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