The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre

Stephen D. Youngkin

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Often typecast as a menacing figure, Peter Lorre achieved Hollywood fame first as a featured player and later as a character actor, trademarking his screen performances with a delicately strung balance between good and evil. His portrayal of the child murderer in Fritz Lang's masterpiece M (1931) catapulted him to international fame. Lang said of Lorre: "He gave one of the best performances in film history and certainly the best in his life." Today, the Hungarian-born actor is also recognized fo

Book Details

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Publish Date: Jan 6th, 2012
Pages: 680
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 9.19in - 6.10in - 1.61in - 2.14lb
EAN: 9780813136066
Categories: • Entertainment & Performing Arts• Film - History & Criticism• Rich & Famous

About the Author

Youngkin, Stephen D.: - Stephen D. Youngkin is coauthor of The Films of Peter Lorre and Peter Lorre: Portrait des Schauspielers auf der Flucht. He appeared as an expert biographer on the German television documentary Das Doppelte Gesicht (The Double Face) and A&E's Biography tribute to Peter Lorre.

Praise for this book

"Finalist for the 2005 Theater Library Association Award." --

"Winner of the 2005 Rondo Hatton Award" -- Winner of the Best Book of 2005 in the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards

"Youngkin gets behind the image to incise a definitive portrait, and Lorre becomes a likeness we can like in-depth." -- Choice

"Youngkin's massively researched opus, drawing on over 300 interviews he conducted, lives up to the task of conveying Lorre's personal tragedy.... Readably written, spiced up with occasionally very amusing anecdotes, acerbic asides and insightful conclusions." -- Cineaste

"The colossal assemblage of research has been whipped into a compelling biographical narrative." -- Filmmonthly

"Youngkin makes a strong case for Lorre as one of cinema's most underrated actors, exploring in detail his early stage work in Europe, his largely forgotten performances in radio and television, and of course his role as the child murderer in Fritz Lang's classic crime film M, which would forever define Lorre as a celluloid bogeyman." -- Florida Newspaper

"Youngkin peels back the layers of Lorre's life to reveal a fascinating, nuanced individual who struggled with intellectual issues in the midst of glamour and fame." -- Library Journal (starred review)

"As the very first biography of Lorre, The Lost One does not disappoint.... A welcome revelation indeed." -- MovieMaker

"Youngkin's life of Lorre is a monumental piece of research and sheds new light on a career that has too long been ignored and undervalued." -- San Diego Union-Tribune

"You couldn't ask for a better book about Lorre. It will become the single most important book about Lorre's life and career, without question." -- Washington Post Book World

"[The book] is one of the finest biographies of an actor ever written, on a par with Patricia Bosworth's Montgomery Clift and Charles Winecoff's Split Image: The Life of Andy Perkins." -- Herbert Shadrack, www.cinemaretro.com

"A good book on an important film figure [who] certainly deserves this exhaustive look at his life andcareer." -- Great Old Movies