His daughter Catharine made headlines after serial killer Kenneth Bianchi confessed to police investigators after his arrest that he and his cousin and fellow " Hillside Strangler " Angelo Buono had stopped Catharine Lorre disguised as police officers with the intent of abducting and murdering her in 1977, but after learning that she was the daughter of Peter Lorre, the pair let her go.

One story, The Two-Bit Dictator of Twin Mills, drawn by Batman co-creator Bob Kane, featured a hitman called Jojo who was, according to writer Al Schwartz, made to look like Lorre.

The following month, however, CBS canceled the season's four remaining episodes after Sheen publicly made derogatory comments about the series ' creator, Chuck Lorre, and Warner Bros. banned Sheen from entering its production lot.

" 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 ).

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

* 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.

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.

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.

Many notable actors appeared on the series, including Ed Asner, Mary Astor, Roscoe Ates, Gene Barry, Ed Begley, Barbara Bel Geddes, Charles Bronson, Edgar Buchanan, Macdonald Carey, Art Carney, John Cassavetes, Jack Cassidy, Dabney Coleman, Tom Conway, Joseph Cotten, Bob Crane, Hume Cronyn, Robert Culp, Bette Davis, Francis De Sales, Bruce Dern, Brandon deWilde, Angie Dickinson, Diana Dors, Robert Duvall, Denholm Elliott, Peter Falk, John Forsythe, Anne Francis, Lorne Greene, Edmund Gwenn, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Charles Herbert, Dame Wendy Hiller, Skip Homeier, Lou Jacobi, Joyce Jameson, Carolyn Jones, Don Keefer, Brian Keith, Jack Klugman, Jessie Royce Landis, Peter Lawford, Christopher Lee, Cloris Leachman, Peter Lorre, John McIntyre, E. G. Marshall, Herbert Marshall, Walter Matthau, Darren McGavin, John McGiver, Lee Majors, Jayne Mansfield, Steve McQueen, Tyler McVey, Audrey Meadows, Joyce Meadows, Vera Miles, Elizabeth Montgomery, Joanna Moore, Roger Moore, Vic Morrow, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Newton, Fess Parker, George Peppard, James Philbrook, Sydney Pollack, Judson Pratt, Robert Redford, Michael Rennie, Burt Reynolds, William Shatner, Dan Sheridan, Henry Silva, Barbara Steele, Jan Sterling, Dean Stockwell, Stella Stevens, Beatrice Straight, Jessica Tandy, Torin Thatcher, Rip Torn, Dick Van Dyke, Robert Vaughn, Richard Waring, Dennis Weaver, Estelle Winwood, Joanne Woodward, Fay Wray, and Keenan Wynn.

The drama features Sydney Greenstreet, Zachary Scott ( as Dimitrios Makropoulos ), Faye Emerson and Peter Lorre.

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

* Background to Danger ( 1943 ) with Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre

Lorre also branched out ( without Greenstreet ) into comedy with the role of Dr. Einstein in Arsenic and Old Lace, filmed by director Frank Capra in 1941, released in 1944, and starring Cary Grant and Raymond Massey.

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

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

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.

He is best known for his Warner Bros. films with Humphrey Bogart and Peter Lorre, which include The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ) and Casablanca ( 1942 ).

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.

* Screen Guild Theater: " The Maltese Falcon " ( 1943, CBS — 30-minute version of the story, starring Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sidney Greenstreet, and Peter Lorre

In the 1995 cartoon short Carrotblanca, a parody / homage to Casablanca, Tweety appeared as " Usmarte ", a parody of the character Ugarte played by Peter Lorre in the original film.

Among the most famous episodes remains writer Roald Dahl's " Man from the South " ( 1960 ) starring Steve McQueen and Peter Lorre, in which a man bets his finger that he can start his lighter ten times in a row.

Kent Rogers voiced Horton and the Peter Lorre fish, Sara Berner voiced Mayzie and the elephant bird, Robert C. Bruce narrated, and Mel Blanc performed most of the other voices.

Lorre appears as a British agent working with them, a killer known variously as " the Hairless Mexican " and " the General ".

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 ).

Their investigation leads them to face-to-face confrontations with a determined policeman ( Broderick Crawford ) and a shifty nightclub owner ( Peter Lorre ), who Catherine and Martin suspect may be the real killer.

Lorre was born László Löwenstein on 26 June 1904, as the first child of Jewish couple Alajos Löwenstein and Elvira Freischberger, in the Austrian-Hungarian town of Ružomberok in present-day Slovakia, then known by its Hungarian name Rózsahegy.

However, Lorre and his stepmother never got on, and this coloured his childhood memories.

In 1963 an actor named Eugene Weingand, who was unrelated to Lorre, attempted to trade on his slight resemblance to the actor by changing his name to " Peter Lorie ", but his petition was rejected by the courts.

The incident was dramatized in Peter Lorre vs. Peter Lorre, a 45-minute radio play written / produced by Michael Button, directed by Toby Swift and broadcast on BBC Radio 4's Afternoon Play on 10 May 2010.

Lorre has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 6619 Hollywood Boulevard.

Musician and filker Tom Smith won a Pegasus award for Best Classic Filk Song in 2006 entitled " I Want to be Peter Lorre " which appears on his filk album " Homecoming: MarCon 2005 ", which includes his vocal impersonation of the actor.

The Jazz Butcher's song " Peter Lorre " was first featured on the group's Conspiracy album, which was released in May 1986.

* The Lodger on Mystery in the Air, 1947, starring Peter Lorre and Agnes Moorehead

In 1962 Chaney got a brief chance to play Quasimodo in a simulalcrum of his father's make-up, as well as return to his roles of the Mummy and the Wolf Man on the television series Route 66 with friends Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre.

Peter Lorre as Mr. Moto in “ More Murder on the Fred Allen Program .”

The film is the story of a hopeful new immigrant, Janos Szaby ( Peter Lorre ), who, on his first day in New York City, is trapped in a hotel fire that leaves his face hideously scarred.

Cybill an American television sitcom created by Chuck Lorre, which aired on CBS from January 2, 1995, to July 13, 1998.

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.