Spencer Tracy biography
Spencer Tracy was an American actor, born on 5 April 1900 in Milwaukee, who died on 10 June 1967.
Spencer Tracy's screen career began in 1930 with The Hard Guy, playing Guy.
Spencer Tracy had 87 screen credits between 1930 and 2004.
Honours include Academy Award for Best Actor (2 times), Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor and BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.
- Also known as
- Spencer Bonaventure Tracy
- Born
- 5 April 1900
- Died
- 10 June 1967 (aged 67)
- Birthplace
- Milwaukee
- Work
- Actor, Stage actor, Film actor
- Film industries
- Hollywood and beyond
- Years active
- 1921 to 1967
- Awards
- Academy Award for Best Actor (2 times)
- Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor
- BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor , Motion Picture Drama
Spencer Tracy filmography
87 screen credits, newest first.
Screen credits
| Year | Title | Role | Where | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Imaginary Witness | English | ||
| 1988 | The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind | English | ||
| 1975 | Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? | English | ||
| 1967 | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | Matt Drayton | ||
| 1964 | MGM's Big Parade of Comedy | |||
| 1963 | It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World | Captain T. G. Culpeper | ||
| 1963 | Hollywood Without Make-Up | English | ||
| 1962 | How the West Was Won | Narrator (voice) | ||
| 1961 | The Devil at 4 O'Clock | Father Matthew Doonan | With Frank Sinatra | |
| 1961 | Judgment at Nuremberg | Chief Judge Dan Haywood | ||
| 1960 | Inherit the Wind | Henry Drummond | ||
| 1958 | The Old Man and the Sea | The Old Man / Narrator | ||
| 1958 | The Last Hurrah | Mayor Frank Skeffington | ||
| 1957 | Desk Set | Richard Sumner | ||
| 1956 | The Mountain | Zachary Teller | Nominated, BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor | |
| 1955 | Bad Day at Black Rock | John J. Macreedy | ||
| 1954 | Broken Lance | Matt Devereaux | With Robert Wagner | |
| 1953 | The Actress | Clinton Jones | ||
| 1952 | Pat and Mike | Mike Conovan | With Katharine Hepburn | |
| 1952 | Plymouth Adventure | Captain Christopher Jones | With Gene Tierney | |
| 1951 | The People Against O'Hara | James P. Curtayne | With Pat O'Brien | |
| 1951 | Father's Little Dividend | Stanley T. Banks | With Joan Bennett and Elizabeth Taylor | |
| 1950 | Some of the Best: Twenty-Five Years of Motion Picture Leadership | |||
| 1950 | Father of the Bride | Stanley T. Banks | ||
| 1949 | Malaya | Canaghan | With James Stewart and Lionel Barrymore |
Show all 87 credits
| Year | Title | Role | Where | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1949 | Edward, My Son | Arnold Boult | With Deborah Kerr | |
| 1949 | Adam's Rib | Adam Bonner | With Katharine Hepburn | |
| 1948 | State of the Union | Grant Matthews | With Katharine Hepburn | |
| 1947 | The Sea of Grass | Col. James B. "Jim" Brewton | With Katharine Hepburn | |
| 1947 | Cass Timberlane | Cass Timberlane | With Lana Turner | |
| 1945 | Without Love | Pat Jamieson | With Katharine Hepburn | |
| 1944 | Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo | Lieutenant Colonel James H. Doolittle | With Van Johnson and Robert Walker | |
| 1944 | The Seventh Cross | George Heisler | ||
| 1943 | A Guy Named Joe | Pete Sandidge | With Van Johnson | |
| 1943 | Keeper of the Flame | Steven "Stevie" O'Malley | With Katharine Hepburn | |
| 1943 | His New World | Narrator | War documentary | |
| 1942 | Woman of the Year | Sam Craig | First film with Katharine Hepburn | |
| 1942 | Tortilla Flat | Pilon | With John Garfield | |
| 1942 | Ring of Steel | Narrator | ||
| 1941 | Men of Boys Town | Father Flanagan | With Mickey Rooney | |
| 1941 | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr Edward Hyde | With Ingrid Bergman and Lana Turner | |
| 1940 | Young Tom Edison | Man Admiring Portrait of Thomas A. Edison | ||
| 1940 | Northwest Passage | Major Rogers | With Walter Brennan | |
| 1940 | I Take This Woman | Dr. Karl Decker | With Hedy Lamarr | |
| 1940 | Edison, the Man | Thomas Edison | ||
| 1940 | Boom Town | Jonathan Sand | With Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, and Hedy Lamarr | |
| 1939 | Stanley and Livingstone | Henry M. Stanley | With Nancy Kelly | |
| 1939 | Land of Liberty | English | ||
| 1939 | For Auld Lang Syne | |||
| 1938 | Test Pilot | Gunner Morris | With Clark Gable and Myrna Loy | |
| 1938 | Boys Town | Father Flanagan | ||
| 1937 | They Gave Him a Gun | Fred P. Willis | With Gladys George | |
| 1937 | Mannequin | John L. Hennessey | With Joan Crawford | |
| 1937 | Captains Courageous | Manuel Fidello | ||
| 1937 | Big City | Joe Benton | With Luise Rainer | |
| 1936 | Libeled Lady | Warren Haggerty | ||
| 1936 | San Francisco | Father Tim Mullin | ||
| 1936 | Riffraff | Dutch Muller | With Jean Harlow and Mickey Rooney | |
| 1936 | Fury | Joe Wilson | With Sylvia Sidney | |
| 1935 | Whipsaw | Ross "Mac" McBride | With Myrna Loy | |
| 1935 | The Murder Man | Steven "Steve" Grey | First credited screen role of James Stewart | |
| 1935 | It's a Small World | Bill Shevlin | With Wendy Barrie | |
| 1935 | Dante's Inferno | Jim Carter | ||
| 1934 | The Show-Off | J. Aubrey Piper | Tracy's first MGM film | |
| 1934 | Now I'll Tell | Murray Golden | With Helen Twelvetrees | |
| 1934 | Marie Galante | Dr. Crawbett | ||
| 1934 | Looking for Trouble | Joe Graham | With Jack Oakie | |
| 1934 | Bottoms Up | "Smoothie" King | ||
| 1933 | The Power and the Glory | Tom Garner | Written by Preston Sturges | |
| 1933 | The Mad Game | Edward Carson | With Claire Trevor | |
| 1933 | Man's Castle | Bill | With Loretta Young | |
| 1933 | Shanghai Madness | Pat Jackson | With Fay Wray | |
| 1933 | Face in the Sky | Joe Buck | With Stuart Erwin | |
| 1932 | Young America | Jack Doray | Directed by Frank Borzage | |
| 1932 | The Painted Woman | Tom Brian | ||
| 1932 | She Wanted a Millionaire | William Kelley | With Joan Bennett | |
| 1932 | Me and My Gal | Danny Dolan | With Joan Bennett | |
| 1932 | Disorderly Conduct | Dick Fay | ||
| 1932 | 20,000 Years in Sing Sing | Tommy Connors | With Bette Davis | |
| 1932 | Society Girl | Briscoe | ||
| 1932 | Sky Devils | Wilkie | Co-written by Robert Benchley | |
| 1931 | Six Cylinder Love | William Donroy | With Edward Everett Horton | |
| 1931 | Quick Millions | Daniel J. "Bugs" Raymond | With George Raft in key supporting role | |
| 1931 | Goldie | Bill | With Jean Harlow | |
| 1930 | Up the River | Saint Louis | With Humphrey Bogart | |
| 1930 | The Hard Guy | Guy | Short subject | |
| 1930 | Taxi Talks | Taxi Driver | Short subject |