Fredric March
Acting1897Racine, Wisconsin, USA
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.
Known For
The Best Years of Our Lives
Al Stephenson
Inherit the Wind
Matthew Harrison Brady
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde
A Star Is Born
Norman Maine
Hombre
Dr. Alex Favor
I Married a Witch
Jonathan / Nathaniel / Samuel / Wallace Wooley
Seven Days in May
President Jordan Lyman
Design for Living
Tom Chambers
Acting History
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
1958
The Winslow Boy
as Arthur Winslow
1957
Albert Schweitzer
as Albert Schweitzer (voice)
1956
Alexander the Great
as Philip of Macedonia
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
as Ralph Hopkins
Island of Allah
as Himself / Narrator
MGM Parade
TVas self• 1 eps
1955
The Desperate Hours
as Daniel C. Hilliard
1954
Executive Suite
as Loren Phineas Shaw
A Christmas Carol
as Ebenezer Scrooge
The Bridges at Toko-Ri
as Rear Adm. George Tarrant
What's My Line?
TVas Self• 1 eps
The Oscars
TVas Self• 1 eps
1953
Man on a Tightrope
as Karel Cernik
1952
Lux Video Theatre
TVas Captain Matt• 1 eps
The Ed Sullivan Show
TVas Self• 3 eps
1951
Death of a Salesman
as Willy Loman
It's a Big Country
as Joe Esposito
1950
The Titan: Story of Michelangelo
as Narrator (voice)
1949
Christopher Columbus
as Christopher Columbus
The Twentieth Century
as Oscar Jaffe
1948
An Act of Murder
as Judge Calvin Cooke
Another Part of the Forest
as Marcus Hubbard
Lamp Unto My Feet
TVas Albert Schweitzer (voice)
1947
So You Want to Be in Pictures
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1946
The Best Years of Our Lives
as Al Stephenson
1945
Welcome Home
as Narrator
A Pass to Tomorrow
as Self - Narrator
1944
The Valley of the Tennessee
as Narrator (voice)
Tomorrow, the World!
as Mike Frame
The Adventures of Mark Twain
as Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)
1942
I Married a Witch
as Jonathan / Nathaniel / Samuel / Wallace Wooley
1941
1940
Susan and God
as Barrie Trexel
Victory
as Hendrik Heyst
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
as Self (archive footage)
1939
The 400 Million
as Narration (voice)
1938
1937
Nothing Sacred
as Wallace "Wally" Cook
A Star Is Born
as Norman Maine
1936
The Road to Glory
as Lieutenant Michel Denet
Anthony Adverse
as Anthony Adverse
Breakdowns of 1936
as Self
Mary of Scotland
as Bothwell
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
We Live Again
as Prince Dmitri Nekhlyudov
The Affairs of Cellini
as Benvenuto Cellini
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
as Robert Browning
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)
Tonight Is Ours
as Sabien Pastal
Design for Living
as Tom Chambers
1932
Merrily We Go To ____
as Jerry Corbett
The Sign of the Cross
as Marcus Superbus - Prefect of Rome
Smilin' Through
as Kenneth Wayne / Jeremy
Hollywood on Parade No. A-1
as Self
Make Me a Star
as Fredric March (uncredited)
Strangers in Love
as Buddy Drake / Arthur Drake
1931
My Sin
as Dick Grady
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde
Honor Among Lovers
as Jerry Stafford
The Night Angel
as Rudek Berken
1930
True to the Navy
as Bull's Eye McCoy
Paramount on Parade
as Marine
Laughter
as Paul Lockridge
Sarah and Son
as Howard Vanning
The Royal Family of Broadway
as Tony Cavendish
Manslaughter
as Dan O'Bannon
Ladies Love Brutes
as Dwight Howell
1929
Jealousy
as Pierre
The Wild Party
as James Gilmore
Paris Bound
as Jim Hutton
The Dummy
as Trumbull Meredith
The Studio Murder Mystery
as Richard Hardell
The Marriage Playground
as Martin Boyne
Footlights and Fools
as Gregory Pyne
1921
The Great Adventure
as Man (uncredited)
The Education of Elizabeth
as Man (uncredited)
The Devil
as Bal Masque Participant (uncredited)
Paying the Piper
as Man (uncredited)