Tracy Reed

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Tracy Reed (* 21st September 1942 as Clare Tracy Compton Pelissier in London , England ; † 2. May 2012 in West Cork , Republic of Ireland ) was a British actress .

Life

Reed grew up as the daughter of the actor couple Anthony Pelissier and Penelope Dudley-Ward . Her paternal grandmother, Fay Compton , was also an actress. At the age of six months, she was seen with her mother and Laurence Olivier in the film drama The Demi-Paradise in 1943 . She later took the name of her stepfather, film director Carol Reed , and was the step-cousin of Oliver Reed . From the beginning of the 1960s she played television roles and had a series lead role alongside Robert Morley as Princess Amelia in the short-lived sitcom If the Crown Fits in 1961 . She was temporarily traded as the successor to Diana Rigg in Mit Schirm, Charme und Melone . She made her acting debut on the big screen at the age of 22 in Stanley Kubrick's multi-award-winning satire Dr. Strange or: How I learned to love the bomb with Peter Sellers in the lead role. As Miss Scott's secretary, she played the only female role and was only dressed in a bikini .

She then worked in two other films alongside Peter Sellers: first in 1964 in the second film in the Pink Panther series , Ein Schuß im Dunkeln , as the daughter of millionaire Benjamin Ballon, and in 1967 in Casino Royale , but there in a minor supporting role . Reed retired from show business in the mid-1970s to focus on her family. From their four marriages had three daughters. In her first marriage she was married to the actor Edward Fox , in the third marriage to the actor Bill Simpson . Her eldest daughter Lucy from her marriage to Fox carries the title Viscountess Gormanston through her marriage to Jenico Preston .

Reed later moved to West Cork in the South West of the Republic of Ireland where she started a new career as a sales representative in the food industry . There she died in 2012 at the age of 69. Her divorced first husband Edward Fox, with whom she remained close friends throughout her life, read a poem at the funeral service.

Filmography (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Harris M. Lentz III: Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2012 , McFarland 2013, ISBN 978-0-7864-7063-1
  2. ↑ a b c d 'Dr. Strangelove 'and the Single Woman in the Los Angeles Times (English)
  3. ↑ a b c Obituary for Tracy Reed on The Stage (English)
personal data
SURNAME Reed, Tracy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actress
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH London , England
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 2012
Place of death West Cork , Ireland