Spencer Tracy was born four years after his brother Carroll to truck salesman John Edward and Caroline Brown Tracy. He attended Marquette Academy along with Pat OBrien and the two ...more >>left school to enlist in the Navy at the start of World War I. He was still at Norfolk Navy Yard in VIrginia at the end of the war. At Ripon College he did well in the lead of The Truth and decided on acting as a career. In New York he roomed with OBrien while they attended the Academy of Dramatic Arts.<< collapse