Portrait of Fredric March

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

Filmography

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
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
1959
Middle of the Night

as Jerry Kingsley

1958
The Winslow Boy

as Arthur Winslow

1957
Albert Schweitzer

as Albert Schweitzer (voice)

1956
Island of Allah

as Himself / Narrator

1956
Tony Awards

as Self - Presenter

1956
Alexander the Great

as Philip of Macedonia

1955
The Desperate Hours

as Daniel C. Hilliard

1954
A Christmas Carol

as Ebenezer Scrooge

1954
The Bridges at Toko-Ri

as Rear Adm. George Tarrant

1954
Executive Suite

as Loren Phineas Shaw

1953
Man on a Tightrope

as Karel Cernik

1953
The Oscars

as Self

1951
Death of a Salesman

as Willy Loman

1951
It's a Big Country

as Joe Esposito

1950
1949
Christopher Columbus

as Christopher Columbus

1949
The Twentieth Century

as Oscar Jaffe

1948
An Act of Murder

as Judge Calvin Cooke

1948
1946
1945
Welcome Home

as Narrator

1944
1944
The Adventures of Mark Twain

as Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)

1944
The Valley of the Tennessee

as Narrator (voice)

1942
I Married a Witch

as Jonathan / Nathaniel / Samuel / Wallace Wooley

1941
Bedtime Story

as Luke Drake

1941
One Foot in Heaven

as William Spence

1941
So Ends Our Night

as Josef Steiner

1940
Victory

as Hendrik Heyst

1940
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

as Self (archive footage)

1940
Susan and God

as Barrie Trexel

1939
The 400 Million

as Narration (voice)

1938
Trade Winds

as Sam Wye

1938
There Goes My Heart

as Bill Spencer

1938
1938
The Buccaneer

as Jean Lafitte

1937
Nothing Sacred

as Wallace "Wally" Cook

1937
A Star Is Born

as Norman Maine

1936
The Road to Glory

as Lieutenant Michel Denet

1936
Anthony Adverse

as Anthony Adverse

1936
Mary of Scotland

as Bothwell

1935
The Dark Angel

as Alan Trent

1935
Anna Karenina

as Count Vronsky

1935
Les Misérables

as Jean Valjean / Champmathieu

1934
We Live Again

as Prince Dmitri Nekhlyudov

1934
1934
The Affairs of Cellini

as Benvenuto Cellini

1934
Death Takes a Holiday

as Prince Sirki

1934
Good Dame

as Mace Townsley

1934
All of Me

as Don Ellis

1933
Design for Living

as Tom Chambers

1933
Hollywood on Parade No. B-5

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1933
The Eagle and the Hawk

as Jerry H. Young

1933
Tonight Is Ours

as Sabien Pastal

1932
The Sign of the Cross

as Marcus Superbus - Prefect of Rome

1932
Smilin' Through

as Kenneth Wayne / Jeremy

1932
Make Me a Star

as Fredric March (uncredited)

1932
Merrily We Go to Hell

as Jerry Corbett

1932
Strangers in Love

as Buddy Drake / Arthur Drake

1931
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde

1931
My Sin

as Dick Grady

1931
The Night Angel

as Rudek Berken

1931
Honor Among Lovers

as Jerry Stafford

1930
1930
Laughter

as Paul Lockridge

1930
Manslaughter

as Dan O'Bannon

1930
True to the Navy

as Bull's Eye McCoy

1930
Ladies Love Brutes

as Dwight Howell

1930
1930
Sarah and Son

as Howard Vanning

1929
1929
Footlights and Fools

as Gregory Pyne

1929
Jealousy

as Pierre

1929
Paris Bound

as Jim Hutton

1929
The Studio Murder Mystery

as Richard Hardell

1929
The Wild Party

as James Gilmore

1929
The Dummy

as Trumbull Meredith

1921
The Devil

as Bal Masque Participant (uncredited)

1921
The Education of Elizabeth

as Man (uncredited)

1921
Paying the Piper

as Man (uncredited)

1921
The Great Adventure

as Man (uncredited)