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Created by
  
Gerry Anderson

Creator
  
Gerry Anderson

Movie
  
Thunderbirds

Gender
  
Male

Last appearance
  
Thunderbirds (2004 film)

TV show
  
Thunderbirds

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Portrayed by
  
Bill Paxton (2004 film)

Voiced by
  
Peter Dyneley (1965-1966, 1968)

Occupation
  
Colonel Astronaut Head of International Rescue

Family
  
Grant Tracy (father; name debatable) "Grandma" Tracy (mother)

Played by
  
Peter Dyneley, Bill Paxton

First appearance
  
"Trapped in the Sky", (30 September 1965)

Similar
  
Brains, Alan Tracy, Scott Tracy, John Tracy, Lady Penelope

Jeff Tracy is a fictional character from Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's Supermarionation television show Thunderbirds and the subsequent films Thunderbirds Are GO and Thunderbird 6. The voice for the character in these shows was supplied by Peter Dyneley. The character also appeared in the live-action movie Thunderbirds. In the latter he was played by actor Bill Paxton.

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Biography

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The series was first broadcast in 1965 and was set a hundred years in the then future, in 2065, when Jeff was (or will be) 56. According to his backstory "bio", Jeff was born 2 January 2009, the son of a combine harvester driver on a Kansas wheat farm.

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  • Military service in the U.S. Air Force achieving rank of colonel
  • Transfer to Space Agency to become an early lunar astronaut
  • Jeff married and became the father of five sons; Scott, John, Virgil, Gordon and Alan born in rapid succession in the period 2039-2044. The sons were named after five of the first six American astronauts into space via Project Mercury: Scott Carpenter, Virgil Grissom, Alan Shepard, Gordon Cooper and John Glenn.
  • His wife died prematurely, commonly accepted to have been due to complications with the birth on 12 March 2044 of her youngest son, Alan. A non-canonical 1993 comic strip has a different explanation, in which she and Jeff's father, Grant Tracy, died in an avalanche, while a novel published in 2008 had her pass away as a result of a road accident, where her vehicle fell off the side of a cliff.
  • Jeff raised his five sons, while building up a civil engineering, construction and aerospace business that made him one of the richest men in the world.
  • He became a philanthropist and instigated and financed International Rescue

    • As the Tracy family patriarch, he spends most of his time on Tracy Island, situated somewhere in the Pacific Ocean, from where he co-ordinates rescue missions.

    It has been suggested that the Tracy family are based on the Cartwrights from the TV series Bonanza, and that the Jeff Tracy puppet is based on the actor who played Ben Cartwright, Lorne Greene.

    Along with his sons, Scott and Virgil, Jeff is the only other Tracy to appear in all 32 episodes of Thunderbirds.

    Absence from Remake Series (2015)

    In the 2015 'reboot' of the series, Jeff vanished over the Mariana Trench (it is unknown whether he is still alive or deceased) some time ago in an plane accident involving the 'first Thunderbird' named "TV21", for which the Hood has claimed responsibility. Scott appears to have assumed control of International Rescue in his father's place as he is the oldest of the Tracy brothers.

    References

    Jeff Tracy Wikipedia
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