Spencer Tracy Add to My Celebs Age 67 (passed away Jun. 10th, 1967) Birthday Apr. 5th, 1900 Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA Height 5' 10"

Spencer Tracy's Main TV Roles [no roles found]

Main Movie Roles 1967 - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner 1963 - It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World 1962 - How the West Was Won 1961 - The Devil at 4 O'Clock 1961 - Judgment at Nuremberg 1960 - Inherit The Wind 1958 - The Old Man and the Sea 1957 - Desk Set 1955 - Bad Day at Black Rock 1954 - Broken Lance 1952 - Pat and Mike 1951 - The People Against O'Hara 1951 - Father's Little Dividend 1950 - Father of the Bride 1949 - Adam's Rib 1949 - Malaya 1948 - State of the Union 1945 - Without Love 1944 - Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo 1942 - Keeper of the Flame 1942 - Woman of the Year 1941 - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1940 - Edison, the Man 1938 - Boys Town 1938 - Test Pilot 1937 - Mannequin 1937 - Captains Courageous 1936 - Libeled Lady 1936 - Fury 1936 - San Francisco 1935 - The Murder Man 1932 - 20,000 Years in Sing Sing

NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB


BIOGRAPHY:

Spencer Tracy was born four years after his brother Carroll to truck salesman John Edward and Caroline Brown Tracy. He attended Marquette Academy along with 'Pat OBrien (I) and the two left school to enlist in the Navy at the start of World War I. He was still at Norfolk Navy Yard in VIrginia at the end of the war. At Ripon College he did well in the lead of "The Truth" and decided on acting as a career. In New York he roomed with O'Brien while they attended the Academy of Dramatic Arts. In 1923 they both got nonspeaking parts as robots in "R.U.R". In stock he supported himself with jobs as bellhop, janitor and salesman. John Ford (I) saw his critically acclaimed performance in the lead role in in The Last Mile (1932) and signed him to Up the River (1930) for Fox. His family moved to Hollywood in 1931, and Tracy made 16 films in three years. In 1935 he signed with MGM. He became the first actor to win back-to-back Oscars for Captains Courageous (1937) and Boys Town (1938). He was nominated for San Francisco (1936), Father of the Bride (1950), Bad Day at Black Rock (1955), The Old Man and the Sea (1958), Inherit the Wind (1960), Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967). He had a brief romantic relationship with Loretta Young in the 1930s and a lifelong one with Katharine Hepburn beginning in 1942. Because he was a Catholic he never divorced his wife Louise, though they lived apart. A few weeks after completion of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), during which he suffered from lung congestion, he died of a heart attack.


TRIVIA:

• Didn't like to rehearse and would read through a scene only once, five days before shooting. He also never liked to shoot a scene more than once, and in most cases he didn't have to.
• Advertised Lucky Strike cigarettes.
• Sometimes people confuse Spencer Tracy and 'James Whitmore' (qv). The two sometimes look as if they could have been brothers.
• In 1956/57 when his longtime friend 'Humphrey Bogart' (qv) was dying of cancer, Tracy and 'Katharine Hepburn' (qv) were two of the only people who visited Bogie (and wife 'Lauren Bacall' (qv)) at their home on an almost daily basis. They would sit together at Bogie's bedside for half an hour or so every evening in the months and weeks leading up to his death. After Bogie's death, Bacall requested that Tracy deliver the eulogy at the funeral. He apologetically declined, saying it would simply be too difficult for him. He felt he would be too emotional and wouldn't be able to do it. Bacall understood and director 'John Huston (I)' (qv) delivered the eulogy instead.
• His performance as Henry Drummond in _Inherit the Wind (1960)_ (qv) is ranked #67 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).
• He was sought for 'Fredric March' (qv)'s role in _The Desperate Hours (1955)_ (qv) opposite 'Humphrey Bogart' (qv), but would not take second billing.
• As of 2009, he is only one of six performers who won a Golden Globe Award as Best Lead Actor/Actress in a Motion Picture Drama without being nominated for an Oscar for that same role (for _The Actress (1953)_ (qv)). The others are 'Anthony Franciosa (I)' (qv) in _Career (1959)_ (qv), 'Omar Sharif' (qv) in _Doctor Zhivago (1965)_ (qv), 'Shirley MacLaine' (qv) in _Madame Sousatzka (1988)_ (qv), 'Jim Carrey' (qv) in _The Truman Show (1998)_ (qv) and 'Kate Winslet' (qv) in _Revolutionary Road (2008)_ (qv).
• Interred at Forest Lawn, Glendale, California, USA, in the Garden of Everlasting Peace, on the right just after entering.

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