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Spencer Bonaventure Tracy
Spencer Tracy, famous actor, was born on April 5, 1900, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
His mother, Caroline Brown, could trace her ancestros back to Colonial America. His father John, had was Irish.
Surnames in his ancestry are:
Berry, Brown, Clark, Colton, Cooper, Dorchester, Guhin, Kritchwell, Niles, Stearns, Stebbins, Tracy, Wright
He did not graduate high school, enlisting in the Navy during his third year of high school. He spent two years in college before pursuing an acting career.
Spencer made more than 50 films, garnered nine Academy Award nominations (more than any player in his lifetime) and won two Academy Awards.
He married actress Louise Treadwell in 1923 and they had two children, Susan and John.
Near the end of his life, Tracy's health suffered he died in 1967, just weeks after completing his last film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.
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