Peter Lorre

Peter Lorre was a Hungarian and American actor, first in Europe and later in the United States. Lorre caused an international sensation in the Weimar Republic-era film M (1931), directed by Fritz Lang, in which he portrayed a serial killer who preys on little girls.

In his initial American films, Mad Love and Crime and Punishment (both 1935), he continued to play murderers, but he was then cast playing Mr. Moto, the Japanese detective, in a B-picture series.

Lorre starred in The Maltese Falcon (1941), with Humphrey Bogart and Sydney Greenstreet and Casablanca (1942), the second of the nine films in which Lorre and Greenstreet appeared together. Lorre's other films include Frank Capra's Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) and Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954).

Lorre was the first actor to play a James Bond villain as Le Chiffre in a TV version of Casino Royale (1954).