Lee Tracy

Personal Info

Birthday

April 13, 1898

Day of Death

1968-10-18

(70 years old)

Place of Birth

Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Lee Tracy

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).

Known For

Profiles in Courage

Ford Theatre

New York Confidential

The Strange Love of Molly Louvain

Clear All Wires!

The Best Man

Fixer Dugan

Doctor X

Filmography

1964
The Big Parade of Comedy
as Space in 'Bombshell' (archive footage)
The Best Man
as President Art Hockstader
1947
High Tide
as Hugh Fresney
1945
Betrayal from the East
as Eddie Carter
1943
Power of the Press
as Griff Thompson
1942
The Payoff
as Brad McKay
1940
Millionaires in Prison
as Nick Burton
1939
The Spellbinder
as Jed Marlowe
Fixer Dugan
as Charlie "Fixer" Dugan
1938
Crashing Hollywood
as Michael Winslow
1937
Behind The Headlines
as Eddie Haines
Criminal Lawyer
as Brandon
Cinema Circus
as Himself - Ringmaster
1936
Wanted: Jane Turner
as Tom Mallory
Sutter's Gold
as Pete Perkin
1935
Pirate Party on Catalina Isle
as Pirate (uncredited)
Two-Fisted
as Hap Hurley
Carnival
as Chick Thompson
1934
The Lemon Drop Kid
as Wally Brooks aka The Lemon Drop Kid
You Belong to Me
as Bud Hannigan
I'll Tell the World
as Stanley Brown
1933
Dinner at Eight
as Max Kane
Advice to the Lovelorn
as Toby Prentiss
Bombshell
as E.J. 'Space' Hanlon
Turn Back the Clock
as Joe Gimlet
The Nuisance
as Joseph Phineas 'Joe' Stevens
Private Jones
as Pvt. William 'Bill' Jones
Clear All Wires!
as Buckley Joyce Thomas
1932
The Half-Naked Truth
as Jimmy Bates
Washington Merry-Go-Round
as Button Gwinett Brown
Blessed Event
as Alvin Roberts
The Night Mayor
as Mayor Bobby Kingston
Doctor X
as Lee Taylor
Love Is a Racket
as Stanley Fiske
The Strange Love of Molly Louvain
as Scott 'Scotty' Cornell
1930
Liliom
as The Buzzard
Born Reckless
as Bill O'Brien
1929
Big Time
as Eddie Burns
Salute
as Radio Announcer (uncredited)