Samuel Laird Cregar Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Seemingly suave, cultivated actor by nature, definitely huge in both talent and girth, and capable of playing much older than he was, Hollywood tragically lost Laird Cregar of early 40s films before it could fully comprehend on how to best utilize his obvious gifts. He was born Samuel Laird Cregar in a well-to-do section of Philadelphia, ...
Some of the most memorable screen villains of the Golden Age of Hollywood
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Towering height and massive frame
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Scene-stealing performances as extremely unconventional characters
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(In a 1940s press release about his introduction to the theater as a page boy at Stratford-on-Avon) I never wanted to be anything but an actor after that. There have been times, though, when I've wished my ambition wasn't so firmly fixed.
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(1940s interview) I signed with 20th Century Fox because at that time there was only one other character man, John Carradine, under contract, and, of course, we two couldn't ever vie for roles.
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(In an interview after the release of "The Lodger) Lots of people get a great kick out of evil efficiently wrought, and they write in and pat me on the back. Then, too, there are the righteous people who think I'm actually the kind of person I portray on the screen, and who enumerate the various ways in which they would like to eliminate me. The only ones I really like are the letters from the few kind souls who realize that I'm only an actor trying to make a living.
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[on his character in The Lodger (1944)] A lonely man, a man obsessed by an imaginary wrong dealt him by one woman but which he has transferred to the entire sex.
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[from one of his final interviews] I have a feeling the studio is almost beginning to consider me an actor now, instead of a type.
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Fact
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Played featured roles in six important films during his first year under his Fox contract.
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Attended Winchester Academy, a noted boys' school in Longport, New Jersey.
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Was an usher at Grauman's Chinese Theater in 1937.
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Attended fashionable Episcople Academy just outside Philadelphia, where he became active in dramatics.
Mammoth-sized US character actor, often in sinister or sulking roles -- sometimes of men twice his real age. He died young, of complications from a crash campaign to lose weight. (See also Marie Prevost.).
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His rapid loss of weight to 200 pounds (88 kg) from 300 (132 kg) was more than his system could endure.
$1.7 Million
