Year |
Film |
Role |
Studio |
Notes |
1930 |
taxi !Taxi Talks |
Taxi Driver |
Warner Bros. |
Short subject |
1930 |
hard !The Hard Guy |
Guy |
Warner Bros. |
Short subject |
1930 |
Up the River |
Saint Louis |
Fox |
With Humphrey Bogart |
1931 |
Quick Millions |
Daniel J. 'Bugs' Raymond |
Fox |
With George Raft in small role |
1931 |
Six Cylinder Love |
William Donroy |
Fox |
With Edward Everett Horton |
1931 |
Goldie |
Bill |
Fox |
With Jean Harlow |
1932 |
She Wanted a Millionaire |
William Kelley |
Fox |
With Joan Bennett |
1932 |
Sky Devils |
Wilkie |
United Artists |
Co-written by Robert Benchley |
1932 |
Disorderly Conduct |
Dick Fay |
Fox |
|
1932 |
Young America |
Jack Doray |
Fox |
Directed by Frank Borzage |
1932 |
Society Girl |
Briscoe |
Fox |
|
1932 |
painted !The Painted Woman |
Tom Brian |
Fox |
|
1932 |
Me and My Gal |
Danny Dolan |
Fox |
With Joan Bennett |
1932 |
twenty !20,000 Years in Sing Sing |
Tommy Connors |
Warner Bros. |
With Bette Davis |
1933 |
Face in the Sky |
Joe Buck |
Fox |
With Stuart Erwin |
1933 |
Shanghai Madness |
Pat Jackson |
Fox |
With Fay Wray |
1933 |
power !The Power and the Glory |
Tom Garner |
Fox |
Written by Preston Sturges |
1933 |
mad game !The Mad Game |
Edward Carson |
Fox |
With Claire Trevor |
1933 |
Man's Castle |
Bill |
Columbia |
With Loretta Young |
1934 |
show-off !The Show-Off |
J. Aubrey Piper |
MGM |
Tracy's first MGM film |
1934 |
Looking for Trouble |
Joe Graham |
20th Century |
With Jack Oakie |
1934 |
Bottoms Up |
'Smoothie' King |
Fox |
|
1934 |
Now I'll Tell |
Murray Golden |
Fox |
With Helen Twelvetrees |
1934 |
Marie Galante |
Dr. Crawbett |
Fox |
|
1935 |
It's a Small World |
Bill Shevlin |
Fox |
With Wendy Barrie |
1935 |
murder !The Murder Man |
Steven 'Steve' Grey |
MGM |
First credited screen role of James Stewart |
1935 |
Dante's Inferno |
Jim Carter |
Fox |
With Claire Trevor and dancer Rita Hayworth (billed as Rita Cansino) |
1935 |
Whipsaw |
Ross 'Mac' McBride |
MGM |
With Myrna Loy |
1936 |
Riffraff |
Dutch Muller |
MGM |
With Jean Harlow and Mickey Rooney |
1936 |
Fury |
Joe Wilson |
MGM |
With Sylvia Sidney |
1936 |
San Francisco |
Father Tim Mullin |
MGM |
With Clark Gable Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated — New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor |
1936 |
Libeled Lady |
Warren Haggerty |
MGM |
The film was nominated for Best Picture, but lost out to The Great Ziegfeld. With William Powell, Jean Harlow and Myrna Loy |
1937 |
They Gave Him a Gun |
Fred P. Willis |
MGM |
With Gladys George |
1937 |
Captains Courageous |
Manuel Fidello |
MGM |
With Lionel Barrymore, John Carradine, Melvyn Douglas, Mickey Rooney and Freddie Bartholomew Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated — New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor |
1937 |
Big City |
Joe Benton |
MGM |
With Luise Rainer |
1937 |
Mannequin |
John L. Hennessey |
MGM |
With Joan Crawford |
1938 |
Test Pilot |
Gunner Morris |
MGM |
With Clark Gable and Myrna Loy |
1938 |
Boys Town |
Father Flanagan |
MGM |
With Mickey Rooney Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated — New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor |
1938 |
Another Romance of Celluloid |
Himself |
MGM |
Behind-the-scenes short film, includes filming of Test Pilot, and shows Tracy accepting his Academy Award for Boys Town |
1938 |
Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 9 |
Himself |
Columbia |
Short subject showing Tracy accepting his Academy Award for Boys Town |
1938 |
Hollywood Goes to Town |
Himself |
MGM |
Short subject, showing notable Hollywood performers preparing for the world premiere of Marie Antoinette |
1939 |
Stanley and Livingstone |
Henry M. Stanley |
20th Century Fox |
With Nancy Kelly |
1939 |
For Auld Lang Syne |
Himself |
Will Rogers Memorial Commission |
Fundraising short film in which several actors, including Tracy, appeal for funds for the Will Rogers Memorial Hospital |
1939 |
Hollywood Hobbies |
Himself |
MGM |
Behind-the-scenes short film |
1940 |
I Take This Woman |
Dr. Karl Decker |
MGM |
With Hedy Lamarr |
1940 |
Young Tom Edison |
Man Admiring Portrait of Thomas A. Edison |
MGM |
With Mickey Rooney Tracy appears as a man admiring a portrait of Edison; he plays the older Edison in Edison, the Man in the same year Uncredited |
1940 |
Northwest Passage |
Major Rogers |
MGM |
With Walter Brennan |
1940 |
Edison, the Man |
Thomas Edison |
MGM |
|
1940 |
Boom Town |
Jonathan Sand |
MGM |
With Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, and Hedy Lamarr |
1940 |
Northward, Ho! |
Himself |
MGM |
Behind-the-scenes short film about the filming of Northwest Passage |
1941 |
Men of Boys Town |
Father Flanagan |
MGM |
With Mickey Rooney |
1941 |
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr Edward Hyde |
MGM |
With Ingrid Bergman and Lana Turner |
1942 |
Woman of the Year |
Sam Craig |
MGM |
First film with Katharine Hepburn |
1942 |
Tortilla Flat |
Pilon |
MGM |
With John Garfield |
1942 |
Keeper of the Flame |
Steven 'Stevie' O'Malley |
MGM |
With Katharine Hepburn |
1942 |
Ring of Steel |
Narrator |
Warner Brothers |
Military documentary for U.S. Office for Emergency Management |
1943 |
His New World |
Narrator |
MGM |
War documentary |
1943 |
guy !A Guy Named Joe |
Pete Sandidge |
MGM |
With Van Johnson |
1944 |
seventh !The Seventh Cross |
George Heisler |
MGM |
|
1944 |
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo |
Lieutenant Colonel James H. Doolittle |
MGM |
With Van Johnson and Robert Walker |
1945 |
Without Love |
Pat Jamieson |
MGM |
With Katharine Hepburn |
1947 |
sea of !The Sea of Grass |
Col. James B. 'Jim' Brewton |
MGM |
With Katharine Hepburn |
1947 |
Cass Timberlane |
Cass Timberlane |
MGM |
With Lana Turner |
1948 |
State of the Union |
Grant Matthews |
MGM |
With Katharine Hepburn |
1949 |
Edward, My Son |
Arnold Boult |
MGM |
With Deborah Kerr |
1949 |
Adam's Rib |
Adam Bonner |
MGM |
With Katharine Hepburn |
1949 |
Malaya |
Canaghan |
MGM |
With James Stewart and Lionel Barrymore |
1949 |
Some of the Best |
Himself |
MGM |
Retrospective of MGM's history |
1950 |
Father of the Bride |
Stanley T. Banks |
MGM |
Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actor. With Joan Bennett and Elizabeth Taylor |
1951 |
Father's Little Dividend |
Stanley T. Banks |
MGM |
With Joan Bennett and Elizabeth Taylor |
1951 |
people !The People Against O'Hara |
James P. Curtayne |
MGM |
With Pat O'Brien |
1951 |
For Defense for Freedom for Humanity |
Himself |
MGM |
Short film in which Tracy urges support for Red Cross fundraising |
1952 |
Pat and Mike |
Mike Conovan |
MGM |
With Katharine Hepburn |
1952 |
Plymouth Adventure |
Captain Christopher Jones |
MGM |
With Gene Tierney |
1953 |
actress !The Actress |
Clinton Jones |
MGM |
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor Nominated — New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor With Jean Simmons |
1954 |
Broken Lance |
Matt Devereaux |
20th Century Fox |
With Robert Wagner |
1955 |
Bad Day at Black Rock |
John J. Macreedy |
MGM |
Best Actor Award (Cannes Film Festival) Prix d'interprétation masculine Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated — New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor |
1956 |
mountain !The Mountain |
Zachary Teller |
Paramount |
Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor |
1957 |
Desk Set |
Richard Sumner |
20th Century Fox |
With Katharine Hepburn |
1958 |
old man !The Old Man and the Sea |
The Old Man / Narrator |
Warner Bros. |
NBR Award for Best Actor (also for The Last Hurrah) Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama Nominated — New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor |
1958 |
last !The Last Hurrah |
Mayor Frank Skeffington |
Columbia |
NBR Award for Best Actor (also for The Old Man and the Sea) Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor Nominated — New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor |
1960 |
last !Inherit the Wind |
Henry Drummond |
United Artists |
Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama |
1961 |
devil !The Devil at 4 O'Clock |
Father Matthew Doonan |
Columbia |
With Frank Sinatra |
1961 |
Judgment at Nuremberg |
Chief Judge Dan Haywood |
United Artists |
Fotogramas de Plata Award for Best Foreign Performer Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actor - With Burt Lancaster, Marlene Dietrich, Richard Widmark, Judy Garland, Montgomery Clift |
1962 |
How the West Was Won |
Narrator |
MGM |
Voice |
1963 |
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World |
Captain T. G. Culpepper |
United Artists |
With Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Ethel Merman, Jonathan Winters, Mickey Rooney, Buddy Hackett, many more |
1967 |
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner |
Matt Drayton |
Columbia |
With Katharine Hepburn BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role and Sidney Poitier (posthumous) Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actor (posthumous) Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama (posthumous) Nominated — New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor (posthumous) (Last appearance) |