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Birthdate: April 5, 1900
Death date: June 10, 1967
Spencer Tracy
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1930s
3.6162
37
1940s
3.0342
19
1950s
2.9518
12
1960s
3.2401
5
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
3.3003
3.3003
Spencer Tracy Movie Rankings
1
3.3144The answer to that question is, your new son-in-law's parents. A wealthy white family is informed that their daughter's intended is coming to meet them, and he's black. Scripted in the late 60s, the idea of a bi-racial marriage was still fairly shocking. ...more about Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
- BAFTA Awards - Best Actor
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama
DVD from $12.74
(2 sellers)
2
3.1637Langdon Towne and Hunk Marriner join Major Rogers' Rangers as they wipe out an Indian village. They set out for Fort Wentworth, but when they arrive they find no soldiers and none of the supplies they expected. ...more about Northwest Passage
- Not Available on DVD
3
3.1428Based on the story "Mob Rule" by Norman Krasna. Joe Wilson and Katherine Grant are in love, but he doesn't have enough money for them to get married. So Katherine moves across the country to make money. ...more about Fury
DVD from $8.00
(12 sellers)
4
3.1373
Tess and Sam work on the same newspaper and don't like each other very much. At least the first time, because they eventually fall in love and get married. ...more about Woman of the Year
DVD from $8.68
(13 sellers)
5
3.0248
In 1945 a train pulls into Black Rock, hardly even a whistlestop, and lets Macreedy off. He wants to give a local Japanese farmer his son's war medal, but the townsfolk will have nothing to do with him. ...more about Bad Day at Black Rock
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
DVD from $8.68
(14 sellers)
6
3.0193
Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself, we learn of all the surprises and disasters along the way. ...more about Father of the Bride
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
DVD from $4.60
(14 sellers)
7
2.9847
An old Cuban fisherman goes out to get fish, something he has not done well at for the last three months. He catches a huge one which is devoured by sharks before he can land it. ...more about Old Man and the Sea
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama
- National Board of Review, USA - Best Actor
DVD from $12.69
(12 sellers)
8
2.9816
Harvey Cheyne is a spoiled brat used to having his own way. When a prank goes wrong onboard an ocean liner Harvey ends up overboard and nearly drowns. Fortunately he's picked up by a fishing boat just heading out for the season. ...more about Captains Courageous
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
DVD from $10.99
(11 sellers)
9
2.9575
McMasters and Sand come to oil towns to get rich. Betsey comes West intending to marry Sand but marries McMasters instead. Getting rich and losing it all teaches McMasters and Sand the value of personal ties. ...more about Boom Town
DVD from $12.71
(13 sellers)
10
2.9379
The amazingly detailed true story of "The Doolittle Raid" based on the novel of the same name. Stunned by Pearl Harbor and a string of defeats, America needed a victory - badly. ...more about Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
- Not Available on DVD
11
2.9290
The mysterious man hanging about at the research department of a big TV network proves to be engineer Richard Sumner, who's been ordered to keep his real purpose secret: computerizing the office. ...more about Desk Set
DVD from $9.27
(10 sellers)
12
2.9288
Warren Haggerty is the chief editor of the New York Evening Star. He keeps on delaying his marriage with Gladys because of problems his newspapers must face. ...more about Libeled Lady
DVD from $12.71
(12 sellers)
13
2.9277
After a long prison sentence Smiler Grogan is heading at high speed to a California park where he hid $350,000 from a job 15 years previously. He accidentally careers over a cliff in view of four cars whose occupants go down to help. ...more about It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
DVD from $5.99
(13 sellers)
14
2.9229
It has been three years since the most important Nazi leaders had already been tried. This trial is about 4 Judges who used their offices to conduct Nazi sterilization and cleansing policies. ...more about Judgment at Nuremberg
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
DVD from $5.99
(13 sellers)
15
2.9126
Teacher B.T. Cates is arrested for teaching Darwin's theories. Famous lawyer Henry Drummond defends him; fundamentalist politician Matthew Brady prosecutes. ...more about Inherit the Wind
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
DVD from $6.62
(11 sellers)
16
2.8994
When a woman attempts to kill her uncaring husband, prosecutor Adam Bonner gets the case. Unfortunately for him his wife Amanda (who happens to be a lawyer too) decides to defend the woman in court. ...more about Adam's Rib
DVD from $9.76
(13 sellers)
17
2.8784
Against all odds Father Flanagan starts "Boys' Town" after hearing a convict's story. Whitey Marsh comes there. He runs away but, hungry, returns. He runs away again but, when friend Pee Wee is hit by a car, returns. ...more about Boys Town
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
DVD from $5.99
(13 sellers)
18
2.8623
Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone. Experiments reveal his evil side, named Hyde. Experience teaches him how evil Hyde can be: he kills Ivy who earlier expressed interest in Jekyll and Sir Charles, Jekyll's faincee's father. ...more about Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
DVD from $6.24
(7 sellers)
19
2.8478
Pat's a brilliant athlete, except when her domineering fiance is around. The lady's golf championship is in her reach until she gets flustered by his presence at the final holes. ...more about Pat and Mike
DVD from $7.99
(13 sellers)
20
2.7670
Journalist Steve O'Malley is writing a biography of a national hero who died when his car ran off a bridge. The man's widow Christine cooperates, and Steve learns that she could have warned him of the bridge but chose not to... ...more about Keeper of the Flame
- Not Available on DVD
21
2.7031
Jimmy is drafted and ends up in Fred's troop on his way to Europe. Jimmy becomes viscious with his gun, wins a medal, and weds Fred's nurse girlfriend Rose. ...more about They Gave Him a Gun
- Not Available on DVD
22
2.6958
Kay Thordyke loves Grant Matthews and helps him become Republican nominee for President. The party machine begins to worry as Grant begins to speak for himself. ...more about State of the Union
DVD from $8.89
(9 sellers)
23
2.6726
Mary Blake arrives at Blackie Norton's Paradise gambling hall and beer garden looking for work as a singer. Blackie embarrasses her by asking to see her legs, but does hire her. She faints from hunger. ...more about San Francisco
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
DVD from $12.41
(13 sellers)
24
2.6700
Cattle baron Matt Devereaux raids a copper smelter that is polluting his water, then divides his property among his sons. Son Joe takes responsibility for the raid and gets three years in prison. ...more about Broken Lance
DVD from $5.91
(13 sellers)
25
2.5204
Vivian, Ed and Harry steal jewels in Paris. In New York government agent McBride accompanies Vivian riding across the country with the loot. She falls in love with him and gives up crime; he finds the stash and arrests her. ...more about Whipsaw
- Not Available on DVD
26
2.4900
A sentimental, patriotic (if not propagandistic) Hollywood fantasy about a dead World War II bomber pilot, Maj. Pete Sandidge (Tracy) who becomes guardian angel to another pilot, Capt. ...more about Guy Named Joe
- Not Available on DVD
27
2.4688
An aging politician (Spencer Tracy) tries to get re-elected one last time in the changing world of the 1950s when TV started to play a bigger part in politics. ...more about Last Hurrah
Actor Awards
- BAFTA Awards - Best Foreign Actor
- National Board of Review, USA - Best Actor
DVD from $14.84
(9 sellers)
28
2.4474
To avoid a taxi war, city officials blame a gang bombing on driver Joe Benton's wife Anna and put her on a ship to deport her. ...more about Big City
- Not Available on DVD
29
2.4382
Mr. and Mrs. Maitland give crippled Ted a dog and offer to provide him with an operation but they adopt Whitey. Whitey tries to visit a friend in reform school and inmate Flip is hiding in car as Whitey leaves. ...more about Men of Boys Town
DVD from $5.99
(13 sellers)
30
2.4228
Three convicts enroute to Tahiti are put to work at a children's leper hospital when their plane makes an unexpected stop on another island. There, Father Perreau is to get off and replace Father Doonan, who's been relieved of his duties by the cardinal. ...more about Devil at 4 O'Clock
- Not Available on DVD
31
2.3835
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 he is put to death on a cross. ...more about Seventh Cross
- Not Available on DVD
32
2.3835
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 for a good price and an old railroad deal comes through, he's back on top and ready to marry Amy again. ...more about Show-Off
- Not Available on DVD
33
2.2997
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. ...more about Test Pilot
- Not Available on DVD
34
2.2739
Young New York cop Dan falls in love with waterfront waitress Helen. Helen's sister Kate falls for gangster Duke. Dan must do in Duke. ...more about Me and My Gal
- Not Available on DVD
35
2.2602
Steve Grey, reporter for the Daily Star, has a habit of scooping all the other papers in town. ...more about Murder Man
- Not Available on DVD
36
2.2465
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 York. He's on his way with invention of an early form of stock market ticker. ...more about Edison
- Not Available on DVD
37
2.2465
In World War II Washington DC, scientist Pat Jamieson's assistant, Jamie Rowan, enters a loveless marriage with him. Struggles bring them closer together. ...more about Without Love
- Not Available on DVD
38
2.1962
Rags-to-riches Hennessey meets newlyweds Jessie and Eddie from his old neighborhood. Eddie plots to have Jessie divorce him, marry Hennessey, divorce Hennessey, then bring Hennessey's money into remarriage with Eddie. His plan goes awry at several points. ...more about Mannequin
- Not Available on DVD
39
2.0775
Tom Connors is sentenced to Sing Sing believing his influential friends will soon have him out on parole. A trouble maker, he gets ninety days in solitary and no parole. ...more about 20
- Not Available on DVD
40
1.9803
Former seaman Clinton Jones now works at a lowly job. His daughter Ruth wants to become an actress. Clinton gets fired and Ruth rejects the advances of Fred Whitmarsh. Her father gives her his seaman's spyglass to sell as she heads for New York City. ...more about Actress
Actor Awards
- BAFTA Awards - Best Foreign Actor
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama
- Not Available on DVD
41
1.9407
Stanley Banks is finally recovering from his daughter's wedding when he learns she is going to have a baby. He is strongly opposed at first, and disputes arise between maternal and paternal grandparents. ...more about Father's Little Dividend
DVD from $2.95
(11 sellers)
42
1.8173
Arnold Boult is determined to make his son a success at all costs. He commits arson, causes two suicides, and bribes people. His wife, unable to leave him, becomes alcoholic and dies. His son is killed. ...more about Edward
- Not Available on DVD
43
1.7716
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 the meantime he lost touch with his family. When he saw what was happening it was already too late. ...more about Power and the Glory
- Not Available on DVD
44
1.7168
Jim Carter moves in on the McWade's carnival concession which shows scenes from Dante's "Inferno". He makes it a going concern, marrying Betting along the way. An inspector calls the amusement pier unsafe but Carter bribes him. ...more about Dante's Inferno
- Not Available on DVD
45
1.6803
12 million Americans are out of work. Trina is homeless and hungry when Bill takes her under his wing, showing her a squatter's camp where she can live. ...more about Man's Castle
- Not Available on DVD
46
1.6059
James Curtayne has retired from law but he returns to defend John O'Hara on a murder charge. Curtayne's drinking and rustiness result in O'Hara's being found guilty, but Curtayne makes further efforts to prove him innocent. ...more about People Against O'Hara
- Not Available on DVD
47
1.5798
When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to Africa to find Dr. David Livingstone, the missing Scottish missionary. Stanley finds Livingstone ("Dr. ...more about Stanley and Livingstone
- Not Available on DVD
48
1.4611
The highly melodramatic western begins with St. Louis resident Katharine Hepburn marrying New Mexico cattleman Spencer Tracy after a short courtship. ...more about Sea of Grass
- Not Available on DVD
49
Promoter Smoothe 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 toward the matinee idol. King must decide between his plans and her happiness. ...more about Bottoms Up
- Not Available on DVD
50
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 attorney friend of of Cass' Brad Criley. ...more about Cass Timberlane
- Not Available on DVD
51
When motorcycle cop Dick Fay gives a ticket to Phyllis Crawford, her father's graft-fed influence leads to his demotion to foot patrolman. ...more about Disorderly Conduct
- Not Available on DVD
52
Sign painters Joe and Lucky travel around New England looking for jobs. After Joe uses Madge as a model, she hides in their wagon. The painters are about to be charged with kidnapping until she promises to marry Joe. ...more about Face in the Sky
- Not Available on DVD
53
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 Bill they become friends. In Calais Spike meets Goldie. ...more about Goldie
- Not Available on DVD
54
Georgi has attempted suicide in reaction to an earlier love affair. Now that Dr. Decker has married her he sets out to get her to love him. ...more about I Take This Woman
- Not Available on DVD
55
Socialite Jane Dale and lawyer Bill Shevlin run into each other in an automobile accident. Clummerhorn is a small town judge, sheriff, etc. and decides to try them. She is trouble at first, but she and Bill warm to each other as the trial goes forth. ...more about It's a Small World
- Not Available on DVD
56
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 left in a burning building. ...more about Looking for Trouble
- Not Available on DVD
57
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 judge who sent Carson to prison, he is paroled to help in the capture. ...more about Mad Game
- Not Available on DVD
58
Newspaperman Royer convinces government officials of a plan to obtain rubber by stealing it out from under the Japanese. Carnahan is let out of prison to help. While taking out the last load Royer is killed and Carnahan, wounded, must finish the job. ...more about Malaya
- Not Available on DVD
59
Marie is kidnapped and taken aboard ship, then thrown off at Yucatan. She winds up singing in a cafe in the Panama Canal zone. There she gets involved in a plot to destroy the canal and runs into American intelligence officer Crawbett. ...more about Marie Galante
DVD from $3.32
(3 sellers)
60
When a plane crashes on a mountaintop Chris wants to plunder the wreckage. His older brother Zachary has given up mountain guide work but goes along rather than letting his brother risk it alone. The only survivor is a Hindu girl who Chris wants to kill. ...more about Mountain
Actor Awards
- BAFTA Awards - Best Foreign Actor
- Not Available on DVD
61
Golden is a two-bit gambler who has promised wife Virginia he'll quit when he makes $200,000. When he fixes a fight he gets mobster Mossiter mad, then loses his fortune to him. He pawns his wife's jewels and takes out an insurance policy on himself. ...more about Now I'll Tell
- Not Available on DVD
62
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. Tom Brian marries her, and when Boynton returns he's furious (he wanted to marry her). ...more about Painted Woman
- Not Available on DVD
63
The story of the voyage of the "Mayflower" to the New World. ...more about Plymouth Adventure
- Not Available on DVD
64
Truck driver Bugs Raymond organizes the trucking associations and takes protection money. Now rich, he decides to marry socialite Dorothy Stone. She rejects him for another, so he makes plans to kidnap her on her wedding day. ...more about Quick Millions
- Not Available on DVD
65
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 and goes to jail. He gets a new job, foils a plot to dynamite the ship, and promises to wait for Hattie. ...more about Riffraff
- Not Available on DVD
66
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 Wildeth off at a mission for safety, but when his boat returns the mission is being attacked by communists. ...more about Shanghai Madness
- Not Available on DVD
67
Impoverished Jane Miller is loved by millionaire Roger and newspaperman William. Though William warns her otherwise, she goes with the millionaire to his French chateau where she risks terrible cruelty and even death. ...more about She Wanted a Millionaire
- Not Available on DVD
68
Troubles begin for the Sterlings when they buy an expensive car. Friends press them for rides; Marilyn has an accident which Gilbert must get $5,000 from his boss to pay for. They finally sell the car to the janitor. ...more about Six Cylinder Love
- Not Available on DVD
69
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 Mary's affections accidently destroy an ammunition dump. ...more about Sky Devils
- Not Available on DVD
70
Johnny is training for a championship fight. Judy distracts him, so his manager Briscoe walks out on him. Then so does Judy. ...more about Society Girl
- Not Available on DVD
71
Danny inherits two houses so Pilon and his lazy, impoverished friends move in. One of them, Pirate, is saving money which Pilon hopes to steal till he learns it is being saved to buy a gold candlestick for St. Francis. ...more about Tortilla Flat
- Not Available on DVD
72
Two prisoners, Saint Louis and Dannemora Dan, escape during a theatrical production in order to go to the aid of Steve, a former prisoner whose past is about to be exposed by the man who framed Judy unless Steve agrees to help him commit another crime. ...more about Up the River
- Not Available on DVD
73
Already in trouble with the law, Arthur and his friend Nutty break into a drugstore to get medicine for Nutty's grandmother. The druggist's wife, Mrs. Doray, asks for custody. When he hears them arguing over him, Arthur runs away. When he returns Mr. ...more about Young America
- Not Available on DVD
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