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Acting

Spencer Tracy

Career: Active from 1930 to 2024, with a break from 1968 to 1998, busiest in 1932 with 8 main titles.

Leading roles: 77
top three billing

Average score: 66/100

Highest rated: Heart of a Servant: The Father Flanagan Story
96/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 61 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Spencer Tracy Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
2.8, average 5.4
Uncanny
1.1, average 2.5
Scare
1.2, average 2.6
Fantasy
0.5, average 1.7

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Classic Hollywood 15
Social Commentary 10
Historical Drama 8
Historical Setting 7
Nostalgic 5
Class Conflict 5
Character-Driven 5
Character Study 4
Classic Film 4
Moral Ambiguity 3
Psychological Tension 3
Strong Female Lead 3

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

90

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

2 titles · average score 87

Heart of a Servant: The Father Flanagan Story

96

as Fr. Edward Flanagan (archive footage)

DEVO

79

as Henry Drummond (archive footage) (uncredited)

1990s

3 titles · average score 78

Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults

as (archive footage)

La Classe américaine

76

as The Professional Witness (archive footage)

Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To

79

as (archive footage)

1980s

1 title · average score 67

George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey

67

as (archive footage)

1970s

2 titles · average score 77

That's Entertainment, Part II

70

as (archive footage)

That's Entertainment!

84

as (archive footage) (uncredited)

1960s

7 titles · average score 72

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

72

as Matt Drayton

The Big Parade of Comedy

65

as Haggerty in 'Libeled Lady' (archive footage)

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

68

as C. G. Culpepper

How the West Was Won

70

as Narrator (voice)

Judgment at Nuremberg

81

as Dan Haywood

The Devil at 4 O'Clock

63

as Father Matthew Doonan

Inherit the Wind

82

as Henry Drummond

1950s

13 titles · average score 69

The Old Man and the Sea

57

as The Old Man

The Last Hurrah

79

as Mayor Frank Skeffington

Desk Set

87

as Richard Sumner

The Mountain

66

as Zachary Teller

Bad Day at Black Rock

87

as John J. Macreedy

Broken Lance

75

as Matt Devereaux

The Actress

60

as Clinton Jones

Pat and Mike

66

as Mike Conovan

Plymouth Adventure

52

as Capt. Christopher Jones

Father's Little Dividend

75

as Stanley Banks

The People Against O'Hara

54

as James P. Curtayne

Father of the Bride

76

as Stanley T. Banks

1940s

23 titles · average score 64

Adam's Rib

83

as Adam Bonner

Malaya

60

as Carnaghan

State of the Union

76

as Grant Matthews

Cass Timberlane

63

as Cass Timberlane

The Sea of Grass

33

as Col. James B. Brewton

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

70

as Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle

A Guy Named Joe

64

as Pete Sandidge

The Seventh Cross

86

as George Heisler

Woman of the Year

68

as Sam Craig

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

61

as Dr. Henry 'Harry' Jekyll / Mr. Hyde

Boom Town

68

as Square John Sand

Northwest Passage

72

as Major Robert Rogers

1930s

39 titles · average score 64

Stanley and Livingstone

62

as Henry M. Stanley

Boys Town

79

as Father Flanagan

Test Pilot

66

as Gunner Morse

Captains Courageous

81

as Manuel Fidello

They Gave Him a Gun

51

as Fred P. Willis

Fury

87

as Joe Wilson

San Francisco

80

as Father Tim Mullin

Libeled Lady

79

as Haggerty

Whipsaw

56

as Ross 'Mac' McBride aka Danny Ross Ackerman

20,000 Years in Sing Sing

63

as Tommy Connors

Goldie

as Bill

Up the River

43

as Saint Louis