Laird Cregar
Birthday: 1913-07-28 | Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USAFrom 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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Acting
Role
as Self (archive footage)
as George Harvey Bone
as Mr. Slade
as His Excellency
as Sam Weaver
as Herr Funk
as Willard Gates
as Gooseberry
as Natalio Curro
as Police Insp. Ed Cornell
as Sir Francis Chesney
