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Fredric March

Fredric March

Actor · 1897–1975 · Racine, Wisconsin, USA

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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 won both the Academy Award and the Tony Award twice.

Acted in 86

2020s

  1. 2021

    Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker

    Archival Footage

2010s

  1. 2014

    Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film

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

1990s

  1. 1990

    Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To

    (archive footage)

1970s

  1. 1973
  2. 1970

    … tick… tick… tick…

    Mayor Jeff Parks

1960s

  1. 1967
  2. 1964
  3. 1962

    The Condemned of Altona

    Albrecht von Gerlach

  4. 1961

    The Young Doctors

    Dr. Joseph Pearson

  5. 1960

1950s

  1. 1959

    Middle of the Night

    Jerry Kingsley

  2. 1958

    The Winslow Boy

    Arthur Winslow

  3. 1957
  4. 1956

    The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

    Ralph Hopkins

  5. 1955
  6. 1954
  7. A Christmas Carol

    Ebenezer Scrooge

  8. 1953

    Man on a Tightrope

    Karel Cernik

  9. 1952
  10. 1951
  11. It's a Big Country

    Joe Esposito

  12. 1950

1940s

  1. 1949

    Christopher Columbus

    Christopher Columbus

  2. The Twentieth Century

    Oscar Jaffe

  3. 1948

    An Act of Murder

    Judge Calvin Cooke

  4. Another Part of the Forest

    Marcus Hubbard

  5. 1946
  6. 1944

    Tomorrow, the World!

    Mike Frame

  7. The Adventures of Mark Twain

    Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)

  8. 1942
  9. 1941

    Bedtime Story

    Luke Drake

  10. One Foot in Heaven

    William Spence

  11. So Ends Our Night

    Josef Steiner

  12. 1940

    Victory

    Hendrik Heyst

1930s

  1. 1939

    The 400 Million

    Narration (voice)

  2. 1938

    Trade Winds

    Sam Wye

  3. There Goes My Heart

    Bill Spencer

  4. The Buccaneer

    Jean Lafitte

  5. 1937
  6. 1936

    The Road to Glory

    Lieutenant Michel Denet

  7. The Making of a Great Motion Picture

    Movie

  8. 1935

    The Dark Angel

    Alan Trent

  9. Anna Karenina

    Count Vronsky

  10. Les Misérables

    Jean Valjean / Champmathieu

  11. 1934
  12. The Barretts of Wimpole Street

    Robert Browning

  13. The Affairs of Cellini

    Benvenuto Cellini

  14. Death Takes a Holiday

    Prince Sirki

  15. Good Dame

    Mace Townsley

  16. All of Me

    Don Ellis

  17. 1933

    Design for Living

    Tom Chambers

  18. The Eagle and the Hawk

    Jerry H. Young

  19. Tonight Is Ours

    Sabien Pastal

  20. 1932
  21. Make Me a Star

    Fredric March (uncredited)

  22. Merrily We Go to Hell

    Jerry Corbett

  23. Strangers in Love

    Buddy Drake / Arthur Drake

  24. 1931
  25. My Sin

    Dick Grady

  26. The Night Angel

    Rudek Berken

  27. Honor Among Lovers

    Jerry Stafford

  28. 1930

    The Royal Family of Broadway

    Tony Cavendish

  29. Laughter

    Paul Lockridge

  30. Manslaughter

    Dan O'Bannon

  31. True to the Navy

    Bull's Eye McCoy

  32. Ladies Love Brutes

    Dwight Howell

  33. Paramount on Parade

    Marine

  34. Sarah and Son

    Howard Vanning

1920s

  1. 1929

    The Marriage Playground

    Martin Boyne

  2. Footlights and Fools

    Gregory Pyne

  3. Jealousy

    Pierre

  4. Paris Bound

    Jim Hutton

  5. The Studio Murder Mystery

    Richard Hardell

  6. The Wild Party

    James Gilmore

  7. The Dummy

    Trumbull Meredith

  8. 1921

    The Devil

    Bal Masque Participant (uncredited)

  9. Paying the Piper

    Man (uncredited)

  10. The Great Adventure

    Man (uncredited)

Appearances21

2000s

  1. 2007

    Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman

    Self (archive footage)

  2. 2003

    Complicated Women

    Self (archive footage)

1980s

  1. 1986

    The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn

    Self (archive footage)

  2. 1984

    Going Hollywood: The '30s

    Self (archive footage)

1970s

  1. 1975

    Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

    Self (archive footage)

1950s

  1. 1959

    A Christmas Carol

    Narrator

  2. 1956

    Island of Allah

    Himself / Narrator

  3. 1955
  4. 1953
  5. 1950
  6. The Titan: Story of Michelangelo

    Narrator (voice)

1940s

  1. 1948
  2. 1945

    Welcome Home

    Narrator

  3. 1944

    The Valley of the Tennessee

    Narrator (voice)

  4. 1942

    Black Sea Fighters

    Self - Narrator of the English dub

  5. 1940

    Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

    Self (archive footage)

  6. Hollywood: Style Center of the World

    Self

1930s

  1. 1936

    Breakdowns of 1936

    Self

  2. 1933

    Hollywood on Parade No. B-5

    Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

  3. 1932

    Hollywood on Parade No. A-1

    Self