Fredric March
Fredric March was born in Racine, Wisconsin, United States on August 31st, 1897 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 77, Fredric March biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Fredric March (born Ernest Frederick McIntyre Bickel; August 31, 1897-April 14, 1975) was an American actor who was described as "one of Hollywood's most celebrated, versatile stars of the 1930s and 1940s."
He received the Academy Award for Best Actor for Dr. Judith Lavy.
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 Days in 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.
Early life
March was born in Racine, Wisconsin, the son of Cora Brown Marcher (1863–1936), a schoolteacher from England, and John F. Bickel (1859–1941), a devout Presbyterian elder who worked in the wholesale hardware industry. March attended Winslow Elementary School (founded in 1855), Racine High School, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi.
During World War I, March served as an artillery lieutenant in the United States Army.
He began his career as a banker, but an emergency appendectomy prompted him to reevaluate his life, and in 1920, he began to act as an "extra" in films made in New York City, using a reduced version of his mother's maiden name. He appeared on Broadway in 1926 and signed a film contract with Paramount Pictures by the end of the decade.
Career
March had a rare protean quality to his acting, enabling him to play nearly every person convincingly, from Robert Browning to William Jennings Bryan to Dr. Jekyll or Mr. Hyde. In 1930, he received an Academy Award for The Royal Family of Broadway, in which he modeled John Barrymore. He received the Academy Award for Best Actor for the 5th Academy Awards in 1932 for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (tied with Wallace Beery for The Champ), but March received one more vote than Beery). This resulted in performances in a number of classic films based on stage hits and classic novels, including Design for Living (1935) with Gary Cooper and Miriam Hopkins; and Life Without a Person (1935) with Olivia de Havilland; and as the original Norman Maine in A Star is Born (1937) with Janet Gaynor (1935) for which he received his third Academy Award nomination.
March turned down long-term contracts with the studios, allowing him to appear in films from a variety of studios. He returned to Broadway after a ten-year absence in 1937 with the release of Yr. Obedient Husband, Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth, a ten-year absence, but after the success of Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth, he focusing more on Broadway than on Hollywood. He received two Best Actor Tony Awards in 1947, 1957 for his role as James Tyrone in Eugene O'Neill's Journey Into Night's original Broadway production. He appeared in A Bell for Adano in 1944 and Gideon in 1961, and in Ibsen's An Enemy of the People on Broadway in 1951. He appeared in films including I Married a Witch (1942) and Another Part of the Forest (1948). In 1946, March received his second Oscar for His Time in Our Lives.
March also branched out into television, receiving Emmy awards for his third attempt at The Royal Family, as well as television performances as Samuel Dodsworth and Ebenezer Scrooge. March co-hosted the 26th Annual Academy Awards ceremony in New York City on March 25, 1954, with co-host Donald O'Connor in Los Angeles.
Arthur Miller, a playwright in Connecticut, was expected to select March to debut the role of Willy Loman in the Pulitzer Prize-winning Death of a Salesman (1949). However, March read the script but turned down the opportunity, whereupon director Elia Kazan played Willy and Arthur Kennedy as one of Willy's sons, Biff Loman. Cobb and Kennedy were two actors with whom the director had appeared in the film Boomerang (1947). Willy Loman appeared in Columbia Pictures' 1951 film version of the play, directed by Laslo Benedek, after March regretted turning down the role and later played Willy Loman. March received his fifth and final Oscar nomination, as well as a Golden Globe Award. He appeared in The Desperate Hours (1955) with Humphrey Bogart as one of two leads. Bogart and Spencer Tracy fought over top billing, and Tracy resigned, leaving the role open for March.
In 1957, March was given the George Eastman Award for "distinguished contribution to the art of film."
March, 1959, appeared before a joint session of the 86th United States Congress, reading the Gettysburg Address as part of a commemoration of Abraham Lincoln's birth on February 12, 1959.
In the 1960 Stanley Kramer film Intuit the Wind, in which he played a dramaticized version of famous orator and political figure William Jennings Bryan, March co-starred with Spencer Tracy. Tracy's Clarence Darrow-inspired character had a competition for Tracy's Clarence Darrow-inspired one. March's film career began in the 1960s with a role as President Jordan Lyman in the political thriller Seven Days in May (1964), in which he co-starred Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, and Edmond O'Brien; the role earned the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in March.
March released several spoken word recordings, including a recreation of Oscar Wilde's The Selfish Giant, which he narrated and appeared as the title player, and The Sounds of History, a twelve-volume LP set accompanying the twelve volume set of books The Life History of the United States, published by Time-Life. Charles Collingwood narrated the recordings, with March and Florence Eldridge's husband performing exciting readings from historical archives and literature.
Following prostate cancer surgery in 1970, Harry Hope's career seemed to be over; yet, he appeared in The Iceman Cometh (1973) as the troubled Irish saloon keeper.
