Frederic March
b.8/31/1897 Racine Wisconsin
d.4/14/1975
Artillery Officer of the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I Bank executive in New York Quits bank job to perform in off Broadway plays at Baltimore Cast as extra by studios in New York in the mid 1920s Discovered by Paramount Studios and brought to Hollywood as leading man Academy Award Best Actor “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” 1932 Academy Award Best Actor “The Best Years of Our Lives” 1946 First cinematic movie “The Dummy” 1929
Filmography:
The Dummy, True to the Navy, Paramount Parade, Honor Among Lovers, The Night Angel, My Sin, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Sign of the Cross, Eagle and the Hawk, All of Me, Barretts of Wimpole Street, Les Miserables, Anna Karenina, Mary of Scotland, Victory, Adventures of Mark Twain, The Best Years of Our Lives, Christopher Columbus, Death of a Salesman, Bridges at Toko Ri, Alexander the Great, Inherit the Wind, The Iceman Cometh, Hombre, Young Doctors, The Desperate Hours