Eddie Bracken, film-TV-radio character actor and Tony-nommed musical thesp who nonetheless took leads in such Preston Sturges features as “The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek” and “Hail the Conquering Hero, ...

The deft hand of Preston Sturges molded this film, further proof that he is one of the industry's best writer-directors. The numerous situations that lend themselves readily to comedy lines and ...

Eddie Bracken, a character actor whose portrayals of bewildered and long-suffering comic heroes crowned a stage, screen and television career of more than 70 years, died Thursday in Montclair, N.J. He ...

Eddie Bracken, 87, an actor who was the embodiment of sweet befuddlement for seven decades, from two glorious Preston Sturges comedies in the 1940s to "National Lampoon's Vacation" in the 1980s, died ...