Laird Cregar
Actor
- Born
- July 28, 1913 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Died
- December 9, 1944 (age 31)
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Laird Cregar (July 28, 1913 – December 9, 1944) was an American film actor.
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Samuel Laird Cregar was the youngest of six sons of Edward Matthews Cregar, a cricketer and member of a team called the Gentlemen of Philadelphia. They toured internationally in the late 1890s and early 1900s. Laird's mother was the former Elizabeth Smith.
Laird Cregar was educated at Winchester College in England, spending his summers as a page boy and bit player with the Stratford-upon-Avon theatrical troupe. Upon completing his schooling, Cregar won a scholarship at California's Pasadena Playhouse, supporting himself as a nightclub bouncer when funds ran out. So broke that at times he had to sleep in his car, Cregar forced Hollywood to pay attention to him by staging his own one-man show, in which he portrayed Oscar Wilde.
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Known for
Heaven Can Wait
August 5, 1943
This Gun for Hire
April 24, 1942
The Lodger
January 19, 1944
The Black Swan
December 4, 1942
I Wake Up Screaming
October 31, 1941
Hangover Square
February 7, 1945
Blood and Sand
May 30, 1941
Hello, Frisco, Hello
March 26, 1943
Rings on Her Fingers
March 20, 1942
Holy Matrimony
August 24, 1943
Joan of Paris
January 20, 1942
Hudson's Bay
December 24, 1940
Acting18
- 2021Fat Chance as Self (archive footage)
- 2007The Tragic Mask: The Laird Cregar Story as Self (archive footage)
- 2007Man In the Attic: The Making of "The Lodger" as Self (archive footage)
- 1945Hangover Square as George Harvey Bone
- 1944The Lodger as Mr. Slade
- 1943Holy Matrimony as Clive Oxford
- 1943Heaven Can Wait as His Excellency
- 1943Hello, Frisco, Hello as Sam Weaver
- 1942The Black Swan as Captain Henry Morgan
- 1942