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 Best of Broadway
- The Bridges at Toko-Ri as Rear Adm. George Tarrant
- Executive Suite as Loren Phineas Shaw
- A Christmas Carol as Ebenezer Scrooge
1953
- The Oscars as Self
- Man on a Tightrope as Karel Cernik
1952
1951
- Death of a Salesman as Willy Loman
- It's a Big Country as Joe Esposito
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)
- Another Part of the Forest as Marcus Hubbard
- An Act of Murder as Judge Calvin Cooke
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
- One Foot in Heaven as William Spence
- Bedtime Story as Luke Drake
1940
- Hollywood: Style Center of the World as Self
- Cavalcade of the Academy Awards as Self (archive footage)
- Susan and God as Barrie Trexel
- Victory as Hendrik Heyst
1939
- The 400 Million as Narration (voice)
1938
- There Goes My Heart as Bill Spencer
- The Buccaneer as Jean Lafitte
- Trade Winds as Sam Wye
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
- The Making of a Great Motion Picture
- Breakdowns of 1936 as Self
1935
- Anna Karenina as Count Vronsky
- Les Misérables as Jean Valjean / Champmathieu
- The Dark Angel as Alan Trent
1934
- Death Takes a Holiday as Prince Sirki
- The Barretts of Wimpole Street as Robert Browning
- 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
- The Eagle and the Hawk as Jerry H. Young
- Hollywood on Parade No. B-5 as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Design for Living as Tom Chambers
- 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
- Hollywood on Parade No. A-1 as Self
- Make Me a Star as Fredric March (uncredited)
- Smilin' Through as Kenneth Wayne / Jeremy
- Strangers in Love as Buddy Drake / Arthur Drake
1931
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde
- Honor Among Lovers as Jerry Stafford
- The Night Angel as Rudek Berken
- My Sin as Dick Grady
1930
- Manslaughter as Dan O'Bannon
- The Royal Family of Broadway as Tony Cavendish
- True to the Navy as Bull's Eye McCoy
- Paramount on Parade as Marine
- Sarah and Son as Howard Vanning
- Ladies Love Brutes as Dwight Howell
- Laughter as Paul Lockridge
1929
- The Studio Murder Mystery as Richard Hardell
- The Wild Party as James Gilmore
- Footlights and Fools as Gregory Pyne
- The Dummy as Trumbull Meredith
- Paris Bound as Jim Hutton
- Jealousy as Pierre
- The Marriage Playground as Martin Boyne
1921
- The Education of Elizabeth as Man (uncredited)
- The Great Adventure as Man (uncredited)
- The Devil as Bal Masque Participant (uncredited)
- Paying the Piper as Man (uncredited)