Fredric March

from Racine, Wisconsin, USA

Artwork for The Best Years of Our LivesImage of 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.

Timeline

2021Aged 124

  • Poster for Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker

    Archival Footage

2014Aged 117

  • Poster for Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film

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

2007Aged 110

  • Poster for Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman

    Self (archive footage)

2003Aged 106

  • Poster for Complicated Women

    Self (archive footage)

1990Aged 93

  • Poster for Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To

    (archive footage)

1986Aged 89

  • Poster for The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn

    Self (archive footage)

1984Aged 87

  • Poster for Going Hollywood: The '30s

    Self (archive footage)

1975Aged 78

  • Poster for Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

    Self (archive footage)

1973Aged 76

  • Poster for The Iceman Cometh

    Harry Hope

1970Aged 73

  • Poster for … tick… tick… tick…

    Mayor Jeff Parks

1967Aged 70

  • Poster for Hombre

    Dr. Alex Favor

1964Aged 67

  • Poster for Seven Days in May

    President Jordan Lyman

1962Aged 65

  • Poster for The Condemned of Altona

    Albrecht von Gerlach

1961Aged 64

  • Poster for The Young Doctors

    Dr. Joseph Pearson

1960Aged 63

  • Poster for Inherit the Wind

    Matthew Harrison Brady

1959Aged 62

  • Poster for Middle of the Night

    Jerry Kingsley

  • Poster for A Christmas Carol

    Narrator

1958Aged 61

  • Poster for The Winslow Boy

    Arthur Winslow

1957Aged 60

  • Poster for Albert Schweitzer

    Albert Schweitzer (voice)

1956Aged 59

  • Poster for Alexander the Great

    Philip of Macedonia

  • Poster for The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

    Ralph Hopkins

  • Poster for Island of Allah

    Himself / Narrator

1955Aged 58

  • Poster for The Desperate Hours

    Daniel C. Hilliard

1954Aged 57

  • Poster for Executive Suite

    Loren Phineas Shaw

  • Poster for A Christmas Carol

    Ebenezer Scrooge

  • Poster for The Bridges at Toko-Ri

    Rear Adm. George Tarrant

1953Aged 56

  • Poster for Man on a Tightrope

    Karel Cernik

1951Aged 54

  • Poster for It's a Big Country

    Joe Esposito

  • Poster for Death of a Salesman

    Willy Loman

1950Aged 53

  • Poster for The Titan: Story of Michelangelo

    Narrator (voice)

1949Aged 52

  • Poster for The Twentieth Century

    Oscar Jaffe

  • Poster for Christopher Columbus

    Christopher Columbus

1948Aged 51

  • Poster for Another Part of the Forest

    Marcus Hubbard

  • Poster for An Act of Murder

    Judge Calvin Cooke

1947Aged 50

1946Aged 49

  • Poster for The Best Years of Our Lives

    Al Stephenson

1945Aged 48

1944Aged 47

  • Poster for The Valley of the Tennessee

    Narrator (voice)

  • Poster for The Adventures of Mark Twain

    Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)

  • Poster for Tomorrow, the World!

    Mike Frame

1942Aged 45

  • Poster for Black Sea Fighters

    Self - Narrator of the English dub

  • Poster for I Married a Witch

    Jonathan / Nathaniel / Samuel / Wallace Wooley

1941Aged 44

  • Poster for So Ends Our Night

    Josef Steiner

  • Poster for One Foot in Heaven

    William Spence

  • Poster for Bedtime Story

    Luke Drake

1940Aged 43

  • Poster for Hollywood: Style Center of the World

    Self

  • Poster for Susan and God

    Barrie Trexel

  • Poster for Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for Victory

    Hendrik Heyst

1939Aged 42

  • Poster for The 400 Million

    Narration (voice)

1938Aged 41

  • Poster for The Buccaneer

    Jean Lafitte

  • Poster for There Goes My Heart

    Bill Spencer

  • Poster for Trade Winds

    Sam Wye

1937Aged 40

  • Poster for A Star Is Born

    Norman Maine

  • Poster for Nothing Sacred

    Wallace "Wally" Cook

1936Aged 39

  • Poster for The Making of a Great Motion Picture

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Mary of Scotland

    Bothwell

  • Poster for Anthony Adverse

    Anthony Adverse

  • Poster for The Road to Glory

    Lieutenant Michel Denet

  • Poster for Breakdowns of 1936

    Self

1935Aged 38

  • Poster for Les Misérables

    Jean Valjean / Champmathieu

  • Poster for Anna Karenina

    Count Vronsky

  • Poster for The Dark Angel

    Alan Trent

1934Aged 37

  • Poster for All of Me

    Don Ellis

  • Poster for Good Dame

    Mace Townsley

  • Poster for Death Takes a Holiday

    Prince Sirki

  • Poster for The Affairs of Cellini

    Benvenuto Cellini

  • Poster for The Barretts of Wimpole Street

    Robert Browning

  • Poster for We Live Again

    Prince Dmitri Nekhlyudov

1933Aged 36

  • Poster for Tonight Is Ours

    Sabien Pastal

  • Poster for The Eagle and the Hawk

    Jerry H. Young

  • Poster for Hollywood on Parade No. B-5

    Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

  • Poster for Design for Living

    Tom Chambers

1932Aged 35

  • Poster for Strangers in Love

    Buddy Drake / Arthur Drake

  • Poster for Merrily We Go to Hell

    Jerry Corbett

  • Poster for Make Me a Star

    Fredric March (uncredited)

  • Poster for Hollywood on Parade No. A-1

    Self

  • Poster for Smilin' Through

    Kenneth Wayne / Jeremy

  • Poster for The Sign of the Cross

    Marcus Superbus - Prefect of Rome

1931Aged 34

  • Poster for Honor Among Lovers

    Jerry Stafford

  • Poster for The Night Angel

    Rudek Berken

  • Poster for My Sin

    Dick Grady

  • Poster for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

    Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde

1930Aged 33

  • Poster for Sarah and Son

    Howard Vanning

  • Poster for Paramount on Parade

    Marine

  • Poster for Ladies Love Brutes

    Dwight Howell

  • Poster for True to the Navy

    Bull's Eye McCoy

  • Poster for Manslaughter

    Dan O'Bannon

  • Poster for Laughter

    Paul Lockridge

  • Poster for The Royal Family of Broadway

    Tony Cavendish

1929Aged 32

  • Poster for The Dummy

    Trumbull Meredith

  • Poster for The Wild Party

    James Gilmore

  • Poster for The Studio Murder Mystery

    Richard Hardell

  • Poster for Paris Bound

    Jim Hutton

  • Poster for Jealousy

    Pierre

  • Poster for Footlights and Fools

    Gregory Pyne

  • Poster for The Marriage Playground

    Martin Boyne

1921Aged 24