Lee Tracy

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1898-04-13 (70 years old)

Deathday

1968-10-18

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). 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...

Acting

1932

Doctor X

as Lee Taylor

1964

The Best Man

as President Art Hockstader

1932

Blessed Event

as Alvin Roberts

1933

Advice to the Lovelorn

as Toby Prentiss

1933

Bombshell

as E.J. 'Space' Hanlon

1945

Betrayal from the East

as Eddie Carter

1947

High Tide

as Hugh Fresney

1933

Dinner at Eight

as Max Kane

1932

Love Is a Racket

as Stanley Fiske

1943

Power of the Press

as Griff Thompson

1932

The Half-Naked Truth

as Jimmy Bates

1942

The Payoff

as Brad McKay

1933

Turn Back the Clock

as Joe Gimlet

1930

Liliom

as The Buzzard

1929

Salute

as Radio Announcer (uncredited)

1933

The Nuisance

as Joseph Phineas 'Joe' Stevens

1937

Cinema Circus

as Himself - Ringmaster

1932

The Strange Love of Molly Louvain

as Scott 'Scotty' Cornell

1939

Fixer Dugan

as Charlie "Fixer" Dugan

1938

Crashing Hollywood

as Michael Winslow

1933

Clear All Wires!

as Buckley Joyce Thomas

1935

Two-Fisted

as Hap Hurley

1937

Behind The Headlines

as Eddie Haines

1934

You Belong to Me

as Bud Hannigan

1937

Criminal Lawyer

as Brandon

1932

The Night Mayor

as Mayor Bobby Kingston

1936

Sutter's Gold

as Pete Perkin

1936

Wanted: Jane Turner

as Tom Mallory

1932

Washington Merry-Go-Round

as Button Gwinett Brown

1930

Born Reckless

as Bill O'Brien

1939

The Spellbinder

as Jed Marlowe

1940

1934

I'll Tell the World

as Stanley Brown

1945

I'll Tell the World

as Gabriel Patton

1935

Carnival

as Chick Thompson

1935

Pirate Party on Catalina Isle

as Pirate (uncredited)

1934

The Lemon Drop Kid

as Wally Brooks aka The Lemon Drop Kid

1933

Private Jones

as Pvt. William 'Bill' Jones

1964

The Big Parade of Comedy

as Space in 'Bombshell' (archive footage)

1929

Big Time

as Eddie Burns

Production

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