Peter Lorre Net Worth
Peter Lorre Net Worth is
$18 Million
Peter Lorre Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Peter Lorre (26 June 1904 – 23 March 1964) was a Hungarian actor. Lorre caused an international sensation in the German film M (1931) in which he portrayed a serial killer who preys on little girls. Soon in enforced exile, his first English language film was Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) made in Great Britain. Settling in Hollywood, he later became a featured player in many Hollywood crime and mystery films. In his initial American films though, Mad Love and Crime and Punishment, he continued to play murderers, but was then cast playing Mr Moto, the Japanese detective, in a run of B pictures.From 1941 to 1946 he mainly worked for Warner Bros. The first of these films at Warners was The Maltese Falcon (1941), which began a sequence in which he appeared with Humphrey Bogart and Sydney Greenstreet. This was followed by Casablanca (1942). the second of the nine films in which Lorre and Greenstreet appeared. Lorre's other films include Frank Capra's Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) and Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954).Frequently typecast as a sinister foreigner, his later career was erratic. Lorre was the first actor to play a James Bond villain as Le Chiffre in a TV version of Casino Royale (1954). Some of his last roles were in horror films directed by Roger Corman. | Full Name | Peter Lorre |
| Date Of Birth | June 26, 1904, Ružomberok, Slovakia |
| Died | March 23, 1964, Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Place Of Birth | Rózsahegy, Austria-Hungary [now Ruzomberok, Slovakia] |
| Height | 5' 3½" (1.61 m) |
| Profession | Actor, Soundtrack, Writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse | Annemarie Brenning (m. 1953–1964), Kaaren Verne (m. 1945–1950), Celia Lovsky (m. 1934–1945) |
| Children | Catharine Lorre |
| Parents | Alois Loewenstein, Elvira Freischberger |
| Awards | German Film Award - Honorable Mention |
| Movies | The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, M, Mad Love, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Arsenic and Old Lace, Beat the Devil, The Lost One, Tales of Terror, The Raven, The Comedy of Terrors, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, My Favorite Brunette, The Mask of Dimitrios, Mr. Moto's Last Warning, Secret Agent, The Beast w... |
| TV Shows | Casino Royale |
| Star Sign | Cancer |
| # | Trademark |
|---|---|
| 1 | Small stature |
| 2 | Large popped eyes |
| 3 | Eerie eccentric characters usually up to no good |
| 4 | Roles in horror films/films with dark subject matter |
| 5 | Spoke with an almost feminine clear slow tenor voice |
| 6 | Distinctive clipped manner of speaking |
| 7 | Raspy voice |
| Title | Salary |
|---|---|
| Beat the Devil (1953) | $15,000 |
| Casablanca (1942) | $500 |
| # | Quote |
|---|---|
| 1 | [on his first meeting with Alfred Hitchcock] I had heard that he loved to tell stories and so I watched him like a hawk, and when I was of the opinion he had just told the punchline of a story, I broke out in such laughter that I almost fell off my chair. |
| 2 | All that anyone needs to imitate me is two soft-boiled eggs and a bedroom voice. |
| # | Fact |
|---|---|
| 1 | The 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. |
| 2 | Immediate 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. |
| 3 | According 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. |
| 4 | Lorre 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,. |
| 5 | Spoke English, German, French and Hungarian. |
| 6 | He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6619 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960. |
| 7 | Peter Lorre passed away on March 23, 1964, three months away from what would have been his 60th birthday on June 26. |
| 8 | He appeared in two Best Picture Academy Award winners: Casablanca (1942) and Around the World in Eighty Days (1956). |
| 9 | Lorre 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. |
| 10 | In 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. |
| 11 | In 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. |
| 12 | While 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. |
| 13 | Lorre 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. |
| 14 | He 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. |
| 15 | Alfred 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. |
| 16 | Is mentioned in the lyrics of Al Stewart's 1976 song "Year of the Cat". |
| 17 | Lorre is the inspiration for the ghost mascot of the General Mills cereal, Boo Berry. |
| 18 | Subject of a 1986 Jazz Butcher Conspiracy song. |
| 19 | His performance as Hans Beckert in M (1931) is ranked #79 on Premiere magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time (April, 2004 issue). |
| 20 | His 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). |
| 21 | Seems 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. |
| 22 | Lorre'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". |
| 23 | Is portrayed by Herbie Braha in Bogie (1980). |
| 24 | He convinced Humphrey Bogart to marry Lauren Bacall, despite the age difference. He did so by saying, "Five good years are better than none!". |
| 25 | Remained friends with all his wives. His third wife's ashes are combined with his, despite their being separated at the time of his death. |
| 26 | Is 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. |
| 27 | Host/performer of NBC Radio's "Mystery in the Air" (1947). |
| 28 | It was reported. Joseph Goebbels himself warned Lorre to flee Germany. |
| 29 | When 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. |
| 30 | Lorre 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). |
| 31 | His 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". |
| 32 | He established his own production company, Lorre Incorporated. The company was mismanaged and Lorre filed for backruptcy. |
| 33 | John Kricfalusi, creator of the animated series The Ren & Stimpy Show (1991), has said that Lorre inspired the character Ren. |
| 34 | As a young man in Vienna, he was a student of the famous psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and Alfred Adler. |
| 35 | During 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. |
| 36 | In 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)). |
| 37 | About 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. |
| 38 | Spike 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). |
| 39 | Following his death, he was interred at Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery (now called Hollywood Forever Cemetery) in Hollywood, California, in the Cathedral Mausoleum. |
| 40 | Separated from wife, Annemarie Brenning, in October 1962; a divorce hearing had been scheduled for the day Lorre died, March 23, 1964. |
| 41 | Had one daughter: Catharine Lorre (born 1953). She passed away on May 7, 1985. |
| 42 | His 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. |
| 43 | Was the very first James Bond villain; he played Le Chiffre in a 1954 version of Casino Royale on the television series Climax! (1954). |
| 44 | Was 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). |
| 45 | According 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?". |
Actor
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Checkmate | 1961 | TV Series | Alonzo Pace Graham |
| Rawhide | 1960 | TV Series | Victor Laurier |
| The Red Skelton Hour | 1955-1960 | TV Series | King Zurium / Boris - Chief Spy / Mad Scientist / ... |
| Wagon Train | 1960 | TV Series | Alexander Portlass |
| Playhouse 90 | 1956-1960 | TV Series | Café Owner / Tenzing / Dr. Ostrow / ... |
| Scent of Mystery | 1960 | Smiley | |
| Alfred Hitchcock Presents | 1957-1960 | TV Series | Carlos / Tomas Salgado |
| Five Fingers | 1959 | TV Series | The Colonel |
| The Big Circus | 1959 | Skeeter | |
| The Milton Berle Show | 1958 | TV Series | Guest |
| Collector's Item | 1958 | TV Movie | Mr. Munsey |
| Hell Ship Mutiny | 1957 | Commissioner Lamoret | |
| The Sad Sack | 1957 | Abdul | |
| The Story of Mankind | 1957 | Nero | |
| Silk Stockings | 1957 | Brankov | |
| Climax! | 1954-1957 | TV Series | Benny Kellerman / Mr. Ho / Normie / ... |
| The Buster Keaton Story | 1957 | Kurt Bergner | |
| The 20th Century-Fox Hour | 1956 | TV Series | Moyzisch |
| Around the World in 80 Days | 1956 | Japanese Steward - S.S. Carnatic | |
| Congo Crossing | 1956 | Colonel John Miguel Orlando Arragas | |
| Studio 57 | 1955-1956 | TV Series | Heitzer / Mr. Grover |
| Meet Me in Las Vegas | 1956 | Peter Lorre (uncredited) | |
| Screen Directors Playhouse | 1956 | TV Series | Willy |
| Young Couples Only | 1955 | TV Short | Mr. Grover |
| The Star and the Story | 1955 | TV Series | Inspector Andre Mondeau |
| The Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater | 1955 | TV Series | Ambrose Dodson |
| Producers' Showcase | 1955 | TV Series | Poffy |
| The Best of Broadway | 1955 | TV Series | Dr. Herman Einstein |
| 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | 1954 | Conseil | |
| Schlitz Playhouse | 1954 | TV Series | |
| The United States Steel Hour | 1953 | TV Series | |
| Beat the Devil | 1953 | Julius O'Hara | |
| Suspense | 1952 | TV Series | |
| Lux Video Theatre | 1952 | TV Series | Richard Pratt |
| Der Verlorene | 1951 | Dr. Karl Rothe, alias Dr. Karl Neumeister | |
| Double Confession | 1950 | Paynter | |
| Quicksand | 1950 | Nick | |
| Rope of Sand | 1949 | Toady | |
| Casbah | 1948 | Slimane | |
| My Favorite Brunette | 1947 | Kismet | |
| The Beast with Five Fingers | 1946 | Hilary Cummins | |
| The Chase | 1946 | Gino | |
| The Verdict | 1946 | Victor Emmric | |
| Black Angel | 1946 | Marko | |
| Three Strangers | 1946 | Johnny West | |
| Confidential Agent | 1945 | Contreras | |
| Hotel Berlin | 1945 | Johannes Koenig | |
| Hollywood Canteen | 1944 | Peter Lorre | |
| The Conspirators | 1944 | Jan Bernazsky | |
| Arsenic and Old Lace | 1944 | Dr. Einstein | |
| The Mask of Dimitrios | 1944 | Cornelius Leyden | |
| Passage to Marseille | 1944 | Marius | |
| The Cross of Lorraine | 1943 | Sergeant Berger | |
| Background to Danger | 1943 | Nikolai Zaleshoff | |
| The Constant Nymph | 1943 | Fritz Bercovy | |
| Casablanca | 1942 | Ugarte | |
| The Boogie Man Will Get You | 1942 | Dr. Arthur Lorencz | |
| Invisible Agent | 1942 | Baron Ikito | |
| All Through the Night | 1942 | Pepi | |
| The Maltese Falcon | 1941 | Joel Cairo | |
| They Met in Bombay | 1941 | Captain Chang | |
| Mr. District Attorney | 1941 | Paul Hyde | |
| The Face Behind the Mask | 1941 | Janos 'Johnny' Szabo | |
| You'll Find Out | 1940 | Karl Fenninger | |
| Stranger on the Third Floor | 1940 | The Stranger | |
| Island of Doomed Men | 1940 | Stephen Danel | |
| I Was an Adventuress | 1940 | Polo | |
| Strange Cargo | 1940 | M'sieu Pig | |
| Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation | 1939 | Mr. Moto | |
| Mr. Moto in Danger Island | 1939 | Mr. Moto | |
| Mr. Moto's Last Warning | 1939 | Mr. Moto | |
| Mysterious Mr. Moto | 1938 | Mr. Moto | |
| I'll Give a Million | 1938 | Louie 'The Dope' Monteau | |
| Mr. Moto Takes a Chance | 1938 | Mr. Moto | |
| Mr. Moto's Gamble | 1938 | Mr. Moto | |
| Thank You, Mr. Moto | 1937 | Mr. Moto | |
| Lancer Spy | 1937 | Maj. Sigfried Gruning | |
| Think Fast, Mr. Moto | 1937 | Kentaro Moto | |
| Nancy Steele Is Missing! | 1937 | Prof. Sturm | |
| Crack-Up | 1936 | Colonel Gimpy | |
| Secret Agent | 1936 | The General | |
| Crime and Punishment | 1935 | Roderick Raskolnikov | |
| Mad Love | 1935 | Doctor Gogol | |
| The Man Who Knew Too Much | 1934 | Abbott | |
| Du haut en bas | 1933 | Le mendiant | |
| Unsichtbare Gegner | 1933 | Henry Pless | |
| Les requins du pétrole | 1933 | Henry Pless | |
| Was Frauen träumen | 1933 | Otto Fuessli | |
| F.P.1 Doesn't Answer | 1932 | Bildreporter Johnny | |
| Stupéfiants | 1932 | Le bossu | |
| Dope | 1932 | Hunchback | |
| Schuß im Morgengrauen | 1932 | Klotz | |
| Fünf von der Jazzband | 1932 | Car thief | |
| A Man's a Man | 1931 | Galy Gay - a packer | |
| Die Koffer des Herrn O.F. | 1931 | Redakteur Stix | |
| Bombs Over Monte Carlo | 1931 | Pawlitschek | |
| M | 1931 | Hans Beckert | |
| Der weiße Teufel | 1930 | ||
| Die verschwundene Frau | 1929 | Patient of a Dentist (uncredited) | |
| The Patsy | 1964 | Morgan Heywood | |
| Muscle Beach Party | 1964 | Mr. Strangdour | |
| The Comedy of Terrors | 1963 | Felix Gillie | |
| Kraft Suspense Theatre | 1963 | TV Series | Frederick Bergen |
| 77 Sunset Strip | 1963 | TV Series | The Gypsy |
| The DuPont Show of the Week | 1963 | TV Series | Archie Lefferts |
| The Raven | 1963 | Dr. Adolphus Bedlo | |
| Route 66 | 1962 | TV Series | Peter Lorre |
| Five Weeks in a Balloon | 1962 | Ahmed | |
| Tales of Terror | 1962 | Montresor (segment "The Black Cat") | |
| The Gertrude Berg Show | 1961 | TV Series | Professor Kestner |
| Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea | 1961 | Comm. Lucius Emery | |
| The Best of the Post | 1961 | TV Series | Baron |
Soundtrack
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Jack Benny Program | 1963 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
| Silk Stockings | 1957 | performer: "Too Bad We Can't Go Back to Moscow", "Red Blues", "Siberia" - uncredited | |
| One in a Million | 1936 | "Horror Boys of Hollywood" 1936 | |
| Bombs Over Monte Carlo | 1931 | performer: "Jawohl, Herr Kapitän" | |
| M | 1931 | performer: "La Marseillaise" - uncredited |
Writer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Der Verlorene | 1951 | novel / screenplay |
Director
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Der Verlorene | 1951 |
Miscellaneous
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| 49/95: Tausendjahrekino | 1995 | Documentary short voice |
Thanks
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Evocator | 2009 | Short grateful acknowledgment |
Self
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Merv Griffin Show | 1963 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show | 1963 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | 1963 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| The Jack Benny Program | 1963 | TV Series | Himself / Luverne Goodheart |
| Tell It to Groucho | 1962 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Jack Paar Tonight Show | 1960-1961 | TV Series | Himself |
| Here's Hollywood | 1961 | TV Series | Himself |
| I've Got a Secret | 1954-1960 | TV Series | Himself / Himself - Guest |
| What's My Line? | 1952-1960 | TV Series | Himself - Mystery Guest |
| The Bob Hope Show | 1956 | TV Series | Himself |
| Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color | 1954-1955 | TV Series | Himself |
| The George Gobel Show | 1955 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Red Skelton Hour | 1955 | TV Series | Himself / Ralph Kramden / Jackie Gleason |
| The Paul Winchell Show | 1953 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Dave Garroway Show | 1953 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Jackie Gleason Show | 1953 | TV Series | Himself |
| All Star Revue | 1953 | TV Series | Himself |
| Texaco Star Theatre | 1949-1952 | TV Series | Himself - Actor |
| Variety | 1949 | TV Series | Himself |
| Cavalcade of Stars | 1949 | TV Series | Himself - Actor |
| We, the People | 1949 | TV Series | Himself |
Archive Footage
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miss Moto, Part 1 | 2015 | Short | Mr. Moto |
| Von Caligari zu Hitler: Das deutsche Kino im Zeitalter der Massen | 2014 | Documentary | Himself |
| German Grusel - Die Edgar Wallace-Serie | 2011 | TV Movie documentary | Hans Beckert (uncredited) |
| Cabaret-Berlin, la scène sauvage | 2010 | TV Movie documentary | herr Stix |
| American Masters | 2009 | TV Series documentary | |
| Paul Merton Looks at Alfred Hitchcock | 2009 | TV Movie documentary | Abbott / The General (uncredited) |
| Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood | 2009 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The Age of Believing: The Disney Live Action Classics | 2008 | TV Movie documentary | Conseil |
| Displaced Person - Peter Lorre und sein Film 'Der Verlorene' | 2007 | Video documentary | Dr. Karl Rothe, alias Dr. Karl Neumeister |
| Cinemassacre's Monster Madness | 2007 | TV Series documentary | Dr. Adolphus Bedlo Montresor (segment "The Black Cat") |
| Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb | 2007 | Video | Mr. Jekyll |
| The Mysterious Mr. Lorre: A Conversation with Stephen Youngkin | 2006 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| Jerry Lewis - König der Komödianten | 2006 | TV Movie documentary | Morgan Heywood (uncredited) |
| The Originals | 2005 | Documentary short | Himself |
| Fritz Lang, le cercle du destin - Les films allemands | 2004 | TV Movie documentary | Hans Beckert (in "M") (uncredited) |
| The Making of '20000 Leagues Under the Sea' | 2003 | Video documentary | Himself |
| Satin and Silk | 2003 | Video short | Himself |
| Prisoner of Paradise | 2002 | Documentary | Himself |
| Das Jahrhundert des Theaters | 2002 | TV Series | Himself |
| Heroes of Horror | 2001 | TV Movie documentary | Himself Hans Beckert Joel Cairo ... |
| Film Breaks | 1999 | TV Series documentary | Mr. Moto |
| Biography | 1996-1997 | TV Series documentary | Himself / Various characters |
| Bogart: The Untold Story | 1996 | TV Movie documentary | Joel Cairo (uncredited) |
| It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein | 1994 | TV Movie documentary | |
| Dream On | 1990 | TV Series | Character in dream scene |
| Milton Berle, the Second Time Around: The Funny Fifties | 1989 | Video | |
| John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick | 1988 | Documentary | Himself |
| Das doppelte Gesicht: Peter Lorre | 1984 | TV Movie documentary | |
| Coming Soon | 1982 | Video documentary | Baron Ikito (uncredited) |
| Red Skelton: A Comedy Scrapbook | 1981 | Video documentary | Himself |
| The Hollywood Clowns | 1979 | Video documentary | |
| Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color | 1976 | TV Series | Conseil |
| Filmemigration aus Nazideutschland | 1975 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Cinéastes de notre temps | 1967 | TV Series documentary | |
| Hollywood and the Stars | 1964 | TV Series | Dr. Adolphus Bedlo |
| Hollywood: The Great Stars | 1963 | TV Movie documentary | Joel Cairo (uncredited) |
| Hour of Stars | 1956 | TV Series | |
| The Ed Sullivan Show | 1956 | TV Series | Himself |
| Undercover | 1944 | Documentary | Spy (uncredited) |
| How to Operate Behind Enemy Lines | 1943 | Documentary | Secret Agent (uncredited) |
| Der ewige Jude | 1940 | Documentary | Hans Beckert |
| Juden ohne Maske | 1937 | Documentary short |
Won Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | Star on the Walk of Fame | Walk of Fame | Motion Picture | On 8 February 1960. At 6619 Hollywood Blvd. |
| 1952 | Certificate | German Film Awards | Honorable Mention | Der Verlorene (1951) |
Nominated Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | Golden Lion | Venice Film Festival | Der Verlorene (1951) |
Known for movies
Casablanca (1942)
as Ugarte
M (1931)
as Hans Beckert
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
as Joel Cairo
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
as Abbott