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Henry Fonda
Actor

Henry Fonda

2 Movies
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Known For Acting
Known Credits 2
Birthday May 16, 1905 (121 years old)
Place of Birth Grand Island, Nebraska, USA
Also Known As Hank Fonda, Henry Jaynes Fonda, One-Take Fonda, Ω‡Ω†Ψ±ΫŒ ΩΩˆΩ†Ψ―Ψ§
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Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982) was an American actor who had a career that spanned five decades in Hollywood. Fonda cultivated a strong, appealing screen image in several films now considered to be classics, earning one Academy Award for Best Actor on two nominations.

Fonda made his mark early as a Broadway actor and made his Hollywood film debut in 1935. His film career began to gain momentum with roles such as Bette Davis's fiancee in her Academy Award-winning performance in Jezebel (1938), brother Frank in Jesse James (1939), and the future President in Young Mr. Lincoln (1939), directed by John Ford. His early career peaked with his Academy Award-nominated performance as Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath, about an Oklahoma family who moved to California during the Dust Bowl 1930s. This film is widely considered to be among the greatest American films.

In 1941 he starred opposite Barbara Stanwyck in the screwball comedy classic The Lady Eve. Book-ending his service in WWII were his starring roles in two highly regarded westerns: The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) and My Darling Clementine (1946), the latter directed by John Ford, and he also starred in Ford's western Fort Apache (1948). After a seven-year break from films, during which Fonda focused on stage productions, he returned with the WWII war-boat ensemble Mister Roberts (1955). In 1957 he starred as Juror No.8, the hold-out juror, in 12 Angry Men. Fonda, who was also co-producer, won the BAFTA for Best Foreign Actor.

Later in his career, Fonda moved into darker roles, such as the villain in the epic Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), underrated and a box office disappointment at its time of release, but now regarded as one of the best westerns of all time. He also played in lighter-hearted fare such as Yours, Mine and Ours with Lucille Ball, but also often played important military figures, such as a Colonel in Battle of the Bulge (1965), and Admiral Nimitz in Midway (1976). He finally won the Academy Award for Best Actor at the 54th Academy Awards for his final film role in On Golden Pond (1981), which also starred Katharine Hepburn and his daughter Jane Fonda, but was too ill to attend the ceremony. He died from heart disease a few months later.

Filmography (199)

Henry Fonda for President 2025
The Fondas: A Cinematic Dynasty 2023
'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War 2020
Citizen Jane Fonda 2020
Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth 2020
John Ford: The Man Who Invented America 2019
Spanish Western 2015
John Ford & Monument Valley 2013
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia 2013
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Making '12 Angry Men' 2008
Jezebel: Legend of the South 2006
Sacco and Vanzetti 2006
Guilt Trip: Hitchcock and 'The Wrong Man' 2004
Something to Do with Death 2003
The Wages of Sin 2003
An Opera of Violence 2003
The Making of Midway 2001
Revisiting 'Fail-Safe' 2000
Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults 1999
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line 1997
Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero 1997
La Classe amΓ©ricaine 1993
Fonda on Fonda 1992
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker 1991
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire 1991
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To 1990
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind 1988
Going Hollywood: The '30s 1984
Let Poland Be Poland 1982
On Golden Pond 1981
The Greatest Man in the World 1981
Summer Solstice 1981
The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's 1980
Gideon's Trumpet 1980
Rappaccini's Daughter 1980
The Sky Is Gray 1980
The Golden Honeymoon 1980
Paul's Case 1980
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg 1980
Barn Burning 1980
The Oldest Living Graduate 1980
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall 1980
Meteor 1979
Wanda Nevada 1979
The Man Who Loved Bears 1979
City on Fire 1979
Roots: The Next Generations 1979
The Great Smokey Roadblock 1978
The Swarm 1978
The Biggest Battle 1978
Fedora 1978
Inside 'the Swarm' 1978
A Special Sesame Street Christmas 1978
Home to Stay 1978
The Kennedy Center Honors 1978
Rollercoaster 1977
Tentacles 1977
The Blue Hotel 1977
The Displaced Person 1977
Soldier's Home 1977
I'm a Fool 1977
Underground Doctors 1977
Laugh-In 1977
Midway 1976
Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur 1976
Bernice Bobs Her Hair 1976
Captains and the Kings 1976
Family 1976
Parkinson: Meet Henry Fonda 1975
Henry James' The Jolly Corner 1975
People's Choice Awards 1975
Clarence Darrow 1974
The Last Four Days 1974
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still 1974
The Music School 1974
Parker Adderson, Philosopher 1974
Dinah! 1974
SpΓ©cial cinΓ©ma 1974
My Name Is Nobody 1973
The Serpent 1973
The Alpha Caper 1973
The Red Pony 1973
Ash Wednesday 1973
The American Film Institute Salute to ... 1973
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts 1973
Sometimes a Great Notion 1971
Directed by John Ford 1971
The American West of John Ford 1971
All in the Family 1971
The Smith Family 1971
V.I.P. Schaukel 1971
Cadet Rousselle 1971
Film '72 1971
There Was a Crooked Man... 1970
The Cheyenne Social Club 1970
Too Late the Hero 1970
An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer 1969
The Bill Cosby Show 1969
Madigan 1968
Firecreek 1968
The Boston Strangler 1968
Yours, Mine and Ours 1968
Pat Paulsen for President 1968
A Space to Grow 1968
Once Upon a Time in the West 1968
The Dick Cavett Show 1968
The Doris Day Show 1968
Stranger on the Run 1967
Welcome to Hard Times 1967
The World About Us 1967
A Big Hand for the Little Lady 1966
Born to Buck 1966
The Really Big Family 1966
To Save a Soldier 1966
The Rounders 1965
Battle of the Bulge 1965
In Harm's Way 1965
The Dirty Game 1965
Fail Safe 1964
Sex and the Single Girl 1964
The Best Man 1964
Spencer's Mountain 1963
Hollywood: The Great Stars 1963
How the West Was Won 1962
The Longest Day 1962
Advise & Consent 1962
Hollywood: The Fabulous Era 1962
President Kennedy's Birthday Salute 1962
The Merv Griffin Show 1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson 1962
Hollywood: The Selznick Years 1961
The Mike Douglas Show 1961
The Fabulous Fifties 1960
Warlock 1959
The Man Who Understood Women 1959
The Deputy 1959
The Bell Telephone Hour 1959
Stage Struck 1958
The Tin Star 1957
12 Angry Men 1957
War and Peace 1956
The Wrong Man 1956
The Steve Allen Show 1956
Tony Awards 1956
Mister Roberts 1955
The Petrified Forest 1955
The Star and the Story 1955
General Electric Theater 1953
The Real Miss America 1952
Benjy 1951
Pictura 1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame 1951
What's My Line? 1950
Jigsaw 1949
Fort Apache 1948
On Our Merry Way 1948
The Ed Sullivan Show 1948
Daisy Kenyon 1947
The Fugitive 1947
The Long Night 1947
My Darling Clementine 1946
Golden Globe Awards 1944
The Ox-Bow Incident 1943
Immortal Sergeant 1943
Tales of Manhattan 1942
The Male Animal 1942
The Battle of Midway 1942
Rings on Her Fingers 1942
The Big Street 1942
The Magnificent Dope 1942
It's Everybody's War 1942
The Lady Eve 1941
You Belong to Me 1941
Wild Geese Calling 1941
The Grapes of Wrath 1940
The Return of Frank James 1940
Chad Hanna 1940
Lillian Russell 1940
Jesse James 1939
Young Mr. Lincoln 1939
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell 1939
Let Us Live 1939
Drums Along the Mohawk 1939
Jezebel 1938
The Mad Miss Manton 1938
Breakdowns of 1938 1938
Spawn of the North 1938
Blockade 1938
I Met My Love Again 1938
You Only Live Once 1937
That Certain Woman 1937
Wings of the Morning 1937
Slim 1937
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine 1936
The Moon's Our Home 1936
Spendthrift 1936
The Farmer Takes a Wife 1935
I Dream Too Much 1935
Way Down East 1935
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