( In the spoof-film version of Casino Royale, British comedian Ronnie Corbett comments that SMERSH includes among its agents not only Le Chiffre, but also " Peter Lorre and Bela Lugosi ".

There was also a variant of Dr. Frankenstein, the mad surgeon Dr. Gogol ( played by Peter Lorre ), who transplanted hands that were reanimated with malevolent temperaments, in the film Mad Love.

As portrayed by Lorre, he could also be quite sinister when the need arose.

The album was also notable for the title track, which was an ode to classic Hollywood gangster films of the 1930s and ' 40s, with voice impressions of Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre and Jimmy Stewart which paid homage to the classic film noir The Maltese Falcon.

Signor Ferrari and Ugarte, characters portrayed by Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre in the movie Casablanca appear in Raseir, as does the Maltese Falcon from the movie of the same name which also featured Greenstreet and Lorre in other roles.

His main influence is Bob Clampett, and he also names Chuck Jones, Frank Sinatra, Kirk Douglas, Milt Gross, Tex Avery, Peter Lorre, The Three Stooges, Al Jolson, Bing Crosby, Dean Martin, Elvis Presley, Don Martin and Robert Ryan.

The film also starred Humphrey Bogart, with Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet.

* The Beast with Five Fingers ( 1946 )-a variant on the theme, also starring Peter Lorre.

This bizarre trick not only unnerves his new driver but also Roman's right-hand man, Gino ( Peter Lorre ).

Created by executive producers Dottie Dartland and Chuck Lorre, the comedy took much of its inspiration from so-called culture-clash " fish out of water " situations.

* The Oracle-A mystic who reads out horoscopes in a Peter Lorre voice, invariably knocking over and breaking his crystal ball in the process.

Among the notables who died either without a valid will or no will at all are Ross Alexander, Fatty Arbuckle, Anura Bandaranaike, Madhav Prasad Birla, Sonny Bono, George Brent, Lenny Bruce, Jacob A. Cantor, Kurt Cobain, Russ Columbo, Sam Cooke, James Dean, Sandy Dennis, John Denver, Divine, Duke Ellington, Cass Elliot, Chris Farley, Bobby Fischer, Redd Foxx, Mary Frann, James A. Garfield, Marvin Gaye, Ulysses S. Grant, Billie Holiday, Buddy Holly, Shemp Howard, Howard Hughes, Andrew Johnson, Florence Griffith-Joyner, Martin Luther King, Jr., Ernie Kovacs, Harry Langdon, Bruce Lee, Abraham Lincoln, Peter Lorre, Jayne Mansfield, Rocky Marciano, Karl Marx, Steve McNair, Sal Mineo, Carmen Miranda, Keith Moon, Rosa Parks, Pablo Picasso, Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin, Tupac Shakur, Don Simpson, Anna Nicole Smith, William Desmond Taylor, Sharon Tate, Tiny Tim, Ritchie Valens, Hervé Villechaize, Barry White, and Jimmy Witherspoon.

However, when they discovered that Catharine was the daughter of Austrian actor Peter Lorre, famous for his role as a child murderer in Fritz Lang's acclaimed film M, they let her go without incident.

Complementing Bogart were co-stars Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Elisha Cook, Jr., and Mary Astor as the treacherous female foil.

The film was directed by Michael Curtiz, produced by Hal Wallis and featured a strong cast, including Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Paul Henreid, Conrad Veidt, Peter Lorre and Dooley Wilson.

* The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ) the third version, considered to be a film noir classic, starring Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre, and Sydney Greenstreet.

Left to right: Sydney Greenstreet and Lorre in The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 film ) | The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ), the first of nine films together.

Lorre made nine movies altogether with Sydney Greenstreet counting The Maltese Falcon and Casablanca, most of them variations on the latter film, including Background to Danger ( 1943, with George Raft ); Passage to Marseille ( 1944, reteaming them with Casablanca stars Humphrey Bogart and Claude Rains ); The Mask of Dimitrios ( 1944, with character actor Greenstreet receiving top billing ); The Conspirators ( 1944, with Hedy Lamarr and Paul Henreid ); Hollywood Canteen ( 1944 ); Three Strangers ( 1946 ), a suspense film about three people who are joint partners on a winning lottery ticket starring top-billed Greenstreet, Geraldine Fitzgerald, and third-billed Lorre cast against type by director Jean Negulesco as the romantic lead ; and Greenstreet and Lorre's final film together, suspense thriller The Verdict ( 1946 ), director Don Siegel's first movie, with Greenstreet and Lorre finally billed first and second, respectively.

Greenstreet and Peter Lorre in The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 film ) | The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 )

They frequently broke into songs and dances during their feature comedies, and often did celebrity impersonations ( among them Ted Lewis, Peter Lorre, Tony Martin, even Alice Faye and Katharine Hepburn ).

" Three more of his screenplays were made into movies prior to his being blacklisted: " My Buddy " ( 1944 ), " Casbah " ( 1948, starring Peter Lorre and Yvonne De Carlo ), and " No Minor Vices " ( 1948, starring Dana Andrews, Lilli Palmer, and Louis Jordan ).

Quicksand ( 1950 ) is a United Artists film noir starring Mickey Rooney and Peter Lorre in a story about a garage mechanic's descent into crime.

Peter Lorre brought the character of Mr. Moto to many comedy radio programs.

These arguments led to the removal of the show's Creator / Executive Producer, Chuck Lorre, from production work, although he stayed with the show as a " comedy consultant.

* Sept. 18, 1947, Mystery in the Air Radio Program with Peter Lorre as the Protagonist in The Black Cat.

* Secret Agent ( 1936 ) with John Gielgud, Peter Lorre, Madeleine Carroll, and Robert Young, directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

Lorre caused an international sensation with his portrayal of a serial killer who preys on little girls in the German film M ( 1931 ).

When Lorre was four years old, his mother died, probably of food poisoning, leaving Alajos with three very young sons, the youngest only a couple of months old.

Lorre began acting on stage in Vienna at the age of 17, where he worked with the famous Viennese Art Nouveau artist and puppeteer Richard Teschner.

Eventually, Lorre went to Hollywood, where he specialized in playing sinister foreigners, beginning with Mad Love ( 1935 ), directed by Karl Freund.

In 1940, Lorre co-starred with fellow horror actors Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff in the Kay Kyser movie You'll Find Out.

In 1931, after Woman in the Moon, Lang directed what many film scholars consider to be his masterpiece: M, a disturbing story of a child murderer ( Peter Lorre in his first starring role ) who is hunted down and brought to rough justice by Berlin's criminal underworld.

When the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, Lorre took refuge first in Paris and then London, where he was noticed by Ivor Montagu, Alfred Hitchcock's associate producer for The Man Who Knew Too Much ( 1934 ), who reminded the director about Lorre's performance in M. They first considered him to play the assassin in the film, but wanted to use him in a larger role, despite his limited command of English, which Lorre overcame by learning much of his part phonetically.

In 1939, he was picked to play the role that would eventually go to Basil Rathbone in Son of Frankenstein ; Lorre had to decline the part due to illness.

Lorre played the role of Joel Cairo in The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ) and portrayed the character Ugarte in Casablanca ( 1942 ).

The chilling German film M ( 1931 ) directed by Fritz Lang, starred Peter Lorre ( in his first film role ) as a criminal deviant who preys on children.

In 1941, Greenstreet began working for Warner Bros .. His debut film role was as Kasper Gutman (" The Fat Man ") in The Maltese Falcon, which co-starred Peter Lorre as the twitchy Joel Cairo, a pairing that would prove profitable and long-lasting for Warner Bros.

" It featured Lon Chaney, Jr., Peter Lorre and Boris Karloff as themselves, with Karloff donning his famous Frankenstein monster make-up for the first time in 25 years and Chaney reprising his role as the Wolfman.

He portrayed the child killer, originally played by Peter Lorre, in the remake of M ( 1951 ), a chance to see him in a rare leading role, even rarer as an evil character.

Also featured were Basil Rathbone, Lon Chaney, John Carradine, and Akim Tamiroff in a role originally written for Peter Lorre.

To complicate matters further, Mortimer's brother Jonathan ( Raymond Massey ) arrives with his alcoholic accomplice, plastic surgeon Dr. Herman Einstein ( Peter Lorre ).

* Peter Lorre as Dr. Herman Einstein

It is directed by German-émigré film maker Karl Freund, and stars Peter Lorre as Dr. Gogol, Frances Drake as Yvonne Orlac and Colin Clive as Stephen Orlac.

As she listens to her husband Stephen Orlac ( Colin Clive ) play the piano on the radio, she is greeted by Dr. Gogol ( Peter Lorre ), who has seen every show featuring Yvonne, and unaware of her marriage, is aghast to learn that she is moving to England with her husband.

* Peter Lorre as Dr. Gogol.