The Animated Peter Lorre

[CBHagman]

He's everywhere!

Actor Peter Lorre (1904-1964) appeared in everything from classics such as M, The Maltese Falcon, and Casablanca to horror comedies starring Vincent Price. And with his distinctive voice and looks, Lorre also became a favorite inspiration for cartoonists.

Well, now there's a book on that whole phenomenon.

http://www.tcm.com/this-month/movie-news.html?id=1569725&name=The-Animated-Peter-Lorre

Author Matthew Hahn has found over 700 instances of animated cartoons using Lorre's face or voice or both. Often cast as a mad scientist or a hunchbacked assistant, Lorre has also been seen as a pig, a duck, a fish, a mole, a fox, a toad, a chameleon, a maggot, a weevil, a ghost, an evil spirit, a monster, a robot, a cyborg, a lamp, and the cereal mascot Boo Berry. His animated avatar has played opposite Mr. Magoo, Beany and Cecil, Bozo the Clown, Snagglepuss, Dick Tracy, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Scooby-Doo, Mighty Mouse, Milton the Monster, Secret Squirrel, The Beatles, Tiny Toons, Chip 'n Dale, Duckman, The Flintstones, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Count Duckula, Yu-Gi-Oh, Animaniacs, The Tick, Timon & Pumbaa, Duck Dodgers, Mega Man, Crash Bandicoot, and Harvey Birdman. He has appeared in Aladdin (1992), Corpse Bride (2005), The Brave Little Toaster (1987), Stingray (1964), Family Guy (1999), Robot Chicken (2005), Mighty Magiswords (2015), and The Ren & Stimpy Show (1991). Here are all known instances of the animated Peter Lorre in theatrical cartoons, TV shows, commercials, video games, and more, including abandoned projects, coincidences, connections, and apocrypha. Illustrated. Includes index, notes, and bibliography. This book should be on the shelf of all animation aficionados, classic movie fans, gamers, pop culture enthusiasts, history buffs and lovers of fun facts.

[Salviati]

1. I knew who Peter Lorre was long before I saw him in a live action film...

Thanks to Looney Tunes and his other animated appearances. He's my primary example of cultural osmosis, where you become familiar with a thing through all the references to it, without ever having seen the ur-thing.

[lapfog_1]

2. A classic movie icon

On a morning from a Bogart movie
In a country where they turn back time
You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre
Contemplating a crime
She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running
Like a watercolor in the rain
Don't bother asking for explanations
She'll just tell you that she came
In the year of the cat
She doesn't give you time for questions
As she locks up your arm in hers
And you follow 'till your sense of which direction
Completely disappears
By the blue tiled walls near the market stalls
There's a hidden door she leads you to
These days, she says, I feel my life
Just like a river running through
The year of the cat
While she looks at you so cooly
And her eyes shine like the moon in the sea
She comes in incense and patchouli
So you take her,…








Source: LyricFind

[CBHagman]

3. I LOVE that lyric from "Year of the Cat."

And I belatedly learned it's not the only song to reference Peter Lorre.