Biography
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 th...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Gene Kelly - An American in Hollywood
2025
as Self (archive footage)
Gene Kelly is a legend of the heyday of the Hollywood musical. His name stands for masterpieces such as "Singin' in the Rain" and "An American in Pari...

Heart of a Servant: The Father Flanagan Story
2024
as Fr. Edward Flanagan (archive footage)
Father Edward J. Flanagan is a familiar name to many Americans, often for the Oscar-winning 1938 film starring Spencer Tracy about Flanagan’s groundbr...

Rat Pack
2022
as Self (archive footage)
In the 1950s, a small group of artists monopolized the attention of the cameras and the public. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bish...

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
2018
as Self (archive footage)
A deliciously scandalous portrait of unsung Hollywood legend Scotty Bowers, whose bestselling memoir chronicled his decades spent as sexual procurer t...

And the Oscar Goes To...
2014
as Self (archive footage)
The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy ...

Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored
2013
as Self (archive footage)
Uncensored. Laugh along with Hollywood's brightest stars in this hilarious compilation of bloopers from some of the biggest movies in history . You'll...

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
2009
as Self (archive footage)
This documentary focuses on 1939, considered to be Hollywood's greatest year, with film clips and insight into what made the year so special.

Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults
1999
as Self (Archival Footage)
Second installment of deleted scenes, mostly musical or comedic, from Fox films of the 30's - 50's.

Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults
1997
as Self (Archival Footage)
Documentary featuring more than one dozen musical outtakes from classic 20th Century-Fox films.

Bogart: The Untold Story
1997
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Stephen H. Bogart narrates the rise to fame of his father, Humphrey Bogart through the use of film clips, written material and interviews of friends a...

Ingrid Bergman Remembered
1996
as Self (archive footage)
Her name conjures up beauty, grace, talent and style. One of the greatest actresses of her time, she is best remembered for a natural and vulnerable p...

La Classe américaine
1993
as The Professional Witness (archive footage)
George Abitbol, the classiest man in the world, dies tragically during a cruise. The director of an American newspaper, wondering about the meaning of...

Harlow: The Blonde Bombshell
1993
as Self (archive footage)
Actress Sharon Stone hosts this documentary about the life and career of 1930s sex symbol Jean Harlow. Included are clips from many of her films, phot...

Movie Tough Guys
1991
as Self (archive footage)
This compilation of film highlights features many of the biggest box office tough guys of the 1930s, '40s, and '50s—Bogart, Brando, Cagney and more!

Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World'
1991
as Self (archive footage)
A star-studded documentary and tribute to the classic comedy, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.

Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
1990
as (archive footage)
This tribute to Myrna Loy is organized chronologically with a few photographs, many film clips, a handful of personal appearances, and a detailed comm...

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988
as Self (archive footage)
This documentary revisits the making of Gone with the Wind via archival footage, screen tests, insightful interviews and rare film footage.

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987
as Self (archive footage)
Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.

The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
1986
as Self (archive footage)
In this tribute to her frequent co-star and longtime love, Katharine Hepburn hosts a behind-the-scenes look at Spencer Tracy's personal and profession...

George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
1985
as Self (archive footage)
Biography of the legendary filmmaker directed by his son.

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival fo...

That's Entertainment, Part II
1976
as (archive footage)
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical num...

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975
as Self (archive footage)
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

That's Entertainment!
1974
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.

Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972
as Self (archive footage)
A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props. By extension th...

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
1967
as Matt Drayton
A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home a fiancé who is black.

The Big Parade of Comedy
1964
as Haggerty in 'Libeled Lady' (archive footage)
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
1963
as C. G. Culpepper
A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is t...

How the West Was Won
1962
as Narrator (voice)
The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one ...

Hollywood: The Selznick Years
1961
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in t...

Judgment at Nuremberg
1961
as Dan Haywood
In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chie...

The Devil at 4 O'Clock
1961
as Father Matthew Doonan
A crusty, eccentric priest recruits three reluctant convicts to help him rescue a children's leper colony from a Pacific island menaced by a smolderin...

Inherit the Wind
1960
as Henry Drummond
Schoolteacher Bertram Cates is arrested for teaching his students Darwin's theory of evolution. The case receives national attention and one of the ne...

The Last Hurrah
1958
as Mayor Frank Skeffington
In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle, Fr...

The Old Man and the Sea
1958
as The Old Man
Santiago is an aging, down-on-his-luck, Cuban fisherman who, after catching nothing for nearly 3 months, hooks a huge Marlin and struggles to land it ...

Desk Set
1957
as Richard Sumner
A computer expert tries to prove his electronic brain can replace a television network's research staff.

The Mountain
1956
as Zachary Teller
Selfish Chris Teller pressures his older brother, a retired climber, to accompany him on a treacherous Alpine climb to loot the bodies of plane crash ...

Bad Day at Black Rock
1955
as John J. Macreedy
One-armed war veteran John J. Macreedy steps off a train at the sleepy little town of Black Rock. Once there, he begins to unravel a web of lies, sec...

Broken Lance
1954
as Matt Devereaux
Cattle baron Matt Devereaux raids a copper smelter that is polluting his water, then divides his property among his sons. Son Joe takes responsibility...

The Actress
1953
as Clinton Jones
The true story of Ruth Gordon's early struggles on the road to stage stardom.

Plymouth Adventure
1952
as Capt. Christopher Jones
During the Mayflower pilgrims' long voyage across the Atlantic Ocean on their way to America, Captain Christopher Jones falls in love with William Bra...

Pat and Mike
1952
as Mike Conovan
Pat Pemberton is a brilliant athlete, except when her domineering fiancé is around. The ladies golf championship is in her reach until she gets fluste...

The People Against O'Hara
1951
as James P. Curtayne
A defense attorney jeopardizes his career to save his client.

Father's Little Dividend
1951
as Stanley Banks
Newly married Kay Dunstan announces that she and her husband are having a baby, leaving her father to come to grips with the fact that he will soon be...

Father of the Bride
1950
as Stanley T. Banks
Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself,...

Malaya
1949
as Carnaghan
After living abroad for several years, journalist John Royer returns to the United States just after the U.S. enters World War II. His boast that he c...

Adam's Rib
1949
as Adam Bonner
A woman's attempted murder of her uncaring husband results in everyday quarrels in the lives of Adam and Amanda, a pair of happily married lawyers who...

Edward, My Son
1949
as Arnold Boult
Following the death of his only son, a ruthless businessman reflects on his life, his unhappy marriage and his questionable parenting skills.

State of the Union
1948
as Grant Matthews
An industrialist is urged to run for President, but this requires uncomfortable compromises on both political and marital levels.

Cass Timberlane
1947
as Cass Timberlane
Judge Cass Timberlane marries a girl from the wrong side of the tracks, Virginia Marshland. A baby is stillborn and she turns more and more to attorne...

The Sea of Grass
1947
as Col. James B. Brewton
On America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.

Without Love
1945
as Pat Jamieson
In World War II Washington DC, scientist Pat Jamieson's assistant, Jamie Rowan, enters a loveless marriage with him. Struggles bring them closer toget...

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
1944
as Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle
In the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret bombing mission which will take the war to the Jap...

The Seventh Cross
1944
as George Heisler
In Nazi Germany in 1936 seven men escape from a concentration camp. The camp commander puts up seven crosses and, as the Gestapo returns each escapee ...

Twenty Years After
1944
as (archive footage)
This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases.

A Guy Named Joe
1943
as Pete Sandidge
A cocky Air Force pilot stationed in England during World War II falls for a daring female flier. After he's killed on a mission, he is sent back to ...

Keeper of the Flame
1943
as Stevie O'Malley
Famed reporter Stephen O'Malley travels to a small town to investigate the death of a national hero.
His New World
1943
as Narrator (voice)
Spencer Tracy narrates this MGM documentary on the rigorous process of selection and training of aviation students -- "Dodos" as one of them is forced...

Tortilla Flat
1942
as Pilon
Danny, a poor northern Californian Mexican-American, inherits two houses from his grandfather and is quickly taken advantage of by his vagabond friend...

Ring of Steel
1942
as Narrator (voice)
Documentary short detailing the American soldier's part in preserving the fundamental ideals of this nation. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in...

Woman of the Year
1942
as Sam Craig
Rival reporters Sam Craig and Tess Harding fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hecti...

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1941
as Dr. Henry 'Harry' Jekyll / Mr. Hyde
Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side, Mr. Hyde, to come to the fore. He faces horrible c...

Men of Boys Town
1941
as Edward Flanagan
Father Flanagan raises funds, helps a disabled boy, and saves an older boy from reform school.

A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
1940
as Self
This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes behind the scenes to look at how the sound portion of a tal...

Boom Town
1940
as Square John Sand
Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman. McMasters and Sand come to oil t...

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
1940
as Self
This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance speeche...

Hollywood: Style Center of the World
1940
as Self
This short promotes the premise that movies often create a demand for the fashions seen in them. It starts with a vignette in rural America. A mother ...

Edison, the Man
1940
as Thomas A. Edison
In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New Yor...

Young Tom Edison
1940
as Man Admiring Portrait of Thomas A. Edison
Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing disastr...

Northwest Passage
1940
as Major Robert Rogers
Based on the Kenneth Roberts novel of the same name, this film tells the story of two friends who join Rogers' Rangers, as the legendary elite force e...

Northward, Ho!
1940
as Himself
Behind-the-scenes promotional featurette to publicize the epic outdoor adventure Northwest Passage filmed on location in Idaho.

I Take This Woman
1940
as Karl Decker
On return from Europe Dr. Decker foils glamour girl Georgi from jumping overboard. At Decker's suggestion to keep busy, she assists at his clinic i...

Stanley and Livingstone
1939
as Henry M. Stanley
When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to Afric...
From the Ends of the Earth
1939
as Self
An MGM short showing how materials are shipped by boat 'From the Ends of the Earth' to Hollywood. Featuring footage from the MGM films being made at t...

Hollywood Hobbies
1939
as Self (uncredited)
In this short film, two starstruck movie fans hire a tour guide and see a plethora of Hollywood stars.

Boys Town
1938
as Father Flanagan
Devout but iron-willed Father Flanagan leads a community called Boys Town, a different sort of juvenile detention facility where, instead of being tre...

Hollywood Goes to Town
1938
as Self
This short shows how Hollywood gets ready for the world premiere of an "important" movie. The film celebrated here is Marie Antoinette (1938), which h...

Test Pilot
1938
as Gunner Morse
Jim is a test pilot. His wife Ann and best friend Gunner try their best to keep him sober. But the life of a test pilot is anything but safe.

Another Romance of Celluloid
1938
as Self (uncredited)
This second entry in MGM's "Romance of Film" series documents how celluloid movie film is processed and features behind-the-scenes glimpses of current...

Mannequin
1938
as John Hennessey
Jessie, a young working class woman, seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only to find out that he is no better than what she left beh...

Big City
1937
as Joe Benton
Anna and Joe are newly married, playful and deeply in love. Joe is scraping by as cab driver in New York City during a period of corruption, mob contr...

The Romance of Celluloid
1937
as Self (archive footage)
Several behind the scenes aspects of the movie-making business, which results in the enjoyment the movie going public has in going to the theater, are...

Captains Courageous
1937
as Manuel Fidello
Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transatlantic steamship and is rescued by a fishing vesse...

They Gave Him a Gun
1937
as Fred P. Willis
With no other prospects, a World War I veteran puts the skills they taught him in the War to use.

Libeled Lady
1936
as Warren Haggerty
When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the pub...

San Francisco
1936
as Father Tim Mullin
A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in 19...

Fury
1936
as Joe Wilson
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wr...

Riffraff
1936
as Dutch
Fisherman Dutch marries cannery worker Hattie. After he is kicked out of his union and fired from his job he leaves Hattie who steals money for him an...

Whipsaw
1935
as Ross 'Mac' McBride aka Danny Ross Ackerman
Hot jewels from London make their way to New York, where they are stolen by racketeer Ed Dexter, who hides them with the help of his vivacious girlfri...

Dante's Inferno
1935
as Jim Carter
A carny builds a gambling empire at the expense of his family's wellbeing.

The Murder Man
1935
as Steven 'Steve' Grey
Steve Grey, reporter for the Daily Star, has a habit of scooping all the other papers in town. When Henry Mander is investigated for the murder of his...

It's A Small World
1935
as Bill Shevlin
Socialite, privileged, Jane Dale and lawyer Bill Shevlin meet in an automobile accident at night, on a dirt road, in a storm, near a hick town which ...

Marie Galante
1934
as Dr. Crawbett
On the French coast, unlucky Marie Galante is abducted and forced to board an American cargo ship bound for the Panama Canal. When an escape attempt l...

Now I'll Tell
1934
as Murray Golden
A two-bit gambler somehow claws his way to the top. His love for riches is only matched by his love for his wife, but he is sometimes confused by whic...

Bottoms Up
1934
as 'Smoothie' King
Promoter "Smoothie" King helps a pair of phonies con their way into a movie company. As Wanda heads toward stardom, she turns more and more from King ...

Looking for Trouble
1934
as Joe Graham
Joe and Casey trouble-shoot for the phone company. They try to prove that Joes's girl Ethel's boss Dan is a crook but are trapped by criminals and lef...

The Show-Off
1934
as J. Aubrey Piper
Aubrey cons Amy into thinking he's a railroad bigwig. When he loses his job he takes one wearing a sandwich board. After he helps Joe sell his patent ...

Man's Castle
1933
as Bill
Bill takes Trina into his depression camp cabin. Later, just as he finds showgirl LaRue who will support him, Trina becomes pregnant.

The Mad Game
1933
as Edward Carson
Bootlegger Ed Carson is sent to prison. His old gang turns from liquor (now legal) to kidnapping. When they nab the son and daughter-in-law of the jud...

The Power and the Glory
1933
as Tom Garner
A man's life is retold just after his funeral. Beginning as a track walker, Tom Garner rose through all sorts of railroad jobs to head the company. In...

Shanghai Madness
1933
as Pat Jackson
In the 1920s Pat Jackson destroys a Chinese post and is discharged from the Navy. Li Po Chang hires him to run a gunboat up the river. He drops Wildet...

Face in the Sky
1933
as Joe Buck
Joe and Lucky travel around New England painting barns in exchange for an advertisement on one side. The meet Madge, who is cruelly treated by a her f...

20,000 Years in Sing Sing
1932
as Tommy Connors
Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him.

Me and My Gal
1932
as Danny Dolan
Jaunty young policeman Danny Dolan falls in love with waterfront cafe waitress Helen Riley.

The Painted Woman
1932
as Tom Brian
After becoming involved in a killing, Kiddo gets on board Boyton's ship. When he learns what happened he dumps her on a South Sea island.

Society Girl
1932
as Briscoe
Johnny is training for a championship fight. Judy distracts him, so his manager Briscoe walks out on him. Then so does Judy.

Young America
1932
as Jack Doray
Mrs. Doray sits with a Juvenile Court Judge to learn more about problem children and what to do about them. One of the cases involves 13 year old Arth...

Disorderly Conduct
1932
as Dick Fay
When motorcycle cop Dick Fay gives a ticket to Phyllis Crawford, her father's graft-fed influence leads to his demotion to foot patrolman.

Sky Devils
1932
as Wilkie
Wilkie and Mitchell, trying to desert their draft into the army, stow away on a ship which takes them into the war zone. While AWOL, the rivals for Ma...

She Wanted a Millionaire
1932
as William Kelley
Impoverished Jane Miller is loved by millionaire Roger and newspaperman William. Though William warns her otherwise, she goes with the millionaire to ...

Goldie
1931
as Bill
Sailor Spike dates girls whose names he finds in an address book. Each girl has the same tatoo, placed there by another sailor Bill. When Spike meets ...

Six Cylinder Love
1931
as William Donroy
Troubles begin for the Sterlings when they buy an expensive car and friends start pressing them for rides.

Quick Millions
1931
as Daniel J. 'Bugs' Raymond
A truck driver "too lazy to work and too nervous to steal" gets mixed up in racketeering. Naturally his underhanded business practices make him a pill...

Up the River
1930
as Saint Louis
Daily life at men and women's prison units where baseball and the marching band are serious business. Two prisoners escape in order to help paroled St...

The Hard Guy
1930
as Guy
Guy and Ellen are desperate to find a way to get food and medicine for their sick child. Jobs are very hard to come by during the Great Depression and...
Taxi Talks
1930
as Taxi Driver
Three incidents in a cab driver's day: a college boy wooing a flapper, a gold digger wooing a southern colonel, gun moll kills gangster and wants to b...