FrameThrower · Actors · Peter Lorre
Peter Lorre
4 films · 260 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1931–1942
Born 26 June 1904 · Rózsahegy (now Ružomberok), Austria-Hungary (now Slovakia) · died 23 March 1964
Peter Lorre was a Hungarian-American actor frequently typecast as a sinister foreigner.
He caused an international sensation in 1931 with his portrayal of a serial killer who preys on little girls in the German film M. Later he became a popular featured player in Hollywood crime films and mysteries, notably alongside Humphrey Bogart and Sydney Greenstreet, and as the star of the successful Mr. Moto detective series.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 4 films · 260 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1931–1942
- German Film Award
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 260 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Peter takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 4 films we hold, 73% of their frames are night, 56% low key — the look of the work Peter takes.
Time of day
Lighting
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Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 260 frames from Peter Lorre's 4 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.