Fredric March

Acting · Born 1897-08-31 in Racine, Wisconsin, USA

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.

Filmography

• The Best Years of Our Lives as Al Stephenson
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde
• Inherit the Wind as Matthew Harrison Brady
• Seven Days in May as President Jordan Lyman
• A Star Is Born as Norman Maine
• Hombre as Dr. Alex Favor
• Design for Living as Tom Chambers
• Hollywood on Parade No. A-1 as Self
• I Married a Witch as Jonathan / Nathaniel / Samuel / Wallace Wooley
• The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit as Ralph Hopkins

TV

• Omnibus
• The Best of Broadway
• Lux Video Theatre as Sam
• Producers' Showcase
• The Oscars as Self
• Tales from Dickens as Self / Host
• Lux Video Theatre as Captain Matt
• The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
• What's My Line? as Self