​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

• 1945Hangover Square — George Harvey Bone
• 1944The Lodger — Mr. Slade
• 1943Heaven Can Wait — His Excellency
• 1943Hello, Frisco, Hello — Sam Weaver
• 1943Holy Matrimony — Clive Oxford
• 1942Joan of Paris — Herr Funk
• 1942Rings on Her Fingers — Warren
• 1942Ten Gentlemen from West Point — Maj. Sam Carter
• 1942The Black Swan — Captain Henry Morgan
• 1942This Gun for Hire — Willard Gates
• 1941Blood and Sand — Natalio Curro
• 1941Charley's Aunt — Sir Francis Chesney
• 1941I Wake Up Screaming — Police Insp. Ed Cornell
• 1940Hudson's Bay — Gooseberry

Appearances as themselves (4)

• 2021Fat Chance — Self (archive footage)
• 2007Man In the Attic: The Making of "The Lodger" — Self (archive footage)
• 2007The Tragic Mask: The Laird Cregar Story — Self (archive footage)
• 1941Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1 — Self