Career
Fletcher appeared on the stage in 1927 and made his Broadway debut in 1929. Hollywood and sound films soon beckoned. He made his first film in 1928, Fletcher co-starred in Warner Brothers" 1931 film Svengali with legendary actor John Barrymore, whose daughter Diana, Fletcher would marry a decade later.
He had a brief, but notable appearance in as the assistant gone mad.
In 1943, he abandoned films for the theatre and television He wrote and acted in the critically successful 1965 play The Bernard Shaw Story.
His first two wives were actresses. Both marriages ended in divorce.