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Lee Tracy‌

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Lee Tracy

Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Lee Tracy

Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Gender

Male

Birthday

calendar1898-04-13

Popularity

star2.9

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 producer Desi Arnaz, in his published autobiography The Book (1976), Tracy stood on a balcony in Mexico City and urinated down onto a passing military parade. Elsewhere in his autobiography, Arnaz claims that from then on, if one watched other crowds of spectators, they would visibly disperse any time an American stepped out onto a balcony. However, other crew members there at the time disputed this story, giving a sharply different account of events. In his autobiography, Charles G. Clarke, the cinematographer on the picture, said that he was standing outside the hotel during the parade and the incident never happened. Tracy, he said, was standing on the balcony observing the parade when a Mexican in the street below made an obscene gesture at him. Tracy replied in kind; and the next day a local newspaper printed a story that, in effect, Tracy had insulted Mexico, Mexicans in general, and their national flag in particular. The story caused an uproar in Mexico, and MGM decided to sacrifice Tracy in order to be allowed to continue filming there. The young actor Stuart Erwin replaced Tracy. The film's original director, Howard Hawks, was also fired for his refusal to testify against Tracy. Jack Conway replaced him. During World War II, Tracy returned to military service. Later, he had two television series in the 1950s. One was Martin Kane: Private Eye, in which he was one of four actors to play the title role. The others were William Gargan, Lloyd Nolan, and Mark Stevens. In 1958, he returned to a newspaper reporter role in the syndicated New York Confidential. After World War II, his screen career was largely relegated to television, but he portrayed the former President of the United States, Art Hockstader, a character loosely based on Harry Truman, in both the stage and film versions of The Best Man (1964), written by Gore Vidal. The movie version featured Henry Fonda and Cliff Robertson. Tracy received his only Academy Award nomination, as Best Supporting Actor, for his performance in the film. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lee Tracy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Movie Credits

Doctor X

Doctor X‌
star6.0
calendar 1932

She Got What She Wanted

She Got What She Wanted‌
star0.0
calendar 1930

The Best Man

The Best Man‌
star7.3
calendar 1964

Blessed Event

Blessed Event‌
star6.5
calendar 1932

Advice to the Lovelorn

Advice to the Lovelorn‌
star7.0
calendar 1933

Bombshell

Bombshell‌
star6.5
calendar 1933

Betrayal from the East

Betrayal from the East‌
star5.8
calendar 1945

High Tide

High Tide‌
star5.8
calendar 1947

Dinner at Eight

Dinner at Eight‌
star6.7
calendar 1933

Love Is a Racket

Love Is a Racket‌
star6.0
calendar 1932

Power of the Press

Power of the Press‌
star6.2
calendar 1943

The Half-Naked Truth

The Half-Naked Truth‌
star5.1
calendar 1932

The Payoff

The Payoff‌
star5.7
calendar 1942

Turn Back the Clock

Turn Back the Clock‌
star5.1
calendar 1933

Liliom

Liliom‌
star6.6
calendar 1930

Salute

Salute‌
star4.7
calendar 1929

The Nuisance

The Nuisance‌
star5.0
calendar 1933

Cinema Circus

Cinema Circus‌
star0.0
calendar 1937

The Strange Love of Molly Louvain

The Strange Love of Molly Louvain‌
star5.9
calendar 1932

Fixer Dugan

Fixer Dugan‌
star6.5
calendar 1939

Crashing Hollywood

Crashing Hollywood‌
star5.8
calendar 1938

Clear All Wires!

Clear All Wires!‌
star6.5
calendar 1933

Two-Fisted

Two-Fisted‌
star7.0
calendar 1935

Behind The Headlines

Behind The Headlines‌
star6.2
calendar 1937

You Belong to Me

You Belong to Me‌
star7.0
calendar 1934

Criminal Lawyer

Criminal Lawyer‌
star5.9
calendar 1937

The Night Mayor

The Night Mayor‌
star0.0
calendar 1932

Sutter's Gold

Sutter's Gold‌
star0.0
calendar 1936

Wanted: Jane Turner

Wanted: Jane Turner‌
star5.3
calendar 1936

Washington Merry-Go-Round

Washington Merry-Go-Round‌
star6.7
calendar 1932

Born Reckless

Born Reckless‌
star5.6
calendar 1930

The Spellbinder

The Spellbinder‌
star6.0
calendar 1939

Millionaires in Prison

Millionaires in Prison‌
star6.0
calendar 1940

I'll Tell the World

I'll Tell the World‌
star0.0
calendar 1934

I'll Tell the World

I'll Tell the World‌
star0.0
calendar 1945

Carnival

Carnival‌
star0.0
calendar 1935

Pirate Party on Catalina Isle

Pirate Party on Catalina Isle‌
star5.6
calendar 1935

The Lemon Drop Kid

The Lemon Drop Kid‌
star5.0
calendar 1934

Private Jones

Private Jones‌
star0.0
calendar 1933

The Big Parade of Comedy

The Big Parade of Comedy‌
star6.3
calendar 1964

Big Time

Big Time‌
star6.0
calendar 1929

Tv Credits

87th Precinct

87th Precinct‌
star7.5
calendar 1961

Going My Way

Going My Way‌
star5.0
calendar 1962

Martin Kane, Private Eye

Martin Kane, Private Eye‌
star5.0
calendar 1949

Profiles in Courage

Profiles in Courage‌
star5.0
calendar 1964

Ben Casey

Ben Casey‌
star5.7
calendar 1961

Lights Out

Lights Out‌
star5.3
calendar 1949

New York Confidential

New York Confidential‌
star0.0
calendar 1959