# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/laird-cregar
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:18:59.448Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/laird-cregar"
name: "Laird Cregar"
slug: "laird-cregar"
description: "Samuel Laird Cregar was an American stage and film actor. Cregar was best known for his villainous performances in films such as I Wake Up Screaming (1941), This Gun For Hire (1942) and The Lodger (1944)."
tagline: "American stage and film actor (1913–1944)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Laird_Cregar.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1913-07-28"
deathDate: "1944-12-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             5.963086519027232
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0187284/"
    handle:    "nm0187284"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Laird Cregar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Laird Cregar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Laird Cregar"
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    title: "Laird Cregar"
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    title: "Laird Cregar"
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    title: "Laird Cregar"
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    title: "Laird Cregar"
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    title: "Laird Cregar"
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    title: "Laird Cregar"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump