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Lee Tracy

Actor · Born 1898-04-13 · Atlanta, Georgia, USA

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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

  1. Dinner at Eight (1933) — Max Kane
  2. Doctor X (1932) — Lee Taylor
  3. Bombshell (1933) — E.J. 'Space' Hanlon
  4. The Best Man (1964) — President Art Hockstader
  5. High Tide (1947) — Hugh Fresney
  6. Love is a Racket (1932) — Stanley Fiske
  7. Liliom (1930) — The Buzzard
  8. Born Reckless (1930) — Bill O'Brien
  9. Ben Casey (1961)
  10. The Half-Naked Truth (1932) — Jimmy Bates
  11. The Strange Love of Molly Louvain (1932) — Scott 'Scotty' Cornell
  12. Power of the Press (1943) — Griff Thompson
  13. Turn Back the Clock (1933) — Joe Gimlet
  14. Pirate Party on Catalina Isle (1935) — Pirate (uncredited)
  15. Blessed Event (1932) — Alvin Roberts
  16. The Payoff (1942) — Brad McKay
  17. Crashing Hollywood (1938) — Michael Winslow
  18. Millionaires in Prison (1940) — Nick Burton
  19. The Big Parade of Comedy (1964) — Space in 'Bombshell' (archive footage)
  20. Betrayal from the East (1945) — Eddie Carter
  21. The Nuisance (1933) — Joseph Phineas 'Joe' Stevens
  22. Fixer Dugan (1939) — Charlie "Fixer" Dugan
  23. Criminal Lawyer (1937) — Brandon
  24. 87th Precinct (1961)
  25. Lights Out (1949)
  26. Salute (1929) — Radio Announcer (uncredited)
  27. Behind The Headlines (1937) — Eddie Haines
  28. Wanted: Jane Turner (1936) — Tom Mallory
  29. Washington Merry-Go-Round (1932) — Button Gwinett Brown
  30. Going My Way (1962)
  31. Advice to the Lovelorn (1933) — Toby Prentiss
  32. Clear All Wires! (1933) — Buckley Joyce Thomas
  33. The Night Mayor (1932) — Mayor Bobby Kingston
  34. The Spellbinder (1939) — Jed Marlowe
  35. The Lemon Drop Kid (1934) — Wally Brooks aka The Lemon Drop Kid
  36. Martin Kane, Private Eye (1949)
  37. Two-Fisted (1935) — Hap Hurley
  38. You Belong to Me (1934) — Bud Hannigan
  39. Big Time (1929) — Eddie Burns
  40. Profiles in Courage (1964) — Senator Robert A. Taft