Cast: Laird Cregar

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Laird Cregar. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Heaven Can Wait

1943 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Gene Tierney · Don Ameche · Charles Coburn · Marjorie Main

Plot When he dies at 70, Henry Van Cleve goes to Hell, where he is met by His Excellency, a well-dressed gentleman who demands to know his crimes. Henry begins his...

7.5

4K votes

7.5

4K votes

Holy Matrimony

1943 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction John M. Stahl

Cast Monty Woolley · Gracie Fields · Laird Cregar · Una O'Connor

Plot From Arnold Bennett's novel "Buried Alive". An artist returning from years abroad takes the identity of his dead valet to escape the attentions of the press.

7.0

129 votes

7.0

129 votes

Hangover Square

1945 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction John Brahm

Cast Laird Cregar · Linda Darnell · George Sanders · Glenn Langan

Plot A promising classical musician finds his life poisoned by a music hall dancer -- and by the strange gaps in his memory.

7.0

489 votes

7.0

489 votes

This Gun for Hire

1942 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Frank Tuttle

Cast Alan Ladd · Veronica Lake · Robert Preston · Laird Cregar

Plot Hit man Philip Raven, who's kind to children and cats, kills a blackmailer and is paid off by traitor Willard Gates in "hot" money. Meanwhile, pert entertainer Ellen Graham, girlfriend...

6.9

1K votes

6.9

1K votes

The Black Swan

1942 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Henry King

Cast Tyrone Power · Maureen O'Hara · Laird Cregar · Thomas Mitchell

Plot Soon after Sir Henry Morgan is named Governor of Jamaica in 1674, he announces that the age of the pirate is over and asks his former captains to give up...

6.8

2K votes

6.8

2K votes

I Wake Up Screaming

1941 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction H. Bruce Humberstone

Cast Betty Grable · Victor Mature · Carole Landis · Laird Cregar

Plot When chanteuse Vicky Lynn is found murdered the police bring in promoter Frankie Christopher for questioning. Frankie had been organising Vicky's career until she suddenly took a Hollywood offer just...

6.6

210 votes

6.6

210 votes

The Lodger

1944 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction John Brahm

Cast Merle Oberon · George Sanders · Laird Cregar · Cedric Hardwicke

Plot Mrs. Bonting manages to keep up appearances, but little more than that, these days. Though Mr. Bonting is unhappy over the idea of letting rooms, it seems an answer to...

6.4

581 votes

6.4

581 votes

Rings on Her Fingers

1942 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Rouben Mamoulian

Cast Henry Fonda · Gene Tierney · Laird Cregar · Shepperd Strudwick

Plot Susan Miller works behind the girdle counter in a department store and dreams about the beautiful clothes and glamour she can never hope to have. Enter May Worthington and Warren,...

6.2

126 votes

6.2

126 votes

Joan of Paris

1942 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Robert Stevenson

Cast Michèle Morgan · Paul Henreid · Thomas Mitchell · Laird Cregar

Plot An RAF squadron is brought down over occupied France. The flyers get to Paris in spite of the fact that the youngest, Baby, is injured. He must be hidden and...

6.2

67 votes

6.2

67 votes

Blood and Sand

1941 · Movie · 124 min. · United States

Direction Rouben Mamoulian

Cast Tyrone Power · Linda Darnell · Rita Hayworth · Alla Nazimova

Plot Tyrone Power stars as a famous bullfighter torn between the love of a noble woman, his wife (Linda Darnell), and the tempestuous "other woman" (Rita Hayworth). A technicolor remake of...

6.2

769 votes

6.2

769 votes

Hudson's Bay

1941 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Irving Pichel

Cast Paul Muni · Gene Tierney · Laird Cregar · John Sutton

Plot Highly fictionalized early history of Canada. Trapper/explorer Radisson imagines an empire around Hudson's Bay. He befriends the Indians, fights the French, and convinces King Charles II to sponsor an expedition...

5.9

62 votes

5.9

62 votes

Ten Gentlemen from West Point

1942 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast George Montgomery · Maureen O'Hara · John Sutton · Laird Cregar

Plot This historical drama tells the story of the first class to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. In the early 19th Century, Congress appropriated the money to...

5.5

35 votes

5.5

35 votes

Charley's Aunt

1941 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast Jack Benny · Kay Francis · James Ellison · Anne Baxter

Plot In 1890, two students at Oxford force their rascally friend and fellow student to pose as an aunt from Brazil--where the nuts come from.

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Hello Frisco, Hello

1943 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction H. Bruce Humberstone

Cast Alice Faye · John Payne · Jack Oakie · Lynn Bari

Plot In turn-of-the-century San Francisco, an ambitious vaudevillian takes his quartet from a honky tonk to the big time, while spurning the love of his troupe's star singer for a selfish...

Not rated

Not rated