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