Samuel Laird Cregar (Filadèlfia, Pennsilvània, 28 de juliol de 1913 – Los Angeles, Califòrnia, 9 de desembre de 1944) va ser un actor de cinema i teatre nord-americà. La carrera cinematogràfica de Cregar va començar l'any 1940 treballant com a figurant en pel·lícules. El 1941, havia signat un contracte de pel·lícula amb la 20th Century Fox. Cregar es va convertir ràpidament en l'estrellat, apareixent en una varietat de gèneres, des de la comèdia de bola fins a les pel·lícules de terror. Va ser un actor popular en el moment de la seva mort el 1944 als 31 anys, com a resultat de les complicacions de les dietes compulses que va dur a terme per adaptar-se als papers principals.

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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.

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