Spencer Tracy
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Birth name
Spencer Bonaventure Tracy
Nickname
Spence
Height
5' 10½"
Mini biography
Spence was born four years after his brother Carroll to truck salesman John Edward and Caroline Brown Tracy. He attended Marquette Academy along with the future 'Pat O'Brien' and the two left school to enlist in the Navy at the start of World War I. He was still at Norfolk Navy Yard VA 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 'Pat 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 lead in Last Mile, The (1932) and signed him to Up the River (1930) for Fox. His family moved to Hollywood in 1931, making sixteen films in three years. In 1935 he signed with MGM. He became the first 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), Old Man and the Sea, The (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 life-long one with Katharine Hepburn beginning in 1942. As a Catholic he never divorced 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.
IMDb mini-biography by
Ed Stephan
Spouse
Louise Treadwell (1923 - June 10 1967) (his death) 2 children John(b.1924); Susanna(b.1932)
Trivia
Sometimes people confuse Spencer Tracy and James Whitmore. The two sometimes look as if they could have been brothers.
Ranked #64 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]
Born at 1:57am-CST
Interred at Forest Lawn, Glendale, California, USA, in the Garden of Everlasting Peace, on the right just after entering.
His Best Actor in 1937 for Captains Courageous is inscribed with the name "Dick Tracy."
Attended Ripon College in Ripon, Wisconsin but did not graduate.
Attended no fewer than six high schools: Wauwatosa (WI) High School; St. John's Cathedral School (Milwaukee); St. Mary's (near Topeka, Kansas); Rockhurst Academy (Topeka); Marquette Academy (Milwaukee); WWI service; Northwestern Military and Naval Academy (Lake Geneva, WI); and West Division High School (Milwaukee), from which he graduated in 1921.
In 1956/57 when Spencer's longtime friend Humphrey Bogart was dying of cancer, Spencer and Katharine Hepburn were two of the only people who visited Bogie (and wife Lauren Bacall) at their home on an almost daily basis. They would sit together at Bogie's bedside for half and hour or so every evening in the months and weeks leading up to his death. After Bogie's death, Bacall requested that Spencer deliver the eulogy at the funeral. Spence apologetically declined saying it would simply be too difficult for him. He felt he would be too emotional and wouldn't be able to do it. Bacall understood and director John Huston delivered the eulogy instead.
Spencer Tracy was offered the role of The Penguin in the TV series Batman before Burgess Meredith. Tracy said that he would only accept the role if he was allowed to kill Batman.
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