Spencer Tracy

Spencer Bonaventure Tracy
1900 - 1967 (heart attack following lung congestion)
American born Milwaukee

Nickname Spence . Height 5' 10" (1.78 m) . 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 O'Brien 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 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. Spouse Louise Treadwell (12 September 1923 - 10 June 1967) (his death) 2 children.

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) , It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963) , How the West Was Won (1962) , Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) , The Devil at 4 O'Clock (1961) , Inherit the Wind (1960) , The Last Hurrah (1958) , The Old Man and the Sea (1958) , Desk Set (1957) , The Mountain (1956) , Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) , Broken Lance (1954) , The Actress (1953) , Plymouth Adventure (1952) , Pat and Mike (1952) , The People Against O'Hara (1951) , Father's Little Dividend (1951) , Father of the Bride (1950) , Malaya (1949) , Adam's Rib (1949) , Edward, My Son (1949) , State of the Union (1948) , Cass Timberlane (1947) , The Sea of Grass (1947) , Without Love (1945) , Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944) , The Seventh Cross (1944) , A Guy Named Joe (1943) , Keeper of the Flame (1942) , Tortilla Flat (1942) , Woman of the Year (1942) , Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941) , Men of Boys Town (1941) , Boom Town (1940) , Edison, the Man (1940) , Northwest Passage (1940) , Young Tom Edison (1940) , I Take This Woman (1940) , Stanley and Livingstone (1939) , Boys Town (1938) , Test Pilot (1938) , Mannequin (1937) , Big City (1937) , Captains Courageous (1937) , They Gave Him a Gun (1937) , Libeled Lady (1936) , San Francisco (1936) , Fury (1936) , Riffraff (1936) , Whipsaw (1935) , Dante's Inferno (1935) , The Murder Man (1935) , It's a Small World (1935) , Marie Galante (1934) , Now I'll Tell (1934) , Bottoms Up (1934) , Looking for Trouble (1934) , The Show-Off (1934) , The Mad Game (1933) , Man's Castle (1933) , The Power and the Glory (1933) , Shanghai Madness (1933) , The Face in the Sky (1933) , 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932) , Me and My Gal (1932) , The Painted Woman (1932) , Society Girl (1932) , Young America (1932) , Disorderly Conduct (1932) , Sky Devils (1932) , She Wanted a Millionaire (1932) , Goldie (1931), Six Cylinder Love (1931) , Quick Millions (1931) , Up the River (1930) , The Hard Guy (1930) , Taxi Talks (1930) , The Strong Arm (1930)