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Spencer Tracy

Spencer Tracy

Oyuncu · 1900 – 1967 · Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Spencer Bonaventure Tracy (April 5, 1900 – June 10, 1967) was an American actor, noted for his natural style and versatility. One of the major stars of Hollywood's Golden Age, Tracy won two Academy Awards for Best Actor from nine nominations, sharing the record for nominations in that category with Laurence Olivier. Tracy first discovered his talent for acting while attending Ripon College, and he later received 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 John Ford's Up the River starring Tracy and Humphrey Bogart, he was signed to a contract with Fox Film Corporation. His five years with Fox featured one acting tour de force after another that were usually ignored at the box office, and he remained largely unknown to audiences after 25 films, almost all of them starring Tracy as the leading man. None of them were hits although The Power and the Glory (1933) features arguably his most acclaimed performance in retrospect. In 1935, Tracy joined Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, at the time 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. He made three smash hit films supporting Clark Gable, the studio's principal leading man, firmly fixing the notion of Gable and Tracy as a team in the public imagination. By the 1940s, Tracy was one of the studio's top stars. In 1942, he appeared with Katharine Hepburn in Woman of the Year, beginning another popular partnership that produced nine movies over 25 years. Tracy left MGM in 1955, and continued to work regularly as a freelance star, despite an increasing weariness as he aged. His personal life was troubled, with a lifelong struggle against severe alcoholism and guilt over his son's deafness. Tracy became estranged from his wife in the 1930s, but never divorced, conducting a long-term relationship with Katharine Hepburn in private. Towards the end of his life, Tracy worked almost exclusively for director Stanley Kramer. It was for Kramer that he made his last film, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner in 1967, completed just 17 days before his death. During his career, Tracy appeared in 75 films and developed a reputation among his peers as one of the screen's greatest actors. In 1999 the American Film Institute ranked Tracy as the 9th greatest male star of Classic Hollywood Cinema.

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  • Film7.0

    It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

    Çılgın Dünya

    1963 · 720 votes

  • Film7.0

    How the West Was Won

    Batının Zaferi

    1962 · 517 votes

  • Film8.0

    Judgment at Nuremberg

    Nuremberg Duruşması

    1961 · 993 votes

  • Film7.6

    Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

    Beklenmeyen Misafir

    1967 · 939 votes

  • Film7.7

    Inherit the Wind

    Rüzgarın Mirası

    1960 · 492 votes

  • Film7.0

    Woman of the Year

    1942 · 169 votes

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    Bad Day at Black Rock

    Zafer Madalyası

    1955 · 438 votes

  • Film7.0

    Father of the Bride

    Gelinin Babası

    1950 · 244 votes

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    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

    1941 · 195 votes

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    The Old Man and the Sea

    İhtiyar Adam ve Deniz

    1958 · 170 votes

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    Father's Little Dividend

    1951 · 76 votes

  • Film6.8

    State of the Union

    1948 · 77 votes

  • Film7.1

    Adam's Rib

    Adem'in Kaburgası

    1949 · 348 votes

  • Film6.8

    The Seventh Cross

    1944 · 43 votes

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    The Sea of Grass

    1947 · 29 votes

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    Keeper of the Flame

    1943 · 47 votes

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    That's Entertainment!

    1974 · 73 votes

  • Film7.4

    Captains Courageous

    1937 · 196 votes

  • Film6.7

    A Guy Named Joe

    1944 · 55 votes

  • Film6.5

    Broken Lance

    Kırık Mızrak

    1954 · 88 votes

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  • Dizi7.5

    MGM Parade

    1955 · 2 votes