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name: "Laird Cregar"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/laird-cregar"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "28 July 1913"
died: "9 December 1944"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-20T01:00:35.458699+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Laird Cregar

Actor. Born 28 July 1913 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Died 9 December 1944.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 28 July 1913, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- **Died:** 9 December 1944
- **Also known as:** Samuel Laird Cregar, Лэйрд Крегар, Лерд Крегар
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laird_Cregar, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q918677, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0187284/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/80726

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*Heaven Can Wait*](https://film.one/film/heaven-can-wait-1943.md) (84)

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## Biography

Laird Cregar was an American stage and film actor. Born Samuel Laird Cregar in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 28 July 1913, he was educated at Winchester College in England. He spent summers as a page boy and bit player with the Stratford-upon-Avon theatrical troupe before winning a scholarship to the Pasadena Playhouse in California.

Cregar gained attention in Hollywood after staging a one-man show in which he portrayed Oscar Wilde. He signed a contract with 20th Century-Fox and appeared in films including *I Wake Up Screaming* (1941), *This Gun for Hire* (1942), *The Black Swan* (1942), *Heaven Can Wait* (1943) as His Excellency, *The Lodger* (1944) and *Hangover Square* (1945). He died in Los Angeles on 9 December 1944, aged 31.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Heaven Can Wait* (1943), Fi1m 84, as His Excellency — [page](https://film.one/film/heaven-can-wait-1943.md)

## Complete filmography (14)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Hangover Square* (1945), as George Harvey Bone
- *The Lodger* (1944), as Mr. Slade
- *Holy Matrimony* (1943), as Clive Oxford
- *Heaven Can Wait* (1943), as His Excellency — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/heaven-can-wait-1943.md)
- *Hello, Frisco, Hello* (1943), as Sam Weaver
- *The Black Swan* (1942), as Captain Henry Morgan
- *Ten Gentlemen from West Point* (1942), as Maj. Sam Carter
- *This Gun for Hire* (1942), as Willard Gates
- *Rings on Her Fingers* (1942), as Warren
- *Joan of Paris* (1942), as Herr Funk
- *I Wake Up Screaming* (1941), as Police Insp. Ed Cornell
- *Charley's Aunt* (1941), as Sir Francis Chesney
- *Blood and Sand* (1941), as Natalio Curro
- *Hudson's Bay* (1940), as Gooseberry

## Gallery

- ![Laird Cregar](https://film.one/media/person/1233689/gallery-21231a70fe3f.jpg) Laird Cregar — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/da/Laird_Cregar.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Laird Cregar in the American horror film The Lodger (1944).](https://film.one/media/person/1233689/gallery-1c674e595df2.jpg) Laird Cregar in the American horror film The Lodger (1944). — 20th Century Fox, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/Laird_Cregar_The_Lodger_%281944%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Laird Cregar](https://film.one/media/person/1233689/gallery-1e7a0e601a50.jpg) Laird Cregar — Image via TMDB
- ![Laird Cregar](https://film.one/media/person/1233689/gallery-e6bc1a80822e.jpg) Laird Cregar — Image via TMDB

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