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Peter Lorre's page on the TV Guide Channel website lists the Lorre films scheduled on various television channels over a 2-week period.
May, 2018
A handful of Lorre films for May, plus one of his many television appearances.
May 3 (Thurs), 2 pm, Starz Westerns channel – Wagon Train, “The Alexander Portlass Story” (originally broadcast over NBC, Mar. 16, 1960).
May 6 (Sun), 10:20 pm, Movies! Network – Quicksand (1950).
May 12 (Sat), 1 am, Movies! Network – Quicksand (1950).
May 20 (Sun), 4 am, Movies! Network – Quicksand (1950).
May 21 (Mon), 10:15 pm, Turner Classic Movies channel – Casablanca (1942). TCM’s primetime theme is “The Four Freedoms” with a series of five movies, including this wartime classic. Harvey J. Kaye, author of The Fight for the Four Freedoms: What Made FDR and the Greatest Generation Truly Great (2014), co-hosts the evening with TCM host Ben Mankiewicz and discusses the two freedoms associated with Casablanca – the Freedom of Worship and the Freedom of Speech.
May 24 (Thurs), 6 am, Movies! Network – Quicksand (1950).
May 27 (Sun), 7:45 am, TCM – Hollywood Canteen (1944). Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet appear as themselves in this star-studded extravaganza about the famed servicemen’s canteen.
May 29 (Tues), 7:45 am, TCM – My Favorite Brunette (1947). TCM salutes Bob Hope’s birthday with the only movie Bob made with Peter – a comic take-off on mystery and suspense movies.
June, 2018
June 26 is the 114th anniversary of Peter Lorre’s birth – June 26, 1904 – and for Lorre fans, June brings many Lorre movies on the Turner Classic Movies channel.
June 2 (Sat), 2 pm, TCM – Around the World in 80 Days (1956).
June 2 (Sat), 8 pm, TCM – Three Strangers (1946). The primetime theme is “Stranger Danger”, with a double-feature of movies involving strangers. Peter joins Sydney Greenstreet and Geraldine Fitzgerald as the title characters, who make a wish on a Chinese statue, with unfortunate results.
June 4 (Mon), 6:15, TCM – They Met in Bombay (1941). TCM wishes Rosalind Russell a happy birthday with a morning and afternoon of her films, including the only movie she made with Peter, who plays the Chinese skipper of a tramp steamer bound for Hong Kong and who takes the escaping jewel thieves Rosalind Russell and Clark Gable as passengers – for a price.
June 8 (Fri), 11:30 am, TCM – Hotel Berlin (1945). Check in to TCM’s daytime theme of “Five Star Hotels”.
June 14 (Thurs), 2 am, TCM – Hollywood Canteen (1944). Every Tuesday and Thursday in June, TCM turns the spotlight on movie musicals with their series "Mad About Musicals". Today, the focus is on musicals of the 1940
June 18 (Mon), 9:15 am, TCM – Muscle Beach Party (1964). TCM's daytime theme is "Summer at the Drive-In", including this entry in the popular Beach Party series of Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello films.
June 19 (Tues), 12 noon, TCM – Silk Stockings (1957). TCM's spotlight series continues with "Mad About Musicals: The 1950s".
June 25 (Mon), 4 pm, MeTV channel – Wagon Train, "The Alexander Portlass Story" (originally broadcast over NBC, Mar. 16, 1960).
June 29 (Fri), TCM – Although June 26 is Peter Lorre's birthday, TCM celebrates his 114th birthday today with a daytime theme of "Peter Lorre" and a morning and afternoon of Lorre movies, beginning at 9 am and continuing until 8 pm, including ~
- 9 am, TCM – M (1931). Peter's first sound movie.
- 11 am, TCM – The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934). Peter’s first English-language film.
- 12:30 pm, TCM – Mad Love (1935). Peter’s first American film.
- 1:45 pm, TCM – Stranger on the Third Floor (1940). Peter plays the title character in the movie considered the first film noir.
- 3 pm, TCM – The Maltese Falcon (1941). Peter’s first film at the Warner Bros. studio.
- 4:45 pm, TCM – The Conspirators (1944). Peter teams up with Sydney Greenstreet as Allied agents working in Lisbon.
- 6:30 pm, TCM – The Beast with Five Fingers (1946). "Lorre Day" concludes with Peter’s final movie at Warner Bros.
July, 2018
July brings several Lorre movies and TV shows, including one of his final performances.
July 2 (Mon), 4 am, MeTV – 77 Sunset Strip, “5” (originally broadcast over ABC, Sept. 20, 1963). The 1963-64 season opened with a 5-part series of episodes with numerous guest stars, including Peter Lorre as “The Gypsy”.
July 4 (Wed), 1:30 am, MeTV – Alfred Hitchcock Presents, “The Diplomatic Corpse” (originally broadcast over CBS, Dec. 8, 1957). As Tomas Salgado, Peter helps an American couple (George Peppard, Mary Scott) locate their stolen car – and Scott’s aunt.
July 10 (Tues), 6 am, Movies! Network – Quicksand (1950).
July 15 (Sun), 11:30 am, TCM – Casablanca (1942).
July 22 (Sun), 12 noon, TCM – Arsenic and Old Lace (1944).
In The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre, Stephen D. Youngkin discusses the making of Peter’s movies, including interviews with many of the directors, writers, actors, and crew who worked with Peter.
A complete list of Peter’s movies and television credits is available in the book’s Appendix.
The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre may be purchased from Amazon U.S., Amazon Canada, and Amazon U.K, as well as other booksellers.
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