biography
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Tracy, Spencer (Bonadventure)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1900–67)
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| biography:
| Film actor, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. After World War 1 service in the navy, he played the lead in a college play and then enrolled in drama school, making his Broadway debut in a small part in 1922. His feature film debut was in Up the River (1930). He first played gangster roles, graduated to priests and friends of the hero, and ended up playing gruff, humorous men with integrity. He won an Oscar for Captains Courageous (1937) and Boys Town (1938). In 1942 he began an intimate relationship with Katharine Hepburn that would remain a well-known secret until his death, but as a devout Catholic he would not divorce his wife of some 20 years. |
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