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She was born Clare Tracy Compton Pelissier, the daughter of the director Anthony Pelissier and the actress Penelope Dudley Ward. During a film-acting career that lasted from the early 1960s until 1975, she appeared in about thirty movies. She is probably best known for her role as the mistress of General Buck Turgidson (George C. Scott) in Dr. Strangelove (1964). She has the only female part in that film but is seen in only one scene--when she answers the phone while Turgidson is in the bathroom. Ironically, her character's best moment occurs later in another telephone scene, in which Reed is neither seen nor heard. While General Turgidson is seated at a conference with the president and other military and government leaders in the War Room, his mistress telephones him, and he nervously converses with her, trying not to be noticed by the president. Scott's performance in that scene is a comic gem that is enhanced by what the audience imagines the airheaded mistress is saying to him. She was also considered as a replacement for Diana Rigg in The Avengers (TV series). Anthony Pelissier (1912-1988) was an English producer and director. ... Penelope Dudley Ward, Lady Reed (August 4, 1914 - January 22, 1982) was an English actress. ... George Campbell Scott (October 18, 1927 - September 22, 1999) was a stage and film actor, director, and producer. ... Strangelove redirects here. ... Dame (Enid) Diana (Elizabeth) Rigg, DBE, (born 20 July 1938) is an English actress. ... The Avengers is a British 1960s television series featuring secret agents in a fantasy 1960s Britain. ...

Tracy Pelissier took the surname of her stepfather, Sir Carol Reed, following her mother's remarriage in 1948. Sir Carol Reed (December 30, 1906-April 25, 1976) was an English film director, winner of an Academy Award for his interpretation of the musical, Oliver! (1968). ...

Family links

She is the granddaughter of the actress Fay Compton & the producer H.G.Pelissier, and the socialite Freda Dudley Ward & William Dudley Ward. Her great-uncle was the novelist Sir Compton Mackenzie. Her step cousin was the actor Oliver Reed. Fay Compton (September 18, 1894 in West Kensington, London – December 12, 1978) was an English actress from a notable acting lineage; her father was actor/manager Edward Compton; her mother, Virginia Bateman, was a distinguished member of the profession, as were her sister, the actress Viola Compton, and her uncles... H G Pelissier (1874-1913) was an English theatre producer. ... Freda Dudley Ward (28 July 1894 - 16 March 1983) was a leading English socialite. ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... Sir (Edward Montague) Compton Mackenzie, (1883–1972), was an Scottish novelist. ... Robert Oliver Reed (February 13, 1938 – May 2, 1999) was an English actor known for his macho image on and off screen. ...

Her daughter Lucy Fox (from her first marriage) married the Viscount Gormanston, who is the premier Viscount of Ireland. This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Jenico Nicholas Dudley Preston, 17th Viscount Gormanston (born 19 November 1939) is a Roman Catholic Anglo-Irish aristocrat and is the premier Viscount of Ireland. ...

Marriages

She has been married four times:

• 1) The actor Edward Fox (married 1958 - divorced 1961) - one daughter Lucy, Viscountess Gormanston
• 2) The late actor Bill Simpson (Dr. Finlay's Casebook) - two daughters.
• 3) Married to Christopher McCabe - No children
• 4) The actor Neil Hallett (widowed in 2005)

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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 (1963) the only woman in the cast
• A Shot in the Dark (1964)
• Devils of Darkness (1965)
• 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)

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External links

• Tracy Reed at the Internet Movie Database