Spencer Tracy
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.
Movie Tough Guys
(Self (archive footage))
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
(Dr. Henry 'Harry' Jekyll / Mr. Hyde)
Judgment at Nuremberg
(Dan Haywood)
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
(Matt Drayton)
Inherit the Wind
(Henry Drummond)
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
(Self (archive footage))
Taxi Talks
(Taxi Driver)
Woman of the Year
(Sam Craig)
The Old Man and the Sea
(The Old Man)
Father of the Bride
(Stanley T. Banks)
Father's Little Dividend
(Stanley Banks)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
(C. G. Culpepper)
Desk Set
(Richard Sumner)
The Devil at 4 O'Clock
(Father Matthew Doonan)
Without Love
(Pat Jamieson)
How the West Was Won
(Narrator (voice))
Libeled Lady
(Warren Haggerty)
Adam's Rib
(Adam Bonner)
Mannequin
(John Hennessey)
Keeper of the Flame
(Stevie O'Malley)
Pat and Mike
(Mike Conovan)
State of the Union
(Grant Matthews)
The Murder Man
(Steven 'Steve' Grey)
The People Against O'Hara
(James P. Curtayne)
Broken Lance
(Matt Devereaux)
Bad Day at Black Rock
(John J. Macreedy)
Boys Town
(Father Flanagan)
Fury
(Joe Wilson)
20,000 Years in Sing Sing
(Tommy Connors)
A Guy Named Joe
(Pete Sandidge)
Test Pilot
(Gunner Morse)
Whipsaw
(Ross 'Mac' McBride aka Danny Ross Ackerman)
Northwest Passage
(Major Robert Rogers)
Edison, the Man
(Thomas A. Edison)
San Francisco
(Father Tim Mullin)
Malaya
(Carnaghan)
Captains Courageous
(Manuel Fidello)
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
(Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle)
Big City
(Joe Benton)
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))
Up the River
(Saint Louis)
Plymouth Adventure
(Capt. Christopher Jones)
Me and My Gal
(Danny Dolan)
The Last Hurrah
(Mayor Frank Skeffington)
Boom Town
(Square John Sand)
The Seventh Cross
(George Heisler)
The Mountain
(Zachary Teller)
Edward, My Son
(Arnold Boult)
The Power and the Glory
(Tom Garner)
The Sea of Grass
(Col. James B. Brewton)
Tortilla Flat
(Pilon)
Stanley and Livingstone
(Henry M. Stanley)
The Actress
(Clinton Jones)
Riffraff
(Dutch)
Men of Boys Town
(Edward Flanagan)
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
(Self (archive footage))
Man's Castle
(Bill)
Cass Timberlane
(Cass Timberlane)
They Gave Him a Gun
(Fred P. Willis)
The Hard Guy
(Guy)
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
(Self (archive footage))
Quick Millions
(Daniel J. 'Bugs' Raymond)
Looking for Trouble
(Joe Graham)
Bottoms Up
('Smoothie' King)
Now I'll Tell
(Murray Golden)
Marie Galante
(Dr. Crawbett)
Dante's Inferno
(Jim Carter)
Sky Devils
(Wilkie)
I Take This Woman
(Karl Decker)
Young America
(Jack Doray)
The Show-Off
(J. Aubrey Piper)
Goldie
(Bill)
Face in the Sky
(Joe Buck)
Hollywood Hobbies
(Self (uncredited))
Six Cylinder Love
(William Donroy)
She Wanted a Millionaire
(William Kelley)
Disorderly Conduct
(Dick Fay)
Society Girl
(Briscoe)
The Painted Woman
(Tom Brian)
Shanghai Madness
(Pat Jackson)
The Mad Game
(Edward Carson)
It's A Small World
(Bill Shevlin)
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))
Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored
(Self (archive footage))
Rat Pack
(Self (archive footage))
That's Entertainment!
((archive footage) (uncredited))
Northward, Ho!
(Himself)
Young Tom Edison
(Man Admiring Portrait of Thomas A. Edison)
The Big Parade of Comedy
(Haggerty in 'Libeled Lady' (archive footage))
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
(Self)
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
(Self (archive footage))
Heart of a Servant: The Father Flanagan Story
(Fr. Edward Flanagan (archive footage))
Harlow: The Blonde Bombshell
(Self (archive footage))
Hollywood Goes to Town
(Self)
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
(Self)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
(Self (archive footage))
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
(Self)
Ring of Steel
(Narrator (voice))
Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World'
(Self (archive footage))
That's Entertainment, Part II
((archive footage))
The Romance of Celluloid
(Self (archive footage))
From the Ends of the Earth
(Self)
Twenty Years After
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Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
((archive footage))
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
(Self (archive footage))
Bogart: The Untold Story
(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))
His New World
(Narrator (voice))
Another Romance of Celluloid
(Self (uncredited))
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
(Self (archive footage))
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
(Self (archive footage))
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
(Self (archive footage))
And the Oscar Goes To...
(Self (archive footage))
La Classe américaine
(The Professional Witness (archive footage))
Gene Kelly - An American in Hollywood
(Self (archive footage))