TCM Celebrates Sydney Greenstreet Birthday

On Tuesday, December 27, 2022, the Turner Classic Movies channel celebrates the 143rd birthday of frequent Lorre co-star Sydney Greenstreet with a day of movies featuring the rotund actor, beginning at 6 am Eastern Standard Time.

The celebration begins with four Peter Lorre movies, then ends the marathon with their first pairing.

Here’s the full schedule ~

• Background to Danger (1943) – 6 am
• The Conspirators (1944) – 7:30 am
• The Mask of Dimitrios (1944) – 9:15 am
• Three Strangers (1945) – 11 am
• The Woman in White (1948) – 12:45 pm
• Flamingo Road (1949) – 2:45 pm
• Pillow to Post (1945) – 4:30 pm
• The Maltese Falcon (1941) – 6:15 pm

Sydney Greenstreet was born on December 27, 1879. After a long career in British and American theater, he began a film career at age 61 in The Maltese Falcon in 1941 and continued for another decade before retiring.

In the pages of The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre (2005), Stephen Youngkin recounts the on-screen partnership of Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet through nine movies and several radio plays in the early and mid-1940s, ending with The Verdict in 1946.

The Appendix of The Lost One includes a list of both their movies and their appearances on radio.

The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre may be purchased from many brick-and-mortar shops, as well as these online merchants ~

• Amazon U.S.
• Amazon Canada
• Amazon U.K