A screenshot from Casablanca showing Humphrey Bogart and Helmut Dantine. It's been 80 years since the Hollywood classic Casablanca opened nationwide. Set at Rick's Cafe, a nightclub in the Moroccan ...

Peter Lorre, 59, Hungarian-born actor whose deceptively mild manner and low-pitched voice made him one of motion pictures’ favorite villains, died in Hollywod March 23 of a stroke. Lorre has recently ...

Even if you don’t know his name, and even if you were born 30 years after he died, chances are you recognize the actor who played the creepy guy in the 1942 film Casablanca. Peter Lorre 's life ended ...

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