Spencer Tracy, under contract to MGM for most of his career, was not associated with one particular movie genre.
Unlike Henry Fonda and James Stewart, who were a bit younger, he did not make many Westerns.
Broken Lance, in 1954, was a western in which he played a lawless Cattle baron.
Bad Day at Black Rock, in 1955, a suspense thriller, could be considered to be a modern western, seeing Tracy playing a silent yet strong man of action.
Tracy narrated the 1962 anthology film, How the West Was Won, which was nominated for the Best Picture Oscar.
Tracy was originally cast in the western Tribute to a Bad Man, but he was fired and then replaced by James Cagney.
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