Tracy Reed

Tracy Reed (born Clare Tracy Compton Pelissier; 21 September 1942 – 2 May 2012) was an English actress.

Early life and education Reed was the daughter of director Anthony Pelissier and actress Penelope Dudley-Ward; she took the surname of her stepfather, Carol Reed, following her mother's remarriage in 1948. Reed was the granddaughter of actress Fay Compton and producer H. G. Pelissier, and of socialite Freda Dudley Ward and politician William Dudley Ward, a great-grandson of William Humble Ward, 10th Baron Ward. Her great-uncle was novelist Sir Compton Mackenzie. Actor Oliver Reed was a step-cousin.

Career

During a film-acting career that lasted from the early 1960s until 1975, she appeared in about 30 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. —when she answers the phone while Turgidson is in the bathroom. She is also shown as the centrefold "Miss Foreign Affairs" 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 buttocks. When asked in 1994 if she had "fond memories" of working on the film, she replied "'Oh yes, lots!'", but "'I was wearing a bikini the whole time,' Reed [remembered], and when Kubrick decided to open the set to the press, 'there were all these reporters staring at me. It was dreadful.'" Actor Neil Hallett (1970–1973; divorced); no children Actor Bill Simpson (1974–1982; divorced); two daughters Christopher McCabe (1982–1983; divorced); no children

Death Reed died of liver cancer in County Cork, Ireland, on 2 May 2012, aged 69; her funeral was held there.

Selected filmography The Way Ahead (1944) (as a baby) as the Perry's Daughter (uncredited) Our Man in the Caribbean (1962–1963, TV series) as Maggie Warren / Maggie / Maggie MacFarlane Esther Waters (1964, TV series) as Miss Peggy The Main Chance (1964) as Christine Dr. Strangelove (1964) as Miss Scott A Shot in the Dark (1964) as Dominique Ballon Devils of Darkness (1965) as Karen You Must Be Joking! (1965) as Poppy Pennington Maroc 7 (1967) as Vivienne Casino Royale (1967) as Fang Leader Hammerhead (1968) as Miss Hull Journey to Midnight (1968) as Joyce (episode: "The Indian Spirit Guide") Adam's Woman (1970) as Duchess Percy (1971) as Mrs. Penney Melody (1971) as Woman in hospital Fun and Games (1971) as Linda UFO (1971) as Jane Carson (episode: "The Dalotek Affair") The Deadly Females (1976) as Joan Phantom Halo (2014) as Casino Patron (uncredited) (final film role)