Laird Cregar

Laird Cregar

Nascimento : 1913-07-28, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Morte : 1944-12-09

História

​From 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.

Perfil

Laird Cregar

Filmes

Fat Chance
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood noir icon Laird Cregar's inner turmoil as a black-on-grey delirium of shadows and spectres. An avant-garde film-historical essay.
Man In the Attic: The Making of
Self (archive footage)
This short documentary takes a look at the making of Twentieth Century Fox's 1944 film "The Lodger".
The Tragic Mask: The Laird Cregar Story
Self (archive footage)
A biography of the short-lived character actor Laird Cregar.
Concerto Macabro
George Harvey Bone
When composer George Harvey Bone wakes with no memory of the previous night and a bloody knife in his pocket, he worries that he has committed a crime. On the advice of Dr. Middleton, Bone agrees to relax, going to a music performance by singer Netta Longdon. Riveted by Netta, Bone agrees to write songs for her rather than his own concerto. However, Bone soon grows jealous of Netta and worries about controlling himself during his spells.
The Lodger
Mr. Slade
In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.
Holy Matrimony
Clive Oxford
An artist returning from years abroad takes the identity of his dead valet and gets married, but then there are complications.
O Diabo Disse Não
His Excellency
Henry Van Cleve apresenta-se às portas do inferno mas descobre que está sendo rigorosamente criticado em suas qualificações para a entrada. Surpreso por existir qualquer dúvida sobre sua idoneidade, ele relata sua vida animada e as mulheres que ele conheceu, começando por sua mãe, mas, principalmente, concentrando-se em seus felizes, mas por vezes difíceis, 25 anos de casamento com Martha.
Aquilo, Sim, Era Vida!
Sam Weaver
O filme conta a história de um grupo de artistas da vaudeville de São Francisco, durante o período da explosão entre o Panamá e o Pacífico no ano de 1915, e quando Alexander Graham Bell fez sua primeira ligação transcontinental de Nova Iorque a São Francisco.
O Cisne Negro
Captain Henry Morgan
Quando o notório pirata Henry Morgan é nomeado governador da Jamaica, ele pede a ajuda de alguns de seus ex-parceiros para livrar o Caribe dos Bucaneiros. Quando um deles aparentemente seqüestra a linda filha do governador anterior e se junta aos rebeldes, as coisas estão prontas para uma briga. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
Ten Gentlemen from West Point
Maj. Sam Carter
This historical drama tells the story of the first class to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. In the early 19th Century, Congress appropriated the money to build the school, but opponents who believed it to be an illegitimate expansion of the powers of the federal government decided to sabotage the school. They put the hard-as-nails Major Sam Carter in charge of the academy, and he ruthlessly put the recruits through grueling training -- until only ten prospective soldiers remained. They include Dawson, a patriotic farm boy and Howard Shelton, a selfish playboy who has come to West Point only because of its prestige. The two vie for Carolyn Bainbridge, while they, along with the other eight, try convince Carter that the school is worth keeping.
Alma Torturada
Willard Gates
Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates, Raven sits beside Gates' lovely new employee, Ellen, on a train out of town. Although Ellen is engaged to marry the police lieutenant who's hunting down Raven, she decides to try and set the misguided hit man straight as he hides from the cops and plots his revenge.
Rings on Her Fingers
Warren
Susan Miller works behind the girdle counter in a department store and dreams about the beautiful clothes and glamour she can never hope to have. Enter May Worthington and Warren, a pair of con artists who pose as the mother and uncle of a pretty girl in order to separate millionaires from their money. They convince Susan she has an opportunity to fulfill all her dreams, and the trio heads for Palm Beach. Susan meets John Wheeler who says he is shopping for a sailboat. Believing that he is a millionaire, Warren and May sell him a boat that doesn't belong to them, and make off with his $15,000 life savings. Looking for greener pastures, they work themselves into the family of wealthy Tod Fenwick, who falls for Sue, posing as "Linda Worthington". But John shows up as a guest of Fenwick and he tells "Linda", not knowing she was part of the scam, that he has a detective after the fake captain that sold him the boat...
E as Luzes Brilharão Outra Vez
Herr Funk
Um esquadrão da RAF é derrubado sobre a França ocupada. Os panfletos chegam a Paris apesar do fato de que o mais novo, Baby, está ferido. Ele deve estar escondido e suas feridas cuidadas. A Gestapo já emitiu ordens para sua prisão.
Quem Matou Vicki?
Police Insp. Ed Cornell
A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitress while out with ex-actor Robin Ray and gossip columnist Larry Evans.
Charley's Aunt
Sir Francis Chesney
In 1890, two students at Oxford force their rascally friend and fellow student to pose as an aunt from Brazil--where the nuts come from.
Sangue e Areia
Natalio Curro
O camponês analfabeto Juan Gallardo se eleva meteoricamente à fama e fortuna na arena de touradas, apenas para semear as sementes de sua própria queda. O toureiro Juan Gallardo se apaixona pela socialite Dona Sol, se afastando da fiel Carmen, que ainda assim se mantém fiel a seu homem enquanto ele continua a enfrentar um perigo real na praça de touros.
O Renegado
Gooseberry
Highly fictionalized early history of Canada. Trapper/explorer Radisson imagines an empire around Hudson's Bay. He befriends the Indians, fights the French, and convinces King Charles II to sponsor an expedition of conquest.