Tracy Reed (English actress)
Tracy Reed (born 21 September 1942, London) is an English actress. She was born Clare Tracy Compton Pelissier, the daughter of the director Anthony Pelissier and the actress Penelope Dudley-Ward, but took the surname of her stepfather, Sir Carol Reed, following her mother's remarriage in 1948. During a film-acting career that lasted from the early 1960s until 1975, she appeared in about thirty films, the TV series Man of the World (1962) and was at one point under consideration as a replacement for Diana Rigg in The Avengers.
Reed is known for her role as Miss Scott, the mistress of General Buck Turgidson (George C. Scott) in Dr. Strangelove (1964). She has the only female part in that film and is seen in only one scene[1]-when she answers the phone while Turgidson is in the bathroom. She is also shown as the centrefold "Miss Foreign Affairs"[2] in the June 1962 copy of Playboy magazine being read by pilot Major T. J. "King" Kong (Slim Pickens) in the B-52. In the photo, she is lying down, apparently nude, with the January 1963 issue of Foreign Affairs – Vol. 41, No. 2, containing Henry Kissinger's suggestive article "Strains on the Alliance" – strategically draped across her behind.[3]
Contents |
[edit] Family
Reed is the granddaughter of the actress Fay Compton and the producer H.G. Pelissier, and the socialite Freda Dudley Ward and William Dudley Ward. Her great-uncle was the novelist Sir Compton Mackenzie. The actor Oliver Reed was her stepcousin. Reed's daughter Lucy Fox from her first marriage married the Viscount Gormanston, who is the premier Viscount of Ireland.
[edit] Marriages
Reed has been married four times:
- The actor Edward Fox (1958–1961) (divorced); one daughter Lucy, Viscountess Gormanston
- The actor Neil Hallett (divorced 1973)
- The actor Bill Simpson (1974–1986) (widowed); two daughters.
- Christopher McCabe; no children
[edit] Selected filmography
- The Way Ahead (1944) (as a baby)
- Our Man in the Caribbean (1962)
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
- A Shot in the Dark (1964)
- You Must Be Joking! (1965)
- Casino Royale (1967)
- Maroc 7 (1967)
- Hammerhead (1968)
- Random Quest (1969) (TV)
- Percy (1971)
- Melody (1971)
- 1000 Convicts and a Woman (1971)
[edit] Notes
- ^ Peter Baxter "The One Woman", Wide Angle 6:1 (1984) pp.34-41
- ^ People section, Time (magazine), 15 March 1963.
- ^ Grant B. Stillman "Two of the MADdest scientists: where Strangelove Meets Dr. No; or, unexpected roots for Kubrick's Cold War classic", Film History, vol. 20 issue 4 (2008) pp. 487-500, ISSN: 0892-2160, Figs. 3 & 4.
