Laird Cregar
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Samuel Laird Cregar was an American stage and film actor. Cregar was best known for his performances of villians or psychologially disturbed persons in films such as I Wake Up Screaming, This Gun For
Cregar in the 1940s
In Blood and Sand (1941)
In the role of Sir Henry Morgan in The Black Swan (1942)
Cregar in the starring role in The Lodger (1944)
The Black Swan (film)
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The Black Swan is a 1942 American swashbuckler Technicolor film directed by Henry King and starring Tyrone Power and Maureen O'Hara. It was based on the 1932 novel of the same title by Rafael Sabatini
Laird Cregar
…played a villainous army commander "whose sole aim is to break the spirits of the first batch of [West Point] cadets". Finally, his busy 1942 ended with The Black Swan (1942), a childish fantasy of swashbuckling pirates in which Cregar "bellows oaths like an irate opera singer" opposite Tyrone Power and Maureen O'Hara…
Theatrical release poster
Power and O'Hara in the trailer for The Black Swan (1942)