Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California, U.S.
Occupation
Actor
Years active
1938–1944
Samuel Laird Cregar (known professionally as Laird Cregar, July 28, 1913 – December 9, 1944) was an American stage and film actor. Cregar was best known for his villainous performances in films such as I Wake Up Screaming (1941), This Gun For Hire (1942) and The Lodger (1944).
Cregar's screen career began in 1940 with small uncredited roles in films. By 1941, he had signed a film contract with 20th Century Fox. Cregar quickly rose to stardom, appearing in a variety of genres from film noir to screwball comedy to horror movies. He was a popular actor at the time of his death in 1944 at age 31, a result of complications from binge dieting undertaken to suit him for leading man roles.
^1920 U.S. Census, State of Pennsylvania, County of Philadelphia, enumeration district 621, p. 5-B, family 115.
^1930 U.S. Census, State of Pennsylvania, County of Philadelphia, enumeration district 636, p. 1-A, family 9.
^Brettell, Andrew; King, Noel; Kennedy, Damien; Imwold, Denise (2005). Cut!: Hollywood Murders, Accidents, and Other Tragedies. Leonard, Warren Hsu; von Rohr, Heather. Barrons Educational Series. p. 64. ISBN 0-7641-5858-9.
Samuel LairdCregar (known professionally as LairdCregar, July 28, 1913 – December 9, 1944) was an American stage and film actor. Cregar was best known...
directed by Frank Tuttle and starring Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, LairdCregar, and Alan Ladd. It is based on the 1936 novel A Gun for Sale by Graham...
60-minute version of the novel, starring Edward G. Robinson as Spade and LairdCregar as Gutman Academy Award Theatre: "The Maltese Falcon" (1946, CBS): 30-minute...
Webb too effeminate as a person and an actor; he wanted LairdCregar to play the role; but Cregar by then was well established as an on-screen villain and...
England. It stars Michèle Morgan and Paul Henreid, with Thomas Mitchell, LairdCregar and May Robson in her last role. Joan of Paris marked the U.S. screen...
Fonda as John Wheeler Gene Tierney as Susan Miller / "Linda Worthington" LairdCregar as Warren Spring Byington as Mrs. Maybelle Worthington Shepperd Strudwick...
Lynn Victor Mature as Frankie Christopher Carole Landis as Vicky Lynn LairdCregar as Ed Cornell Alan Mowbray as Robin Ray Allyn Joslyn as Larry Evans Elisha...
380 "This Gun for Hire" (January 25, 1943) – with Joan Blondell and LairdCregar Wings to Victory (March 25, 1943) "Musically Inclined" for Silver Theater...
adaption of the book by 20th Century Fox, where the villain played by LairdCregar is seen burning an ulster coat in the fire after committing a murderous...
Youssef Chahine Jack T. Chick Lee J. Cobb Maxine Cooper Gomberg John Conte LairdCregar Donald Curtis Merle Dandridge Helmut Dantine Henry Darrow Herschel Daugherty...
Hudson's Bay Pierre-Esprit Radisson Paul Muni Médard des Groseilliers LairdCregar Men of Boys Town Edward J. Flanagan Spencer Tracy Ohm Kruger Paul Kruger...
1897) November 27 – Jill Furse, British actress (born 1915) December 9 – LairdCregar, American actor (born 1913) December 13 – Lupe Vélez, Mexican actress...
starring Johnny Mack Brown and Jennifer Holt Hangover Square, starring LairdCregar, Linda Darnell and George Sanders Here Come the Co-Eds, starring Bud...
announced that he would play the detective in Laura (1944) alongside LairdCregar, but neither ended up being in the final film. In 1947, Sanders portrayed...
series Suspense, in the episode "The Last Letter of Dr. Bronson" with LairdCregar and in 1944, "Portrait without a Face". In Citizen Kane (1941), Coulouris...
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