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Spencer Tracy

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Actor

The Resume

    (April 5, 1900-June 10, 1967)
    Won the 1937 Oscar for Best Actor (Captains Courageous)
    Won the 1938 Oscar for Best Actor (Boy's Town)
    Narrator for 'Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)'
    Starred in 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967),' 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963),' 'How the West Was Won (1962),' 'Inherit the Wind (1960),' 'Old Man and the Sea, The (1958),' 'Bad Day at Black Rock (1955),' 'Father's Little Dividend (1951),' 'Father of the Bride (1950),' 'Adam's Rib (1949),' 'Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944),' 'Woman of the Year (1942),' 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941),'Young Tom Edison (1940),' 'Boys Town (1938),' 'Captains Courageous (1937),' 'It's a Small World (1935)' and 'Me and My Gal (1932)'

Why he might be annoying:

    He liked to go on drinking binges.
    He suffered from depression.
    He sounds and looks like James Whitmore.
    His reason for not directing was: 'I couldn't be a director because I couldn't put up with the actors. I don't have the patience.
    Why, I'd probably kill the actors. Not to mention some of the beautiful actresses.'

Why he might not be annoying:

    His chemistry with Katharine Hepburn was so good that they did nine movies together.
    He remained married to the same woman for 44 years until he died.
    His reason for not divorcing his wife to marry Katharine Hepburn, because as a religious Catholic it is against the religion to divorce.
    He ranked #64, in Empire Magazine's Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time.Along with Katharine Hepburn, he visited Humphrey Bogart daily for the six months leading up to Bogies death.
    Humphrey's widow, Lauren Bacall, asked him to delivery the eulogy but he declined, because it was too emotional for him.
    He received nine oscar nominations.

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Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 20 Votes: 10.0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 87 Votes: 44.83% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 13 Votes: 53.85% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 68 Votes: 41.18% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 56 Votes: 46.43% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 107 Votes: 49.53% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 18 Votes: 61.11% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 28 Votes: 14.29% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 28 Votes: 35.71% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 47 Votes: 51.06% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 26 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 64 Votes: 37.50% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 126 Votes: 49.21% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 97 Votes: 48.45% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 1586 Votes: 35.12% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 74 Votes: 35.14% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 193 Votes: 44.04% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 215 Votes: 41.86% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 794 Votes: 42.32% Annoying
    In 2004, Out of 370 Votes: 42.97% Annoying
    In 2003, Out of 836 Votes: 41.63% Annoying
    In 2002, Out of 2127 Votes: 39.63% Annoying
    In 2001, Out of 68 Votes: 5.88% Annoying