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Known For
Acting
Birthday
April 5, 1900
Died
June 10, 1967
Place of Birth
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Also Known As
- Spencer Bonaventure Tracy
- Спенсер Трэйси
- Спенсер Треси
Spencer Tracy
1.0 Popularity
Biography
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.
Known For
6.4
Self (archive footage)
Gene Kelly - An American in Hollywood
2025
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Fr. Edward Flanagan (archive footage)
Heart of a Servant: The Father Flanagan Story
2024
9.0
Self (archive footage)
Rat Pack
2022
6.0
Self (archive footage)
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
2018
5.5
Self (archive footage)
Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored
2013
7.5
Self (archive footage)
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
2009
0.0
(archive footage)
Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults
1999
7.0
Self (Archival Footage)
Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults
1997
0.0
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Bogart: The Untold Story
1997
6.7
Self (archive footage)
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
1996
Credits
Gene Kelly - An American in Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
2025
6.4
Heart of a Servant: The Father Flanagan Story
as Fr. Edward Flanagan (archive footage)
2024
0.0
Rat Pack
as Self (archive footage)
2022
9.0
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
2018
6.0
Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored
as Self (archive footage)
2013
5.5
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
as Self (archive footage)
2009
7.5
Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults
as (archive footage)
1999
0.0
Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults
as Self (Archival Footage)
1997
7.0
Bogart: The Untold Story
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1997
0.0
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
as Self (archive footage)
1996
6.7
La Classe américaine
as The Professional Witness (archive footage)
1993
7.6
Movie Tough Guys
as Self (archive footage)
1991
10.0
Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World'
as Self (archive footage)
1991
0.0
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
as (archive footage)
1990
9.0
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
as Self (archive footage)
1988
8.0
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
as Self (archive footage)
1987
6.0
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
as Self (archive footage)
1986
8.0
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1983
6.5
That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
1976
6.9
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as Self (archive footage)
1975
6.1
That's Entertainment!
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
1974
7.4
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
as Self (archive footage)
1972
6.0
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
as Matt Drayton
1967
7.6
The Big Parade of Comedy
as Haggerty in 'Libeled Lady' (archive footage)
1964
6.3
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
as C. G. Culpepper
1963
7.0
How the West Was Won
as Narrator (voice)
1962
7.0
Judgment at Nuremberg
as Dan Haywood
1961
8.0
The Devil at 4 O'Clock
as Father Matthew Doonan
1961
6.3
Inherit the Wind
as Henry Drummond
1960
7.7
The Last Hurrah
as Mayor Frank Skeffington
1958
7.2
The Old Man and the Sea
as The Old Man
1958
6.5
Desk Set
as Richard Sumner
1957
7.0
The Mountain
as Zachary Teller
1956
6.9
Bad Day at Black Rock
as John J. Macreedy
1955
7.3
Broken Lance
as Matt Devereaux
1954
6.4
The Actress
as Clinton Jones
1953
6.4
Plymouth Adventure
as Capt. Christopher Jones
1952
5.7
Pat and Mike
as Mike Conovan
1952
6.3
The People Against O'Hara
as James P. Curtayne
1951
5.7
Father's Little Dividend
as Stanley Banks
1951
6.5
Father of the Bride
as Stanley T. Banks
1950
7.0
Malaya
as Carnaghan
1949
6.5
Adam's Rib
as Adam Bonner
1949
7.1
Edward, My Son
as Arnold Boult
1949
6.4
A Guy Named Joe
as Pete Sandidge
1949
6.6
State of the Union
as Grant Matthews
1948
6.7
Cass Timberlane
as Cass Timberlane
1947
5.5
The Sea of Grass
as Col. James B. Brewton
1947
6.1
Without Love
as Pat Jamieson
1945
6.8
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
as Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle
1944
6.6
The Seventh Cross
as George Heisler
1944
6.7
Twenty Years After
as (archive footage)
1944
6.0
Keeper of the Flame
as Stevie O'Malley
1943
6.6
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His New World
as Narrator (voice)
1943
0.0
Tortilla Flat
as Pilon
1942
5.5
Ring of Steel
as Narrator (voice)
1942
5.0
Woman of the Year
as Sam Craig
1942
6.9
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
as Dr. Henry 'Harry' Jekyll / Mr. Hyde
1941
6.5
Men of Boys Town
as Edward Flanagan
1941
6.1
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
as Self
1940
6.7
Boom Town
as Square John Sand
1940
6.9
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
as Self
1940
6.5
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
as Self
1940
5.5
Edison, the Man
as Thomas A. Edison
1940
6.8
Young Tom Edison
as Man Admiring Portrait of Thomas A. Edison
1940
5.8
Northwest Passage
as Major Robert Rogers
1940
6.5
Northward, Ho!
as Himself
1940
5.0
I Take This Woman
as Karl Decker
1940
5.6
Stanley and Livingstone
as Henry M. Stanley
1939
6.3
From the Ends of the Earth
as Self
1939
0.0
Hollywood Hobbies
as Self (uncredited)
1939
5.3
Boys Town
as Father Flanagan
1938
6.8
Hollywood Goes to Town
as Self
1938
7.0
Test Pilot
as Gunner Morse
1938
6.5
Another Romance of Celluloid
as Self (uncredited)
1938
5.0
Mannequin
as John Hennessey
1938
5.9
Big City
as Joe Benton
1937
7.4
The Romance of Celluloid
as Self (archive footage)
1937
7.0
Captains Courageous
as Manuel Fidello
1937
7.5
They Gave Him a Gun
as Fred P. Willis
1937
6.2
Libeled Lady
as Warren Haggerty
1936
7.3
San Francisco
as Father Tim Mullin
1936
6.5
Fury
as Joe Wilson
1936
7.4
Riffraff
as Dutch
1936
4.9
Whipsaw
as Ross 'Mac' McBride aka Danny Ross Ackerman
1935
6.2
Dante's Inferno
as Jim Carter
1935
6.2
The Murder Man
as Steven 'Steve' Grey
1935
6.9
It's A Small World
as Bill Shevlin
1935
4.5
Marie Galante
as Dr. Crawbett
1934
4.6
Now I'll Tell
as Murray Golden
1934
4.3
Bottoms Up
as 'Smoothie' King
1934
4.8
Looking for Trouble
as Joe Graham
1934
6.2
The Show-Off
as J. Aubrey Piper
1934
5.7
Man's Castle
as Bill
1933
6.8
The Mad Game
as Edward Carson
1933
0.0
The Power and the Glory
as Tom Garner
1933
5.7
Shanghai Madness
as Pat Jackson
1933
0.0
Face in the Sky
as Joe Buck
1933
4.7
20,000 Years in Sing Sing
as Tommy Connors
1932
6.3
Me and My Gal
as Danny Dolan
1932
6.3
The Painted Woman
as Tom Brian
1932
0.0
Society Girl
as Briscoe
1932
6.0
Young America
as Jack Doray
1932
5.0
Disorderly Conduct
as Dick Fay
1932
0.0
Sky Devils
as Wilkie
1932
4.0
She Wanted a Millionaire
as William Kelley
1932
0.0
Goldie
as Bill
1931
3.7
Six Cylinder Love
as William Donroy
1931
0.0
Quick Millions
as Daniel J. 'Bugs' Raymond
1931
7.1
Up the River
as Saint Louis
1930
5.8
The Hard Guy
as Guy
1930
6.1
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Taxi Talks
as Taxi Driver
1930
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