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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. Actor: Turn Back the Clock. Rangy, red-headed and straightforward to the bone while possessing distinctively adenoidal vocal tones, this actor with a voracious appetite for high living was a fine cinematic representation of the racy and race-paced style of pre-Code Hollywood.
Lee Tracy. Actor. Born: April 14, 1898 (Atlanta, Georgia) Died: October 18, 1968 (Santa Monica, California) Notable Films: Doctor X, Blessed Event, Dinner at Eight, Bombshell, Crashing Hollywood, Power of the Press, The Best Man
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.
Apr 14, 2019 · Born in 1898 in Atlanta, Georgia, Lee Tracy grew up in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, the son of a railroad superintendent. He attended a military academy, served in World War I and played semi-professional baseball in St. Louis before becoming an actor.
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...
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...
