Fredric March
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.
Born: August 31, 1897
Place of Birth: Racine, Wisconsin, USA
Known For
Going Hollywood: The '30s
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War.
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
This tribute to Myrna Loy is organized chronologically with a few photographs, many film clips, a handful of personal appearances, and a detailed commentary delivered on camera by Kathleen Turner. Turner walks us through Loy's career as a dancer and an actress miscast as an exotic. She comes into her own as a grown-up women: shrewd, funny, decorous, and sexy - in "Manhattan Melodrama" and "The Thin Man." Her volunteer work during World War II, later stage work, and progressive politics come in for admiration as well. It's her style - seen best in her roles as a wife of charm and independence - that's captured and celebrated here.
Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman
Famous Monster takes a fast-paced, colorful look at the life of science fiction's greatest fan - Forrest J. Ackerman, whose 85 year love affair with the genre helped bring it into the mainstream and shape the way we view science fiction today.
A Christmas Carol
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption. Originally aired as part of Fredric March Presents Tales from Dickens.
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
In this tribute to her frequent co-star and longtime love, Katharine Hepburn hosts a behind-the-scenes look at Spencer Tracy's personal and professional life that features intimate personal accounts, interviews and clips from his most acclaimed work on the silver screen.
Tomorrow, the World!
German boy Emil comes to live with his American uncle who tries to teach the former Hitler Youth to reject Nazism.
The Best Years of Our Lives
It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But for each man, the dream is about to become a nightmare.
Inherit the Wind
Schoolteacher Bertram Cates is arrested for teaching his students Darwin's theory of evolution. The case receives national attention and one of the newspaper reporters, E.K. Hornbeck, arranges to bring in renowned defense attorney and atheist Henry Drummond to defend Cates. The prosecutor, Matthew Brady is a former presidential candidate, famous evangelist, and old adversary of Drummond.
Another Part of the Forest
This 'prequel' to The Little Foxes tells how the ruthless members of the old-South Hubbard family got that way.
Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film
Join foremost experts discussing true Horror Classics - Frankenstein, Dracula, The Black Cat, Wolfman, King Kong, Bride of Frankenstein, and more. Grab the popcorn and take a deep breath as we conjure up the thrills, chills and magic of Monster Madness!
Filmography
as Archival Footage
as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Hyde (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Harry Hope
as Mayor Jeff Parks
as Dr. Alex Favor
as President Jordan Lyman
as Albrecht von Gerlach
as Dr. Joseph Pearson
as Matthew Harrison Brady
as Narrator
as Jerry Kingsley
as Arthur Winslow
as Albert Schweitzer (voice)
as Himself / Narrator
as Ralph Hopkins
as Self - Presenter
as Philip of Macedonia
as Daniel C. Hilliard
as Ebenezer Scrooge
as Rear Adm. George Tarrant
as Loren Phineas Shaw
as Karel Cernik
as Self
as Willy Loman
as Joe Esposito
as Self
as Christopher Columbus
as Oscar Jaffe
as Judge Calvin Cooke
as Self
as Marcus Hubbard
as Al Stephenson
as Narrator
as Mike Frame
as Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)
as Narrator (voice)
as Jonathan / Nathaniel / Samuel / Wallace Wooley
as Luke Drake
as William Spence
as Josef Steiner
as Hendrik Heyst
as Self (archive footage)
as Barrie Trexel
as Narration (voice)
as Sam Wye
as Bill Spencer
as Narrator (voice)
as Jean Lafitte
as Wallace "Wally" Cook
as Norman Maine
as Self
as Lieutenant Michel Denet
as Anthony Adverse
as Bothwell
as Alan Trent
as Count Vronsky
as Jean Valjean / Champmathieu
as Prince Dmitri Nekhlyudov
as Robert Browning
as Benvenuto Cellini
as Prince Sirki
as Mace Townsley
as Don Ellis
as Tom Chambers
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Jerry H. Young
as Sabien Pastal
as Marcus Superbus - Prefect of Rome
as Kenneth Wayne / Jeremy
as Self
as Fredric March (uncredited)
as Jerry Corbett
as Buddy Drake / Arthur Drake
as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde
as Dick Grady
as Rudek Berken
as Jerry Stafford
as Tony Cavendish
as Paul Lockridge
as Dan O'Bannon
as Bull's Eye McCoy
as Dwight Howell
as Marine
as Howard Vanning
as Martin Boyne
as Gregory Pyne
as Pierre
as Jim Hutton
as Richard Hardell
as James Gilmore
as Trumbull Meredith
as Bal Masque Participant (uncredited)
as Man (uncredited)
as Man (uncredited)
as Man (uncredited)