You know, Rick, I have many a friend in Casablanca, but somehow, just because you despise me, you are the only one I trust.
Lorre is buried in the Hollywood Forever Cemetary in Los Angeles.
Lorre has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It is located at 6619 Hollywood Boulevard.
Lorre filed for and received a discharge in Bankruptcy in 1949.
Was close friends with famed playwright Berthold Brecht.
Lorre played a clown in the 1959 film The Big Circus in which he co-starred for the first time with Vincent Price.
Future superstar Jack Nicholson co-starred with Lorre in The Raven.
The effects of diabetes and morphine addiction led to a huge weight gain for Lorre during the last decade of his life.
Lorre and M director Fritz Lang grew to detest one another over the course of filming and rarely socialized once both men moved to Hollywood.
Lorre became friends with Barbara Eden when they appeared together in the movie Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
Was one of numerous Hollywood stars to make a cameo appearance in the 1956 film Around the World in 80 Days.
He was close friends with fellow horror genre actors Boris Karloff and Vincent Price appearing with both in the films Comedy of Terrors and The Raven.
Lorre once joked that all anyone needed to imitate him was a bedroom voice and a pair of hard boiled eggs.
On the set of My Favorite Brunette, Lorre and Lon Chaney, Jr. were playing with Dorothy Lamour's young son when Bob Hope joined them. The young toddler began bawling upon noticing Hope's presence. Hope then proclaimed himself the world's greatest horror star ahead of Chaney and Lorre because he had apparently frightened the young child whereas they had not.
Lorre's character in "M" whistles a sinister tune whenever he appears on screen. In reality, Lorre could not whistle and director Fritz Lang did the whistling.
According to Hollywood lore, Lorre was the one who convinced Humphrey Bogart to marry Lauren Bacall despite their age differences. He reportedly told Bogart that "Five good years are better than no years at all."
His most famous TV guest shot was an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents entitled Man from the South in which Lorre co-starred with Steve McQueen.
Lorre was married to Celia Lovsky from 1934-1945, to Kaaren Verne from 1945-50, and to Annemarie Brenning from 1953 until his death.
Lorre appeared in eight films with Sydney Greenstreet.
Lon Chaney Jr.'s wife Patsy reportedly could not stand to even be in Lorre's presence so the two veteran heavies never socialized although the two men got along well on the set when they worked together.
The film that first garnered Lorre acclaim and made him an international sensation was Fritz Lang's "M" in which Lorre played a child murder.
Lorre was a fan of the Los Angeles Angels baseball team.
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