| An | Film | Rol | Note |
|---|
| 1921 | The Great Adventure | nemenționat | extra |
| Paying the Piper | nemenționat | extra |
| The Education of Elizabeth | nemenționat | extra |
| The Devil | nemenționat | 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 | film pierdut; coloana sonoră s-a păstrat |
| 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 | Nominalizare la —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 (împărțit CuWallace Beery pentruThe Champ) |
| 1932 | Strangers in Love | Buddy Drake/Arthur Drake | |
| Merrily We Go to Hell | Jerry Corbett | |
| Make Me a Star | în rolul său | behind-the-scenes drama |
| Smilin' Through | Kenneth Wayne | |
| The Sign of the Cross | Marcus Superbus | |
| Hollywood on Parade No. A-1 | în rolul său | film scurt |
| 1933 | Tonight Is Ours | Sabien Pastal | |
| The Eagle and the Hawk | Jerry H. Young | CuCary Grant șiCarole Lombard |
| Design for Living | Thomas B. 'Tom' Chambers | CuGary Cooper șiMiriam Hopkins |
| 1934 | All of Me | Don Ellis | CuMiriam Hopkins șiGeorge Raft |
| Death Takes a Holiday | Prințul Sirki/Death | |
| Good Dame | Mace Townsley | |
| The Affairs of Cellini | Benvenuto Cellini | |
| The Barretts of Wimpole Street | Robert Browning | CuNorma Shearer șiCharles Laughton |
| We Live Again | Prințul Dmitri Nekhlyudov | |
| Hollywood on Parade No. B-6 | în rolul său | film scurt |
| 1935 | Les Misérables | Jean Valjean/Champmathieu | |
| Anna Karenina | Vronsky | |
| The Dark Angel | Alan Trent | |
| Screen Snapshots Series 14, No. 11 | în rolul său | film scurt |
| 1936 | The Road to Glory | Locotenent Michel Denet | |
| Mary of Scotland | Bothwell | CuKatharine Hepburn Directed byJohn Ford |
| Anthony Adverse | Anthony Adverse | |
| Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 3 | în rolul său | film scurt |
| 1937 | A Star Is Born | Norman Maine | Nominalizare la —Academy Award for Best Actor CuJanet Gaynor |
| Nothing Sacred | Wallace 'Wally' Cook | |
| Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 5 | în rolul său | film scurt |
| 1938 | The Buccaneer | Jean Lafitte | |
| There Goes My Heart | Bill Spencer | |
| Trade Winds | Sam Wye | |
| 1939 | The 400 Million | Narrator | documentar despreIstoria Chinei |
| 1940 | Susan and God | Barrie Trexel | |
| Victory | Hendrik Heyst | |
| Lights Out in Europe | Narator | documentar despre izbucnirea celui deal doilea război mondial în Europa |
| 1941 | So Ends Our Night | Josef Steiner | |
| One Foot in Heaven | William Spence | |
| Bedtime Story | Lucius 'Luke' Drake | CuLoretta Young șiRobert Benchley |
| 1942 | I Married a Witch | Jonathan Wooley/Nathaniel Wooley/Samuel Wooley | CuVeronica Lake șiRobert Benchley |
| Lake Carrier | Narrator | documentar short |
| 1944 | Valley of the Tennessee | Narator | rol de voce |
| Aventurile lui Mark Twain | Samuel Langhorne Clemens | |
| Tomorrow, the World! | Mike Frame | |
| 1946 | The Best Years of Our Lives | Al Stephenson | Academy Award for Best Actor CuMyrna 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 | | TV Episodul: "The Twentieth Century" |
| 1950 | The Titan: Story of Michelangelo | Narrator | documentar about the life and works ofMichelangelo Buonarroti |
| Nash Airflyte Theatre | | TV Episodul: "The Boor" |
| 1951 | It's a Big Country | Joe Esposito | |
| Moartea unui comis voiajor | Willy Loman | Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama Volpi Cup Nominalizare la —Academy Award for Best Actor Nominalizare la —BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor |
| Lux Video Theatre | | TV Episodul: "The Speech" |
| 1952 | Lux Video Theatre | | TV Episodul: "Ferry Crisis at Friday Point" |
| Toast of the Town | în rolul său | later known asThe Ed Sullivan Show |
| 1953 | 25th Academy Awards | în rolul său | presenterAcademy Award for Best Actress toShirley Booth forCome Back, Little Sheba |
| Omnibus | | TV Episodul: "The Last Night of Don Juan" |
| Man on a Tightrope | Karel Cernik | CuTerry Moore andGloria Grahame |
| The Bridges at Toko-Ri | Rear Admiral George Tarrant | |
| 1954 | 26th Academy Awards | în rolul său | Co-hosted from New York, CuDonald O'Connor in Hollywood |
| Executive Suite | Loren Phineas Shaw | Venice Film Festival Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Acting (shared with the principal cast) Nominalizare la —BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor |
| The Best of Broadway | Tony Cavendish | TV Episodul: "The Royal Family" (based on March's Broadway play and film of the same name) Nominalizare la —Emmy Award for Best Single Performance by an Actor |
| Shower of Stars | Ebenezer Scrooge | TV Episodul: "A Christmas Carol" Nominalizare la —Emmy Award for Best Single Performance by an Actor |
| What's My Line? | în rolul său | |
| 1955 | The Desperate Hours | Dan C. Hilliard | CuHumphrey Bogart |
| 1956 | Alexandru Macedon | Philip of Macedonia | |
| The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit | Ralph Hopkins | |
| Producers' Showcase | Sam Dodsworth | TV Episodul: "Dodsworth" Nominalizare la —Emmy Award for Best Single Performance by an Actor |
| Shower of Stars | Eugene Tesh | TV Episodul: "The Flattering World" |
| Island of Allah | Narrator | |
| 1957 | Toast of the Town | în rolul său | later known asThe Ed Sullivan Show |
| Albert Schweitzer | Narrator | documentar |
| 1958 | The DuPont Show of the Month | Arthur Winslow | TV Episodul: "The Winslow Boy" |
| Tales from Dickens | Host | also known asFredric 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" |
| 1959 | Middle of the Night | Jerry Kingsley | Nominalizare la —Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama Written byPaddy Chayevsky |
| 1960 | Inherit the Wind | Matthew Harrison Brady | Won —Silver Bear for Best Actor (Berlin Film Festival)[4] Nominalizare la —BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor CuSpencer 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 24 noiembrie 1963, two days after the assassination ofJohn F. Kennedy |
| 1964 | Seven Days in May | President Jordan Lyman | Nominalizare la —Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama CuBurt Lancaster andKirk Douglas |
| The Presidency: A Splendid Mystery | Narrator | TV |
| Pieta | Narrator | documentar |
| 1967 | Hombre | Dr. Alex Favor | CuPaul Newman |
| 1970 | …tick…tick…tick… | Mayor Jeff Parks | |
| 1973 | The Iceman Cometh | Harry Hope | CuLee Marvin andRobert Ryan |