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Fredric March

Fredric March

Born: 1897-08-31 • Racine, Wisconsin, USA

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.

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