Jeff Tracy

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, played by actor Bill Paxton. Original series biography The series was first broadcast in 1965 and was set in the then future, in 2026 or 2065, when Jeff was (or will be) 56. According to his backstory "bio", Jeff was born 2 January, the son of a combine harvester driver on a Kansas wheat farm. 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 (from eldest to youngest): Scott; Virgil; John; Gordon; and Alan. Each of the Tracy boys (born in rapid succession in the period 2000-2005 or 2039-2044) was named after one of the Project Mercury astronauts: Scott Carpenter, Virgil Grissom, John Glenn, Gordon Cooper and Alan Shepard. His wife died possibly in a non-canonical 1993 comic strip, 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.