Highest rated movie: This Gun for Hire (1942)
Lowest rated movie: Holy Matrimony (1943)
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Movies starring Laird Cregar have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 64%.
This Gun for Hire - released in 1942 - is Laird Cregar's highest rated movie, with a score of 74% based on 71 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Laird Cregar is Holy Matrimony - released in 1943 - with a score of 55% based on 8 reviews.
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.
Laird Cregar has acted in films with Charles Irwin, Harry Hayden, Frank Orth and Frederick Worlock.
Laird Cregar has worked with these film directors: H. Bruce Humberstone, Henry King, Irving Pichel and Frank Tuttle.
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