- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- April 13, 1898
- Place of Birth
- Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- Died
- October 18, 1968
Lee Tracy
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-Nak…
Filmography
Profiles in Courage
tvProfiles in Courage
1964 · Senator Robert A. Taft
movieThe Big Parade of Comedy
1964 · Space in 'Bombshell' (archive footage)
movieThe Best Man
1964 · President Art Hockstader
tvGoing My Way
1962
tvBen Casey
1961
tv87th Precinct
1961
tvNew York Confidential
1959 · Lee Cochran
tvMartin Kane, Private Eye
1949
tvLights Out
1949
Ford Theatre
tvFord Theatre
1948 · Captain Gallagher
movieHigh Tide
1947 · Hugh Fresney
movieI'll Tell the World
1945 · Gabriel Patton
movieBetrayal from the East
1945 · Eddie Carter
moviePower of the Press
1943 · Griff Thompson
movieThe Payoff
1942 · Brad McKay
movieMillionaires in Prison
1940 · Nick Burton
movieThe Spellbinder
1939 · Jed Marlowe
movieFixer Dugan
1939 · Charlie "Fixer" Dugan
movieCrashing Hollywood
1938 · Michael Winslow
movieBehind The Headlines
1937 · Eddie Haines
movieCriminal Lawyer
1937 · Brandon
Cinema Circus
movieCinema Circus
1937 · Himself - Ringmaster
movieWanted: Jane Turner
1936 · Tom Mallory
movieSutter's Gold
1936 · Pete Perkin
moviePirate Party on Catalina Isle
1935 · Pirate (uncredited)
movieTwo-Fisted
1935 · Hap Hurley
movieCarnival
1935 · Chick Thompson
movieThe Lemon Drop Kid
1934 · Wally Brooks aka The Lemon Drop Kid
movieYou Belong to Me
1934 · Bud Hannigan
movieI'll Tell the World
1934 · Stanley Brown
movieDinner at Eight
1933 · Max Kane
movieAdvice to the Lovelorn
1933 · Toby Prentiss
movieBombshell
1933 · E.J. 'Space' Hanlon
movieTurn Back the Clock
1933 · Joe Gimlet
movieThe Nuisance
1933 · Joseph Phineas 'Joe' Stevens
moviePrivate Jones
1933 · Pvt. William 'Bill' Jones
movieClear All Wires!
1933 · Buckley Joyce Thomas
movieThe Half-Naked Truth
1932 · Jimmy Bates
movieWashington Merry-Go-Round
1932 · Button Gwinett Brown
movieBlessed Event
1932 · Alvin Roberts
movieThe Night Mayor
1932 · Mayor Bobby Kingston
movieDoctor X
1932 · Lee Taylor
movieLove is a Racket
1932 · Stanley Fiske
movieThe Strange Love of Molly Louvain
1932 · Scott 'Scotty' Cornell
She Got What She Wanted
movieShe Got What She Wanted
1930 · , Writer
movieLiliom
1930 · The Buzzard
movieBorn Reckless
1930 · Bill O'Brien
movieBig Time
1929 · Eddie Burns
movieSalute
1929 · Radio Announcer (uncredited)