Laird Cregar

Actor

About

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Also Known As

Samuel Laird Cregar

Birth Place

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Born

July 28, 1916

Died

December 09, 1944

Cause of Death

Heart Attack From Crash Diet

Filmography

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Hangover Square (1945)

George Harvey Bone

The Lodger (1944)

The Lodger, Slade

Heaven Can Wait (1943)

Holy Matrimony (1943)

Hello Frisco, Hello (1943)

This Gun for Hire (1942)

Photos & Videos

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I Wake Up Screaming (1941) -- Rough Cut Trailer

This Gun For Hire (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Now You See It...

Notes

His last name was pronounced to rhyme with cigar.

Biography

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Hangover Square (1945)

George Harvey Bone

The Lodger (1944)

The Lodger, Slade

Heaven Can Wait (1943)

Holy Matrimony (1943)

Hello Frisco, Hello (1943)

This Gun for Hire (1942)

Rings on Her Fingers (1942)

The Black Swan (1942)

Captain Henry Morgan

Joan of Paris (1942)

Ten Gentlemen from West Point (1942)

Major Sam Carter

Blood and Sand (1941)

Charley's Aunt (1941)

Sir Francis Chesney

Hudson's Bay (1941)

Gooseberry [Médard Chouart Sieur Designer Groseilliers]

I Wake Up Screaming (1941)

Oh, Johnny, How You Can Love (1940)

Granny Get Your Gun (1940)

Life Events

1929

Returned to Philadelphia from England

1940

Film acting debut

Photo Collections

Hangover Square - Lobby Cards

Here are a few lobby cards from Fox's Hangover Square (1944), starring Laird Cregar, Linda Darnell, and George Sanders. Lobby Cards were 11" x 14" posters that came in sets of 8. As the name implies, they were most often displayed in movie theater lobbies, to advertise current or coming attractions.

The Lodger - Movie Poster

Here is the American one-sheet movie poster for Fox's The Lodger (1944), starring Merle Oberon, Laird Cregar, and George Sanders. One-sheets measured 27x41 inches, and were the poster style most commonly used in theaters.

Videos

This Gun For Hire (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Now You See It... First appearance by Veronica Lake as singer-magician "Ellen," auditioning for night club operator and industrial spy Gates (Laird Cregar), song by Jacques Press and Frank Loesser, in This Gun For Hire, 1942.

Black Swan, The (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Ye Porker's Sterne At a tavern in Jamaica, 1674, pirate Leech (George Sanders) dominates until challenged by rival Waring (Tyrone Power) and sidekick (Thomas Mitchell), fencing until the apparently legit new English governor Morgan (Laird Cregar) intervenes, in The Black Swan, 1942, co-starring Maureen O'Hara.

Blood And Sand (1941) -- (Movie Clip) Death Of This Noble Bull In Seville, big coming-out for humble bullfighter Juan (Tyrone Power), the noted temptress Dona Sol (Rita Hayworth, escorted by George "Superman" Reeves) in the crowd, won over along with stubborn critic Curro (Laird Cregar), in Rouben Mamoulian's Blood And Sand, 1941.

Blood And Sand (1941) -- (Movie Clip) Would You Like To Dance? In some sense the whole point of the movie, in which rival toreador Manolo (Anthony Quinn) invites temptress Dona Sol (Rita Hayworth) to dance, leaving her married consort, our hero Juan (Tyrone Power), fuming, in Blood And Sand, 1941, Rouben Mamoulian directing.

Heaven Can Wait (1943) -- (Movie Clip) The Music Down Here Both director Ernst Lubitsch and Laird Cregar as the head guy in hell seem very comfortable, Don Ameche barely recognizable as the aged quasi-protagonist Van Cleve, opening the original Heaven Can Wait, 1943, also starring Gene Tierney.

I Wake Up Screaming (1941) -- Rough Cut Trailer A not-completed trailer from 20th Century-Fox, with no graphics or voice-over but a handful of slick edit effects and tasty bits of Betty Grable, Carole Landis and Victor Mature in the lead roles, in the early-Noir based on a Steve Fisher novel, I Wake Up Screaming, 1941.

Family

Edward Cregar

Father

Wool importer.

Bibliography

Notes

His last name was pronounced to rhyme with cigar.

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