* 05.04.1900, Milwaukee, USA † 10.06.1967, Beverly Hills, California, USA

Schauspieler * 1922-23 Schauspielstudium an American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York * 1922 Bühnendebüt * 1930 erste Hauptrolle am Broadway und Filmdebüt (Up the River) * Vertrag bei Fox und bei MGM (1935-55) * seit 1937 führender Hollywood-Star (Captains Courageous und Boys Town) * 1941 erster gemeinsamer Film (Woman of the Year) mit Katharine Hepburn - Beginn einer lebenslangen Partnerschaft (sowohl privat als auch beruflich - insgesamt 9 Filme) * gilt als einer der größten Filmschauspieler * gewinnt als erster Darsteller zwei Oscars hintereinander * Genres: Drama / Komödie / Romanze / Abenteuer / Krimi

I've learned more about acting from watching Tracy than in any other way. He has great truth in everything he does. Laurence Olivier

FILMS

Up the River (1930-USA * John Ford / "Saint Louis")
Quick Millions (1931-USA * Rowland Brown / Daniel J. "Bugs" Raymond)
Six Cylinder Love (1931-USA * Thornton Freeland / William Donroy)
Goldie (1931-USA * Ben/jamin Stoloff / Bill) 58m
Sky Devils (Teufelsflieger, 1931-USA * A. Edward Sutherland / Wilkie)
She Wanted a Millionaire (1931/32-USA * John G. Blystone / William Kelly)
Disorderly Conduct (1932-USA * John W. Considine, Jr / Dick Fay)
Young America (1932-USA * Frank Borzage / Jack Doray)
Society Girl (1932-USA * Sidney Lanfield / Briscoe)
The Painted Woman (1932-USA * John G. Blystone / Tom Brain)
Me and My Gal (1932-USA * Raoul Walsh / Dan/ny Dolan)
» 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (20.000 Jahre in Sing Sing, 1932-USA; R: Michael Curtiz, B: Wilson Mizner, Brown Holmes; Courtney Terrett, Robert Lord, K: Barney McGill, M: [Bernhard Kaun], D: ST-Tom Connors, Bette Davis) 78/81m-Drama (Buch von Lewis E. Lawes)
Face in the Sky (1932-USA * Harry Lachman / Joe Buck)
The Power and the Glory (1933-USA * William K. Howard / Tom Garner)
Man's Castle (Ein Schloß in New York, 1933-USA * Frank Borzage / Bill)
Shanghai Madness (1933-USA * John G. Blystone / Pat Jackson)
The Mad Game (1933-USA * Irving Cummings / Edward Carson)
Looking for Trouble (1933-USA * William A. Wellman / Joe Graham)
The Show-Off (1934-USA * Charles F. Reisner / J. Aubrey Piper)
Bottoms Up (1934-USA * David Butler / "Smoothie" King)
Now I'll Tell (1934-USA * Edwin Burke / Murray Golden)
Marie Galante (1934-USA * Henry King / Crawbett)
Dante's Inferno (1935-USA * Harry Lachman / Jim Carter)
It's a Small World (1935-USA * Irving Cummings / Bill Shevlin)
The Murder Man (Der elektrische Stuhl, 1935-USA * Tim Whelan / Steve Grey)
Riffraff (1935-USA * J. Walter Ruben / "Dutch" Miller)
Whipsaw (1935-USA * Sam Wood / Ross McBride)
San Francisco (San Francisco, 1936-USA * W.S. Van Dyke / Tim Mullin)
Fury (Fury, 1936-USA * Fritz Lang / Joe Wilson)
Libeled Lady (Lustige Sünder, 1936-USA * Jack Conway / Warren Haggerty)
Captains Courageous (Manuel, 1936/37-USA * Victor Fleming / Manuel)
They Gave Him a Gun (1937-USA * W.S. Van Dyke / Fred P. Willis)
Big City (1937-USA * Frank Borzage / Joe Benton)
Mannequin (1937-USA * Frank Borzage / John L. Hennessey)
Test Pilot (Der Testpilot, 1938-USA * Victor Fleming / Gunner Sloane)
# Boys Town (Teufelskerle, 1938-USA * Norman Taurog ... Pater Flanagan) (06-08; 3809)
Stanley and Livingstone (1939-USA * Henry King / Henry Stanley)
I Take This Woman (1938/39-USA * W.S. Van Dyke / Karl Decker)
Northwest Passage (Nordwest-Passage, 1939/40-USA * King Vidor / Robert Rogers)
Edison, the Man (Der große Edison, 1940-USA * Clarence Brown / Thomas Alva Edison)
Boom Town (Der Draufgänger, 1940-USA * Jack Conway / Jonathan Sand [Square John])
Men of Boys Town (Das sind Kerle, 1940/41-USA * Norman Taurog / Edward J. Flanagan)
Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Arzt und Dämon, 1941-USA; R: Victor Fleming, B: John Lee Mahin, K: Joseph Ruttenberg, M: Franz Waxman, D: ST-Dr. Henry Jekyll/Mr. Hyde, Ingrid Bergman, Lana Turner) 114/27m-Horror (Novelle von Robert Louis Stevenson)
Woman of the Year (Die Frau, von der man spricht, 1941-USA; R: George Stevens, B: Ring Lardner, Jr, Michael Kanin, K: Joseph Ruttenberg, M: Franz Waxman, D: ST-Sam Craig, Katharine Hepburn) 114m-Komödie
Tortilla Flat (1941/42-USA * Victor Fleming / Pilon)
Keeper of the Flame (Die ganze Wahrheit, 1942-USA * George Cukor / Steven O'Malley)
# A Guy Named Joe (Kampf in den Wolken, 1943-USA * Victor Fleming ... Pete Sandidge) (02-09/+11; 4312)
The Seventh Cross (Das siebte Kreuz, 1944-USA * Fred Zinnemann / Georg Heisler)
Thirty Seconds over Tokyo (Dreißig Sekunden über Tokio, 1944-USA * Mervyn LeRoy / James H. Doolittle)
Without Love (Zu klug für die Liebe, 1944/45-USA * Harold S. Bucquet / Pat Jamieson)
The Sea of Grass (Endlos ist die Prärie, 1946-USA; R: Elia Kazan, B: Marguerite Roberts, Vincent Lawrence, K: Harry Stradling, M: Herbert Stothart, D: ST-Colonel Jim Brewton, Katharine Hepburn) 131m-Ehedrama (Roman von Conrad Richter)
Cass Timberlane (Liebe in Fesseln, 1947-USA; R: George Sidney, B: Donald Ogden Stewart, Sonya Levien, K: Robert Planck, M: Roy Webb, D: ST-Cass Timberlane, Lana Turner, Zachary Scott) 119m-Drama (Roman von Sinclair Lewis)
State of the Union (Der beste Mann, 1948-USA * Frank Capra / Grant Matthews)
Edward, My Son (Edward, mein Sohn, 1948-GB; R: George Cukor, B: Donald Ogden Stewart, K: Frederick A. Young, M: John Wooldridge, D: ST-Arnold Boult, Deborah Kerr) 112m-Familiendrama
Malaya (Malaya, 1949-USA * Richard Thorpe / Carnaghan)
Adam's Rib (Ehekrieg, 1949-USA * George Cukor / Adam Bonner)
Father of the Bride (Vater der Braut, 1950-USA * Vincente Minnelli / Stanley T. Banks)
Father's Little Dividend (Ein Geschenk des Himmels, 1950-USA * Vincente Minnelli / Stanley T. Banks)
The People against O'Hara (Der Mordprozeß O'Hara, 1951-USA * John Sturges / James Curtayne)
Pat and Mike (Pat und Mike, 1951-USA * George Cukor / Mike Conovan)
# Plymouth Adventure (Schiff ohne Heimat, 1952-USA * Clarence Brown ... Christopher Jones) (Roman von Ernest Gebler) (5211)
The Actress (Theaterfieber, 1953-USA * George Cukor / Clinton Jones)
# Broken Lance (Die gebrochene Lanze, 1954-USA * Edward Dmytryk ... Matt Devereaux) (5407)
Bad Day at Black Rock (Stadt in Angst, 1954-USA * John Sturges / John J. Macreedy)
The Mountain (Der Berg der Versuchung, 1956-USA * Edward Dmytryk / Zachary Teller)
Desk Set (Eine Frau, die alles weiß, 1957-USA * Walter Lang / Richard Sumner)
The Old Man and the Sea (Der alte Mann und das Meer, 1956/58-USA * John Sturges / alter Mann)
The Last Hurrah (Das letzte Hurra, 1958-USA * John Ford / Frank Skeffington)
Inherit the Wind (Wer den Wind sät..., 1959-USA * Stanley Kramer / Henry Drummond)
The Devil at 4 O'Clock (Der Teufel kommt um vier, 1960-USA * Mervyn LeRoy / Matthew Doonan)
Judgment at Nuremberg (Urteil von Nürnberg, 1961-USA * Stanley Kramer / Dan Haywood)
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (Eine total, total verrückte Welt, 1962-USA * Stanley Kramer / C.G. Culpeper)
# Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (Rat mal, wer zum Essen kommt, 1967-USA * Stanley Kramer ... Matt Drayton) (03-05; 6712)

AWARDS

Academy Award (Oscar) für Captains Courageous (bester Hauptdarsteller, 1938)
Academy Award (Oscar) für Boys Town (bester Hauptdarsteller, 1939)
Golden Globe für The Actress (bester Darsteller – Kategorie Drama, 1954)
Darstellerpreis für Bad Day at Black Rock [Filmfestspiele Cannes 1955]
National Board of Review Award für The Old Man and the Sea & The Last Hurrah (bester Darsteller, 1958)
British Academy (BAFTA) Award für Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (bester Darsteller, 1969)

BOOKS

Donald Deschner: The Films of Spencer Tracy. New York: Citadel Press, 1968
Romano Tozzi: Spencer Tracy. New York: Pyramid Books, 1973
Larry Swindell: Spencer Tracy: A Biography. London: Coronet Books, 1974
Bill Davidson: Spencer Tracy: Tragic Idol. [?]: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1987
Alison King: Spencer Tracy. New York: Crescent Books, 1992
James Fisher: Spencer Tracy: A Bio-Bibliography. Westport/London: Greenwood Press, 1994
James Curtis: Spencer Tracy: A Biography. London: Hutchinson, 2011