Laird Cregar
Actor
Biography
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Laird Cregar (July 28, 1913 – December 9, 1944) was an American film actor.
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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Filmography
This Gun for Hire
as Willard Gates 1942
The Lodger
as Mr. Slade 1944
The Black Swan
as Captain Henry Morgan 1942
I Wake Up Screaming
as Police Insp. Ed Cornell 1941
Hangover Square
as George Harvey Bone 1945
Blood and Sand
as Natalio Curro 1941
Hello, Frisco, Hello
as Sam Weaver 1943
Holy Matrimony
as Clive Oxford 1943
Joan of Paris
as Herr Funk 1942
Rings on Her Fingers
as Warren 1942
Hudson's Bay
as Gooseberry 1940
Charley's Aunt
as Sir Francis Chesney 1941
Ten Gentlemen from West Point
as Maj. Sam Carter 1942
The Tragic Mask: The Laird Cregar Story
as Self (archive footage) 2007
Man In the Attic: The Making of "The Lodger"
as Self (archive footage) 2007
Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1
as Self 1941