Peter lorre

The protégé of Edward Steichen was one the hottest photographers of the 1930s, shooting everyone from Katharine Hepburn to Jesse Owens, but six years into his career, he died. A new exhibit in Tulsa revives the work of the long-neglected artist.

Peter Lorre (June 26, 1904, Rózsahegy, Austria-Hungary (now Ružomberok, Slovakia) – March 23, 1964, Los Angeles), born László Löwenstein. Publicity for "Crime and Punishment", photographs by Lusha Nelson, 1935. The sometimes very strange beauty of Peter Lorre.

Peter Lorre

Peter Lorre... The Chase (1946)

Born 1904 as László Löwenstein in Rózsahegy, Kingdom of Hungary, Hungarian-American actor Peter Lorre began his stage career in Vienna befor...

Most of photographs from before until the 1950s we often think about black and white. Have you ever thought how these black and and white ph...

He spent his entire professional life playing mad scientists, sinister criminals and oily little weasels, his goggle-eyes and oft-imitated raspy, accented voice became the movie personification of evil, and yet nothing in Peter Lorre's long film career quite prepares you for his chilling portrayal of movie history's first serial killer, Hans Beckert of Fritz Lang's classic psychological thriller, M. No charming, chianti-sipping killer is Beckert—he preys on little girls, luring them with…

Peter Lorre in Crime and Punishment, 1935. Lusha Nelson.