Henry Fonda
Acting
Born: May 16, 1905 · Grand Island, Nebraska, USA
Died: August 12, 1982 (aged 77)
Highest Rated
Biography
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.
Known for
12 Angry Men
1957
Once Upon a Time in the West
1968
The Grapes of Wrath
1940
My Name Is Nobody
1973
The Longest Day
1962
The Wrong Man
1956
On Golden Pond
1981
How the West Was Won
1962
My Darling Clementine
1946
Fail Safe
1964
The Ox-Bow Incident
1943
Fort Apache
1948
Photos (8)
Movies (115)
12 Angry Men
Juror 8
Once Upon a Time in the West
Frank
Sex and the Single Girl
Frank Broderick
The Longest Day
Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
War and Peace
Pierre Bezukhov
Midway
Adm. Chester W. Nimitz
How the West Was Won
Jethro Stuart
My Name Is Nobody
Jack Beauregard
The Grapes of Wrath
Tom Joad
On Golden Pond
Norman Thayer Jr.
The Boston Strangler
John S. Bottomly
Battle of the Bulge
Lt Col Kiley
The Wrong Man
Manny Balestrero
My Darling Clementine
Wyatt Earp
Jezebel
Preston Dillard
Warlock
Clay Blaisedell
In Harm's Way
CINCPAC II
The Swarm
Dr. Krim
Fail Safe
The President
Meteor
The President
Let Us Live
"Brick" Tennant
Fort Apache
Lt. Col. Owen Thursday
The Tin Star
Morgan Hickman
La Classe américaine
Hugues (archive footage)
The Ox-Bow Incident
Gil Carter
The Lady Eve
Charles Pike
There Was a Crooked Man...
Woodward W. Lopeman
Yours, Mine and Ours
Frank Beardsley
Too Late the Hero
Capt. John G Nolan
Sometimes a Great Notion
Henry Stamper
Drums Along the Mohawk
Gilbert Martin
The Rounders
Marion 'Howdy' Lewis
Advise & Consent
Robert Leffingwell
You Only Live Once
Eddie Taylor
A Big Hand for the Little Lady
Meredith
Firecreek
Bob Larkin
The Return of Frank James
Frank James
Mister Roberts
Lieutenant Roberts
Directed by John Ford
1971
Madigan
Commissioner Anthony X. Russell
Fedora
President of the Academy
Young Mr. Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
The Best Man
William Russell
Tales of Manhattan
George
The Serpent
Alan Davies
Jesse James
Frank James
That Certain Woman
Jack V. Merrick, Jr.
The Cheyenne Social Club
Harley Sullivan
The Last Four Days
Kardinal Schuster
Rollercoaster
Simon Davenport
City on Fire
Fire Chief Risley
Tentacles
Mr. Whitehead
Spencer's Mountain
Clay Spencer
Daisy Kenyon
Peter Lapham
The Biggest Battle
Generale Foster
The Fabulous Fifties
Narrator (segment "Fifties Dead Sequence") (voice)
Slim
Slim Kincaid
Welcome to Hard Times
Mayor Will Blue
Stranger on the Run
Ben Chamberlain
The Long Night
Joe Adams
Stage Struck
Lewis Easton
The Battle of Midway
Narrator (voice)
Rings on Her Fingers
John Wheeler
Way Down East
David Bartlett
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Watson
Gideon's Trumpet
Clarence Earl Gideon
The Fugitive
A Fugitive
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
Dave Tolliver
Wanda Nevada
Old Prospector
The Dirty Game
Dimitri Koulov
Pictura
Narrator (segment "Grant Wood") (voice)
The Mad Miss Manton
Peter Ames
You Belong to Me
Peter Kirk
Spawn of the North
Jim Kimmerlee
The Male Animal
Tommy Turner
The Big Street
Little Pinks
On Our Merry Way
Lank Solsky
The Alpha Caper
Mark Forbes
Lillian Russell
Alexander Moore
The Great Smokey Roadblock
Elegant John
Benjy
Narrator (voice)
Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur
Gen. Douglas MacArthur
The Petrified Forest
Alan Squier
Citizen Jane Fonda
2020
Spendthrift
Townsend Middleton
The Red Pony
Carl Tiflin
I Dream Too Much
Johnny Street
The Farmer Takes a Wife
Dan Harrow
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
(archive footage)
The Man Who Understood Women
Willie Bauche
Immortal Sergeant
Corporal Colin Spence
I Met My Love Again
Ives Towner
Jigsaw
Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
The Moon's Our Home
Anthony Amberton / John Smith
The Magnificent Dope
Thadeus Winship 'Tad' Page
Chad Hanna
Chad Hanna
The Oldest Living Graduate
Col. J.C. Kincaid
Going Hollywood: The '30s
(archive footage)
Ash Wednesday
Mark Sawyer
Summer Solstice
Joshua
Sacco and Vanzetti
Prof. Tommy Turner (archive footage)
Wild Geese Calling
John Murdock
Blockade
Marco
An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer
John Steinbeck (voice)
Wings of the Morning
Kerry Gilfallen
Home to Stay
Grandpa George
The Music School
Narrator (voice)
Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults
(archive footage)
Henry James' The Jolly Corner
Narrator
Pat Paulsen for President
Narrator (voice)
Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow
A Space to Grow
Narrator
Hollywood: The Fabulous Era
Narrator / Host
It's Everybody's War
Narrator
TV Shows (10)
The Doris Day Show
Henry Fonda (uncredited) · 1 eps
The Deputy
Marshal Simon Fry · 76 eps
Family
James Lawrence · 1 eps
The Bill Cosby Show
Joshua Richards · 1 eps
Roots: The Next Generations
Colonel Frederick Warner · 3 eps
Captains and the Kings
Sen. Enfield Bassett · 8 eps
General Electric Theater
Emmett Kelly · 1 eps
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Clarence Earl Gideon · 1 eps
The Smith Family
Chad Smith · 39 eps
The World About Us
Narrator · 1 eps
Self / Appearances (71)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self · 2 eps
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Cecil B. DeMille Award Recipient · 1 eps
Golden Globe Awards
Self · 1 eps
The Mike Douglas Show
Self · 1 eps
The Merv Griffin Show
Self · 2 eps
Tony Awards
Self - Host / Presenter · 2 eps
Tony Awards
Self - Presenter · 2 eps
Tony Awards
Self - Host · 1 eps
Tony Awards
Self - Nominee · 1 eps
Tony Awards
Self - Co-Host / Special Award Recipient · 1 eps
Tony Awards
Self (archive footage) · 1 eps
What's My Line?
Self · 4 eps
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest · 3 eps
Spécial cinéma
Self (archive footage) · 1 eps
All in the Family
Self · 2 eps
Dinah!
Self · 2 eps
People's Choice Awards
Self · 1 eps
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self · 6 eps
The Steve Allen Show
Self · 2 eps
The Kennedy Center Honors
Self · 1 eps
The Bell Telephone Hour
Self - Host · 1 eps
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
Self · 1 eps
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Self · 4 eps
Cadet Rousselle
Self · 1 eps
The Star and the Story
Self - Host · 38 eps
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
Self (archive footage)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Self (archive footage)
John Ford: The Man Who Invented America
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
Self (archive footage)
Henry Fonda for President
Self (archive footage)
The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's
Self (archive footage)
Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth
Self(archive footage)
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
Self (archive footage)
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
Self - Narrator
Spanish Western
Self (archive footage)
A Special Sesame Street Christmas
Self
The American West of John Ford
Self - Narrator
The Golden Honeymoon
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
Inside 'the Swarm'
Self
Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero
Self (archive footage)
Breakdowns of 1938
Self (archive footage)
The Displaced Person
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
Fonda on Fonda
Self (archive footage)
The Wages of Sin
Self (archive footage)
Let Poland Be Poland
Self
Paul's Case
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War
Self (archive footage)
I'm a Fool
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
Something to Do with Death
Self (archive footage)
The Sky Is Gray
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
President Kennedy's Birthday Salute
Self
Soldier's Home
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
Barn Burning
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
The Greatest Man in the World
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
The Blue Hotel
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
Parkinson: Meet Henry Fonda
Self
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
An Opera of Violence
Self - Actor (archive footage)
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
Rappaccini's Daughter
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
The Really Big Family
Self - Narrator
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Making '12 Angry Men'
Self (archive footage)
Guilt Trip: Hitchcock and 'The Wrong Man'
Self (archive footage)
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
The Making of Midway
Self
The Fondas: A Cinematic Dynasty
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Jezebel: Legend of the South
Self (archive footage)
Underground Doctors
Self - Host
John Ford & Monument Valley
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood: The Great Stars
Self - Host