Fredric March
Born: 1897-08-31 in Racine, Wisconsin, USA
Died: 1975-04-14
Known For: Acting
Biography
Fredric March (born Ernest Frederick McIntyre Bickel; August 31, 1897 – April 14, 1975) was an American actor, regarded as one of Hollywood's most celebrated, versatile stars of the 1930s and 1940s. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) and The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), as well as the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for Years Ago (1947) and Long Day's Journey into Night (1956). March is one of only two actors, the other being Helen Hayes, to have won both the Academy Award and the Tony Award twice.
Filmography
2021
- Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker as Archival Footage
2014
- Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Hyde (archive footage)
2007
- Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman as Self (archive footage)
2003
- Complicated Women as Self (archive footage)
1990
- Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To as (archive footage)
1986
- The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn as Self (archive footage)
1984
- Going Hollywood: The '30s as Self (archive footage)
1975
- Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? as Self (archive footage)
1973
- The Iceman Cometh as Harry Hope
1970
- … tick… tick… tick… as Mayor Jeff Parks
1967
- Hombre as Dr. Alex Favor
1964
- Seven Days in May as President Jordan Lyman
1962
- The Condemned of Altona as Albrecht von Gerlach
1961
- The Young Doctors as Dr. Joseph Pearson
1960
- Inherit the Wind as Matthew Harrison Brady
1959
- Middle of the Night as Jerry Kingsley
- Tales from Dickens as Self / Host
- A Christmas Carol as Narrator
1958
- The Winslow Boy as Arthur Winslow
1957
- Albert Schweitzer as Albert Schweitzer (voice)
1956
- Tony Awards as Self - Presenter
- Alexander the Great as Philip of Macedonia
- The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit as Ralph Hopkins
- Island of Allah as Himself / Narrator
1955
- MGM Parade as self
- The Desperate Hours as Daniel C. Hilliard
1954
- Producers' Showcase
- The Bridges at Toko-Ri as Rear Adm. George Tarrant
- Executive Suite as Loren Phineas Shaw
- The Best of Broadway
- A Christmas Carol as Ebenezer Scrooge
1953
- The Oscars as Self
- Man on a Tightrope as Karel Cernik
1952
1951
- It's a Big Country as Joe Esposito
- Death of a Salesman as Willy Loman
1950
- What's My Line? as Self
- Lux Video Theatre as Sam
- The Titan: Story of Michelangelo as Narrator (voice)
1949
- Christopher Columbus as Christopher Columbus
- The Twentieth Century as Oscar Jaffe
1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- Lamp Unto My Feet as Albert Schweitzer (voice)
- An Act of Murder as Judge Calvin Cooke
- Another Part of the Forest as Marcus Hubbard
1947
- So You Want to Be in Pictures as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1946
- The Best Years of Our Lives as Al Stephenson
1945
- A Pass to Tomorrow as Self - Narrator
- Welcome Home as Narrator
1944
- The Adventures of Mark Twain as Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)
- Tomorrow, the World! as Mike Frame
- The Valley of the Tennessee as Narrator (voice)
1942
- I Married a Witch as Jonathan / Nathaniel / Samuel / Wallace Wooley
- Black Sea Fighters as Self - Narrator of the English dub
1941
- So Ends Our Night as Josef Steiner
- Bedtime Story as Luke Drake
- One Foot in Heaven as William Spence
1940
- Hollywood: Style Center of the World as Self
- Susan and God as Barrie Trexel
- Cavalcade of the Academy Awards as Self (archive footage)
- Victory as Hendrik Heyst
1939
- The 400 Million as Narration (voice)
1938
- The Buccaneer as Jean Lafitte
- Trade Winds as Sam Wye
- There Goes My Heart as Bill Spencer
1937
- A Star Is Born as Norman Maine
- Nothing Sacred as Wallace "Wally" Cook
1936
- Mary of Scotland as Bothwell
- Anthony Adverse as Anthony Adverse
- The Road to Glory as Lieutenant Michel Denet
- Breakdowns of 1936 as Self
- The Making of a Great Motion Picture
1935
- Anna Karenina as Count Vronsky
- Les Misérables as Jean Valjean / Champmathieu
- The Dark Angel as Alan Trent
1934
- The Barretts of Wimpole Street as Robert Browning
- Death Takes a Holiday as Prince Sirki
- The Affairs of Cellini as Benvenuto Cellini
- We Live Again as Prince Dmitri Nekhlyudov
- Good Dame as Mace Townsley
- All of Me as Don Ellis
1933
- Design for Living as Tom Chambers
- The Eagle and the Hawk as Jerry H. Young
- Hollywood on Parade No. B-5 as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Tonight Is Ours as Sabien Pastal
1932
- The Sign of the Cross as Marcus Superbus - Prefect of Rome
- Merrily We Go to Hell as Jerry Corbett
- Smilin' Through as Kenneth Wayne / Jeremy
- Strangers in Love as Buddy Drake / Arthur Drake
- Make Me a Star as Fredric March (uncredited)
- Hollywood on Parade No. A-1 as Self
1931
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde
- The Night Angel as Rudek Berken
- Honor Among Lovers as Jerry Stafford
- My Sin as Dick Grady
1930
- Paramount on Parade as Marine
- The Royal Family of Broadway as Tony Cavendish
- Sarah and Son as Howard Vanning
- Laughter as Paul Lockridge
- Manslaughter as Dan O'Bannon
- True to the Navy as Bull's Eye McCoy
- Ladies Love Brutes as Dwight Howell
1929
- Footlights and Fools as Gregory Pyne
- The Wild Party as James Gilmore
- Paris Bound as Jim Hutton
- The Marriage Playground as Martin Boyne
- The Dummy as Trumbull Meredith
- The Studio Murder Mystery as Richard Hardell
- Jealousy as Pierre
1921
- The Devil as Bal Masque Participant (uncredited)
- The Great Adventure as Man (uncredited)
- Paying the Piper as Man (uncredited)
- The Education of Elizabeth as Man (uncredited)