Fredric March

Known For: Acting
Born: August 31, 1897
Place of Birth: Racine, Wisconsin, USA
Died: April 14, 1975

Fredric March

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

Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker

2021 · Archival Footage

Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film

2014 · Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Hyde (archive footage)

Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman

2007 · Self (archive footage)

Complicated Women

2003 · Self (archive footage)

Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To

1990 · (archive footage)

The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn

1986 · Self (archive footage)

Going Hollywood: The '30s

1984 · Self (archive footage)

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

1975 · Self (archive footage)

The Iceman Cometh

1973 · Harry Hope

… tick… tick… tick…

1970 · Mayor Jeff Parks

Hombre

1967 · Dr. Alex Favor

Seven Days in May

1964 · President Jordan Lyman

The Condemned of Altona

1962 · Albrecht von Gerlach

The Young Doctors

1961 · Dr. Joseph Pearson

Inherit the Wind

1960 · Matthew Harrison Brady

A Christmas Carol

1959 · Narrator

Middle of the Night

1959 · Jerry Kingsley

Tales from Dickens

Tales from Dickens

1959 · Self / Host

The Winslow Boy

1958 · Arthur Winslow

Albert Schweitzer

1957 · Albert Schweitzer (voice)

Island of Allah

1956 · Himself / Narrator

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

1956 · Ralph Hopkins

Tony Awards

1956 · Self - Presenter

Alexander the Great

1956 · Philip of Macedonia

The Desperate Hours

1955 · Daniel C. Hilliard

MGM Parade

1955 · self

The Bridges at Toko-Ri

1954 · Rear Adm. George Tarrant

A Christmas Carol

1954 · Ebenezer Scrooge

Producers' Showcase

Producers' Showcase

1954

The Best of Broadway

The Best of Broadway

1954

Executive Suite

1954 · Loren Phineas Shaw

Man on a Tightrope

1953 · Karel Cernik

The Oscars

1953 · Self

Omnibus

1952

Death of a Salesman

1951 · Willy Loman

It's a Big Country

1951 · Joe Esposito

Lux Video Theatre

Lux Video Theatre

1950 · Sam, Captain Matt

What's My Line?

1950 · Self

The Titan: Story of Michelangelo

1950 · Narrator (voice)

Christopher Columbus

1949 · Christopher Columbus

The Twentieth Century

1949 · Oscar Jaffe

An Act of Murder

1948 · Judge Calvin Cooke

Lamp Unto My Feet

Lamp Unto My Feet

1948 · Albert Schweitzer (voice)

The Ed Sullivan Show

1948 · Self

Another Part of the Forest

1948 · Marcus Hubbard

So You Want to Be in Pictures

So You Want to Be in Pictures

1947 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Best Years of Our Lives

1946 · Al Stephenson

A Pass to Tomorrow

A Pass to Tomorrow

1945 · Self - Narrator

Welcome Home

1945 · Narrator

Tomorrow, the World!

1944 · Mike Frame

The Adventures of Mark Twain

1944 · Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)

The Valley of the Tennessee

1944 · Narrator (voice)

I Married a Witch

1942 · Jonathan / Nathaniel / Samuel / Wallace Wooley

Black Sea Fighters

1942 · Self - Narrator of the English dub

Bedtime Story

1941 · Luke Drake

One Foot in Heaven

1941 · William Spence

So Ends Our Night

1941 · Josef Steiner

Victory

1940 · Hendrik Heyst

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

1940 · Self (archive footage)

Susan and God

1940 · Barrie Trexel

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

1940 · Self

The 400 Million

1939 · Narration (voice)

Trade Winds

1938 · Sam Wye

There Goes My Heart

1938 · Bill Spencer

The Buccaneer

1938 · Jean Lafitte

Nothing Sacred

1937 · Wallace "Wally" Cook

A Star Is Born

1937 · Norman Maine

Breakdowns of 1936

1936 · Self

The Road to Glory

1936 · Lieutenant Michel Denet

Anthony Adverse

1936 · Anthony Adverse

Mary of Scotland

1936 · Bothwell

The Making of a Great Motion Picture

1936

The Dark Angel

1935 · Alan Trent

Anna Karenina

1935 · Count Vronsky

Les Misérables

1935 · Jean Valjean / Champmathieu

We Live Again

1934 · Prince Dmitri Nekhlyudov

The Barretts of Wimpole Street

1934 · Robert Browning

The Affairs of Cellini

1934 · Benvenuto Cellini

Death Takes a Holiday

1934 · Prince Sirki

Good Dame

1934 · Mace Townsley

All of Me

1934 · Don Ellis

Design for Living

1933 · Tom Chambers

Hollywood on Parade No. B-5

1933 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Eagle and the Hawk

1933 · Jerry H. Young

Tonight Is Ours

1933 · Sabien Pastal

The Sign of the Cross

1932 · Marcus Superbus - Prefect of Rome

Smilin' Through

1932 · Kenneth Wayne / Jeremy

Hollywood on Parade No. A-1

1932 · Self

Make Me a Star

1932 · Fredric March (uncredited)

Merrily We Go to Hell

1932 · Jerry Corbett

Strangers in Love

1932 · Buddy Drake / Arthur Drake

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

1931 · Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde

My Sin

1931 · Dick Grady

The Night Angel

1931 · Rudek Berken

Honor Among Lovers

1931 · Jerry Stafford

The Royal Family of Broadway

1930 · Tony Cavendish

Laughter

1930 · Paul Lockridge

Manslaughter

1930 · Dan O'Bannon

True to the Navy

1930 · Bull's Eye McCoy

Ladies Love Brutes

1930 · Dwight Howell

Paramount on Parade

1930 · Marine

Sarah and Son

1930 · Howard Vanning

The Marriage Playground

1929 · Martin Boyne

Footlights and Fools

1929 · Gregory Pyne

Jealousy

1929 · Pierre

Paris Bound

1929 · Jim Hutton

The Studio Murder Mystery

1929 · Richard Hardell

The Wild Party

1929 · James Gilmore

The Dummy

1929 · Trumbull Meredith

The Devil

1921 · Bal Masque Participant (uncredited)

The Education of Elizabeth

The Education of Elizabeth

1921 · Man (uncredited)

Paying the Piper

1921 · Man (uncredited)

The Great Adventure

1921 · Man (uncredited)

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