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person_profile-Spencer Tracy

Spencer Tracy Died at age: 67

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Spencer Tracy

Date of Birth:

Apr 02, 1900

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Jun 10, 1967

Biography of

Spencer Tracy

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Spencer Bonaventure Tracy (April 5, 1900 – June 10, 1967) was an American actor, noted for his natural style and versatility. One of the major stars of Hollywood's Golden Age, Tracy won two Academy Awards for Best Actor from nine nominations, sharing the record for nominations in that category with Laurence Olivier.

    Tracy first discovered his talent for acting while attending Ripon College, and he later received a scholarship for the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He spent seven years in the theatre, working in a succession of stock companies and intermittently on Broadway. Tracy's breakthrough came in 1930, when his lead performance in The Last Mile caught the attention of Hollywood. After a successful film debut in John Ford's Up the River starring Tracy and Humphrey Bogart, he was signed to a contract with Fox Film Corporation. His five years with Fox featured one acting tour de force after another that were usually ignored at the box office, and he remained largely unknown to audiences after 25 films, almost all of them starring Tracy as the leading man. None of them were hits although The Power and the Glory (1933) features arguably his most acclaimed performance in retrospect.

    In 1935, Tracy joined Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, at the time Hollywood's most prestigious studio. His career flourished with a series of hit films, and in 1937 and 1938 he won consecutive Oscars for Captains Courageous and Boys Town. He made three smash hit films supporting Clark Gable, the studio's principal leading man, firmly fixing the notion of Gable and Tracy as a team in the public imagination. By the 1940s, Tracy was one of the studio's top stars. In 1942, he appeared with Katharine Hepburn in Woman of the Year, beginning another popular partnership that produced nine movies over 25 years. Tracy left MGM in 1955, and continued to work regularly as a freelance star, despite an increasing weariness as he aged. His personal life was troubled, with a lifelong struggle against severe alcoholism and guilt over his son's deafness. Tracy became estranged from his wife in the 1930s, but never divorced, conducting a long-term relationship with Katharine Hepburn in private. Towards the end of his life, Tracy worked almost exclusively for director Stanley Kramer. It was for Kramer that he made his last film, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner in 1967, completed just 17 days before his death.

    During his career, Tracy appeared in 75 films and developed a reputation among his peers as one of the screen's greatest actors. In 1999 the American Film Institute ranked Tracy as the 9th greatest male star of Classic Hollywood Cinema.

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Spencer Tracy

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Filmography of

Spencer Tracy

Found 101 Movies in total

Gene Kelly - An American in Hollywood

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2025

Heart of a Servant: The Father Flanagan Story

Fr. Edward Flanagan (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2024

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2018

And the Oscar Goes To...

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2014

Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2013

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2009

Bogart: The Untold Story

Self (archive footage) (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1997

Ingrid Bergman Remembered

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1996

La Classe américaine

The Professional Witness (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1993

Harlow: The Blonde Bombshell

Himself (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1993

Movie Tough Guys

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1991

Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To

(archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1990

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1988

... 1988

... 1986

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

Self (archive footage) (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1983

That's Entertainment, Part II

(archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1976

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1975

That's Entertainment!

(archive footage) (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1974

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1972

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Matt Drayton ( Actor )

... 1967

Hollywood My Home Town

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1965

The Big Parade of Comedy

Haggerty in 'Libeled Lady' (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1964

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

C. G. Culpepper ( Actor )

... 1963

Hollywood Without Make-Up

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1963

How the West Was Won

Narrator (voice) ( Actor )

... 1962

Hollywood: The Selznick Years

Self (archive footage) (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1961

Judgment at Nuremberg

Dan Haywood ( Actor )

... 1961

The Devil at 4 O'Clock

Father Matthew Doonan ( Actor )

... 1961

Inherit the Wind

Henry Drummond ( Actor )

... 1960

The Last Hurrah

Mayor Frank Skeffington ( Actor )

... 1958

The Old Man and the Sea

The Old Man ( Actor )

... 1958

Desk Set

Richard Sumner ( Actor )

... 1957

The Mountain

Zachary Teller ( Actor )

... 1956

Bad Day at Black Rock

John J. Macreedy ( Actor )

... 1955

Broken Lance

Matt Devereaux ( Actor )

... 1954

The Actress

Clinton Jones ( Actor )

... 1953

Plymouth Adventure

Capt. Christopher Jones ( Actor )

... 1952

Pat and Mike

Mike Conovan ( Actor )

... 1952

The People Against O'Hara

James P. Curtayne ( Actor )

... 1951

Father's Little Dividend

Stanley Banks ( Actor )

... 1951

Father of the Bride

Stanley T. Banks ( Actor )

... 1950

Malaya

Carnaghan ( Actor )

... 1949

Adam's Rib

Adam Bonner ( Actor )

... 1949

Edward, My Son

Arnold Boult ( Actor )

... 1949

State of the Union

Grant Matthews ( Actor )

... 1948

Cass Timberlane

Cass Timberlane ( Actor )

... 1947

The Sea of Grass

Col. James B. Brewton ( Actor )

... 1947

Without Love

Pat Jamieson ( Actor )

... 1945

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle ( Actor )

... 1944

The Seventh Cross

George Heisler ( Actor )

... 1944

A Guy Named Joe

Pete Sandidge ( Actor )

... 1943

Keeper of the Flame

Stevie O'Malley ( Actor )

... 1943

Tortilla Flat

Pilon ( Actor )

... 1942

Woman of the Year

Sam Craig ( Actor )

... 1942

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Dr. Henry 'Harry' Jekyll / Mr. Hyde ( Actor )

... 1941

Men of Boys Town

Edward Flanagan ( Actor )

... 1941

Boom Town

Square John Sand ( Actor )

... 1940

Edison, the Man

Thomas A. Edison ( Actor )

... 1940

Young Tom Edison

Man Admiring Portrait of Thomas A. Edison ( Actor )

... 1940

Northwest Passage

Major Robert Rogers ( Actor )

... 1940

I Take This Woman

Karl Decker ( Actor )

... 1940

Stanley and Livingstone

Henry M. Stanley ( Actor )

... 1939

Boys Town

Father Flanagan ( Actor )

... 1938

Test Pilot

Gunner Morse ( Actor )

... 1938

Mannequin

John Hennessey ( Actor )

... 1938

Big City

Joe Benton ( Actor )

... 1937

Captains Courageous

Manuel Fidello ( Actor )

... 1937

They Gave Him a Gun

Fred P. Willis ( Actor )

... 1937

Libeled Lady

Warren Haggerty ( Actor )

... 1936

San Francisco

Father Tim Mullin ( Actor )

... 1936

Fury

Joe Wilson ( Actor )

... 1936

Riffraff

Dutch ( Actor )

... 1936

Whipsaw

Ross 'Mac' McBride aka Danny Ross Ackerman ( Actor )

... 1935

Dante's Inferno

Jim Carter ( Actor )

... 1935

The Murder Man

Steven 'Steve' Grey ( Actor )

... 1935

It's A Small World

Bill Shevlin ( Actor )

... 1935

Marie Galante

Dr. Crawbett ( Actor )

... 1934

Now I'll Tell

Murray Golden ( Actor )

... 1934

Bottoms Up

'Smoothie' King ( Actor )

... 1934

Looking for Trouble

Joe Graham ( Actor )

... 1934

The Show-Off

J. Aubrey Piper ( Actor )

... 1934

Man's Castle

Bill ( Actor )

... 1933

The Mad Game

Edward Carson ( Actor )

... 1933

The Power and the Glory

Tom Garner ( Actor )

... 1933

Shanghai Madness

Pat Jackson ( Actor )

... 1933

Face in the Sky

Joe Buck ( Actor )

... 1933

20,000 Years in Sing Sing

Tommy Connors ( Actor )

... 1932

Me and My Gal

Danny Dolan ( Actor )

... 1932

The Painted Woman

Tom Brian ( Actor )

... 1932

Society Girl

Briscoe ( Actor )

... 1932

Young America

Jack Doray ( Actor )

... 1932

Disorderly Conduct

Dick Fay ( Actor )

... 1932

Sky Devils

Wilkie ( Actor )

... 1932

She Wanted a Millionaire

William Kelley ( Actor )

... 1932

Goldie

Bill ( Actor )

... 1931

Six Cylinder Love

William Donroy ( Actor )

... 1931

Quick Millions

Daniel J. 'Bugs' Raymond ( Actor )

... 1931

Up the River

Saint Louis ( Actor )

... 1930