Fredric March (Ernest Frederick McIntyre
Bickel) (August 31, 1897 - April 14, 1975) was an Academy Award winning American actor.
March was born in Racine, Wisconsin. He began as a banker, but an emergency appendectomy
caused him to re-evaluate his life, and in 1920 he began to be cast as an extra in movies made
in New York. He appeared on Broadway in 1926, and won an Oscar nomination in 1930 for The Royal Family of Broadway,
in which he played a role based upon John Barrymore.
March won the Oscar in 1932 for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and again in 1946 for
The Best Years of Our Lives. March was one of the few actors to resist the studios,
and was able to pick and choose his roles, in the process also avoiding typecasting. By this
time, he was working on Broadway as often as in Hollywood, and his screen career was not as
prolific as it had been.
Perhaps his greatest late-in-life role was in Inherit the Wind in 1960, opposite Spencer Tracy.
Throughout his life, he was a proponent of liberal political causes, and was a steady
supporter of the Democratic Party. He died in Los Angeles, California).
He was married to the actress Florence Eldridge from 1927 until his death.
Academy Awards and nominations:
1952 (Nominated) Death of a Salesman
1947 )Won) The Best Years of Our Lives
1938 (Nominated) A Star is Born
1932 (Won) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1931 (Nominated) The Royal Family of Broadway
Filmography:
The Iceman Cometh
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Hombre
Seven Days in May
The Condemned of Altona
The Young Doctors
Inherit the Wind
Middle of the Night
Tales from Dickens
The Winslow Boy
Albert Schweitzer
Island of Allah
Alexander the Great
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
The Desperate Hours
The Bridges at Toko-Ri
A Christmas Carol
Executive Suite
Man on a Tightrope
Death of a Salesman
It's a Big Country
The Titan, Story of Michelangelo
Christopher Columbus
An Act of Murder
Another Part of the Forest
The Best Years of Our Lives
Tomorrow the World!
The Adventures of Mark Twain
I Married a Witch
Lake Carrier
Bedtime Story
One Foot in Heaven
So Ends Our Night
Victory
Susan and God
Lights Out in Europe
The 400 Million
Trade Winds
There Goes My Heart
The Buccaneer
Nothing Sacred
A Star is Born
Anthony Adverse
Mary of Scotland
The Road to Glory
The Dark Angel
Anna Karenina
Les Misérables
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Good Dame
We Live Again
The Affairs of Cellini
Death Takes a Holiday
All of Me
Design for Living
The Eagle and the Hawk
Tonight Is Ours
The Sign of the Cross
Smilin' Through
Make Me a Star
Merrily We Go to Hell
Strangers in Love
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
My Sin
Night Angel
Honor Among Lovers
The Royal Family of Broadway
Laughter
Manslaughter
True to the Navy
Ladies Love Brutes
Sarah and Son
The Marriage Playground
Footlights and Fools
Jealousy
Paris Bound
The Studio Murder Mystery
The Wild Party
The Dummy
The Great Adventure
Paying the Piper
The Devil
The Education of Elizabeth
March has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1616 Vine Street.
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