Spencer Tracy
Gender: Male
Born: 5th April 1900
Died: 10th June 1967
Nationality: United States of America
Movies: Adam's Rib, Bad Day at Black Rock, Broken Lance, Captains Courageous, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Father of the Bride, Fury, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, How the West Was Won, Inherit the Wind, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Judgment at Nuremberg, Northwest Passage, State of the Union, Woman of the Year, The Sea of Grass, Test Pilot, San Francisco, A Guy Named Joe, Desk Set, Malaya, Boom Town, Edison, the Man, Goldie, Pat and Mike, Thirty Seconds over Tokyo, Boys Town, The Power and the Glory, Keeper of the Flame, The People Against O'Hara, The Devil at 4 O'Clock, Edward, My Son, The Last Hurrah, Libeled Lady, Riffraff, Tortilla Flat, Plymouth Adventure, Me and My Gal, Dante's Inferno, Without Love, Quick Millions, Stanley and Livingstone, The Seventh Cross, Father's Little Dividend, Mannequin, The Mountain, 20,000 Years in Sing Sing, The Actress, Up the River, I Take This Woman, Cass Timberlane, Now I'll Tell, Bottoms Up, Hollywood Party, Big City, The Murder Man, The Old Man and the Sea, Elizabeth Taylor Triad, Young America, Marie Galante, Whipsaw, Looking for Trouble, Man's Castle, Whipsaw, Men of Boys Town, They Gave Him a Gun, Another Romance of Celluloid, Disorderly Conduct
Spencer Bonaventure Tracy (April 5, 1900 - June 10, 1967) was an American actor. Respected for his natural style and versatility, Tracy was one of the major stars of Hollywood's Golden Age. In a screen career that spanned 37 years, he was nominated for nine Academy Awards for Best Actor—a record he holds with Laurence Olivier—of which he won two.
Tracy discovered his talent for acting while a student at Ripon College, and subsequently gained 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 Up the River, Tracy was signed to a contract with Fox Film Corporation. His five years with Fox were unremarkable, and he remained largely unknown to audiences after 25 films. In 1935, Tracy joined Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 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. By the 1940s, Tracy was one of the studio's top
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