Laird Cregar
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.
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- 2021 · Fat Chance as Self (archive footage)
- 2007 · Man In the Attic: The Making of "The Lodger" as Self (archive footage)
- 2007 · The Tragic Mask: The Laird Cregar Story as Self (archive footage)
- 1945 · Hangover Square as George Harvey Bone
- 1944 · The Lodger as Mr. Slade
- 1943 · Holy Matrimony as Clive Oxford
- 1943 · Heaven Can Wait as His Excellency
- 1943 · Hello, Frisco, Hello as Sam Weaver
- 1942 · The Black Swan as Captain Henry Morgan
- 1942 · Ten Gentlemen from West Point as Maj. Sam Carter
- 1942 · This Gun for Hire as Willard Gates
- 1942 · Rings on Her Fingers as Warren
- 1942 · Joan of Paris as Herr Funk
- 1941 · I Wake Up Screaming as Police Insp. Ed Cornell
- 1941 · Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1 as Self
- 1941 · Charley's Aunt as Sir Francis Chesney
- 1941 · Blood and Sand as Natalio Curro
- 1941 · Hudson's Bay as Gooseberry