Fredric March

Acting / Production / Writing / Creator

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.

Personal Information

Place of Birth

Racine, Wisconsin, USA

About

Acting, Male

Birthday

31 August 1897, 128 years old

Known For

The Best Years of Our Lives

Inherit the Wind

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

A Star Is Born

Hombre

I Married a Witch

Seven Days in May

Design for Living

The Desperate Hours

Filmography

Production

Writing

Creator

Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker

Archival Footage

2021

Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film

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

2014

Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman

Self (archive footage)

2007

Complicated Women

Self (archive footage)

2003

Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To

(archive footage)

1990

The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn

Self (archive footage)

1986

Going Hollywood: The '30s

Self (archive footage)

1984

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

Self (archive footage)

1975

The Iceman Cometh

Harry Hope

1973

… tick… tick… tick…

Mayor Jeff Parks

1970

Hombre

Dr. Alex Favor

1967

Seven Days in May

President Jordan Lyman

1964

The Condemned of Altona

Albrecht von Gerlach

1962

The Young Doctors

Dr. Joseph Pearson

1961

Inherit the Wind

Matthew Harrison Brady

1960

A Christmas Carol

Narrator

1959

Middle of the Night

Jerry Kingsley

1959

The Winslow Boy

Arthur Winslow

1958

Albert Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer (voice)

1957

Island of Allah

Himself / Narrator

1956

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

Ralph Hopkins

1956

Alexander the Great

Philip of Macedonia

1956

The Desperate Hours

Daniel C. Hilliard

1955

The Bridges at Toko-Ri

Rear Adm. George Tarrant

1954

A Christmas Carol

Ebenezer Scrooge

1954

Executive Suite

Loren Phineas Shaw

1954

Man on a Tightrope

Karel Cernik

1953

Death of a Salesman

Willy Loman

1951

It's a Big Country

Joe Esposito

1951

Christopher Columbus

1949

The Twentieth Century

Oscar Jaffe

1949

An Act of Murder

Judge Calvin Cooke

1948

Another Part of the Forest

Marcus Hubbard

1948

So You Want to Be in Pictures

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1947

The Best Years of Our Lives

Al Stephenson

1946

A Pass to Tomorrow

Self - Narrator

1945

Welcome Home

Narrator

1945

Tomorrow, the World!

Mike Frame

1944

The Adventures of Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)

1944

The Valley of the Tennessee

Narrator (voice)

1944

I Married a Witch

Jonathan / Nathaniel / Samuel / Wallace Wooley

1942

Bedtime Story

Luke Drake

1941

One Foot in Heaven

William Spence

1941

So Ends Our Night

Josef Steiner

1941

Victory

Hendrik Heyst

1940

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

Self (archive footage)

1940

Susan and God

Barrie Trexel

1940

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Self

1940

The 400 Million

Narration (voice)

1939

Trade Winds

Sam Wye

1938

There Goes My Heart

Bill Spencer

1938

The Titan: Story of Michelangelo

Narrator (voice)

1938

The Buccaneer

Jean Lafitte

1938

Nothing Sacred

Wallace "Wally" Cook

1937

A Star Is Born

Norman Maine

1937

Breakdowns of 1936

Self

1936

The Road to Glory

Lieutenant Michel Denet

1936

Anthony Adverse

1936

Mary of Scotland

Bothwell

1936

The Making of a Great Motion Picture

1936

The Dark Angel

Alan Trent

1935

Anna Karenina

Count Vronsky

1935

Les Misérables

Jean Valjean / Champmathieu

1935

We Live Again

Prince Dmitri Nekhlyudov

1934

The Barretts of Wimpole Street

Robert Browning

1934

The Affairs of Cellini

Benvenuto Cellini

1934

Death Takes a Holiday

Prince Sirki

1934

Good Dame

Mace Townsley

1934

All of Me

Don Ellis

1934

Design for Living

Tom Chambers

1933

Hollywood on Parade No. B-5

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1933

The Eagle and the Hawk

Jerry H. Young

1933

Tonight Is Ours

Sabien Pastal

1933

The Sign of the Cross

Marcus Superbus - Prefect of Rome

1932

Smilin' Through

Kenneth Wayne / Jeremy

1932

Hollywood on Parade No. A-1

Self

1932

Make Me a Star

Fredric March (uncredited)

1932

Merrily We Go to Hell

Jerry Corbett

1932

Strangers in Love

Buddy Drake / Arthur Drake

1932

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde

1931

My Sin

Dick Grady

1931

The Night Angel

Rudek Berken

1931

Honor Among Lovers

Jerry Stafford

1931

The Royal Family of Broadway

Tony Cavendish

1930

Laughter

Paul Lockridge

1930

Manslaughter

Dan O'Bannon

1930

True to the Navy

Bull's Eye McCoy

1930

Ladies Love Brutes

Dwight Howell

1930

Paramount on Parade

Marine

1930

Sarah and Son

Howard Vanning

1930

The Marriage Playground

Martin Boyne

1929

Footlights and Fools

Gregory Pyne

1929

Jealousy

Pierre

1929

Paris Bound

Jim Hutton

1929

The Studio Murder Mystery

Richard Hardell

1929

The Wild Party

James Gilmore

1929

The Dummy

Trumbull Meredith

1929

The Devil

Bal Masque Participant (uncredited)

1921

The Education of Elizabeth

Man (uncredited)

1921

Paying the Piper

Man (uncredited)

1921

The Great Adventure

Man (uncredited)

1921