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	Laird Cregar - Biography - Moviefone
		The son of a prosperous Philadelphian, Laird Cregar was educated at Winchester Academy in England, spending his summers as a page boy and bit player with the Stratford-on-Avon theatrical troupe.
		After a few minor film roles, the 24-year-old Cregar was signed to a 20th Century-Fox contract; among his first major roles was the middle-aged Francis Chesney in Charley's Aunt (1941), the first of several showcases for the actor's delightful comic flair.
		After top-billing in The Lodger (1944), playing the reclusive British musician who may or may not be Jack the Ripper, the increasingly sensitive Cregar was growing tired of being thought of as merely a hulking villain.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/laird-cregar/15726/biography (317 words)

	Laird Cregar: A Poignant Villain - Popular Culture - Families.com
		On July 28, 1913, Laird Cregar was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
		He was the youngest of six sons born to wealthy cricket player Edward Mathews Cregar and Elizabeth Smith Cregar.
		Although from a rich family, Laird worked as a bouncer early in his career and sometimes had to sleep in his car before he became an established actor.
	popular-culture.families.com /blog/laird-cregar-a-poignant-villain (451 words)

	ICQGreetings.com Amazon Store :: I Wake up Screaming (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Laird Cregar, a big, fleshy guy who almost always played above his age (he was only 27 when he made this movie), brings a kind of creepy, relentless sadness to his role.
		Laird Cregar, who was in his twenties, but looks 45, was one of the only actors in Hollywood who could take bad dialogue and make it sound good.
		Cregar, who died of a heart attack, a result of a massive weight loss, was persistently attempting to frame Mature for the murder.
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		Cregar and his boss Alvin Brewster, the owner of the company have aspirations of selling a secret chemical formula to the Japanese.
		Cregar died at the tender age of 30, two years after THIS GUN FOR HIRE was released.
		As delightful as Cregar is, discussion of THIS GUN FOR HIRE starts and stops with Alan Ladd, who catapulted to stardom with his portrayal of the cold-blooded killer Raven.
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	Laird Cregar -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Born 28 July 1914 (The largest city in Pennsylvania; located in the southeastern part of the state on the Delaware river; site of Independence Hall where the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were signed; site of the University of Pennsylvania) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
		Cregar supported himself as a bouncer early in his career.
		Seldom weighing less than 300 pounds throughout his adult life, Cregar came to a tragic end because of his obsession to become a slim, what he called a "beautiful man".
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/la/laird_cregar.htm (218 words)

	Probert Encyclopaedia: Actors (L-Ld) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		He was born in 1927 at Beaumont, Texas.
		Laird Cregar (real name Samuel Laird Cregar) was an American actor.
		He was born in 1916 and died in 1944.
	www.probertencyclopaedia.com /CYL.HTM (682 words)

	The Lodger / Hangover Square
		A slimmed down Laird Cregar plays composer George Harvey Bone whose professional and personal conflictions are exacerbated by a paranoid ammenia that lets his unconscious mind take over and run amuck.
		The pyrotechnic ending is highlighted by Cregar finishing his beloved concerto at the piano amidst Napier's burning house after musicians, patrons and the rest of the supporting cast have fled.
		Cregar was an extremely talented actor whose career and life was tragically brief.
	www.filmmonthly.com /Video/Articles/LodgerHangoverSquare/LodgerHangoverSquare.html (642 words)

	PETER THOMPSON REVIEWS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		In THE LODGER, Cregar plays Slade, the mysterious figure who walks out of the London fog to take rooms at the home of the Burtons, played by British actors Sara Allgood and Cedric Hardwicke.
		Cregar was a very big man whose promising career was cut tragically short at 28 by two heart attacks brought on, it was said, by his attempt to lose weight.
		Laird Cregar dominates THE LODGER, turning in a complex, disturbing performance.
	www.encoreaustralia.com.au /ptr.cfm?titleid=P00004635 (343 words)

	hangoversquare (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		This was the 28-year-old, burly, 6 ft. 3 in., 300 hundred pound, Cregar's first starring role and last film due to his sudden death.
		Cregar was only an actor for five years having previously been a nightclub bouncer, among other temporary jobs.
		Cregar gave a staggering nightmarish performance, while Linda Darnell was alluring as the scheming chanteuse.
	www.sover.net /~ozus/hangoversquare.htm (598 words)

	Amazon.com: This Gun for Hire: Video: Veronica Lake,Robert Preston,Laird Cregar,Alan Ladd,Tully Marshall,Marc ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		As delightful as Cregar is, discussion of THIS GUN FOR HIRE starts and stops with Alan Ladd, who catapulted to stardom with his portrayal of the cold-blooded killer Raven.
		Ladd, Lake and Cregar are all marvelous but the usually wonderful Preston (best known for his smooth con-man in Music Man) isn't given much to work with and his cop character feels flat especially next to Raven.
		Also appearing is Robert Preston (The Music Man, Victor/Victoria), Laird Cregar (The Black Swan, The Lodger), Tully Marshall (The Covered Wagon), Roger Imhof (Drums Along the Mohawk), Marc Lawrence (Key Largo), and Yvonne De Carlo (The Ten Commandments, "The Munsters"), in a bit part early in her career.
	www.amazon.com /This-Gun-Hire-Veronica-Lake/dp/1558802010 (2669 words)

	The Lodger (1944) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		While it’s there in the script to some extent, directorially the film is weighed toward painting Cregar as a sinister figure - his face is always underlit, reflected in mirrors, or seen looming in the foreground.
		By the end of the story Cregar has become such a melodramatically unbalanced figure that he is like a feral animal - wild-eyed, hunched over and shot as though he is backed into a corner.
		Cregar kills dancehall girls it appears because one of them morally dragged his brother down.
	www.roogulator.esmartweb.com /horror/lodger44.htm (665 words)

	lodger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		It is the fictional story of Jack the Ripper, the third film version adapted from the book by Marie Belloc-Lowndes (a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1925 film of the same name).
		This strange tale is noted for its riveting performance by Laird Cregar as the strangler.
		Cregar rents a room on Montague Square from Ellen Burton (Allgood), who seems glad to take his advanced monthly payment and fails to notice how strange he is. He tells her his name is Slade and that he works as a pathologist at University Hospital and that this place is like a refuge.
	www.sover.net /~ozus/lodger.htm (709 words)

	Laird Cregar
		Laird Cregar stars as a mysterious man staying in a London boarding house who may or may not be Jack the Ripper!
		Cregar stars as a crazy composer who kills people whenever he hears piercing noises.
		Paul Muni and Laird Cregar star as two French trappers who form an alliance with an English exile (John Sutton) and begin the famed Hudson's Bay trading company in Canada.
	www.cabbageboymovies.com /laird.html (87 words)

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	Laird Cregar page in Classic Horror Players Directory
		As "Slade," a very mysterious new boarder in the Burton household during the Victorian heyday of Jack the Ripper, in The Lodger (1944), directed by John Brahm and based on the novel by Marie Belloc Lowndes (previously filmed in England as a silent picture by Alfred Hitchcock).
		Cregar brought a psychological intensity to his performance never seen in films before.
		Though very similar to The Lodger, with John Brahm directing, and with both Cregar and George Sanders back as the male leads, the film succeeds on its own merits, including Cregar's creepy, subtle performance, Bernard Herrmann's extraodinary score, and a good cast including Linda Darnell, Glenn Langan, and Alan Napier.
	myweb.wvnet.edu /~u0e53/lairdcregar.html (438 words)

	Laird Cregar, actor (Charley's Aunt, Hangover Square), dies at 28 December 9 in History
		Laird Cregar, actor (Charley's Aunt, Hangover Square), dies at 28 December 9 in History
		Laird Cregar, actor (Charley's Aunt, Hangover Square), dies at 28
		What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.
	www.brainyhistory.com /events/1944/december_9_1944_105009.html (89 words)

	Amazon.ca: DVD: This Gun For Hire (1942) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Though billed fourth in This Gun For Hire, Alan Ladd was catapulted to stardom in the role of Phillip Raven, a ruthless professional killer with a long-suppressed streak of decency.
		Laird Cregar as Willard Gates is as oily as grease and I felt his performance too was a standout,a coward at the core but willing to have murder done on his behalf.
		I enjoyed the whole spy-thing interwoven into the plot, and as well very memorable atmospherics, especially the scene where Ladd and Lake are trapped in the railroad yards; the fog just added an extra dimension to the scene.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00023P4II (1408 words)

	Scifilm -- Musings, HANGOVER SQUARE (1945)
		Laird Cregar was an excellent character actor who, much to his disdain, ended up playing psychotic murderers towards the end of his short career; he tried to lose weight in an effort to get other types of roles, but ended up dying of a heart attack at the age of 28.
		One can easily see why he ended up with these roles; he is wonderful here, particularly in the sequences when he goes into his flouts.
		Also excellent is Bernard Herrman's score, which is crucial to the proceedings since music plays such an important role in the movie, particularly during the final moments of the film.
	www.scifilm.org /musings2/musing990.html (239 words)

	THIS GUN FOR HIRE
		Lake’s role seems quite empowering and not diminished by the period context which transformed the stereotypical invisible housewife into the ‘Rosie the Riveter’ of the war effort.
		Cregar is superb as always (reminiscent here, in his dandyfied large man ne’er do well persona, of Raymond Burr in Ulmer’s Ruthless).
		She’s engaged to the cop chasing the bad guys just as he (the fiancée) is secretly engaged by the government to spy for them; the fugitive Ladd sits next to Lake on a train, etc. But we get swept along, in time honoured Hollywood fashion as all the elements fire together.
	www.bighousefilm.com /reviews/this_gun_for_hire.htm (954 words)

	Hangover Square (1945)
		Laird Cregar (George Harvey Bone), Linda Darnell (Netta Longdon), Faye Marlowe (Barbara Chapman), George Sanders (Dr Allan Middleton), Alan Napier (Sir Henry Chapman)
		All the motivation Cregar is given here is that whenever he hears a certain high-pitched noise he snaps, whereupon the camera goes into closeup on his sweaty face as he develops an unnerving glare and we then get his points-of-view as his vision goes blurry.
		The film goes out on the image of Cregar playing the piano as the house burns down around him, which is actually rather touching in the film’s melodramatic way.
	www.moria.co.nz /horror/hangoversq.htm (470 words)

	Laird Cregar Current Month TV Schedule
		Laird Cregar Bio, Video, Photo Gallery, TV Listings and More on TVGuide.com
		Starring Betty Grable, Victor Mature, Carole Landis, Laird Cregar, William Gargan, Alan Mowbray.
		Account of the murder of a cafe entertainer and the pursuit of her killer.
	www.tv-now.com /stars/lairdc.html (54 words)

	The Nation, 02/12/1944 - Films by Agee, James (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The article presents information on the film "The Lodger." In the film everyone was trying for gentlemanly, intelligent horror, sustained only by tricks of secondary suspense, in too gentlemanly and too little incisively intelligent manner.
		As a result the beautiful interiors, the sometimes beautiful streets, and the too beautiful lighting and photography drew too much attention to their own sumptuous but very passive vitality, and the good performances of Laird Cregar, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Sars Aligood, and Merle Oberon also remained a purely visual pleasure.
		...As a result the beautiful interiors, the sometimes beautiful streets, and the too beautiful lighting and photography drew too much attention to their own sumptuous but very passive vitality, and the good performances of Laird Cregar, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Sara Allgood, and Merle Oberon also remained a purely visual pleasure...
	www.archive.thenation.com /Summaries/v158i0007_19.htm (578 words)

	DVD Review:
		But Satan, or "His Excellency" (Laird Cregar, giving one of his very best performances!) isn't convinced that Van Cleeve belongs there, so Henry tells him the story of his life (through flashbacks of course).
		Growing up a Van Cleeve wasn't easy, and young Henry had no one to turn to for help (both his parents are somewhat out of touch with reality!) except his wild grandfather (Charles Coburn), who is obviously not a very good role model for Henry.
		The supporting cast was equally superb, especially Charles Coburn and Laird Cregar, whose film career was sadly cut short by a fatal heart attack at the age of 28.
	www.killermovies.com /dvd/2304.html (1591 words)

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	AMCTV.com SHOW - The Black Swan
		Laird Cregar plays a reformed swashbuckler who becomes governor of Jamaica in this lively Technicolor epic.
		When he dispatches right hand man (Tyrone Power) to rid the seas of his former cohorts, things get more complicated than envisioned - especially when a headstrong aristocratic beauty (Maureen O'Hara's) gets involved.
		Laird Cregar, Thomas Mitchell, Maureen O'Hara, Tyrone Power, Anthony Quinn, George Sanders
	www.amctv.com /show/detail/0,,342-1-1,00.html (108 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : Person : Laird Cregar : Main
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		Upon completing his schooling, Cregar won a scholarship at California's Pasadena Playhouse, supporting himself as a nightclub bouncer w...
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	Program Note (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Principal Cast: Veronica Lake (as Ellen Graham), Robert Preston (Michael Crane), Alan Ladd (Philip Raven), Laird Cregar (Willard Gates), Tully Marshall (Alvin Brewster), Marc Lawrence (Tommy), Olin Howlin (Blair Fletcher), Roger Imhof (Sen. Burnett), Pamela Blake (Annie).
		His Spartan way of life and implacable approach to the business of killing are amusingly contrasted with effete executive and nightclub owner Willard Gates (Laird Cregar).
		Gates's decadent tastes ("leg shows" and chocolate mints!) and affected manner are played up by Cregar with camp relish.
	www.ammi.org /film_programs/program_notes/g/gun_hire.html (1177 words)

	This Gun for Hire movie posters and memorabilia at MovieGoods
		Cast: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar; Directed by: Frank Tuttle
		In his first major film role, Ladd plays a hired gun seeking retribution from a client who betrays him.
		Cast: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar; DIRECTED BY: Frank Tuttle; WRITTEN BY: Albert (John B. Sherry) Maltz, W.R. Burnett.
	www.moviegoods.com /movie_product.asp?sku=143644&master_movie_id=14047&affiliateID=144&adID=7204 (307 words)

	HEAVEN CAN WAIT at Film Forum in New York City
		SUPPORTING PLAYERS: Laird Cregar, Charles Coburn, Marjorie Main, Eugene Pallette, Allyn Joslyn, Spring Byington, Signe Hasso, Louis Calhern
		It brought back a time when people really made good movies...I saw nothing but good, anywhere, in the doll-like selection, manipulation, and performance of the large cast.
		That does not surprise me in people like Charles Coburn and Louis Calhearn and Laird Cregar, but when you find it also in Don Ameche and Gene Tierney, amazed tribute is due somebody.
	www.filmforum.org /archivedfilms/lubitsch/heaven.html (149 words)

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