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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).
Laird Cregar. Actor: The Lodger. Seemingly suave, cultivated actor by nature, definitely huge in both talent and girth, and capable of playing much older than he was, Hollywood of the early '40s tragically lost Laird Cregar before it could fully comprehend on how to best utilize his obvious gifts.
Jul 22, 2021 · Laird Cregar died of a heart attack at the age of 31, following surgery. His crash diet was believed to have been a contributing factor to his death. No one was ever arrested for the murder of David Bacon.
Dec 27, 2021 · Samuel Laird Cregar was an American stage and film actor. Cregar was best known for his villainous performances in films such as I Wake Up Screaming and Th...
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.
Aug 19, 2019 · Laird was outrageous as the foppish fanboy of matadors, and his character drips with homosexual subtext. The book concedes that Cregar was gay, and that fact was commonly known in Hollywood. But what I love is how he was able to interject all these subversive touches in his films that are sneakily perverse.
Best Laird Cregar Films In Order. by chaplinpricefan • Created 9 years ago • Modified 9 years ago. I order Laird Cregar's films by how much I liked them. I included his 14 screen credits but missed out his uncredited "extra" appearances.
