Another great actor for whom a role symbolises the way in which strange-looking actors can end up being typecast was Hungarian-born Peter Lorre - like Jackie Earle Haley he too came to the attention of critics and movie fans with a performance as a pervert who abuses children in Fritz Lang's M. While fans of Hollywood movies will no doubt be familiar with Lorre from his appearance in Casablanca, it was Lang's film that brought him to wider attention and launched his career as a world-renowned actor. Hans Beckert, the child killer played by Lorre, is one of the greatest screen villains of all time, and Lorre's furtive glances through bulbous eyes lent the character real menace. Not surprisingly, Lorre was stuck with playing the villain in many movies which followed, but appearances in movies by filmmaking legends such as Alfred Hitchcock and Frank Capra no doubt made this typecasting far more palatable.