Spencer Tracy

Although Tracy was an alcoholic most of his adult life, it never seemed to affect his career. After Happy Days, Winkler slowed his acting career down as he began concentrating on producing and directing. He is interred in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. During his decade on Happy Days, Winkler also starred in a number of movies including playing a troubled Vietnam Vet in Heroes (1977) and a morgue attendant in Night Shift (1982), which was directed by Happy Days co-star Ron Howard. Two weeks after making his last movie Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, with Hepburn, he died from a massive heart attack at the age of 67. He quickly got the role of Fonzie in Happy Days that same year. He and Hepburn made nine films together. Winkler started his career by appearing in a number of television commercials before landing a role in The Lords of Flatbush (1974) (which also starred then unknown Sylvester Stallone).

Though estranged from his wife Louise, he was a devout Catholic and never divorced. in Hebrew Literature in 1978 from Emerson College. In 1941 he began a relationship with Katharine Hepburn. He received his Bachelor's degree from Emerson College in 1967, and received his MFA from the Yale School of Drama in 1970. He received his Ph.D. He is tied with Laurence Olivier for the most best actor Oscar nominations. Winkler was born in New York, New York. He was also nominated for San Francisco (1936), Father of the Bride (1950), Bad Day at Black Rock (1955), The Old Man and the Sea (1958), Inherit the Wind (1960), Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967). Winkler gained national fame for his auto mechanic-greaser role as "The Fonz"; starting out as a minor character at the show's beginning but having top billing by the time the show ended.

In 1935 he signed with MGM and won the Oscar for Best Actor two years in a row, for Captains Courageous (1937) and Boys Town (1938). Henry Franklin Winkler (born October 30, 1945) is an actor, director and producer who is most famous for his role as Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli on the popular sitcom Happy Days (1974 - 1984). Shortly after that he and his family moved to Hollywood, where he made over 35 films in 5 years. "The Facts: Henry Winkler." http://www.eonline.com/Facts/People/Bio/0,128,149,00.html (accessed 3 May 2004). In 1923 he married Louise Treadwell, and they had two children, John and Louise (Susie). In 1930, director John Ford saw him in the play The Last Mile and signed him to do Up the River for Fox Pictures. E! Online. Finally in 1930 he appeared in a hit play on Broadway, The Last Mile.

For several years he performed in stock in Michigan, Canada, and Ohio. In the early 1920s he attended the Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. Afterward he attended Ripon College where he appeared in a play entitled The Truth, and decided on acting as a career. At the beginning of World War I he left school to enlist in the Navy, but remained in Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia throughout the war.

He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the second son of a truck salesman. Spencer Bonaventure Tracy (April 5, 1900 - June 10, 1967) was an American film actor who appeared in 74 films from 1930 through the 1960s. Not to mention some of the beautiful actresses.". Why, I'd probably kill the actors.

I don't have the patience. "I couldn't be a director because I couldn't put up with the actors. On drinking: "Hell, I used to take two-week lunch hours!". "Know your lines and don't bump into the furniture.".

Greenwood Press, 1994. Westport, Conn. Spencer Tracy : a Bio-bibliography by James Fisher. 1969.

Co. Spencer Tracy; a Biography by Larry Swindell, New York, World Pub.