Who is laird cregar

It was a good read. Give Me Grace by Bethany A. Perry It was an interesting read. I enjoyed it. And would read more from this author. Anonymous comments are disabled in this journal. Your IP address will be recorded. Log in No account? Create an account. Remember me. Previous Share Flag Next. Laird Cregar died at age thirty-one, after a film career that lasted only five years, but his wicked and sinister presence made him famous in such films as Blood and Sand, Wake Up Screaming, The Black Swan, and Hangover Square.

His premature death was the result of a heart attack brought on by a crash diet. Stern, Keith But I contend that I can do more. That wonderful man was a far cry from the Hollywood heavies or comedy grotesques I would be asked to play when Zanuck came to see the play and signed me to 20th Century Fox. And yet even when I did play them I maintained my poise, my diction, delicate controls of gesture. Softly spoken, aloof malevolence is all the more chilling I find. My good friend Vincent Price would have me over to dinner.

An exceptional cook. And then I met David Bacon, a dear, dear friend. We made Ten Gentlemen from West Point together. Bit parts here and there. He looked up to me I think. And I became very fond of him.

His career was looking up — he had been starring in the serial The Masked Marvel — when he was stabbed to death. David had gone to the beach in Venice, driving that ridiculous maroon-coloured Austin Sedan. He usually took the dogs but not this time. He staggered from the vehicle and collapsed. He was only wear a white swimming costume and his car was ankle deep in blood.

There was a camera in the car and the rumour went around that the film when developed was a picture of David naked on the beach. He was stabbed with a long blade, Gretta — his wife — told me.

No sign of a struggle, indicating it was someone he knew. The death of the Masked Marvel, the newspapers so cruelly reported. I was so busy at the time. I worked with Lubitsch and his constant screaming, but it was worth it to not be playing the heavy.

In March , Fox announced plans to cast Cregar in the starring role in The Lodger , as a character who may or may not be Jack the Ripper. Cregar began crash dieting to lose weight, desiring to give the character a "romantic veneer". The film was a big hit, but the increasingly sensitive Cregar was growing tired of being thought of as merely a hulking villain.

Cregar refused the role, was put on suspension, then changed his mind. Death The crash diet that Cregar followed for his role in The Lodger which included prescribed amphetamines placed a strain on his system, resulting in severe abdominal problems.

He underwent surgery in December A few days after surgery, Cregar had a heart attack and was rushed to the hospital. He rallied briefly when put in an oxygen tent, but died on December 9, aged 31 years. His mother was at his bedside. Hangover Square was released two months after his death.

The funeral was held on December 13, Vincent Price, Cregar's co-star in his first film Hudson's Bay , delivered the eulogy. On February 8, , Cregar received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to the motion pictures industry, at Vine Street. Biography Lists News Also Viewed. Laird Cregar. The basics.