Cast: Fredric March

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Fredric March. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Best Years of Our Lives

1946 · Movie · 170 min. · United States

Direction William Wyler

Cast Dana Andrews · Fredric March · Myrna Loy · Harold Russell

Synopsis After the Second World War, the soldiers who survived, some of them with physical problems, came back to the United States. Initially, they were treated as heroes, but afterwards they became marginalized.

8.2

8K votes

8.2

8K votes

Inherit the Wind

1960 · Movie · 127 min. · United States

Direction Stanley Kramer

Cast Spencer Tracy · Fredric March · Gene Kelly · Dick York

Synopsis Teacher B.T. Cates is arrested for teaching Darwin's theories. Famous lawyer Henry Drummond defends him; fundamentalist politician Matthew Brady prosecutes. This is a very thinly disguised rendition of the 1925 "Scopes monkey trial" with debates between Clarence Darrow and William...

7.6

4K votes

7.6

4K votes

Seven Days in May

1964 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction John Frankenheimer

Cast Kirk Douglas · Ava Gardner · Burt Lancaster · Fredric March

Synopsis At the height of the cold war, a weakened President and a popular four-star general face off in a battle for control of the US government. President Jordan Lyman has successfully negotiated an arms reduction treaty with the Soviet Union,...

7.5

3K votes

7.5

3K votes

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

1931 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Rouben Mamoulian

Cast Fredric March · Miriam Hopkins · Rose Hobart · Holmes Herbert

Synopsis Henry "Harry" Jekyll is a well respected member of London society. In his personal life, he is pre-engaged to Muriel Carew, the daughter of a brigadier general. In his professional life, he is a medical doctor, scientist and academician. He...

7.5

2K votes

7.5

2K votes

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Design for Living

1933 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Fredric March · Gary Cooper · Miriam Hopkins · Edward Everett Horton

Synopsis Painter George Curtis and playwright Tom Chambers, flatmates in a Paris apartment, meet fellow American and commercial artist Gilda Farrell on a train bound for the French capital. While both men are immediately smitten by the girl, she can't make...

7.3

2K votes

7.3

2K votes

Another Part of the Forest

1948 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Michael Gordon

Cast Fredric March · Dan Duryea · Edmond O'Brien · Ann Blyth

Synopsis This 'prequel' to The Little Foxes tells how the ruthless members of the old-South Hubbard family got that way

7.3

78 votes

7.3

78 votes

The Desperate Hours

1955 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction William Wyler

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Fredric March · Arthur Kennedy · Martha Scott

Synopsis After escaping from prison, Glenn Griffin, his brother Hal and a third inmate Sam Kobish randomly select a house in a well-to-do suburb of Indianapolis in which to hide out. The home belongs to the Hilliard family, Dan and Ellie...

7.2

2K votes

7.2

2K votes

Anna Karenina

1935 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Clarence Brown

Cast Greta Garbo · Fredric March · Basil Rathbone · Maureen O'Sullivan

Synopsis Anna Karenina (Garbo), a young Russian woman trapped in a loveless marriage, meets and falls in love with Count Vronsky (Fredric March), a member of the Russian army. Karenin (Basil Rathbone), her husband, refuses to give her a divorce, but,...

7.1

2K votes

7.1

2K votes

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Hombre

1967 · Movie · 111 min. · United States

Direction Martin Ritt

Cast Paul Newman · Fredric March · Richard Boone · Diane Cilento

Synopsis In this film more is said with just one look than in 100 cute one-liners. An Indian policeman travels by stagecoach and encounters more than his share of trouble. Filled with hard looks, calmly delivered threats and lots of gun...

7.0

2K votes

7.0

2K votes

A Star is Born

1937 · Movie · 111 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Fredric March · Janet Gaynor · Adolphe Menjou · May Robson

Synopsis Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of alcoholic star Norman Maine, is given a test, and is caught up in the Hollywood glamor...

7.0

2K votes

7.0

2K votes

Les misérables

1935 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction Richard Boleslawski

Cast Fredric March · Charles Laughton · Cedric Hardwicke · Rochelle Hudson

Synopsis Jean Valjean, a Frenchman of good character and great strength, is convicted of stealing a loaf of bread, an act that sets in motion a lifetime of misery for Valjean, as he is pursued by the uncompromising and brutal lawman...

7.0

240 votes

7.0

240 votes

Merrily We Go to Hell

1932 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Dorothy Arzner

Cast Sylvia Sidney · Fredric March · Adrianne Allen · Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher

Synopsis An aspiring playwright (Frederic March) with a drinking problem marries an heiress (Sylvia Sidney) whose father (George Irving) is skeptical of March’s intentions. When March carries on an affair with a former flame (Adrianne Allen), Sidney despairs, but resolves to...

6.9

131 votes

6.9

131 votes

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The Iceman Cometh

1973 · Movie · 239 min. · United States

Direction John Frankenheimer

Cast Lee Marvin · Fredric March · Robert Ryan · Jeff Bridges

Synopsis Jason Robards burst onto the Broadway scene in 1956 with his performance in Eugene O'Neill's devastating Iceman Cometh, playing the central role of Hickey, a salesman who comes to a rundown bar on a mission to bring peace to its...

6.9

397 votes

6.9

397 votes

The Road to Glory

1936 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Fredric March · Warner Baxter · Lionel Barrymore · June Lang

Synopsis The story of trench life during World War I through the lives of a French regiment. As men are killed and replaced jaunty Lt. Denet becomes more and more somber. His rival for the affection of nurse Monique is Capt....

6.8

223 votes

6.8

223 votes

The Sign of the Cross

1932 · Movie · 124 min. · United States

Direction Cecil B. DeMille

Cast Fredric March · Charles Laughton · Claudette Colbert · Elissa Landi

Synopsis After burning Rome, Emperor Nero decides to blame the Christians, and issues the edict that they are all to be caught and sent to the arena. Two old Christians are caught, and about to be hauled off, when Marcus, the...

6.8

540 votes

6.8

540 votes

Executive Suite

1954 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Robert Wise

Cast William Holden · June Allyson · Barbara Stanwyck · Fredric March

Synopsis When the president of a major furniture-manufacturing company suddenly dies, the members of the Board scramble to replace him quickly and quietly. Each man is driven by his own motives, be it avarice or altruism. An all-star cast is entangled...

6.7

586 votes

6.7

586 votes

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Death Takes a Holiday

1934 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Mitchell Leisen

Cast Fredric March · Evelyn Venable · Guy Standing · Katharine Alexander

Synopsis Death (March) is bored and wonders why humans fear him so much. He takes on human form, pretending to be the handsome Prince Sirki, and becomes a guest of Italian nobleman, Duke Lambert (Standing). He bewilders most, except the lovely...

6.7

513 votes

6.7

513 votes

We Live Again

1934 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Rouben Mamoulian

Cast Anna Sten · Fredric March · Jane Baxter · C. Aubrey Smith

Synopsis Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that he himself bears responsibility for reducing her to crime. He sets out to redeem her...

6.6

104 votes

6.6

104 votes

Death of a Salesman

1951 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction Laslo Benedek

Cast Fredric March · Mildred Dunnock · Kevin McCarthy · Cameron Mitchell

Synopsis Willy Loman has led a life consisting of sixty years of failure. Loman's wife supports him, but he soon begins to lose his grip on reality and slips between the past and the present, frantically trying to find where he...

6.6

120 votes

6.6

120 votes

Nothing Sacred

1937 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Carole Lombard · Fredric March · Charles Winninger · Walter Connolly

Synopsis When a small-town girl is diagnosed with a rare, deadly disease, an ambitious newspaper man turns her into a national heroine.

6.6

1K votes

6.6

1K votes

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