Fredric March

Actor Aug 31 (died age 77) Racine, Wisconsin, USA 1921–2021 (100 year career)

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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 w…

Known For

Film

The Best Years of Our Lives

Al Stephenson

Film

Inherit the Wind

Matthew Harrison Brady

Film

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde

Film

A Star Is Born

Norman Maine

Film

Seven Days in May

President Jordan Lyman

Film

Hombre

Dr. Alex Favor

Film

Design for Living

Tom Chambers

Film

I Married a Witch

Jonathan / Nathaniel / Samuel / Wallace Wooley

Filmography

Acting (111)

Movies (101)

Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker

2021

as Archival Footage

6.3

Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film

2014

as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Hyde (archive footage)

7.5

Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman

2007

as Self (archive footage)

9.0

Complicated Women

2003

as Self (archive footage)

6.7

Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To

1990

as (archive footage)

9.0

The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn

1986

as Self (archive footage)

8.0

Going Hollywood: The '30s

1984

as Self (archive footage)

10.0

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

1975

as Self (archive footage)

The Iceman Cometh

as Harry Hope

… tick… tick… tick…

as Mayor Jeff Parks

Hombre

as Dr. Alex Favor

Seven Days in May

as President Jordan Lyman

7.3

The Condemned of Altona

1962

as Albrecht von Gerlach

7.0

The Young Doctors

1961

as Dr. Joseph Pearson

5.6

Inherit the Wind

1960

as Matthew Harrison Brady

A Christmas Carol

as Narrator

Middle of the Night

as Jerry Kingsley

The Winslow Boy

as Arthur Winslow

Albert Schweitzer

1957

as Albert Schweitzer (voice)

6.1

Alexander the Great

1956

as Philip of Macedonia

6.0

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

1956

as Ralph Hopkins

6.7

Island of Allah

1956

as Himself / Narrator

The Desperate Hours

1955

as Daniel C. Hilliard

7.0

A Christmas Carol

1954

as Ebenezer Scrooge

6.6

The Bridges at Toko-Ri

1954

as Rear Adm. George Tarrant

6.0

Executive Suite

1954

as Loren Phineas Shaw

Man on a Tightrope

as Karel Cernik

It's a Big Country

as Joe Esposito

Death of a Salesman

as Willy Loman

The Titan: Story of Michelangelo

1950

as Narrator (voice)

6.1

Christopher Columbus

1949

as Christopher Columbus

5.7

The Twentieth Century

1949

as Oscar Jaffe

Another Part of the Forest

1948

as Marcus Hubbard

7.6

An Act of Murder

1948

as Judge Calvin Cooke

6.7

So You Want to Be in Pictures

1947

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

5.8

The Best Years of Our Lives

1946

as Al Stephenson

7.8

A Pass to Tomorrow

1945

as Self - Narrator

Welcome Home

1945

as Narrator

The Valley of the Tennessee

1944

as Narrator (voice)

The Adventures of Mark Twain

1944

as Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)

Tomorrow, the World!

as Mike Frame

I Married a Witch

as Jonathan / Nathaniel / Samuel / Wallace Wooley

One Foot in Heaven

as William Spence

So Ends Our Night

as Josef Steiner

Bedtime Story

as Luke Drake

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

1940

as Self (archive footage)

6.5

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

1940

as Self

5.5

Victory

1940

as Hendrik Heyst

Susan and God

as Barrie Trexel

The 400 Million

as Narration (voice)

The Buccaneer

as Jean Lafitte

Trade Winds

as Sam Wye

There Goes My Heart

as Bill Spencer

Nothing Sacred

as Wallace "Wally" Cook

A Star Is Born

as Norman Maine

The Road to Glory

as Lieutenant Michel Denet

Mary of Scotland

as Bothwell

Breakdowns of 1936

as Self

Anthony Adverse

1936

as Anthony Adverse

5.7

The Making of a Great Motion Picture

1936

5.0

Les Misérables

1935

as Jean Valjean / Champmathieu

Anna Karenina

as Count Vronsky

The Dark Angel

as Alan Trent

The Affairs of Cellini

1934

as Benvenuto Cellini

4.9

Death Takes a Holiday

1934

as Prince Sirki

6.2

We Live Again

1934

as Prince Dmitri Nekhlyudov

Good Dame

as Mace Townsley

All of Me

as Don Ellis

The Barretts of Wimpole Street

as Robert Browning

Design for Living

as Tom Chambers

Tonight Is Ours

as Sabien Pastal

The Eagle and the Hawk

1933

as Jerry H. Young

6.6

Hollywood on Parade No. B-5

1933

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Sign of the Cross

1932

as Marcus Superbus - Prefect of Rome

6.1

Merrily We Go to Hell

1932

as Jerry Corbett

6.4

Strangers in Love

1932

as Buddy Drake / Arthur Drake

5.1

Smilin' Through

1932

as Kenneth Wayne / Jeremy

5.8

Make Me a Star

1932

as Fredric March (uncredited)

5.5

Hollywood on Parade No. A-1

as Self

Honor Among Lovers

as Jerry Stafford

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

1931

as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde

My Sin

as Dick Grady

The Night Angel

as Rudek Berken

True to the Navy

as Bull's Eye McCoy

Laughter

as Paul Lockridge

Manslaughter

as Dan O'Bannon

Paramount on Parade

as Marine

Sarah and Son

as Howard Vanning

The Royal Family of Broadway

as Tony Cavendish

Ladies Love Brutes

as Dwight Howell

The Dummy

as Trumbull Meredith

Jealousy

1929

as Pierre

The Studio Murder Mystery

as Richard Hardell

The Wild Party

as James Gilmore

Paris Bound

as Jim Hutton

Footlights and Fools

as Gregory Pyne

The Marriage Playground

1929

as Martin Boyne

5.8

The Great Adventure

1921

as Man (uncredited)

Paying the Piper

1921

as Man (uncredited)

The Devil

1921

as Bal Masque Participant (uncredited)

6.3

The Education of Elizabeth

1921

as Man (uncredited)

Television (10)

Tales from Dickens

as Self / Host

Tony Awards

as Self - Presenter

Producers' Showcase

The Best of Broadway

The Oscars

as Self

Omnibus

What's My Line?

as Self

Lux Video Theatre

as Sam

The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self

Lamp Unto My Feet

as Albert Schweitzer (voice)