Laird Cregar
Date of birth: 1913-07-28
Place of birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Samuel Laird Cregar, Лэйрд Крегар, Лерд Крегар
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Laird Cregar, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movie Credits
I Wake Up Screaming
1941-10-31
A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitre
The Lodger
1944-01-19
In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lo
Hangover Square
1945-02-07
When composer George Harvey Bone wakes with no memory of the previous night and a bloody knife in hi
The Black Swan
1942-12-04
When notorious pirate Henry Morgan is made governor of Jamaica, he enlists the help of some of his f
Blood and Sand
1941-05-30
Bullfighter Juan Gallardo falls for socialite Dona Sol, turning from the faithful Carmen who neverth
Joan of Paris
1942-01-20
An RAF squadron is brought down over occupied France. The flyers get to Paris in spite of the fact t
This Gun for Hire
1942-04-24
Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bill
Heaven Can Wait
1943-08-05
Spoiled playboy Henry van Cleve dies and arrives at the entrance to Hell, a final destination he is
Rings on Her Fingers
1942-03-20
Susan Miller works behind the girdle counter in a department store and dreams about the beautiful cl
Hudson's Bay
1941-01-03
Highly fictionalized early history of Canada. Trapper/explorer Radisson imagines an empire around Hu
Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1
1941-08-15
This edition of Screen Snapshots has more of a vaudeville flavor as opposed to Ralph Staub's usual c
Holy Matrimony
1943-08-24
An artist returning from years abroad takes the identity of his dead valet and gets married, but the
Ten Gentlemen from West Point
1942-06-26
This historical drama tells the story of the first class to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy
Hello, Frisco, Hello
1943-03-26
In turn-of-the-century San Francisco, an ambitious vaudevillian takes his quartet from a honky tonk
Charley's Aunt
1941-08-01
In 1890, two students at Oxford force their rascally friend and fellow student to pose as an aunt fr
The Tragic Mask: The Laird Cregar Story
2007-10-09
A biography of the short-lived character actor Laird Cregar.
Man In the Attic: The Making of "The Lodger"
2007-10-09
This short documentary takes a look at the making of Twentieth Century Fox's 1944 film "The Lodger".
Fat Chance
2021-06-02
Hollywood noir icon Laird Cregar's inner turmoil as a black-on-grey delirium of shadows and spectres