Spencer Tracy (1900-1967)
82.4 TOPICAL actor score · #85 of 1,977 actors
Spencer Tracy (1900-1967) has a TOPICAL actor score of 82.4 - one of the 100 best actors of all time by TOPICAL's score. Their strongest parts are career standing and acting honours. They've won 4 acting honours from 4 nominations, including the Academy Award for Best Actor. Their best ten-year run was 1958-1967. Best films: Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), Bad Day at Black Rock (1955).
Why this score
Each bar: better than this % of the 1,977 actors we rank. How the score works.
Acting honours95
Prime87
Their movies72
Credits78
Career standing98
- Acting honours4 wins, 4 nominations - incl. Academy Award for Best Actor; Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor; BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
- Prime1958-1967
- Credits79 films and shows · billed in the top 8 of 26 scored films (23 as a lead)
- Known inWikipedia articles in 88 languages
“During his career, he appeared in 75 films and developed a reputation among his peers as one of the screen's greatest actors.”
Wikipedia · read the article - AI legacy read: 10/10
Spencer Tracy's scored films
| TOPICAL rank | Film | Year | Billed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 320 | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | 1967 | 1 |
| 362 | Judgment at Nuremberg | 1961 | 1 |
| 660 | Bad Day at Black Rock | 1955 | 1 |
| 875 | Inherit the Wind | 1960 | 1 |
| 1,023 | Captains Courageous | 1937 | 2 |
| 1,047 | Adam's Rib | 1949 | 1 |
| 1,132 | Woman of the Year | 1942 | 1 |
| 1,390 | Fury | 1936 | 2 |
| 1,731 | Father of the Bride | 1950 | 1 |
| 1,752 | Boys Town | 1938 | 1 |
| 2,019 | San Francisco | 1936 | 3 |
| 2,248 | It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World | 1963 | 1 |
| 2,697 | Test Pilot | 1938 | 3 |
| 2,843 | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | 1941 | 1 |
| 3,002 | The Old Man and the Sea | 1958 | 1 |
| 3,042 | Broken Lance | 1954 | 1 |
| 3,216 | Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo | 1944 | 3 |
| 3,383 | Pat and Mike | 1952 | 1 |
| 3,384 | Northwest Passage | 1940 | 1 |
| 3,675 | The Seventh Cross | 1944 | 1 |
| 3,762 | Boom Town | 1940 | 2 |
| 4,507 | The Actress | 1953 | 1 |
| 4,806 | Edward, My Son | 1950 | 1 |
| 4,881 | Plymouth Adventure | 1952 | 1 |
| 4,993 | Tortilla Flat | 1942 | 1 |
| 5,098 | The Power and the Glory | 1933 | 1 |