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Spencer Tracy
Age: 67 (passed away Jun. 10th, 1967)
Height: 5' 10"
Birth Place: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Born: Dec. 31st, 1969
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Spencer Tracy's Main TV Roles
NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at
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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:
- Attended the Democratic National Convention in 1944.
- Named the #9 Greatest Actor on The 50 Greatest Screen Legends List by The American Film Institute
- Advertised Lucky Strike cigarettes.
- Was supposed to star in _Ten North Frederick (1958)_ (qv), but had to withdraw due to poor health and was replaced by 'Gary Cooper (I)' (qv).
- Made nine films with 'Katharine Hepburn' (qv), the first of which was _Woman of the Year (1942)_ (qv).
- His father, John Tracy, worked as a clerk at a railroad office.
- Attended Ripon College in Ripon, Wisconsin but did not graduate.
- Warner Bros. bought the rights to the book "Mute Witness" about a Boston detective who ate a lot of ice cream and never solved a case with Tracy in mind to star. Upon Tracy's death, a chase scene was added to the script, the location changed to San Francisco, and the character - Detective Frank Bullitt - changed to be played by 'Steve McQueen (I)' (qv).
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