Spencer Tracy
Spencer Tracy
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.
Acted Movies
Director: Stanley Kramer
Writers: Tania Rose,
Cast: Buddy Hackett, Dick Shawn, Ethel Merman, Jonathan Winters, Mickey Rooney, Milton Berle, Phil Silvers, Sid Caesar, Spencer Tracy, Terry-Thomas,
Director: Stanley Kramer
Writers: Nedrick Young,
Cast: Claude Akins, Dick York, Donna Anderson, Elliott Reid, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Harry Morgan, Paul Hartman, Philip Coolidge, Spencer Tracy,
Director: Walter Lang
Writers: Henry Ephron,
Cast: Diane Jergens, Dina Merrill, Gig Young, Harry Ellerbe, Joan Blondell, Katharine Hepburn, Neva Patterson, Nicholas Joy, Spencer Tracy, Sue Randall,
Director: John Sturges
Writers: Millard Kaufman,
Cast: Anne Francis, Dean Jagger, Ernest Borgnine, John Ericson, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, Russell Collins, Spencer Tracy, Walter Brennan, Walter Sande,
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Writers: Richard Murphy,
Cast: Carl Benton Reid, E.G. Marshall, Earl Holliman, Eduard Franz, Hugh O'Brian, Jean Peters, Katy Jurado, Richard Widmark, Robert Wagner, Spencer Tracy,
Director: George Cukor
Writers: Garson Kanin,
Cast: Aldo Ray, Alice Marble, Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Don Budge, George Mathews, Gussie Moran, Katharine Hepburn, Sammy White, Spencer Tracy, William Ching,
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Writers: Frances Goodrich,
Cast: Billie Burke, Don Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Bennett, Marietta Canty, Moroni Olsen, Richard Rober, Russ Tamblyn, Spencer Tracy, Tom Irish,
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Writers: Albert Hackett,
Cast: Billie Burke, Don Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Bennett, Leo G. Carroll, Melville Cooper, Moroni Olsen, Paul Harvey, Spencer Tracy, Taylor Holmes,
Director: George Cukor
Writers: Garson Kanin,
Cast: Clarence Kolb, David Wayne, Emerson Treacy, Eve March, Hope Emerson, Jean Hagen, Judy Holliday, Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Tom Ewell,
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Writers: Dalton Trumbo,
Cast: Don DeFore, Herbert Gunn, John R. Reilly, Phyllis Thaxter, Robert Mitchum, Robert Walker, Spencer Tracy, Stephen McNally, Tim Murdock, Van Johnson,
Director: Victor Fleming
Writers: Dalton Trumbo,
Cast: Barry Nelson, Don DeFore, Esther Williams, Henry O'Neill, Irene Dunne, James Gleason, Lionel Barrymore, Spencer Tracy, Van Johnson, Ward Bond,
Director: George Stevens
Writers: Michael Kanin,
Cast: Dan Tobin, Fay Bainter, Gladys Blake, Katharine Hepburn, Minor Watson, Reginald Owen, Roscoe Karns, Spencer Tracy, William Bendix, William Tannen,
Director: Victor Fleming
Writers: John Lee Mahin,
Cast: Barton MacLane, C. Aubrey Smith, Donald Crisp, Frederick Worlock, Ian Hunter, Ingrid Bergman, Lana Turner, Peter Godfrey, Sara Allgood, Spencer Tracy,
Director: Jack Conway
Writers: John Lee Mahin,
Cast: Chill Wills, Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Frank Morgan, Hedy Lamarr, Joe Yule, Lionel Atwill, Marion Martin, Minna Gombell, Spencer Tracy,
Director: King Vidor
Writers: Talbot Jennings,
Cast: Donald MacBride, Isabel Jewell, Louis Hector, Lumsden Hare, Nat Pendleton, Robert Barrat, Robert Young, Ruth Hussey, Spencer Tracy, Walter Brennan,
Director: Jack Conway
Writers: George Oppenheimer,
Cast: Bunny Beatty, Charley Grapewin, Cora Witherspoon, E. E. Clive, Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy, Otto Yamaoka, Spencer Tracy, Walter Connolly, William Powell,
Director: Fritz Lang
Writers: Fritz Lang,
Cast: Arthur Stone, Bruce Cabot, Edward Ellis, Frank Albertson, George Walcott, Morgan Wallace, Spencer Tracy, Sylvia Sidney, Walter Abel, Walter Brennan,