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William Lee Tracy (April 14, 1898 – October 18, 1968) 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.
Lee Tracy was a fast-talking, red-headed actor who starred in pre-Code Hollywood films such as Bombshell and Dinner at Eight. He also had a successful stage career and a turbulent personal life marked by alcoholism and arrests.
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Learn about the life and career of Lee Tracy, a fast-talking and versatile actor who starred in Broadway, Hollywood and TV. From his early roles in The Front Page and Dinner at Eight to his late comeback in The Best Man, discover his unique personality and style.
Learn about Lee Tracy's life and career, from his roles as a newspaperman in Hollywood to his military service and TV shows. Find out why he was fired from a film in Mexico and how he was nominated for an Oscar for The Best Man.
If any one actor is emblematic of the early years of talking pictures, it's Lee Tracy. As one of the fastest mouths in the West, he helped usher in sound with a dazzling cascade of words, many of them the product of writers quickly imported from the worlds of theatre, radio and burlesque to...
Primarily regarded as a character actor, he co-starred in the classic comedy Dinner at Eight (1934), directed by George Cukor. His film career was temporarily disrupted while on location in Mexico filming Viva Villa!
Birthday: Apr 14, 1898. Birthplace: Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Dynamic actor from the Broadway stage who entered film in 1929 and parlayed his success as the antic, fast-talking Hildy...
