Name
Laird Cregar
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1913-07-28
Deathday
1944-12-09 (31 years old)
Place of Birth
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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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Known For
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- 1941 I Wake Up Screaming as Police Insp. Ed Cornell
- 1944 The Lodger as Mr. Slade
- 1945 Hangover Square as George Harvey Bone
- 1942 The Black Swan as Captain Henry Morgan
- 1941 Blood and Sand as Natalio Curro
- 1942 Joan of Paris as Herr Funk
- 1942 This Gun for Hire as Willard Gates
- 1943 Heaven Can Wait as His Excellency
- 1942 Rings on Her Fingers as Warren
- 1940 Hudson's Bay as Gooseberry
- 1941 Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1 as Self
- 1943 Holy Matrimony as Clive Oxford
- 1942 Ten Gentlemen from West Point as Maj. Sam Carter
- 1943 Hello, Frisco, Hello as Sam Weaver
- 1941 Charley's Aunt as Sir Francis Chesney
- 2007 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)
- 2021 Fat Chance as Self (archive footage)
