Spencer Tracy was an actor.
Spencer Tracy . One of the major stars of Hollywood 's Golden Age , Tracy was nominated for nine Academy Awards for Best Actor and won two , sharing the record for nominations in that category with Laurence Olivier . Tracy 's breakthrough came in 1930 , when his lead performance in The Last Mile caught the attention of Hollywood . During his career , Tracy appeared in 75 films and developed a reputation among his peers as one of the screen 's greatest actors . In 1999 the American Film Institute ranked Tracy as the 9th greatest male star of Classic Hollywood Cinema .