Fredric March

1897-1975

Biography: life and films

Fredric March was an American actor whose birth name was Ernest Frederick McIntyre Bickel. He was born in Racine, Wisconsin, USA on 31st August 1897 and died in Los Angeles, California, USA on 14th April 1975, aged 77.

His best films as an actor include Rouben Mamoulian's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931), Clarence Brown's Anna Karenina (1935), John Ford's Mary of Scotland (1936), Stanley Kramer's Inherit the Wind (1960) and John Frankenheimer's thriller Seven Days in May (1964).

Fredric March appeared in 78 films.

He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Dorothy Arzner (5 films), Sidney Franklin (3), William Wyler (2), William A. Wellman (2), Stuart Walker (2), Rouben Mamoulian (2), Michael Gordon (2), Lothar Mendes (2), John Frankenheimer (2), John Cromwell (2), Irving Rapper (2), George Cukor (2), George Abbott (2), Frank Tuttle (2), Clarence Brown (2) and Cecil B. DeMille (2).

His most frequent genres include: drama (50 films), romance (15), comedy (11), comedy-romance (9), comedy-drama (9), history (7), War (6), Biography (4), Thriller (2), Fantasy (2) and Documentary (2).

Our average rating for Fredric March over all films is: 3.1

Filmography

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Paying the Piper (1921) [a]

The Devil (1921) [a]

The Education of Elizabeth (1921) [a]

The Great Adventure (1921) [a]

Footlights and Fools (1929) [a]

Jealousy (1929) [a]

Paris Bound (1929) [a]

The Dummy (1929) [a]

The Marriage Playground (1929) [a]

The Studio Murder Mystery (1929) [a]

The Wild Party (1929) [a]

Ladies Love Brutes (1930) [a]

Laughter (1930) [a]

Manslaughter (1930) [a]

Paramount on Parade (1930) [a]

Sarah and Son (1930) [a]

The Royal Family of Broadway (1930) [a]

True to the Navy (1930) [a]

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) [a]

Honor Among Lovers (1931) [a]

My Sin (1931) [a]

Night Angel (1931) [a]

Make Me a Star (1932) [a]

Merrily We Go to Hell (1932) [a]

Smilin' Through (1932) [a]

Strangers in Love (1932) [a]

The Sign of the Cross (1932) [a]

Design for Living (1933) [a]

The Eagle and the Hawk (1933) [a]

Tonight Is Ours (1933) [a]

All of Me (1934) [a]

Death Takes a Holiday (1934) [a]

Good Dame (1934) [a]

The Affairs of Cellini (1934) [a]

The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934) [a]

We Live Again (1934) [a]

Anna Karenina (1935) [a]

Les Misérables (1935) [a]

The Dark Angel (1935) [a]

Anthony Adverse (1936) [a]

Mary of Scotland (1936) [a]

The Road to Glory (1936) [a]

A Star Is Born (1937) [a]

Nothing Sacred (1937) [a]

The Buccaneer (1938) [a]

There Goes My Heart (1938) [a]

Trade Winds (1938) [a]

The 400 Million (1939) [a]

Susan and God (1940) [a]

Victory (1940) [a]

Bedtime Story (1941) [a]

One Foot in Heaven (1941) [a]

So Ends Our Night (1941) [a]

I Married a Witch (1942) [a]

The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944) [a]

Tomorrow, the World! (1944) [a]

Valley of the Tennessee (1944) [a]

The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) [a]

An Act of Murder (1948) [a]

Another Part of the Forest (1948) [a]

Christopher Columbus (1949) [a]

The Titan: Story of Michelangelo (1950) [a]

Death of a Salesman (1951) [a]

It's a Big Country (1951) [a]

Man on a Tightrope (1953) [a]

Executive Suite (1954) [a]

The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954) [a]

The Desperate Hours (1955) [a]

Alexander the Great (1956) [a]

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956) [a]

Middle of the Night (1959) [a]

Inherit the Wind (1960) [a]

The Young Doctors (1961) [a]

I Sequestrati di Altona (1962) [a]

Seven Days in May (1964) [a]

Hombre (1967) [a]

...tick... tick... tick... (1970) [a]

The Iceman Cometh (1973) [a]



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