Fredric March
Fredric March
Fredric Marchwas a "distinguished stage actor and one of Hollywood's most celebrated, versatile stars of the 1930s and 40s." He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeand The Best Years of Our Lives, as well as the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for Years Agoand Long Day's Journey into Night...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth31 August 1897
CityRacine, WI
CountryUnited States of America
An actor has no more right to be temperamental than a bank clerk.
It has been my experience that work on the screen clarifies stage portrayals and vice versa. You learn to make your face express more in making movies, and in working for the theater you have a sense of greater freedom.
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.
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.