Eddie Bracken’s Death – Cause and Date

The movie actor Eddie Bracken died at the age of 87. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

Bumbling character actor who became popular in the 1940s. In 1983, he appeared in National Lampoon’s Vacation and two years later, he appeared in Murder, She Wrote.

He married co-star Connie Nickerson in 1939 and they remained together until her death in 2002.

He was 87. Bracken died Thursday from complications of surgery in a hospital in Montclair, N.J., according to his oldest daughter, Judy Gordon. She said her father had crushed a disk in his neck in a fall in his home in Glen Ridge, N.J.

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I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.

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Oh, I’m a survivor. My whole life has been surviving.

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But I have fun with the fright, work with it. You have to – that’s your timing, that beat of excitement. And when I go on stage, it’s just like taking a step into heaven. Poof, you know? Poof – and there I am.

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Working with Sturges was like working with a guy who wanted to have a party all the time. He was very serious about his work, but in between shots, he was fun and we would play games.