Lee Tracy
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- April 13, 1898, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- Died
- October 18, 1968
- Movies
- 42
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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.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 1964 | The Big Parade of Comedy | Space in 'Bombshell' (archive footage) |
| 1964 | The Best Man | President Art Hockstader |
| 1947 | High Tide | Hugh Fresney |
| 1945 | I'll Tell the World | Gabriel Patton |
| 1945 | Betrayal from the East | Eddie Carter |
| 1943 | Power of the Press | Griff Thompson |
| 1942 | The Payoff | Brad McKay |
| 1940 | Millionaires in Prison | Nick Burton |
| 1939 | The Spellbinder | Jed Marlowe |
| 1939 | Fixer Dugan | Charlie "Fixer" Dugan |
| 1938 | Crashing Hollywood | Michael Winslow |
| 1937 | Behind The Headlines | Eddie Haines |
| 1937 | Criminal Lawyer | Brandon |
| 1937 | Cinema Circus | Himself - Ringmaster |
| 1936 | Wanted: Jane Turner | Tom Mallory |
| 1936 | Sutter's Gold | Pete Perkin |
| 1935 | Pirate Party on Catalina Isle | Pirate (uncredited) |
| 1935 | Two-Fisted | Hap Hurley |
| 1935 | Carnival | Chick Thompson |
| 1934 | The Lemon Drop Kid | Wally Brooks aka The Lemon Drop Kid |
| 1934 | You Belong to Me | Bud Hannigan |
| 1934 | I'll Tell the World | Stanley Brown |
| 1933 | Dinner at Eight | Max Kane |
| 1933 | Advice to the Lovelorn | Toby Prentiss |
| 1933 | Bombshell | E.J. 'Space' Hanlon |
| 1933 | Turn Back the Clock | Joe Gimlet |
| 1933 | The Nuisance | Joseph Phineas 'Joe' Stevens |
| 1933 | Private Jones | Pvt. William 'Bill' Jones |
| 1933 | Clear All Wires! | Buckley Joyce Thomas |
| 1932 | The Half-Naked Truth | Jimmy Bates |
| 1932 | Washington Merry-Go-Round | Button Gwinett Brown |
| 1932 | Blessed Event | Alvin Roberts |
| 1932 | The Night Mayor | Mayor Bobby Kingston |
| 1932 | Doctor X | Lee Taylor |
| 1932 | Love is a Racket | Stanley Fiske |
| 1932 | The Strange Love of Molly Louvain | Scott 'Scotty' Cornell |
| 1930 | She Got What She Wanted | |
| 1930 | Liliom | The Buzzard |
| 1930 | Born Reckless | Bill O'Brien |
| 1929 | Big Time | Eddie Burns |
| 1929 | Salute | Radio Announcer (uncredited) |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 1930 | She Got What She Wanted | Writer |
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