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Lee Tracy
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1898-04-13,Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Gender
Male
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

Filmography

6

Doctor X
1932-08-03

She Got What She Wanted

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She Got What She Wanted
1930-11-09

7.3

The Best Man
1964-04-05

6.5

Blessed Event
1932-09-10

Advice to the Lovelorn

7

Advice to the Lovelorn
1933-12-01

6.5

Bombshell
1933-10-13

Betrayal from the East

5.8

Betrayal from the East
1945-04-24

5.8

High Tide
1947-09-13

Dinner at Eight

6.7

Dinner at Eight
1933-12-22

Love Is a Racket

5.769

Love Is a Racket
1932-06-18

Power of the Press

6.2

Power of the Press
1943-01-29

The Half-Naked Truth

5.1

The Half-Naked Truth
1932-12-16

5.7

The Payoff
1942-11-24

Turn Back the Clock

5.1

Turn Back the Clock
1933-08-25

6.6

Liliom
1930-09-27

4.7

Salute
1929-09-01

5

The Nuisance
1933-06-03

0

Cinema Circus
1937-01-27

The Strange Love of Molly Louvain

5.9

The Strange Love of Molly Louvain
1932-05-28

6.5

Fixer Dugan
1939-04-21

Crashing Hollywood

5.8

Crashing Hollywood
1938-01-07

Clear All Wires!

6.5

Clear All Wires!
1933-02-24

7

Two-Fisted
1935-10-03

Behind The Headlines

6.2

Behind The Headlines
1937-05-14

You Belong to Me

7

You Belong to Me
1934-09-08

Criminal Lawyer

5.9

Criminal Lawyer
1937-01-29

The Night Mayor

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The Night Mayor
1932-08-18

0

Sutter's Gold
1936-03-01

Wanted: Jane Turner

5.3

Wanted: Jane Turner
1936-12-04

Washington Merry-Go-Round

6.7

Washington Merry-Go-Round
1932-10-15

5.6

Born Reckless
1930-05-11

The Spellbinder

6

The Spellbinder
1939-07-28

Millionaires in Prison

6

Millionaires in Prison
1940-07-12

I'll Tell the World

0

I'll Tell the World
1934-04-20

I'll Tell the World

0

I'll Tell the World
1945-06-08

0

Carnival
1935-02-15

Pirate Party on Catalina Isle

5.6

Pirate Party on Catalina Isle
1935-11-20

The Lemon Drop Kid

5

The Lemon Drop Kid
1934-09-27

0

Private Jones
1933-03-25

The Big Parade of Comedy

6.3

The Big Parade of Comedy
1964-09-02

6

Big Time
1929-09-07

7.5

87th Precinct
1961-09-25

5

Going My Way
1962-10-03

Martin Kane, Private Eye

5

Martin Kane, Private Eye
1949-09-01

Profiles in Courage

5

Profiles in Courage
1964-11-08

5.7

Ben Casey
1961-10-02

5.3

Lights Out
1949-07-19

New York Confidential

0

New York Confidential
1959-01-01