This owl-faced comic actor enjoyed his first featured film role in the RKO production _Too Many Girls , are by now well under way. As Eddie Bracken's age increased his popularity -- or perhaps that of the genre of film vehicles that was his forte -- decreased, and in 1953 he essentially retired from the screen, moving on to pursue theatrical ventures. But he would return to Hollywood eventually, and we have been fortunate to see him in character roles in theatrical and TV films through the 80's and 90's.
Children: sons Michael Bracken , Dave Bracken ; daughters Judy Bracken , Carolyn Bracken and Susan Bracken.
His wife of 63 years, Connie, a former actress, died in August of 2002, just three months before Eddies passing. Connie was his leading lady in the Broadway production of "What a Life" in 1938.
While in elementary school, Eddie appeared as the rich kid in "The New York Kiddie Troupers," a series of silent movie shorts filmed in New York.
Biography in: "Whos Who in Comedy" by Ronald L. Smith, pg. 58-59. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387
Eddie won a Best Actor Tony nomination playing Horace Vandergelder in the Broadway revival of "Hello, Dolly!" opposite Carol Channing in 1978.
Last Broadway show was at age 77 in Dreamtime (directed by David Niles) at The Ed Sullivan Theater.
He was awarded two Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television at 6751 Hollywood Boulevard and for Radio at 1651 Vine Street in Hollywood, California.
