Lee Tracy
American actor (1898-1968) · United States · On the map · Actors · Died at 70
William Lee Tracy was an American stage, film, and television actor. He is known foremost for his portrayals between the late 1920s and 1940s of fast-talking, wisecracking news reporters, press agents, lawyers, and salesmen.
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The Best ManFilm, 1964President Art Hockstader1962
Going My WaySeries1961
87th PrecinctSeries
Ben CaseySeries, 19611959
New York ConfidentialSeries, Lee Cochran1949
Lights OutSeries
Martin Kane, Private EyeSeries, 19491948Ford TheatreSeries, Captain Gallagher1947
High TideFilm, Hugh Fresney1945
Betrayal from the EastFilm, Eddie Carter1943
Power of the PressFilm, Griff Thompson1940
Millionaires in PrisonFilm, Nick Burton1939
Fixer DuganFilm, Charlie "Fixer" Dugan1938
Crashing HollywoodFilm, Michael Winslow1937
Behind The HeadlinesFilm, Eddie Haines1936
Sutter's GoldFilm, Pete Perkin1935
CarnivalFilm, Chick Thompson1933
Advice to the LovelornFilm, Toby Prentiss1932
Blessed EventFilm, Alvin Roberts1930
Born RecklessFilm, Bill O'Brien1929
Big TimeFilm, Eddie Burns1898Born14 April 1898Known for
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Dinner at Eight 1933
Bombshell 1933
Doctor X 1932
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James Cruze Directed Sutter's Gold (1936)- Lew Landers Directed Crashing Hollywood and Fixer Dugan
John Ford Directed Salute and Born Reckless
Michael Curtiz Directed Doctor X (1932)
Hal B. Wallis Produced Doctor X (1932)
Alfred L. Werker Directed Advice to the Lovelorn (1933)
Frank Morgan Also in The Half-Naked Truth and The Nuisance
Oscar Apfel Also in Sutter's Gold, Carnival and Liliom- William Axt Wrote Dinner at Eight and Bombshell
Roy Webb Wrote Millionaires in Prison (1940)
Selmer Jackson Also in Doctor X (1932)
Harry Beresford Also in Dinner at Eight (1933)
Louise Beavers Also in The Strange Love of Molly Louvain (1932)
Edmund Lowe Also in Born Reckless and Dinner at Eight
John Wayne Also in Salute and Born Reckless
Frank Borzage Directed Liliom (1930)
Gregory La Cava Directed The Half-Naked Truth (1932)
Mae Clarke Also in Turn Back the Clock and Big Time
Isabel Jewell Also in Blessed Event and Bombshell
Edward Sedgwick Directed I'll Tell the World (1934)
Marshall Neilan Directed The Lemon Drop Kid (1934)
Roy Del Ruth Directed Blessed Event (1932)
Vinton Hayworth Also in Fixer Dugan and Millionaires in Prison
Greta Meyer Also in Bombshell and The Nuisance
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From 1949 to 1954, he was also featured in the weekly radio and television versions of the series Martin Kane: Private Eye, as well as starring as the newspaper columnist Lee Cochran in the 1958-1959 British-American crime drama New York Confidential. In 1960 he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his performance in the original theatrical version of The Best Man. Later, in 1964, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and a Golden Globe for his supporting role in the film version of The Best Man.
