonists, as he tangled several times with Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck. He was also portrayed as a fish in a Dr. Seuss Warner Bros. cartoon, Horton Hatches the Egg (1942).45According to Vincent Price, when he and Peter Lorre went to view Bela Lugosi's body during Bela's funeral, Lorre, upon seeing Lugosi dressed in his famous Dracula cape, quipped, "Do you think we should drive a stake through his heart just in case?".

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