Deceased

How Did Lee Tracy Die?

Life & Death

Died aged 70

GenderMaleNationalityUnited StatesBorn13/04/1898Born inAtlanta, Georgia, USADied18/10/1968Died inSanta MonicaCauseliver cancerWikidataQ1812027 ↗Buried atPennsylvaniaTMDb#33003 ↗

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. 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.

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Filmography26 titles

Importing filmography…

Year	Title	Character	Age at release
1964	The Big Parade of ComedyMovie	Space in 'Bombshell' (archive footage)	66
1964	The Best ManMovie	President Art Hockstader	66
1964	Profiles in CourageSeries	Senator Robert A. Taft	66
1962	Going My WaySeries	—	64
1961	Ben CaseySeries	—	63
1961	87th PrecinctSeries	—	63
1959	New York ConfidentialSeries	Lee Cochran	61
1949	Lights OutSeries	—	51
1948	Ford TheatreSeries	Captain Gallagher	50
1947	High TideMovie	Hugh Fresney	49
1945	Betrayal from the EastMovie	Eddie Carter	47
1945	I'll Tell the WorldMovie	Gabriel Patton	47
1943	Power of the PressMovie	Griff Thompson	45
1940	Millionaires in PrisonMovie	Nick Burton	42
1937	Cinema CircusMovie	Himself - Ringmaster	39
1937	Behind The HeadlinesMovie	Eddie Haines	39
1936	Wanted: Jane TurnerMovie	Tom Mallory	38
1935	Pirate Party on Catalina IsleMovie	Pirate (uncredited)	37
1934	I'll Tell the WorldMovie	Stanley Brown	36
1933	The NuisanceMovie	Joseph Phineas 'Joe' Stevens	35
1933	Private JonesMovie	Pvt. William 'Bill' Jones	35
1933	Dinner at EightMovie	Max Kane	35
1933	BombshellMovie	E.J. 'Space' Hanlon	35
1932	Blessed EventMovie	Alvin Roberts	34
1932	Doctor XMovie	Lee Taylor	34
1930	LiliomMovie	The Buzzard	32