• Name: Spencer Tracy
• Date of Birth: April 05, 1900
• Place of Birth: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

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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 O'Brien and the two left school to enli...( read more )st 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.

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  SoulSaxy

  One of the Top 10 Actors of All-time!!!

  posted 341 days ago
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  strawberrydaquiris

  I loved him in Inherit the Wind. Best movie of all time!!!

  posted 389 days ago
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  A SO BEAUTIFUL LOVE BETWIN THEM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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• That's Entertainment 2 (G, 1976)
• Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (Unrated, 1967)
• It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (G, 1963)
• Judgment at Nuremberg (Unrated, 1961)
• The Devil at 4 O'clock (Unrated, 1961)
• Inherit the Wind (PG, 1960)
• The Last Hurrah (Unrated, 1958)
• The Old Man and the Sea (Unrated, 1958)
• Desk Set (Unrated, 1957)
• Bad Day at Black Rock (Unrated, 1955)

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