Biography: life and films
Spencer Tracy was an American actor whose birth name was Spencer Bonaventure Tracy. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA on 5th April 1900 and died in Beverly Hills, California, USA on 10th June 1967, aged 67.His best films as an actor include Frank Borzage's Man's Castle (1933), George Cukor's comedy Adam's Rib (1949), Vincente Minnelli's Father of the Bride (1950), John Sturges's thriller Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) and Stanley Kramer's Inherit the Wind (1960).
Spencer Tracy appeared in 77 films.
He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Victor Fleming (5 films), George Cukor (5), Stanley Kramer (4), Frank Borzage (4), W.S. Van Dyke (3), John Sturges (3), John G. Blystone (3), John Ford (3), Vincente Minnelli (2), Norman Taurog (2), Jack Conway (2), Irving Cummings (2), Henry King (2), Harry Lachman (2), Edward Dmytryk (2) and Clarence Brown (2).
His most frequent genres include: drama (52 films), comedy (17), romance (16), comedy-romance (12), comedy-drama (6), Western (5), history (4), Biography (4), War (3), Thriller (3) and Documentary (3).
Our average rating for Spencer Tracy over all films is: 3.2
Filmography
Key: a = actor
Up the River (1930) [a]
Goldie (1931) [a]
Quick Millions (1931) [a]
Six Cylinder Love (1931) [a]
20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932) [a]
Disorderly Conduct (1932) [a]
Me and My Gal (1932) [a]
She Wanted a Millionaire (1932) [a]
Sky Devils (1932) [a]
Society Girl (1932) [a]
The Painted Woman (1932) [a]
Young America (1932) [a]
Face in the Sky (1933) [a]
Shanghai Madness (1933) [a]
The Mad Game (1933) [a]
The Power and the Glory (1933) [a]
Bottoms Up (1934) [a]
Looking for Trouble (1934) [a]
Marie Galante (1934) [a]
Now I'll Tell (1934) [a]
The Show-Off (1934) [a]
Dante's Inferno (1935) [a]
It's a Small World (1935) [a]
The Murder Man (1935) [a]
Whipsaw (1935) [a]
Fury (1936) [a]
Libeled Lady (1936) [a]
Riffraff (1936) [a]
San Francisco (1936) [a]
Big City (1937) [a]
Captains Courageous (1937) [a]
Mannequin (1937) [a]
They Gave Him a Gun (1937) [a]
Boys Town (1938) [a]
Test Pilot (1938) [a]
Stanley and Livingstone (1939) [a]
'Northwest Passage' (1940) [a]
Boom Town (1940) [a]
Edison, the Man (1940) [a]
I Take This Woman (1940) [a]
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941) [a]
Men of Boys Town (1941) [a]
Keeper of the Flame (1942) [a]
Tortilla Flat (1942) [a]
A Guy Named Joe (1943) [a]
The Seventh Cross (1944) [a]
Without Love (1945) [a]
Cass Timberlane (1947) [a]
The Sea of Grass (1947) [a]
State of the Union (1948) [a]
Edward, My Son (1949) [a]
Malaya (1949) [a]
Father of the Bride (1950) [a]
Father's Little Dividend (1951) [a]
The People Against O'Hara (1951) [a]
Plymouth Adventure (1952) [a]
The Actress (1953) [a]
Broken Lance (1954) [a]
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) [a]
The Mountain (1956) [a]
Desk Set (1957) [a]
The Last Hurrah (1958) [a]
The Old Man and the Sea (1958) [a]
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) [a]
The Devil at 4 O'Clock (1961) [a]
How the West Was Won (1962) [a]
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963) [a]
The Big Parade of Comedy (1964) [a]
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) [a]
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey (1984) [a]
Love, Wedding, Marriage (2011) [a]
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Kafka's tortuous trial of love
The greatest French Films of all time
