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The Best Spencer Tracy Movies
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List of the best Spencer Tracy movies, ranked best to worst with movie trailers when available. Spencer Tracy's highest grossing movies have received a lot of accolades over the years, earning millions upon millions around the world. The order of these top Spencer Tracy movies is decided by how many votes they receive, so only highly rated Spencer Tracy movies will be at the top of the list. Spencer Tracy has been in a lot of films, so people often debate each other over what the greatest Spencer Tracy movie of all time is. If you and a friend are arguing about this then use this list of the most entertaining Spencer Tracy films to end the squabble once and for all.
If you think the best Spencer Tracy role isn't at the top, then upvote it so it has the chance to become number one. The greatest Spencer Tracy performances didn't necessarily come from the best movies, but in most cases they go hand in hand.
List is made up of films like Tortilla Flat and How the West Was Won.
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1Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis- Released: 1955
- Directed by: John Sturges
When John J. Macreedy (Spencer Tracy), a one-armed war veteran, arrives in the small desert town of Black Rock, he's not greeted warmly. Searching for a man named Komoko, Macreedy is met with disdain ...more
2Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman, Lana Turner- Released: 1941
- Directed by: Victor Fleming
Gentle Dr. Jekyll (Spencer Tracy) experiments with human nature, believing that each person has both good and evil sides that can be brought forth chemically. Jekyll tests a serum on himself, ...more![Judgment at Nuremberg]()
3Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark- Released: 1961
- Directed by: Stanley Kramer
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. Chief Justice Haywood (Spencer Tracy) hears evidence ...more![Captains Courageous]()
4Spencer Tracy, Freddie Bartholomew, Lionel Barrymore- Released: 1937
- Directed by: Victor Fleming
When spoiled Harvey Cheyne (Freddie Bartholomew) is suspended from boarding school, his businessman father (Melvyn Douglas) takes him to Europe on a business trip. When the rebellious lad falls ...more![Inherit the Wind]()
5Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly- Released: 1960
- Directed by: Stanley Kramer
In the 1920s, Tennessee schoolteacher Bertram Cates (Dick York) is put on trial for violating the Butler Act, a state law that prohibits public school teachers from teaching evolution instead of ...more![The Old Man and the Sea]()
6Spencer Tracy, Felipe Pazos, Harry Bellaver- Released: 1958
- Directed by: John Sturges
An old Cuban fisherman (Spencer Tracy) has not caught anything in 84 days. Despite the devotion of the young boy (Felipe Pazos) who brings him coffee and food, the fisherman fears he has become ...more![Boys Town]()
7Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Henry Hull- Released: 1938
- Directed by: Norman Taurog
The devout but iron-willed Father Flanagan (Spencer Tracy) leads a community called Boys Town, a different sort of juvenile detention facility where, instead of being treated as underage criminals, ...more![Father of the Bride]()
8Spencer Tracy, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Bennett- Released: 1950
- Directed by: Vincente Minnelli
When beautiful Kay Banks (Elizabeth Taylor) announces her engagement to Buckley Dunstan (Don Taylor), her doting middle-class father, Stan (Spencer Tracy), must contend with a variety of problems, ...more![Adam's Rib]()
9Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday- Released: 1949
- Directed by: George Cukor
A courtroom rivalry finds its way into the household when prosecuting lawyer Adam Bonner (Spencer Tracy) faces off against his wife, Amanda (Katharine Hepburn), who happens to be a defense attorney. ...more![Guess Who's Coming to Dinner]()
10Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Sidney Poitier- Released: 1967
- Directed by: Stanley Kramer
When Joanna Drayton (Katharine Houghton), a free-thinking white woman, and black doctor John Prentice (Sidney Poitier) become engaged, they travel to San Francisco to meet her parents. Matt Drayton ...more![Northwest Passage]()
11Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, Walter Brennan- Released: 1940
- Directed by: King Vidor
An epic Western, about Major Robert Rogers, the tough frontiersman who led a grueling expedition to Canada in 1759 to punish a fearsome Indian tribe and seek a northwest passage to the Pacific. ...more![Woman of the Year]()
12Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Fay Bainter- Released: 1942
- Directed by: George Stevens
Tess Harding (Katharine Hepburn) is a progressively-minded political journalist. Sam Craig (Spencer Tracy) is a sports writer with very traditional values. The only thing the two have in common is ...more![Desk Set]()
13Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Gig Young- Released: 1957
- Directed by: Walter Lang
Bunny Watson (Katharine Hepburn) is a library reference clerk stuck in a dead-end relationship with a boring television executive (Gig Young). Her life is thrown into turmoil when computer expert ...more![Boom Town]()
14Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Claudette Colbert- Released: 1940
- Directed by: Jack Conway
Two rogue Texas oil men, "Big John" McMasters (Clark Gable) and "Square John" Sand (Spencer Tracy), drill oil wells in fields where there is no known oil. These wildcatters team up with a local ...more![Men of Boys Town]()
15Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Bobs Watson- Released: 1941
- Directed by: Norman Taurog
Father Edward Flanagan (Spencer Tracy), head of the Boys Town home for troubled boys, attends the trial of young Ted Martley (Larry Nunn), a paraplegic charged with murdering a guard at the Marysport ...more![Fury]()
16Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy, Walter Abel- Released: 1936
- Directed by: Fritz Lang
Joe Wilson (Spencer Tracy) is an innocent man wrongly accused of a horrible crime while on his way to meet his fiancée, Katherine Grant (Sylvia Sidney). Held at a local jail, Joe is confronted by a ...more![Pat and Mike]()
17Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Aldo Ray- Released: 1952
- Directed by: George Cukor
Pat Pemberton (Katharine Hepburn), a college athletics instructor, enters a number of golf matches against female professionals. She holds her own until her well-meaning but condescending fiancé, ...more![Stanley and Livingstone]()
18Spencer Tracy, Nancy Kelly, Richard Greene- Released: 1939
- Directed by: Henry King, Otto Brower
Stanley and Livingstone is a movie based loosely upon the true story of reporter Sir Henry M. Stanley's quest to find Dr. David Livingstone, a missionary presumed lost in Africa. Spencer Tracy plays ...more![It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World]()
19Spencer Tracy, Edie Adams, Milton Berle- Released: 1963
- Directed by: Stanley Kramer
The story begins during a massive traffic jam, caused by reckless driver Smiler Grogan (Jimmy Durante), who, before kicking the bucket, cryptically tells the assembled drivers that he's buried a ...more![The Devil at 4 O'Clock]()
20Spencer Tracy, Frank Sinatra, Kerwin Mathews- Released: 1961
- Directed by: Mervyn LeRoy
Prisoners Harry (Frank Sinatra), Marcel (Gregoire Aslan) and Charlie (Bernie Hamilton) are flown to a small tropical island to serve the elderly Father Doonan (Spencer Tracy), who makes them work ...more![San Francisco]()
21Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, Spencer Tracy- Released: 1936
- Directed by: W. S. Van Dyke
Blackie Norton (Clark Gable) is a nightclub owner who hires a down-on-her-luck singer for his club, Mary Blake (Jeanette MacDonald). The two hit it off and even become romantically involved, but soon ...more![Tortilla Flat]()
22Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr, John Garfield- Released: 1942
- Directed by: Victor Fleming
Down-and-out Danny Alverez (John Garfield) gets lucky when he discovers he has inherited two vacant houses in a small seaside California town. His two friends, Pilon (Spencer Tracy) and Pablo (Akim ...more![How the West Was Won]()
23Carroll Baker, Lee J. Cobb, Henry Fonda- Released: 1962
- Directed by: John Ford, Henry Hathaway, George Marshall, Richard Thorpe
Setting off on a journey to the west in the 1830s, the Prescott family run into a man named Linus (James Stewart), who helps them fight off a pack of thieves. Linus then marries daughter Eve Prescott ...more![Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo]()
24Spencer Tracy, Van Johnson, Robert Walker- Released: 1944
- Directed by: Mervyn LeRoy
During World War II, Lt. Col. James H. Doolittle (Spencer Tracy) leads the U.S. Air Force in a bombing mission over Japan. Doolittle and his men stage a successful attack on Tokyo, but most pilots ...more![Broken Lance]()
25Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, Jean Peters- Released: 1954
- Directed by: Edward Dmytryk
A patriarchal rancher's empire is threatened by conflict within his family. On the day of his release from prison, the son of a cattle baron swears vengeance on his three half-brothers responsible ...more
