Is the subject of a stage show and album by the World/Inferno Friendship Society called Peter Lorre's 20th Century: Addicted to Bad Ideas. The music is meant to outline Lorre's life, and the show is narrated with monologues and dialog between band members.
It was reportedly Josef Goebbels himself who warned Lorre to flee Germany.
Lorre is the inspiration for the ghost mascot of the General Mills cereal, Boo Berry.
Lorre suggested to Harry Cohn of Columbia that they make a film version of Crime and Punishment (1935/I) with him in the role of Raskolnikov. Cohn agreed to the project if Lorre would agree to be loaned out to MGM for Mad Love (1935).
Lorre's speech and mannerisms provided the inspiration for the villainous 'Rocky Rococo' character in the Firesign Theater's 1968 radio play "The Adventures of Nick Danger, Third Eye".
Mentioned in the lyrics of Al Stewart's 1976 hit song "Year of the Cat".
Remained friends with all his wives. His third wife's ashes are combined with his, despite their being separated at the time of his death.
Seems to be the object of tribute in many animated works, such as N. Gin in Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex (2001) (VG), the Ceiling Lamp in The Brave Little Toaster (1987), Ren Hoek in "The Ren & Stimpy Show" (1991), the Maggot in Corpse Bride (2005) and a mad scientist and gangster in several Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoons.
Separated from wife, Annemarie Brenning, October 1962; a divorce hearing had been scheduled for the day Lorre died, 23 March 1964.
Subject of a 1986 Jazz Butcher Conspiracy song.
Was a favorite characterization for the famed Warner Bros. cartoonists, as he tangled several times with Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck. He was also portrayed as a fish in a Dr. Seuss Warner Bros. cartoon, Horton Hatches the Egg (1942).
Was the very first James Bond villain; he played Le Chiffre in a 1954 version of Casino Royale on the TV show "Climax!" (1954).
When he arrived in Great Britain, his first meeting with a British director was with Alfred Hitchcock. By smiling and laughing as Hitchcock talked, the director was unaware that Lorre had a limited command of the English language. Hitchcock cast him in The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934). Lorre learned much of his part phonetically.