Lee Tracy
2 credits on HibingeTV
American film and stage actor. Born in 1898, he was known for his fast-talking, wisecracking persona and became a popular character actor in pre-Code Hollywood. He appeared in films like Born Reckless (1930), Doctor X (1932), and Bombshell (1933). His career was derailed by a scandal in 1934 but he continued working in character roles for decades.
Acted In
Crime, Drama
A pre-Code crime film directed by John Ford and staged by Andrew Bennison, based on the novel Louis Beretti by Donald Henderson Clarke. Edmund Lowe stars as a notorious gangster who is sentenced to fight in World War I rather than go to prison, a scheme cooked up by a district attorney looking to use the publicity to get re-elected. After returning from the war, Beretti tries to go straight by opening a nightclub, but his old criminal connections pull him back in. Lee Tracy plays a fast-talking reporter, and Marguerite Churchill plays Beretti's sister. The film features early uncredited appearances by John Wayne and Randolph Bond as soldiers. The film is in the public domain.
Crime · Drama · War
Born Reckless
1930 - as Bill O'Brien
Drama, Romance
Frank Borzage's adaptation of Ferenc Molnar's 1909 play about a carousel barker in Budapest whose doomed romance with a servant girl ends in tragedy and a chance at redemption from beyond the grave. Charles Farrell stars as Liliom, a swaggering but troubled carnival worker, with Rose Hobart as Julie, the woman who loves him despite his flaws. Lee Tracy plays the Sparrow, a heavenly marshal who oversees Liliom's posthumous trial. The film was one of several Borzage-directed romances that blended realism with spiritual fantasy, a hallmark of his career. As a work published before 1930, it is in the public domain in the United States.
Drama · Romance · Fantasy
Liliom
1930 - as The Sparrow