Laird Cregar

Born: 1913-07-28

​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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The Lodger

as Mr. Slade
Released: 1944-01-19

In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the...

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The Black Swan

as Captain Henry Morgan
Released: 1942-12-04

When notorious pirate Henry Morgan is made governor of Jamaica, he enlists the help of some of...

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I Wake Up Screaming

as Police Insp. Ed Cornell
Released: 1941-10-31

A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a...

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This Gun for Hire

as Willard Gates
Released: 1942-04-24

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Heaven Can Wait

as His Excellency
Released: 1943-08-05

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Blood and Sand

as Natalio Curro
Released: 1941-05-30

Bullfighter Juan Gallardo falls for socialite Dona Sol, turning from the faithful Carmen who...

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Hello, Frisco, Hello

as Sam Weaver
Released: 1943-03-26

In turn-of-the-century San Francisco, an ambitious vaudevillian takes his quartet from a honky...

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Hangover Square

as George Harvey Bone
Released: 1945-02-07

When composer George Harvey Bone wakes with no memory of the previous night and a bloody knife...

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Ten Gentlemen from West Point

as Maj. Sam Carter
Released: 1942-06-26

This historical drama tells the story of the first class to graduate from the U.S. Military...

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Hudson's Bay

as Gooseberry
Released: 1941-01-03

Highly fictionalized early history of Canada. Trapper/explorer Radisson imagines an empire...

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Holy Matrimony

as Clive Oxford
Released: 1943-08-24

An artist returning from years abroad takes the identity of his dead valet and gets married, but...

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Rings on Her Fingers

as Warren
Released: 1942-03-20

Susan Miller works behind the girdle counter in a department store and dreams about the...

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Joan of Paris

as Herr Funk
Released: 1942-01-20

An RAF squadron is brought down over occupied France. The flyers get to Paris in spite of the...

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Charley's Aunt

as Sir Francis Chesney
Released: 1941-08-01

In 1890, two students at Oxford force their rascally friend and fellow student to pose as an...

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The Tragic Mask: The Laird Cregar Story

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2007-10-09

A biography of the short-lived character actor Laird Cregar.

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Fat Chance

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2021-06-02

Hollywood noir icon Laird Cregar's inner turmoil as a black-on-grey delirium of shadows and...

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