Spencer Tracy

Spencer Tracy Movies and TV Shows

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.

Personal info

  • Gender: Male
  • Date of birth: 4/5/1900 (124 years old)
  • Place of birth: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
  • nationality: American
  • height: 1.78 m
  • Net worth: $50,000,000
Year
Genre
IMDB
TMDB
Available on the following streaming services in the United States
Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words
IMDB 7.4
TMDB 73%
role:
Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Hyde (archive footage) (uncredited)
2015

Documentary

7.4
73%
And the Oscar Goes To...
IMDB 7.1
TMDB 70%
role:
Self (archive footage)
Not available
2014

Documentary

TV Movie

7.1
70%
Not available
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
IMDB 7.8
TMDB 73%
role:
Not available
2009

Documentary

TV Movie

7.8
73%
Not available
La Classe américaine
IMDB 7.9
TMDB 77%
role:
The Professional Witness (archive footage)
Not available
1993

Comedy

TV Movie

7.9
77%
Not available
Rugrats
IMDB 7.4
TMDB 77%
role:
Dr. Henry 'Harry' Jekyll / Mr. Hyde
1991

Animation

Family

7.4
77%
1967

Drama

7.8
76%
1963

Action

Adventure

Comedy

Crime

7.5
70%
How the West Was Won
IMDB 7.1
TMDB 71%
role:
Narrator (voice)
1962

Western

7.1
71%
Judgment at Nuremberg
IMDB 8.3
TMDB 81%
role:
Dan Haywood
1961

Drama

History

8.3
81%
Inherit the Wind
IMDB 8.1
TMDB 78%
role:
Henry Drummond
1960

Drama

History

8.1
78%
1958

Adventure

Drama

6.9
65%
Desk Set
IMDB 7.2
TMDB 69%
role:
Richard Sumner
1957

Comedy

Romance

7.2
69%
Bad Day at Black Rock
IMDB 7.7
TMDB 74%
role:
John J. Macreedy
1955

Thriller

Western

7.7
74%
Father of the Bride
IMDB 7.1
TMDB 71%
role:
Stanley T. Banks
1950

Comedy

Family

Romance

7.1
71%
Adam's Rib
IMDB 7.4
TMDB 71%
role:
Adam Bonner
1949

Comedy

Drama

Romance

7.4
71%
Woman of the Year
IMDB 7.1
TMDB 69%
role:
Sam Craig
1942

Comedy

Drama

Romance

7.1
69%
Captains Courageous
IMDB 7.9
TMDB 74%
role:
Manuel Fidello
1937

Adventure

Drama

Family

7.9
74%
Libeled Lady
IMDB 7.8
TMDB 73%
role:
Warren Haggerty
1936

Comedy

Romance

7.8
73%
Fury
IMDB 7.8
TMDB 75%
role:
Joe Wilson
1936

Crime

Drama

Thriller

7.8
75%

FAQs

Some movies or TV shows available in the United States starring or involving Spencer Tracy are, for example, Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.
The streaming services with the largest selection are Prime Video, iTunes and Amazon.
The best StreamFat ratings are Judgment at Nuremberg (8.2), Inherit the Wind (8.0) and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (7.7).