Fredric March
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Awards
Male Supporting Performance Laurel Awards [1967] (Won/Nominated: Nominated)
Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama Golden Globes [1965] (Won/Nominated: Nominated)
Best Foreign Actor BAFTA Awards [1961] (Won/Nominated: Nominated)
Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama Golden Globes [1960] (Won/Nominated: Nominated)
Best Actor Berlin International Film Festival [1960] (Won/Nominated: Won)
Best Single Performance by an Actor Emmy Awards [1957] (Won/Nominated: Won)
Best Actor in a Single Performance Emmy Awards [1955] (Won/Nominated: Nominated)
Best Foreign Actor BAFTA Awards [1955] (Won/Nominated: Nominated)
Special Jury Prize Venice Film Festival [1954] (Won/Nominated: Won)
Best Foreign Actor BAFTA Awards [1953] (Won/Nominated: Nominated)
Best Actor Venice Film Festival [1952] (Won/Nominated: Won)
Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama Golden Globes [1952] (Won/Nominated: Won)
Best Actor in a Leading Role Academy Awards [1952] (Won/Nominated: Nominated)
Best Actor in a Leading Role Academy Awards [1946] (Won/Nominated: Won)
Best Actor in a Leading Role Academy Awards [1938] (Won/Nominated: Nominated)
Most Favorite Actor Venice Film Festival [1932] (Won/Nominated: Won)
Best Actor in a Leading Role Academy Awards [1932] (Won/Nominated: Wom)
Best Actor in a Leading Role Academy Awards [1931] (Won/Nominated: Nominated)
Star on the Walk of Fame Walk of Fame (Won/Nominated: Won)

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Endorsements
coca-cola (Magazine advertisement for Coca-Cola) [1933]
Biography (Print)
Fredric March: Craftsman First, Star Second (Deborah C. Peterson) [1996] (ISBN: 313298025)
The Films of Fredric March (Lawrence J. Quirk) [1971] (ISBN: 806502592)
Charles Laughton and Fredric March (Michael Burrows) [1969] (ISBN: 090242100X)
 

Fredric March Biography
Fredric March began a career in banking but in 1920 found himself cast as an extra in films being produced in New York. He starred on the Broadway stage first in 1926 and would return there between screen appearances later on. He won plaudits (and an Academy Award nomination) for his send-up of John Barrymore in The Royal Family of Broadway (1930). Four more Academy Award nominations would come his way, and he would win the Oscar for Best Actor twice: for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) and The Best Years of Our Lives (1946). He could play roles varying from heavy drama to light comedy, and was often best portraying men in anguish, such as Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman (1951). As his career advanced he progressed from leading man to character actor.
 

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posted by mfan0825
This man is truly one of THE most gifted actors of all time. What a genius.
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posted by dawn ialacci
has anyone every heard of a 78 rpm narrated by Fredric March called the secret garden with a fabric cover. I have it since I was a child and no one has heard of it.
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    Name Fredric March
    (Ernest Frederick McIntyre Bickel)
    Other Name(s) Freddie
    Height 5' 10"  (178 cm)
    Build Slim
    Eye Color Brown - Light
    Hair Color Brown - Dark
    Date of Birth August 30, 1897
    Birthplace Rancine, Wisconsin
    Star Sign Virgo
    Died April 14, 1975 (Aged 78)
    Location of Death Los Angeles, CA
    Cause of Death Prostate Cancer
    Nationality American
    Ethnicity White
    High School Racine High School, Wisconsin
    University University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin
    Officers Candidate School
    Occupation Actor
    Celebrity Index Fr
    Claim to Fame The Best Years Of Our Lives

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  • "I have earnestly endeavored to perform my own share without fuss or temperament. An actor has no more right to be temperamental than a bank clerk. Possibly a very sane bringing up as a child has helped me to retain my sense of proportion in these matters."
  • "Co-starring with [Greta Garbo] hardly constituted an introduction."
  • "Stardom is just an uneasy seat on top of a tricky toboggan. Being a star is merely perching at the head of the downgrade. A competent featured player can last a lifetime. A star, a year or two. There`s all that agony of finding suitable stories, keeping in character, maintaining illusion. Then the undignified position of hanging on while your popularity is declining."
  • [Commenting on the fact that he and Wallace Beery, who both won Best Actor Oscars for 1931-32 due to a tie, had recently adopted children] "It seems a little odd that we were both given awards for the best male performance of the year."
  • "I liked the name Frederick Bickel and I wish now I had left it as it was. After all, Theodore Bikel, whose name was similar though spelled differently, didn`t change his, and he did all right."
  • "Keep interested in others; keep interested in the wide and wonderful world. Then in a spiritual sense you will always be young."
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  • He and Basil Rathbone both appeared together in two television adaptations of "A Christmas Carol", shown in the 1950`s. In the first, telecast in 1954 as part of the "Shower of Stars" series, March played Scrooge and Rathbone played Marley`s Ghost. In the second, telecast in 1958 as part of the "Tales from Dickens" series, March was the narrator, and Rathbone played Scrooge.
  • March and his second wife were both active supporters of the Democratic Party.
  • Although it was not used, he proposed the following epitaph for his tombstone: "This is just my lot.".
  • "We did `Long Day`s Journey...` for two years - that was enough! I`ve had the theater. It becomes a damn bore night after night.".
  • Marlon Brando praised March as his favorite actor in his youth.
  • For many years he maintained his primary residence in New Milford, Connecticut. After his death, the property was subsequently leased to playwright Lillian Hellman as well as to Henry Kissinger.
  • For a while after undergoing major surgery for prostate cancer in 1970 it seemed March`s acting career was finished. However he was able to give one final great performance in The Iceman Cometh (1973).
  • Shares the distinction with actors José Ferrer, Helen Hayes and Ingrid Bergman of being the first winners of acting Tony Awards when the annual event was established in 1947
  • Proposed for possible blacklisting in 1949 by Californian branch of HUAC
  • Won two Tony Awards as Best Actor (Dramatic), the first in 1947 for his performance in Ruth Gordon`s "Years Ago," an award shared with José Ferrer for "Cyrano de Bergerac," and the second, ten years later, in 1957, for his landmark performance in Eugene O`Neill`s "Long Day`s Journey Into Night." He was also nominated in the same category in 1962 for Paddy Chayefsky`s "Gideon."
  • His stage name was a shortened version of his mother`s maiden name (Marcher).
  • His wife, actress Florence Eldridge, appeared with him in The Studio Murder Mystery (1929), Misérables, Les (1935), Another Part of the Forest (1948), An Act of Murder (1948), Christopher Columbus (1949), and Inherit the Wind (1960). On TV, she appeared with him in the "Producers` Showcase" (1954) presentation of `Dodsworth` on 30 April 1956.
  • After he and his wife Florence Eldridge appeared in the heavily panned play, "Yr. Obedient Husband" in 1938, they ran an ad in New York newspapers; a cartoon borrowed from the New Yorker magazine, it showed a a trapeze artist missing his partner. The caption read: "Oops! Sorry!"
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