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A character played by this actor sets off his watch’s chime at a shooting competition in Switzerland, causing Jill to lose the final. That film ends with the police storming a building after a prolonged shootout with this actor’s character, who attempts to hide behind a door, but is discovered when the same watch begins chiming. This actor played a criminal mastermind with a distinctive white streak in his hair in (*) Hitchcock’s original 1934 version of The Man Who Knew Too (10[1])Much. Another character played by this actor breaks down and collapses while describing “this evil thing inside me” to an angry mob led by a man in a leather overcoat. In that film, a man uses chalk to mark this actor’s character, who a blind balloon seller identifies by his whistling of “In the Hall of the Mountain King.” For 10 points, name this actor who portrayed a serial killer of children in Fritz Lang’s M. ■END■

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