Spencer Tracy

Actor

Born April 5, 1900 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

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.

Filmography

Gene Kelly - An American in Hollywood

Self (archive footage)

Heart of a Servant: The Father Flanagan Story

Fr. Edward Flanagan (archive footage)

DEVO

Henry Drummond (archive footage) (uncredited)

Rat Pack

Self (archive footage)

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood

Self (archive footage)

Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored

Self (archive footage)

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

Self (archive footage)

Stardust: The Bette Davis Story

Self (archive footage)

Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults

(archive footage)

Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults

Self (Archival Footage)

Bogart: The Untold Story

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Ingrid Bergman Remembered

Self (archive footage)

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

Self (archive footage)

100 Years at the Movies

Self (archive footage)

La Classe américaine

The Professional Witness (archive footage)

Movie Tough Guys

Self (archive footage)

Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World'

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To

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The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

Self (archive footage)

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

Self (archive footage)

The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn

Self (archive footage)

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

That's Entertainment, Part II

(archive footage)

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

Self (archive footage)

That's Entertainment!

(archive footage) (uncredited)

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

Self (archive footage)

Brasileiros em Hollywood

Self (archive footage)

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Matt Drayton

The Big Parade of Comedy

Haggerty in 'Libeled Lady' (archive footage)

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

C. G. Culpepper

How the West Was Won

Narrator (voice)

Hollywood: The Selznick Years

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Judgment at Nuremberg

Dan Haywood

The Devil at 4 O'Clock

Father Matthew Doonan

Inherit the Wind

Henry Drummond

The Last Hurrah

Mayor Frank Skeffington

The Old Man and the Sea

The Old Man

Desk Set

Richard Sumner

The Mountain

Zachary Teller

MGM Parade

Bad Day at Black Rock

John J. Macreedy

Broken Lance

Matt Devereaux

The Actress

Clinton Jones

Plymouth Adventure

Capt. Christopher Jones

Pat and Mike

Mike Conovan

The People Against O'Hara

James P. Curtayne

Father's Little Dividend

Stanley Banks

Father of the Bride

Stanley T. Banks

Malaya

Carnaghan

Adam's Rib

Adam Bonner

Edward, My Son

Arnold Boult

State of the Union

Grant Matthews

Cass Timberlane

The Sea of Grass

Col. James B. Brewton

Without Love

Pat Jamieson

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle

The Seventh Cross

George Heisler

A Guy Named Joe

Pete Sandidge

Twenty Years After

(archive footage)

Keeper of the Flame

Stevie O'Malley

Tortilla Flat

Pilon

Ring of Steel

Narrator (voice)

Woman of the Year

Sam Craig

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Dr. Henry 'Harry' Jekyll / Mr. Hyde

Men of Boys Town

Edward Flanagan

A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound

Self

Boom Town

Square John Sand

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

Self

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Self

Edison, the Man

Thomas A. Edison

Young Tom Edison

Man Admiring Portrait of Thomas A. Edison

Northwest Passage

Major Robert Rogers

Northward, Ho!

Himself

I Take This Woman

Karl Decker

Stanley and Livingstone

Henry M. Stanley

From the Ends of the Earth

Self

Hollywood Hobbies

Self (uncredited)

Boys Town

Father Flanagan

Hollywood Goes to Town

Self

Test Pilot

Gunner Morse

Another Romance of Celluloid

Self (uncredited)

Mannequin

John Hennessey

Big City

Joe Benton

The Romance of Celluloid

Self (archive footage)

Captains Courageous

Manuel Fidello

They Gave Him a Gun

Fred P. Willis

Libeled Lady

Haggerty

San Francisco

Father Tim Mullin

Fury

Joe Wilson

Riffraff

Dutch

Whipsaw

Ross 'Mac' McBride aka Danny Ross Ackerman

Dante's Inferno

Jim Carter

The Murder Man

Steven 'Steve' Grey

It's A Small World

Bill Shevlin

Marie Galante

Dr. Crawbett

Now I'll Tell

Murray Golden

Bottoms Up

'Smoothie' King

Looking for Trouble

Joe Graham

The Show-Off

J. Aubrey Piper

Man's Castle

Bill

The Mad Game

Edward Carson

The Power and the Glory

Tom Garner

Shanghai Madness

Pat Jackson

Face in the Sky

Joe Buck

20,000 Years in Sing Sing

Tommy Connors

Me and My Gal

Danny Dolan

The Painted Woman

Tom Brian

Society Girl

Briscoe

Young America

Jack Doray

Disorderly Conduct

Dick Fay

Sky Devils

Wilkie

She Wanted a Millionaire

William Kelley

Goldie

Bill

Six Cylinder Love

William Donroy

Quick Millions

Daniel J. 'Bugs' Raymond

Up the River

Saint Louis

The Hard Guy

Guy