Laird Cregar

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q918677: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: I Wake Up Screaming (1941).

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

No line says they, or a film of theirs, drew on anything.

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

No line says anything drew on them or a film of theirs.

What the speakers said they did

Acting (1) everyone in acting

What was said about them, by kind

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (extreme-performer lineage): Timothy Carey → Laird Cregar. Both were actors who showed the extreme, unglamorous end of human emotion.
    “especially Timothy Carey, who was the Nicholas Cage with the 40s.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 0:56:25 · Patton Oswalt (0.90 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Laird Cregar: Patton says Cregar dieted himself to death because he was unhappy being a character actor.
    “a guy who basically dieted himself to death because he wasn't happy being a character actor”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 0:51:10 · Patton Oswalt (0.85 sure it was them)