Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. William Lee Tracy (April 14, 1898 – October 18, 1968) was an American actor. He was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe for his supporting role in the 1964 film The Best Man. In 1929, Tracy arrived in Hollywood, where he played the role of newspapermen in several films. He, for example, played a Walter Winchell-type gossip columnist in Blessed Event (1932). Tracy also starred as the columnist in Advice to the Lovelorn (1933), very loosely based on the novel Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West; and he played a conscience-stricken editor in the 1943 drama The Power of the Press, based on a story by former newspaperman Samuel Fuller. Tracy played "The Buzzard," the criminal who leads Liliom (Charles Farrell) into a fatal robbery, in the film version of Liliom (1930). He also played Lupe Vélez's frenetic manager in Gregory LaCava's The Half-Naked Truth (1932) and portrayed John Barrymore's agent in Dinner at Eight (1933), directed by George Cukor. Lee Tracy's flourishing film career was temporarily disrupted on 19 November 1933, while he was on location in Mexico filming the Wallace Beery vehicle Viva Villa! According to the actor and pr…
Movies & TV Shows
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Dinner at Eight (1933) — Max Kane
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Doctor X (1932) — Lee Taylor
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Bombshell (1933) — E.J. 'Space' Hanlon
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The Best Man (1964) — President Art Hockstader
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High Tide (1947) — Hugh Fresney
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Love is a Racket (1932) — Stanley Fiske
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Liliom (1930) — The Buzzard
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Born Reckless (1930) — Bill O'Brien
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Ben Casey (1961)
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The Half-Naked Truth (1932) — Jimmy Bates
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The Strange Love of Molly Louvain (1932) — Scott 'Scotty' Cornell
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Power of the Press (1943) — Griff Thompson
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Turn Back the Clock (1933) — Joe Gimlet
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Pirate Party on Catalina Isle (1935) — Pirate (uncredited)
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Blessed Event (1932) — Alvin Roberts
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The Payoff (1942) — Brad McKay
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Crashing Hollywood (1938) — Michael Winslow
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Millionaires in Prison (1940) — Nick Burton
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The Big Parade of Comedy (1964) — Space in 'Bombshell' (archive footage)
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Betrayal from the East (1945) — Eddie Carter
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The Nuisance (1933) — Joseph Phineas 'Joe' Stevens
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Fixer Dugan (1939) — Charlie "Fixer" Dugan
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Criminal Lawyer (1937) — Brandon
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87th Precinct (1961)
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Lights Out (1949)
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Salute (1929) — Radio Announcer (uncredited)
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Behind The Headlines (1937) — Eddie Haines
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Wanted: Jane Turner (1936) — Tom Mallory
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Washington Merry-Go-Round (1932) — Button Gwinett Brown
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Going My Way (1962)
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Advice to the Lovelorn (1933) — Toby Prentiss
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Clear All Wires! (1933) — Buckley Joyce Thomas
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The Night Mayor (1932) — Mayor Bobby Kingston
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The Spellbinder (1939) — Jed Marlowe
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The Lemon Drop Kid (1934) — Wally Brooks aka The Lemon Drop Kid
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Martin Kane, Private Eye (1949)
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Two-Fisted (1935) — Hap Hurley
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You Belong to Me (1934) — Bud Hannigan
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Big Time (1929) — Eddie Burns
- Profiles in Courage (1964) — Senator Robert A. Taft