Spencer Tracy filmography

Spencer Tracy (1900–1967) was an American actor. His film career began in 1930, with Up the River, and ended in 1967 with Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. Within this 37-year career, Tracy starred in 75 feature films and several short films.

Filmography

Year Film Role Studio Notes
1930 Taxi Talks Taxi Driver Warner Bros. Short subject
1930 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 The Painted Woman Tom Brian Fox
1932 Me and My Gal Danny Dolan Fox With Joan Bennett
1932 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 The Power and the Glory Tom Garner Fox Written by Preston Sturges
1933 The Mad Game Edward Carson Fox With Claire Trevor
1933 Man's Castle Bill Columbia With Loretta Young
1934 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 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 A Guy Named Joe Pete Sandidge MGM With Van Johnson
1944 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 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 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 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 The Mountain Zachary Teller Paramount Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor
1957 Desk Set Richard Sumner 20th Century Fox With Katharine Hepburn
1958 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 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 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 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)

Box Office Ranking

For a number of years exhibitors voted Tracy among the most popular stars in the country:

See also

References

  1. Hope Tops Crosby At the Boxoffice By Richard L. Coe. The Washington Post (1923-1954) [Washington, D.C] 30 Dec 1949: 19.
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