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.

Known For

Tony Awards

What's My Line?

The Ed Sullivan Show

The Oscars

MGM Parade

Omnibus

Hombre

The Best Years of Our Lives

All Movies (102)

• Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker2021 · as Archival Footage
• Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film2014 · as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Hyde (archive footage)
• Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman2007 · as Self (archive footage)
• Complicated Women2003 · as Self (archive footage)
• Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To1990 · as (archive footage)
• The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn1986 · as Self (archive footage)
• Going Hollywood: The '30s1984 · as Self (archive footage)
• Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?1975 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Iceman Cometh1973 · as Harry Hope
• … tick… tick… tick…1970 · as Mayor Jeff Parks
• Hombre1967 · as Dr. Alex Favor
• Seven Days in May1964 · as President Jordan Lyman
• The Condemned of Altona1962 · as Albrecht von Gerlach
• The Young Doctors1961 · as Dr. Joseph Pearson
• Inherit the Wind1960 · as Matthew Harrison Brady
• A Christmas Carol1959 · as Narrator
• Middle of the Night1959 · as Jerry Kingsley
• The Winslow Boy1958 · as Arthur Winslow
• Albert Schweitzer1957 · as Albert Schweitzer (voice)
• Island of Allah1956 · as Himself / Narrator
• The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit1956 · as Ralph Hopkins
• Alexander the Great1956 · as Philip of Macedonia
• The Desperate Hours1955 · as Daniel C. Hilliard
• The Bridges at Toko-Ri1954 · as Rear Adm. George Tarrant
• A Christmas Carol1954 · as Ebenezer Scrooge
• Executive Suite1954 · as Loren Phineas Shaw
• Man on a Tightrope1953 · as Karel Cernik
• Death of a Salesman1951 · as Willy Loman
• It's a Big Country1951 · as Joe Esposito
• The Titan: Story of Michelangelo1950 · as Narrator (voice)
• Christopher Columbus1949 · as Christopher Columbus
• The Twentieth Century1949 · as Oscar Jaffe
• An Act of Murder1948 · as Judge Calvin Cooke
• Another Part of the Forest1948 · as Marcus Hubbard
• So You Want to Be in Pictures1947 · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• The Best Years of Our Lives1946 · as Al Stephenson
• A Pass to Tomorrow1945 · as Self - Narrator
• Welcome Home1945 · as Narrator
• Tomorrow, the World!1944 · as Mike Frame
• The Adventures of Mark Twain1944 · as Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)
• The Valley of the Tennessee1944 · as Narrator (voice)
• I Married a Witch1942 · as Jonathan / Nathaniel / Samuel / Wallace Wooley
• Black Sea Fighters1942 · as Self - Narrator of the English dub
• Bedtime Story1941 · as Luke Drake
• One Foot in Heaven1941 · as William Spence
• So Ends Our Night1941 · as Josef Steiner
• Victory1940 · as Hendrik Heyst
• Cavalcade of the Academy Awards1940 · as Self (archive footage)
• Susan and God1940 · as Barrie Trexel
• Hollywood: Style Center of the World1940 · as Self
• The 400 Million1939 · as Narration (voice)
• Trade Winds1938 · as Sam Wye
• There Goes My Heart1938 · as Bill Spencer
• The Buccaneer1938 · as Jean Lafitte
• Nothing Sacred1937 · as Wallace "Wally" Cook
• A Star Is Born1937 · as Norman Maine
• Breakdowns of 19361936 · as Self
• The Road to Glory1936 · as Lieutenant Michel Denet
• Anthony Adverse1936 · as Anthony Adverse
• Mary of Scotland1936 · as Bothwell
• The Making of a Great Motion Picture1936
• The Dark Angel1935 · as Alan Trent
• Anna Karenina1935 · as Count Vronsky
• Les Misérables1935 · as Jean Valjean / Champmathieu
• We Live Again1934 · as Prince Dmitri Nekhlyudov
• The Barretts of Wimpole Street1934 · as Robert Browning
• The Affairs of Cellini1934 · as Benvenuto Cellini
• Death Takes a Holiday1934 · as Prince Sirki
• Good Dame1934 · as Mace Townsley
• All of Me1934 · as Don Ellis
• Design for Living1933 · as Tom Chambers
• Hollywood on Parade No. B-51933 · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• The Eagle and the Hawk1933 · as Jerry H. Young
• Tonight Is Ours1933 · as Sabien Pastal
• The Sign of the Cross1932 · as Marcus Superbus - Prefect of Rome
• Smilin' Through1932 · as Kenneth Wayne / Jeremy
• Hollywood on Parade No. A-11932 · as Self
• Make Me a Star1932 · as Fredric March (uncredited)
• Merrily We Go to Hell1932 · as Jerry Corbett
• Strangers in Love1932 · as Buddy Drake / Arthur Drake
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde1931 · as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde
• My Sin1931 · as Dick Grady
• The Night Angel1931 · as Rudek Berken
• Honor Among Lovers1931 · as Jerry Stafford
• The Royal Family of Broadway1930 · as Tony Cavendish
• Laughter1930 · as Paul Lockridge
• Manslaughter1930 · as Dan O'Bannon
• True to the Navy1930 · as Bull's Eye McCoy
• Ladies Love Brutes1930 · as Dwight Howell
• Paramount on Parade1930 · as Marine
• Sarah and Son1930 · as Howard Vanning
• The Marriage Playground1929 · as Martin Boyne
• Footlights and Fools1929 · as Gregory Pyne
• Jealousy1929 · as Pierre
• Paris Bound1929 · as Jim Hutton
• The Studio Murder Mystery1929 · as Richard Hardell
• The Wild Party1929 · as James Gilmore
• The Dummy1929 · as Trumbull Meredith
• The Devil1921 · as Bal Masque Participant (uncredited)
• The Education of Elizabeth1921 · as Man (uncredited)
• Paying the Piper1921 · as Man (uncredited)
• The Great Adventure1921 · as Man (uncredited)

All TV Shows (12)

• Tales from Dickens1959 · as Self / Host
• Tony Awards1956 · as Self - Presenter
• MGM Parade1955 · as self
• Producers' Showcase1954
• The Best of Broadway1954
• The Oscars1953 · as Self
• Omnibus1952
• Lux Video Theatre1950 · as Sam
• Lux Video Theatre1950 · as Captain Matt
• What's My Line?1950 · as Self
• Lamp Unto My Feet1948 · as Albert Schweitzer (voice)
• The Ed Sullivan Show1948 · as Self