Filmography and Awards
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
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| 1921 | The Great Adventure | uncredited | extra |
| Paying the Piper | uncredited | extra | |
| The Education of Elizabeth | uncredited | extra | |
| The Devil | uncredited | extra | |
| 1929 | The Dummy | Trumbull Meredith | |
| The Wild Party | James 'Gil' Gilmore | ||
| The Studio Murder Mystery | Richard Hardell | ||
| Paris Bound | Jim Hutton | ||
| Jealousy | Pierre | ||
| Footlights and Fools | Gregory Pyne | lost film; the soundtrack survives | |
| The Marriage Playground | Martin Boyne | ||
| 1930 | Sarah and Son | Howard Vanning | |
| Paramount on Parade | Doughboy (cameo) | ||
| Ladies Love Brutes | Dwight Howell | ||
| True to the Navy | Bull's Eye McCoy | ||
| Manslaughter | Dan O'Bannon | ||
| Laughter | Paul Lockridge | ||
| The Royal Family of Broadway | Tony Cavendish | Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actor | |
| 1931 | Honor Among Lovers | Jerry Stafford | |
| Night Angel | Rudek Berken | ||
| My Sin | Dick Grady | ||
| Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Dr. Henry Jekyll/Mr. Hyde | Academy Award for Best Actor (tied with Wallace Beery for The Champ) | |
| 1932 | Strangers in Love | Buddy Drake/Arthur Drake | |
| Merrily We Go to Hell | Jerry Corbett | ||
| Make Me a Star | himself | behind-the-scenes drama | |
| Smilin' Through | Kenneth Wayne | ||
| The Sign of the Cross | Marcus Superbus | ||
| Hollywood on Parade No. A-1 | himself | short film | |
| 1933 | Tonight Is Ours | Sabien Pastal | |
| The Eagle and the Hawk | Jerry H. Young | With Cary Grant and Carole Lombard | |
| Design for Living | Thomas B. 'Tom' Chambers | With Gary Cooper and Miriam Hopkins | |
| 1934 | All of Me | Don Ellis | With Miriam Hopkins and George Raft |
| Death Takes a Holiday | Prince Sirki/Death | ||
| Good Dame | Mace Townsley | ||
| The Affairs of Cellini | Benvenuto Cellini | ||
| The Barretts of Wimpole Street | Robert Browning | With Norma Shearer and Charles Laughton | |
| We Live Again | Prince Dmitri Nekhlyudov | ||
| Hollywood on Parade No. B-6 | himself | short film | |
| 1935 | Les Misérables | Jean Valjean/Champmathieu | |
| Anna Karenina | Vronsky | ||
| The Dark Angel | Alan Trent | ||
| Screen Snapshots Series 14, No. 11 | himself | short film | |
| 1936 | The Road to Glory | Lieutenant Michel Denet | |
| Mary of Scotland | Bothwell | With Katharine Hepburn Directed by John Ford |
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| Anthony Adverse | Anthony Adverse | ||
| Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 3 | himself | short film | |
| 1937 | A Star Is Born | Norman Maine | Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actor With Janet Gaynor |
| Nothing Sacred | Wallace 'Wally' Cook | ||
| Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 5 | himself | short film | |
| 1938 | The Buccaneer | Jean Lafitte | |
| There Goes My Heart | Bill Spencer | ||
| Trade Winds | Sam Wye | ||
| 1939 | The 400 Million | Narrator | Documentary of Chinese history |
| 1940 | Susan and God | Barrie Trexel | |
| Victory | Hendrik Heyst | ||
| Lights Out in Europe | Narrator | War documentary about the outbreak of World War II in Europe | |
| 1941 | So Ends Our Night | Josef Steiner | |
| One Foot in Heaven | William Spence | ||
| Bedtime Story | Lucius 'Luke' Drake | With Loretta Young and Robert Benchley | |
| 1942 | I Married a Witch | Jonathan Wooley/Nathaniel Wooley/Samuel Wooley | With Veronica Lake and Robert Benchley |
| Lake Carrier | Narrator | Documentary short | |
| 1944 | Valley of the Tennessee | Narrator | voice only |
| The Adventures of Mark Twain | Samuel Langhorne Clemens | ||
| Tomorrow, the World! | Mike Frame | ||
| 1946 | The Best Years of Our Lives | Al Stephenson | Academy Award for Best Actor With Myrna Loy |
| 1948 | Another Part of the Forest | Marcus Hubbard | |
| An Act of Murder | Judge Calvin Cooke | ||
| 1949 | Christopher Columbus | Christopher Columbus | |
| The Ford Theatre Hour | Television Episode: "The Twentieth Century" |
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| 1950 | The Titan: Story of Michelangelo | Narrator | documentary about the life and works of Michelangelo Buonarroti |
| Nash Airflyte Theatre | Television Episode: "The Boor" |
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| 1951 | It's a Big Country | Joe Esposito | |
| Death of a Salesman | Willy Loman | Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama Volpi Cup Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor |
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| Lux Video Theatre | Television Episode: "The Speech" |
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| 1952 | Lux Video Theatre | Television Episode: "Ferry Crisis at Friday Point" |
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| Toast of the Town | himself | later known as The Ed Sullivan Show | |
| 1953 | 25th Academy Awards | himself | presenter Academy Award for Best Actress to Shirley Booth for Come Back, Little Sheba |
| Omnibus | Television Episode: "The Last Night of Don Juan" |
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| Man on a Tightrope | Karel Cernik | With Terry Moore and Gloria Grahame | |
| The Bridges at Toko-Ri | Rear Admiral George Tarrant | ||
| 1954 | 26th Academy Awards | himself | Co-hosted from New York, with Donald O'Connor in Hollywood |
| Executive Suite | Loren Phineas Shaw | Venice Film Festival Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Acting (shared with the principal cast) Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor |
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| The Best of Broadway | Tony Cavendish | Television Episode: "The Royal Family" (based on March's Broadway play and film of the same name) Nominated — Emmy Award for Best Single Performance by an Actor |
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| Shower of Stars | Ebenezer Scrooge | Television Episode: "A Christmas Carol" Nominated — Emmy Award for Best Single Performance by an Actor |
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| What's My Line? | himself | ||
| 1955 | The Desperate Hours | Dan C. Hilliard | With Humphrey Bogart |
| 1956 | Alexander the Great | Philip of Macedonia | |
| The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit | Ralph Hopkins | ||
| Producers' Showcase | Sam Dodsworth | Television Episode: "Dodsworth" Nominated — Emmy Award for Best Single Performance by an Actor |
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| Shower of Stars | Eugene Tesh | Television Episode: "The Flattering World" |
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| Island of Allah | Narrator | ||
| 1957 | Toast of the Town | himself | later known as The Ed Sullivan Show |
| Albert Schweitzer | Narrator | documentary | |
| 1958 | The DuPont Show of the Month | Arthur Winslow | Television Episode: "The Winslow Boy" |
| Tales from Dickens | Host | also known as Fredric March Presents Tales From Dickens, March hosted seven episodes during 1958 and 1959. Episodes: "Bardell Versus Pickwick", "Uriah Heep", "A Christmas Carol", "David and Betsy Trotwood", "David and His Mother", "Christmas at Dingley Dell" and "The Runaways" |
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| 1959 | Middle of the Night | Jerry Kingsley | Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama Written by Paddy Chayevsky |
| 1960 | Inherit the Wind | Matthew Harrison Brady | Won — Silver Bear for Best Actor (Berlin Film Festival) Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor With Spencer Tracy |
| 1961 | The Young Doctors | Dr. Joseph Pearson | |
| 1962 | I Sequestrati di Altona (The Condemned of Altona) |
Albrecht von Gerlach | |
| 1963 | A Tribute to John F. Kennedy from the Arts | Host | broadcast on November 24, 1963, two days after the assassination of John F. Kennedy |
| 1964 | Seven Days in May | President Jordan Lyman | Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama With Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas |
| The Presidency: A Splendid Mystery | Narrator | Television | |
| Pieta | Narrator | documentary | |
| 1967 | Hombre | Dr. Alex Favor | With Paul Newman |
| 1970 | …tick…tick…tick… | Mayor Jeff Parks | |
| 1973 | The Iceman Cometh | Harry Hope | With Lee Marvin and Robert Ryan |
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