Spencer Tracy
American actor (1900-1967) · United States · Actors · Died at 67
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Something wrong?He won back-to-back Oscars before most stars had one, yet spent his first five years in Hollywood making 25 films almost no one saw. The attention came later - for the natural style that made acting look like breathing, and for the 25-year love story with Katharine Hepburn that everyone knew and no one spoke about.
A life in dates
Guess Who's Coming to DinnerFilm, 1967Matt Drayton1962
How the West Was WonFilm, Narrator (voice)1958
The Last HurrahFilm, Mayor Frank Skeffington1956
The MountainFilm, Zachary Teller1955Cannes Film Festival Award for Best ActorAward
MGM ParadeSeries, 19551954
Broken LanceFilm, Matt Devereaux1953Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture DramaAward1951
Father's Little DividendFilm, Stanley Banks1949
Adam's RibFilm, Adam Bonner1947
The Sea of GrassFilm, Col. James B. Brewton1942
Woman of the YearFilm, Sam Craig1940
Boom TownFilm, Square John Sand1939Academy Award for Best ActorAward1938Academy Award for Best ActorAward1937
Captains CourageousFilm, Manuel Fidello1932
20,000 Years in Sing SingFilm, Tommy Connors1900Born5 April 1900Also in Deutsch
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Spencer Tracy signing book at City Hall (28671456341)In their own words 1
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Filmography 40
SHScotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
LALa Classe américaine
TIThat's Entertainment, Part II
TEThat's Entertainment!GDGuess Who's Coming to Dinner
IWIt's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad WorldHWHow the West Was Won
JNJudgment at Nuremberg
TCThe Devil at 4 O'Clock
IWInherit the Wind
TSThe Old Man and the SeaTHThe Last Hurrah
DSDesk SetTMThe Mountain
BRBad Day at Black RockBLBroken Lance
PMPat and MikeFDFather's Little Dividend
THThe People Against O'Hara
FBFather of the BrideARAdam's Rib
SUState of the UnionTGThe Sea of Grass
TTThirty Seconds Over Tokyo
AJA Guy Named Joe
TCThe Seventh Cross
KFKeeper of the FlameWYWoman of the Year
DHDr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeBTBoom Town
NPNorthwest Passage
EMEdison, the Man
BTBoys Town
TPTest PilotCCCaptains Courageous
FUFury
LLLibeled Lady
SFSan FranciscoYS20,000 Years in Sing Sing
MGMe and My Gal123 credits on file
Television 1
MPMGM ParadeAwards
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Tracy found acting at Ripon College, spent seven years in stock theater, and broke through onstage in 1930 with The Last Mile. Fox signed him after a strong debut opposite Humphrey Bogart in Up the River, then buried him in 25 films that flopped despite his work. MGM picked him up in 1935, and by his fifth picture there - Fury in 1936 - the career caught fire: consecutive Best Actor Oscars for Captains Courageous and Boys Town made him the first to do it twice. He teamed with Gable on hits, then with Katharine Hepburn starting in 1942 for nine films and a partnership that lasted until his death. He left MGM in 1955, kept working through alcoholism and deepening exhaustion, and finished his last film - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner - 17 days before he died in June 1967.
In common with Spencer
Frank SinatraAlso in The Devil at 4 O'Clock (1961)
Ernest HemingwayAlso in The Old Man and the Sea (1958)
Elizabeth TaylorAlso in Father's Little Dividend (1951)
William ShatnerAlso in Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Katharine HepburnAlso in Desk Set (1957)
Margaret HamiltonAlso in State of the Union (1948)Fame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.