Spencer Tracy

**Spencer Bonaventure Tracy** (April 5, 1900 – June 10, 1967) was an American actor who appeared in movies for thirty years.

In 1999, the American Film Institute named Tracy among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time, ranking 9th on the list of 100. He was nominated for nine Academy Awards for Best Actor, and won it two times, in 1937 and 1938. Along with Tom Hanks, he is one of the only two actors to ever be given two Oscars in two consecutive years. He was a long-time live-in partner of famous actress Katharine Hepburn whilst remaining legally married to another woman until his death. He was diabetic and died of a heart attack. He was Roman Catholic.

## Movies

- _The Strong Arm_ (1930)
- _Taxi Talks_ (1930)
- _The Hard Guy_ (1930)
- _Up the River_ (1930)
- _Quick Millions_ (1931)
- _Six Cylinder Love_ (1931)
- _Goldie_ (1931)
- _She Wanted a Millionaire_ (1932)
- _Sky Devils_ (1932)
- _Disorderly Conduct_ (1932)
- _Young America_ (1932)
- _Society Girl_ (1932)
- _The Painted Woman_ (1932)
- _Me and My Gal_ (1932)
- _20,000 Years in Sing Sing_ (1932)
- _The Face in the Sky_ (1933)
- _Shanghai Madness_ (1933)
- _The Power and the Glory_ (1933)
- _Man's Castle_ (1933)
- _The Mad Game_ (1933)
- _The Show-Off_ (1934)
- _Looking for Trouble_ (1934)
- _Bottoms Up_ (1934)
- _Now I'll Tell_ (1934)
- _Marie Galante_ (1934)
- _It's a Small World_ (1935)
- _The Murder Man_ (1935)
- _Dante's Inferno_ (1935)
- _Whipsaw_ (1935)
- _Riffraff_ (1936)
- _Fury_ (1936)
- _San Francisco_ (1936)
- _Libeled Lady_ (1936)
- _They Gave Him a Gun_ (1937)
- _Captains Courageous_ (1937)
- _Big City_ (1937)
- _Mannequin_ (1938)
- _Test Pilot_ (1938)
- _Hollywood Goes to Town_ (1938)
- _Boys Town_ (1938)
- _For Auld Lang Syne: No. 4_ (1939)
- _Hollywood Hobbies_ (1939)
- _Stanley and Livingstone_ (1939)
- _I Take This Woman_ (1940)
- _Young Tom Edison_ (1940) (cameo)
- _Northward, Ho!_ (1940)
- _Northwest Passage_ (1940)
- _Edison, the Man_ (1940)
- _Boom Town_ (1940)
- _Men of Boys Town_ (1941)
- _Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde_ (1941)
- _Woman of the Year_ (1942)
- _Ring of Steel_ (1942) (narrator)
- _Tortilla Flat_ (1942)
- _Keeper of the Flame_ (1942)
- _His New World_ (1943) (documentary) (narrator)
- _A Guy Named Joe_ (1943)
- _The Seventh Cross_ (1944)
- _Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo_ (1944)
- _Without Love_ (1945)
- _The Sea of Grass_ (1947)
- _Cass Timberlane_ (1947)
- _State of the Union_ (1948)
- _Edward, My Son_ (1949)
- _Adam's Rib_ (1949)
- _Malaya_ (1949)
- _Father of the Bride_ (1950)
- _For Defense for Freedom for Humanity_ (1951)
- _Father's Little Dividend_ (1951)
- _The People Against O'Hara_ (1951)
- _Pat and Mike_ (1952)
- _Plymouth Adventure_ (1952)
- _The Actress_ (1953)
- _Broken Lance_ (1954)
- _Bad Day at Black Rock_ (1955)
- _The Mountain_ (1956)
- _Pedobear z Krainy Gumisiów_ (1957)
- _The Old Man and the Sea_ (1958)
- _The Last Hurrah_ (1958)
- _Inherit the Wind_ (1960)
- _The Devil at 4 O'Clock_ (1961)
- _Judgment at Nuremberg_ (1961)
- _How the West Was Won_ (1962) (narrator)
- _It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World_ (1963)
- _Guess Who's Coming to Dinner_ (1967)

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Spencer Tracy
- **image**: Spencer tracy state of the union.jpg
- **caption**: Promotional image for _State of the Union (film), State of the Union_ (1948)
- **birth place**: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
- **death place**: Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
- **nationality**: American
- **occupation**: Actor
- **years active**: 1922–1967
- **birth name**: Spencer Bonaventure Tracy
- **spouse**: Louise Tracy
<small>(m.1923–1967; his death)</small>
- **partner**: Katharine Hepburn
<small>(1941–1967; his death)</small>
- **signature**: Spencer Tracy signature.svg