Cast & creator

Spencer Tracy

1900-04-05 (died at 67) Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USAIMDb

Best known for MGM Parade, MGM Parade, MGM Parade

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.

Also known as: Spencer Bonaventure Tracy, Спенсер Трэйси, Спенсер Треси

Movies

120

film credits

Series

television credits

Career

123

1930–2025 · acting roles

Credit score

6.8

average across scored titles

Signature credits

Known for

Ordered by popularity

★ 7.5

MGM Parade

Acting · 1955

★ 7.5

MGM Parade

Self · 1955

★ 7.5

MGM Parade

self · 1955

★ 7.0

How the West Was Won

Narrator (voice) · 1962

★ 8.0

Judgment at Nuremberg

Dan Haywood · 1961

Across film & television

Filmography (123)

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Series

★ 7.5

MGM Parade

1955

Series

★ 7.5

MGM Parade

Self

1955

Series

★ 7.5

MGM Parade

self

Spencer Tracy

Known for

MGM Parade

MGM Parade

MGM Parade

How the West Was Won

Judgment at Nuremberg

Filmography (123)

MGM Parade

MGM Parade

MGM Parade

How the West Was Won

Judgment at Nuremberg

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

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Bad Day at Black Rock

Inherit the Wind

Woman of the Year

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

Father of the Bride

Father's Little Dividend

Adam's Rib

The Sea of Grass

The Old Man and the Sea

The Devil at 4 O'Clock

Broken Lance

State of the Union

That's Entertainment, Part II

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood

Libeled Lady

Captains Courageous

Cass Timberlane

The Actress

The People Against O'Hara

Boys Town

A Guy Named Joe

Keeper of the Flame

Rat Pack

20,000 Years in Sing Sing

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

Edison, the Man

Fury

The Seventh Cross

That's Entertainment!

San Francisco

A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound

Pat and Mike

Stardust: The Bette Davis Story

Desk Set

Northwest Passage

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored

George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey

Young Tom Edison

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

Bogart: The Untold Story

La Classe américaine

Malaya

Legends in Light: The Photography of George Hurrell

The Last Hurrah

Taxi Talks

Men of Boys Town

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

They Gave Him a Gun

From the Ends of the Earth

Plymouth Adventure

I Take This Woman

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

The Mountain

Twenty Years After

Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To

Goldie

Hollywood Goes to Town

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

The Big Parade of Comedy

Me and My Gal

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

Hollywood: The Selznick Years