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 w...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker
2021
as Archival Footage
Coded tells the story of illustrator J.C. Leyendecker, whose legacy laid the foundation for today's out-and-proud LGBTQ advertisements.

Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film
2014
as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Hyde (archive footage)
Join foremost experts discussing true Horror Classics - Frankenstein, Dracula, The Black Cat, Wolfman, King Kong, Bride of Frankenstein, and more. Gra...

Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman
2007
as Self (archive footage)
Famous Monster takes a fast-paced, colorful look at the life of science fiction's greatest fan - Forrest J. Ackerman, whose 85 year love affair with t...

Complicated Women
2003
as Self (archive footage)
Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered fi...

Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
1990
as (archive footage)
This tribute to Myrna Loy is organized chronologically with a few photographs, many film clips, a handful of personal appearances, and a detailed comm...

The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
1986
as Self (archive footage)
In this tribute to her frequent co-star and longtime love, Katharine Hepburn hosts a behind-the-scenes look at Spencer Tracy's personal and profession...

Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984
as Self (archive footage)
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually get...

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975
as Self (archive footage)
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

The Iceman Cometh
1973
as Harry Hope
Set in 1912, inside a dive bar named The Last Chance Saloon, its destitute patrons eagerly await the arrival of Hickey, who arrives annually and props...

Tick... Tick... Tick...
1970
as Mayor Jeff Parks
Racial tensions threaten to explode when a black man is elected sheriff of a small, racially divided town in the Deep South.

Hombre
1967
as Dr. Alex Favor
John Russell, disdained by his "respectable" fellow stagecoach passengers because he was raised by Indians, becomes their only hope for survival when ...

Seven Days in May
1964
as President Jordan Lyman
A U.S. Marine Corps colonel alerts the president of a planned military coup against him.

The Condemned of Altona
1962
as Albrecht von Gerlach
A dying German magnate invites his youngest son and daughter-in-law home to discuss the future of the family's shipbuilding empire. There, the daughte...

Hollywood: The Selznick Years
1961
as Count Vronsky (archive footage) (uncredited)
Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in t...

The Young Doctors
1961
as Dr. Joseph Pearson
An aging doctor's resentment of his young assistant could lead to tragedy.

Inherit the Wind
1960
as Matthew Harrison Brady
Schoolteacher Bertram Cates is arrested for teaching his students Darwin's theory of evolution. The case receives national attention and one of the ne...

A Christmas Carol
1959
as Narrator
Another version of the Dickens classic. Originally an episode of Fredric March Presents Tales from Dickens. Later released on home video on it's own...

Middle of the Night
1959
as Jerry Kingsley
Jerry Kingsley is a wealthy garment manufacturer left lonely in his 50s when his wife dies. Despite the difference in their ages, he strikes up a roma...

The Winslow Boy
1958
as Arthur Winslow
In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.

Albert Schweitzer
1957
as Albert Schweitzer (voice)
This biographical docudrama traces the life of Dr. Albert Schweitzer, from his birth in Alsace, up to the age of 30 when he made the decision to go to...

Island of Allah
1956
as Himself / Narrator
An old Bedouin tells the story of the twenty-three year old Prince Abdul Aziz ibn Saud’s daring raid on Riyadh to geologists exploring the deserts of ...

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
1956
as Ralph Hopkins
Tom Rath is a suburban father and husband haunted by his memories of World War II, including a wartime romance with Italian village girl Maria, which ...

Alexander the Great
1956
as Philip of Macedonia
An engrossing spectacle set in the 4th-century BC, in which Alexander of Greece leads his troops forth, conquering all of the known world, in the beli...

The Desperate Hours
1955
as Daniel C. Hilliard
Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they're holding hostage.

The Bridges at Toko-Ri
1954
as Rear Adm. George Tarrant
A naval aviator is assigned to bomb a group of heavily defended bridges during the Korean War.

A Christmas Carol
1954
as Ebenezer Scrooge
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his yout...

Executive Suite
1954
as Loren Phineas Shaw
When the head of a large manufacturing firm dies suddenly from a stroke, his vice-presidents vie to see who will replace him.

Man on a Tightrope
1953
as Karel Cernik
The owner of an impoverished circus in Communist-ruled Czechoslovokia plots to flee across the border to freedom, taking his entire troupe of performe...

Death of a Salesman
1951
as Willy Loman
Willy Loman is an over-the-hill salesman who faces a personal turning point when he loses his job and attempts to make peace with his family: Willy's ...

It's a Big Country
1951
as Joe Esposito
Comprised of eight unrelated episodes of inconsistent quality, this anthology piece of American propaganda features some of MGM Studios' best director...

The Twentieth Century
1949
as Oscar Jaffe
A flamboyant Broadway impresario who has fallen on hard times tries to get his former lover, now a Hollywood diva, to return and resurrect his failing...

Christopher Columbus
1949
as Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus overcomes intrigue at the Spanish court and convinces Queen Isabella that his plan to reach the East by sailing west is practical...

An Act of Murder
1948
as Judge Calvin Cooke
A man kills his terminally ill wife to prevent her further suffering.

Another Part of the Forest
1948
as Marcus Hubbard
This 'prequel' to The Little Foxes tells how the ruthless members of the old-South Hubbard family got that way.
So You Want to Be in Pictures
1947
as Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Aspiring actor Joe McDoakes blows his first part at Warner Bros. and has to settle for being a stand-in.

The Best Years of Our Lives
1946
as Al Stephenson
It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrive...
A Pass to Tomorrow
1945
as Self - Narrator
A Jewish American soldier visits Eretz Yisrael after fighting on the North African front during World War II.

Welcome Home
1945
as Narrator
America prepares to welcome and employ the 12 million service men and women who are coming home from war.

Tomorrow, the World!
1944
as Mike Frame
German boy Emil comes to live with his American uncle who tries to teach the former Hitler Youth to reject Nazism.

The Adventures of Mark Twain
1944
as Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)
A dramatised life of Samuel Langhorn Clemens, or Mark Twain.

The Valley of the Tennessee
1944
as Narrator (voice)
U.S. Goverment film about the creation of the Tennessee Valley Authority in the 1930s and 1940s.

I Married a Witch
1942
as Jonathan / Nathaniel / Samuel / Wallace Wooley
A 17th-century witch returns to wreak havoc in the life of a descendant of the Puritan witch hunter who burned her.

Bedtime Story
1941
as Luke Drake
A Braodway playwright wants to keep on writing plays for his wife to star in, but all she wants is to retire to Connecticut and, following a few 'worl...

One Foot in Heaven
1941
as William Spence
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.

So Ends Our Night
1941
as Josef Steiner
An anti-Nazi refugee on the run and a young Jewish couple race across Europe trying to escape Hitler's ever powerful influence.

Victory
1940
as Hendrik Heyst
A hermit's idyllic life on an island is disturbed by the arrival of a bunch of cutthroats.

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
1940
as Self (archive footage)
This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance speeche...

Susan and God
1940
as Barrie Trexel
A flighty socialite neglects her family to promote a new religious group.

Hollywood: Style Center of the World
1940
as Self
This short promotes the premise that movies often create a demand for the fashions seen in them. It starts with a vignette in rural America. A mother ...

The 400 Million
1939
as Narration (voice)
The 400 million people of China are heirs to a great civilization, as their pagodas and stone lions can attest. But they are under attack from the Jap...

Trade Winds
1938
as Sam Wye
After committing a murder, Kay assumes a new identity and boards a ship. But, Kay is unaware that Sam, a skirt chasing detective, is following her and...

There Goes My Heart
1938
as Bill Spencer
An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk.

The Titan: Story of Michelangelo
1938
as Narrator (voice)
The life and works of the great artist Michelangelo Buonarroti are shown against the historical background of his time. It begins with his earliest ar...

The Buccaneer
1938
as Jean Lafitte
French pirate Jean Lafitte rescues a girl and joins the War of 1812.

Nothing Sacred
1937
as Wallace "Wally" Cook
When a small-town girl is incorrectly diagnosed with a rare, deadly disease, an unknowing newspaper columnist turns her into a national heroine.

A Star Is Born
1937
as Norman Maine
Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her ido...

Breakdowns of 1936
1936
as Self
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1936.

The Road to Glory
1936
as Lieutenant Michel Denet
The story of trench life during World War I through the lives of a French regiment. As men are killed and replaced jaunty Lt. Denet becomes more and m...

Anthony Adverse
1936
as Anthony Adverse
Based on the novel by Hervey Allen, this expansive drama follows the many adventures of the eponymous hero, Anthony Adverse. Abandoned at a convent by...

Mary of Scotland
1936
as Bothwell
The recently widowed Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to reclaim her throne but is opposed by her half-brother and her own Scottish lords.

The Making of a Great Motion Picture
1936
Narrated documentary of the making of Anthony Adverse (1936), featuring many clips from the actual film.

The Dark Angel
1935
as Alan Trent
Kitty Vane, Alan Trent, and Gerald Shannon have been inseparable friends since childhood. Kitty has always known she would marry one of them, but has ...

Anna Karenina
1935
as Count Vronsky
In 19th century Russia a woman in a respectable marriage to a senior statesman must grapple with her love for a dashing soldier.

Les Misérables
1935
as Jean Valjean / Champmathieu
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both me...

We Live Again
1934
as Prince Dmitri Nekhlyudov
Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that h...

The Barretts of Wimpole Street
1934
as Robert Browning
Remarkable poet Elizabeth Barrett is slowly recovering from a crippling illness with the help of her siblings, especially her youngest sister, Henriet...

The Affairs of Cellini
1934
as Benvenuto Cellini
The 16th-century sculptor woos the Duchess of Florence despite the duke.

Death Takes a Holiday
1934
as Prince Sirki
After years of questioning why people fear him, Death takes on human form so he can mingle among the mortals and find an answer. However, events soon ...

Good Dame
1934
as Mace Townsley
A chorus girl gets stranded in a small midwestern town. Against her better judgement, she hooks up with a smooth-talking con artist who says he can he...

All of Me
1934
as Don Ellis
A professor tires of the direction his life is going and wants to move west, but his girlfriend doesn't understand why he is so dissatisfied.

Design for Living
1933
as Tom Chambers
An independent woman can't choose between the two men she loves.

Hollywood on Parade No. B-5
1933
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Comedian Lloyd Hamilton escorts a group of beauty contest winners to various Hollywood night spots.

The Eagle and the Hawk
1933
as Jerry H. Young
The pilots of a Royal Air Force squadron in World War I face not only physical but mental dangers in their struggle to survive while fighting the enem...

Tonight Is Ours
1933
as Sabien Pastal
A princess is torn between her royal obligations and her love for a handsome Frenchman.

The Sign of the Cross
1932
as Marcus Superbus - Prefect of Rome
A Roman soldier becomes torn between his love for a Christian woman and his loyalty to Emperor Nero.

Smilin' Through
1932
as Kenneth Wayne / Jeremy
On the day of his wedding, Sir John Carteret's fiancée, Moonyeen, is killed by a jealous rival named Jeremy, leaving him emotionally devastated. Carte...

Hollywood on Parade No. A-1
1932
as Self
In the first entry of this series, the show open with a troupe of dancing chorus girls getting a salute from crossed-eyed Ben Turpin. Then the master ...

Make Me a Star
1932
as Fredric March (uncredited)
A grocery clerk, longing to become a cowboy actor, goes to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. Unfortunately, his acting ability is non-existent.

Merrily We Go to Hell
1932
as Jerry Corbett
A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress, Joan Prentice, whose love sobers him up and encourages him to...

Strangers in Love
1932
as Buddy Drake / Arthur Drake
Fredric March essays a dual role in this story of a ne'er-do-well who impersonates his brother when the latter dies.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1931
as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde
Dr. Henry Jekyll believes that there are two distinct sides to men - a good and an evil side. He believes that by separating the two, man can become l...

My Sin
1931
as Dick Grady
A prostitute living in Panama shoots her pimp and is charged with murder. The lawyer who gets her off fronts her money to start a new life in NY where...

The Night Angel
1931
as Rudek Berken
In this crime drama, a Prague DA must close down a house of prostitution masquerading as a cafe. He sends the owner's daughter to a nurse's home until...

Honor Among Lovers
1931
as Jerry Stafford
Jerry Stafford falls for his secretary, Julia Traynor, but instead she marries a shady character who causes trouble for both of them.

The Royal Family of Broadway
1930
as Tony Cavendish
Julie Cavendish comes from a family of great Broadway actors. Her mother Fanny staunchly continues acting. Her boisterous brother Tony is fleeing a br...

Laughter
1930
as Paul Lockridge
Zeigfeld Follies beauty Peggy marries an older man, C. Morton Gibson. Although she soon grows tired of their sedate life, she refuses the attentions o...

Manslaughter
1930
as Dan O'Bannon
A spoiled young rich girl is sent to prison for accidentally running down a pedestrian. There she learns about a life and people she had never even im...

True to the Navy
1930
as Bull's Eye McCoy
Ruby is a counter girl at the San Diego Soda Shop with a habit of being a girlfriend to Sailors stopping by. Things get a little zany when she sets he...

Ladies Love Brutes
1930
as Dwight Howell
The movie stars George Bancroft, Mary Astor and Fredric March who are all excellent in their roles. The story begins as Joe Forziati (Bancroft), an It...

Paramount on Parade
1930
as Marine
This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars, credits 11 directors

Sarah and Son
1930
as Howard Vanning
A ne'er-do-well husband, after years of abusing his wife, disappears with their son, and winds up selling him to a wealthy family. Years later, the wi...

The Marriage Playground
1929
as Martin Boyne
A delightful pre-code cocktail recipe. Take three couples (add gin and tonic), their several divorces and the seven children/stepchildren of their int...

Footlights and Fools
1929
as Gregory Pyne
Moore plays the "dual" role of a French singer in America who was originally an American chorus girl in France to acquire a new persona.

Jealousy
1929
as Pierre
Yvonne, proprietor of a Paris gown shop, marries Pierre, a poor artist, concealing from him an affair she had with Rigaud, an elderly boulevardier who...

Paris Bound
1929
as Jim Hutton
Jim Hutton and Mary Archer are two liberals who are content to remain faithful to each other in spirit only. They are married with all the ritual of a...

The Studio Murder Mystery
1929
as Richard Hardell
Philandering actor Richard Hardell is murdered at a movie studio. His jealous wife Blanche, his director Rupert Borka, and a girl he mistreated, Helen...

The Wild Party
1929
as James Gilmore
Wild girls at a college pay more attention to parties than their classes. But when one party girl, Stella Ames, goes too far at a local bar and gets i...

The Dummy
1929
as Trumbull Meredith
The title character is office-boy Barney. Pretending to be a deaf-mute, Barney tries to trump his detective boss Walter Babbing by tracking down the p...

The Devil
1921
as Bal Masque Participant (uncredited)
Dr. Muller, a friend to all, finds pleasure in turning the goodness in people to evil ends. He meets Marie Matin and her fiancée, Georges Roben, while...
The Education of Elizabeth
1921
as Man (uncredited)
Billie Burke, the real-life wife of Flo Ziegfeld, plays Ziegfeld Follies dancer Elizabeth Banks who falls for a wealthy young man. His parents are sho...

Paying the Piper
1921
as Man (uncredited)
Larry and Barbara, both the products of rich but broken homes, plan a marriage of convenience. He really loves Marcia, a dancer, and Barbara vamps Kei...

The Great Adventure
1921
as Man (uncredited)
An artist pretends to be a valet to escape a woman's advances. He marries another woman but must keep painting in secret to make enough money.