Eddie Bracken

Eddie Bracken

Nascimento : 1915-02-07, Astoria, New York, U.S.

Morte : 2002-11-14

História

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Edward Vincent "Eddie" Bracken was an American actor. Bracken became a Hollywood comedy legend with lead performances in the films Hail the Conquering Hero and The Miracle of Morgan's Creek both in 1944, both of which have been preserved by the National Film Registry. During this era, he also had success on Broadway, with performances in plays like Too Many Girls. Bracken's later movie roles include National Lampoon's Vacation, Oscar, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, and Rookie of the Year. Description above from the Wikipedia article Eddie Bracken, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Perfil

Eddie Bracken

Filmes

A Torradeira Valente e a Missão de Salvamento
Sebastian (voice)
Os divertidos aparelhos elétricos do aclamado sucesso de animação 'A Torradeira Valente' estão de volta em uma aventura cheia de ação com quatro músicas inéditas.
Ninguém Segura Este Bebê
Old Timer
Em Chicago o bebê Bink tem todo o amor do mundo e tudo que o dinheiro pode comprar. Entretanto, três malandros, liderados por Norby (Joe Pantoliano), se passam por fotógrafos e seqüestram a criança. No entanto o bebê foge de forma fantástica e de forma mais fantástica ainda percorre a cidade, visitando os lugares que viu no seu livro e, de quebra, envolvendo os pilantras em diversas confusões.
Julgamento em West Point
Maj. Charles T. Alexander
O ano é 1881, um tempo em que a discriminação racial era um sentimento forte e impregnado em cada americano, Johnson Wittaker (Seth Gillian), é um dos primeiros negros a despontar no meio social até então destinado somente aos brancos. Ele é admitido na mais importante instituição educacional dos estados Unidos: a Academia Militar de West Point. Na Academia, Johnson é submetido a todo tipo de humilhação e é levado injustamente aos tribunais. Baseado em fatos reais, Julgamento em West Point é o retrato cruel de um passado doloroso da sociedade norte-americana.
Sonho de Campeão
Bob Carson
História de um menino, cujo braço quebrado cicatriza de uma maneira estraha, mas o deixa com o braço ótimo para arremessos, o que o ajuda a ganhar o título para o time de baseball de Chicago.
The American Clock
Grandpa
Moe, Rose and Lee Baumler are members of an upper class family who find the world completely changed when they lose everything in the stock market crash of 1929. Lee, a college-age young man, who now faces no possibility of entering college, decides to go on the road to see what is happening to the rest of the country.
Sozinho em Casa 2 - Perdido em Nova Iorque
Mr. Duncan
Kevin McCallister está em Nova Iorque com dinheiro suficiente para tornar a Grande Maçã no seu recreio! Mas Kevin não estará sozinho por muito tempo. Os infames Bandidos Molhados, Harry e Marv, ainda a recuperar do último encontro com Kevin, também se dirigem para Nova Iorque e planeiam um enorme golpe de Natal. Kevin está pronto a recebê-los com um conjunto de armadilhas que os ladrões desastrados nunca esquecerão!
Oscar - Minha Filha quer Casar
Five Spot Charlie
No leito de morte, o pai de um gângster pede a seu filho que vire um homem honesto. Ele decide cumprir a vontade do pai, mas enfrenta problemas. Entre os quais, arranjar um noivo para a filha grávida. Segunda versão cinematográfica da peça de Claude Magnier.
Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer
Self
Documentary about the life and work of film director Preston Sturges.
The Wind in the Willows
Moley (voice)
The Irresponsible Toad is in a mess and needs help from his friends try and save Toad Hall.
A Case of the Stubborns
Grandpa Titus Tolliver
Jodie and his mum are grief-stricken by the passing away of Jodie's grandfather, but they soon find themselves with a lot more to be upset about when he gets determined not to stay dead.
Férias Frustradas
Roy Walley
A família Griswold está de férias e resolve ir para o "Walley Park", um parque temático. O pai Clark (Chevy Chase), sua esposa Ellen (Beverly D'Angelo), e os filhos Audrey (Dana Barron) e Rusty (Anthony Michael Hall) pegam a longa estrada de Chicago até a Costa Oeste. No meio do caminho, encontram com o primo Eddie (Randy Quaid) e a tia Edna (Imogene Coca), e acabam tendo que levá-la até Phoenix. Até os Griswold chegarem ao parque muitas confusões acontecem e, quando eles finalmente chegam, uma surpresa pouco agradável os surpreende.
Shinbone Alley
Archy
Suicidal poet Archy tries to end his life by jumping off a bridge, but awakens to find he has assumed the life of a cockroach and has become a part of a community of creatures living in a newspaper office. He also discovers that he can still write poetry, using a typewriter, and begins to enjoy his new life. Archy develops deep feelings for the lovely but self-destructive cat Mehitabel, but will have to fight to win her from bad-boy tomcat Bill.
Wild Wild World
Narrator
A study of some bizarre customs as practiced throughout the world: opium smoking and prostitution in Kowloon; interracial lovemaking in a stag movie; showgirls performing in Los Angeles; prostitution in Hong Kong; bullfighting, flamenco dancing, and striptease in Madrid; ancient tribal marriage and fertility rites practiced in Luzon; West Indians dancing in Martinique; and much much more!
É Melhor Ser Pobre
Frederick Winthrop Clopp
Two nitwits decide to open a gas station.
Travessuras de Casados
Willie Fisher
Um juiz de paz realiza casamentos poucos dias antes de sua licença ser válida. Alguns anos depois, cinco casais descobrem que nunca foram legalmente casados. Annabel Norris, já Sra Mississippi e pronta para entrar no concurso Sra América, está agora livre para entrar no concurso de Miss Mississippi. Ramona e Steve, que se detestam, mas se casaram para obter um contrato lucrativo de rádio; um casal que mal conseguia se falar; um magnata do petróleo e uma caçadora de fortunas; e soldado Willie Fisher, prestes a ser enviado para a Guerra da Coréia deixando sua linda esposa grávida.
About Face
Biff Roberts
Three friends enter military school together, but 2 of them don't know that the 3rd one is secretly married.
Two Tickets to Broadway
Lew Conway
A young woman (Janet Leigh) leaves her small hometown in Vermont and travels to New York City with hopes of becoming a Broadway star.
Casa, Comida e Carinho
Orville Wingait
Como favor a sua irmã Abigail, a fazendeira de Nova Inglaterra, Jane Falbury, permite que um grupo de atores use seu celeiro como teatro para sua peça. Em troca, o elenco e a equipe precisam ajudá-la nas tarefas da fazenda. Durante os ensaios, Jane se vê apaixonada pelo diretor do programa, Joe Ross, que também se envolve com a atriz principal da peça, Abigail.
The Girl from Jones Beach
Chuck Donovan
Glamour artist Bob Randolph is world famous for his paintings of a stunning beauty dubbed "The Randolph Girl". What the world doesn't know is that his pin-up creation is really a composite of parts of the anatomy of 12 different models. In an effort to find one girl who possesses all the proper physical attributes, Randolph and PR man Chuck Donovan pursue Ruth Wilson, a beauteous schoolteacher who prefers to be admired for her brain rather than her curves. Ruth changes her tune, however, when a published photo of her in a swimsuit causes her to be fired by the uptight schoolboard. She sues for reinstatement and in the process learns that swimsuits and sex appeal do have a place in her world, after all. Written by Dan Navarro
Estratagema da Juventude
Pete Porter aka P.P. Porterhouse III
Shy, destitute Peter Porter meets equally impoverished Nancy Crane at a Florida beach. Inspired by Peter's belief that a person can acquire wealth simply by creating an aura of success, the outgoing Nancy convinces Peter to join her in impersonating a confident and eccentric wealthy couple. The experiment works, and the couple secure a stunning wardrobe and a lavish room at a resort. Peter panics, however, when he gets a fantastic job offer.
Aquela Mulher Ingrata
Henry Haskell
A boy from the country inherits $10 million, and decides to go to New York City to live it up.
Agarre Essa Loura
Ogden Spencer Trulow III
Ogden Spencer Trulow III is a wealthy kleptomaniac who turned to stealing when he was spurned by a girl. His psychoanalyst advises him to find another girl for a cure. He fastens his interest upon Sally Martin, who happens to be engaged upon helping some crooks steal a valuable necklace. Complications include two scantily attired individuals, one of them drunk, clinging to the cornice of a skyscraper and a large band of crooks in quest of the precious jewels.
Duffy's Tavern
Eddie Bracken
The staff of a record factory drown their sorrows at Duffy's Tavern, while the company owner faces threats of bankruptcy.
Do Outro Mundo
Herbie Fenton
After struggling to become a success, Betty Miller and her all-girl orchestra finally hit pay dirt when crooner Herbie Fenton comes on board. Problems arise when Betty and her girls try to find backers to invest in Herbie and they sell 125 percent of him.
Acontece Que Sou Rico
J. Newport Bates
A millionaire joins the Navy hoping to find a girl who'll marry him for himself, not for his money. A beautiful gold-digger who works at a resort hotel sets out to get him.
A Message of Importance
In the final push of World War II, with Germany and Japan on the ropes, Eddie Bracken urges the American people to buy more war bonds.
Rainbow Island
Toby Smith
Three merchant seamen fleeing the Japanese take refuge on a Pacific island, where they come across a doctor and his daughter who take care of the natives, a hostile tribe that wants to kill the sailors for trespassing on their sacred ground.
Papai Por Acaso
Norval Jones
A small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers wakes up the morning after a wild farewell party for the troops to find that she married someone she can't remember.
Hail the Conquering Hero
Woodrow Truesmith
Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith delays the return to his hometown, feeling that he is a failure. While in a moment of melancholy, he meets up with a group of Marines who befriend him and encourage him to return home to his mother by fabricating a story that he was wounded in battle with honorable discharge.
Clube dos Inocentes
George Bodell
For those, if any, who have wondered why so many Paramount contractees appeared in United Artists' films during the war years, this is another one of the Paramount productions that was sold to United Artists in the early-40's when U.A. was having trouble meeting their exhibitor contracts because of lack of product, mainly due to their loss of production in England. A group of starving, but young and willing, actors band together to share finances and an apartment. Norman Reese (William Holden) orders no love nonsense between the boys and girls till they are set on broadway, but Marge Benson (Barbara Britton) and Tony Dennison (James Beown) are already secretly married. A friend drops in to see Dottie Coburn (Martha O'Driscoll) and is shocked to find the boys and girls sharing the same apartment and insists it is her duty to inform Dottie's father (Jay Fassett.)
Caçadora de Marido
Wally Case
A gold-digger hopes to land a rich husband in Trinidad, but gets mixed up with a beach boy and voodoo.
Sweater Girl
Jack Mitchell
College students attempt to solve a series of murders on campus while also trying to put together the school's big show.
Coquetel de Estrelas
Johnny Webster
Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his buddies, Pop enlists the aid of the studio's dizzy switchboard operator in pulling off the charade. Things get more complicated when Pop agrees to put together a show for the Navy starring Paramount's top contract players.
The Fleet's In
Barney Waters
Shy sailor Casey Kirby suddenly becomes known as a sea wolf when his picture is taken with a famous actress. Things get complicated when bets are placed on his prowess with the ladies.
Sorte de Cabo da Esquadra
Bert Sparks
Don Bolton is a movie star who can't stand loud noises. To evade the draft, he decides to get married...but falls for a colonel's daughter. By mistake, he and his two cronies enlist. In basic training, Don hopes to make a good impression on the fair Antoinette and her father, but his military career is largely slapstick. Will he ever get his corporal's stripes?
A Cidade que Nunca Dorme
Benny Hogan
Comedy of a North Woods clam-digger who journeys to Detroit to earn money for outboard motor by working on auto assembly line.
Life with Henry
Basil 'Dizzy' Stevens
Henry Aldrich wants to win a trip to Alaska.
Safeguarding Military Information
World War II propaganda short which focuses on the dangers of inadvertent dispersal of military information.
Garotas em Penca
Jojo Jordan
Mr. Casey's daughter, Connie, wants to go to Pottawatomie College and without her knowledge, he sends four football players as her bodyguards. The college is in financial trouble and her bodyguards use their salary to help the college. The football players join the college team, and the team becomes one of the best. One of the football players, Clint, falls in love with Connie, but when she discovers he is her bodyguard, she decides to go back East. The bodyguards follow her, leaving the team in the lurch.
O Corcunda de Notre Dame
Soldier at Festival of Fools (uncredited)
Esta produção estrelada por Charles Laughton, que estava no auge de sua carreira quando personificou Quasímodo (o Corcunda), recebeu duas indicações ao Oscar, em 1939. É provavelmente, a melhor interpretação dada ao triste personagem, morador da Catedral de Notre Dame, que perambula pelos impressionantes cenários de Paris, criados especialmente para o filme, em Hollywood. Maureen O'Hara está perfeita como a linda cigana Esmeralda, pela qual Quasímodo se apaixona desesperadamente, a ponto de romper a paz da imponente e secular Catedral, aterrorizando a população.
Pacific Liner
Junior officer (uncredited)
An outbreak of cholera threatens a luxury liner in this surprisingly low-budget melodrama from RKO. En route from Shanghai to San Francisco, chief engineer Crusher McKay (Victor McLaglen) and shipboard doctor Tony Craig (Chester Morris) become rivals for the attention of nurse Ann Grayson (Wendy Barrie). A Chinese stowaway, meanwhile, infects the stokehold with cholera and it is left to Crusher to keep the engines at full throttle until reaching harbor. But morale sinks to an all-time low when Crusher himself is stricken and the overworked men threaten with mutiny. Tony attempts to keep the stokers in check but the situation is growing more dangerous by the minute when a heroic Crusher rises from his sickbed. Leaving their previous petty squabbles behind, Tony and Crusher manage to guide the ship safely to harbor, where the doc and Ann rekindle their romance.