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