Henry Fonda
119 movies · 11 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 16, 1905
- Died
- Aug 12, 1982 (age 77)
- Place of birth
- Grand Island, Nebraska, USA
- Also known as
- Hank Fonda · Henry Jaynes Fonda · One-Take Fonda · هنری فوندا
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.
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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.
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Known for
Henry Fonda: movies and TV shows
Acting (130)
- Upcoming Loving Against Time: the Making of On Golden Pond
as (archive footage)
- 2006 Sacco and Vanzetti
as Prof. Tommy Turner (archive footage)
- 1999 Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults
as (archive footage)
- 1993 La Classe américaine
as Hugues (archive footage)
- 1991
- 1990 Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
as (archive footage)
- 1984 Going Hollywood: The '30s
as (archive footage)
- 1981 Summer Solstice
as Joshua
- 1981 On Golden Pond
as Norman Thayer Jr.
- 1980 Gideon's Trumpet
as Clarence Earl Gideon
- 1980 The Oldest Living Graduate
as Col. J.C. Kincaid
- 1979 Meteor
as The President
- 1979 City on Fire
as Fire Chief Risley
- 1979 Wanda Nevada
as Old Prospector
- 1979
- 1978 Fedora
as President of the Academy
- 1978 The Swarm
as Dr. Krim
- 1978 The Great Smokey Roadblock
as Elegant John
- 1978 Home to Stay
as Grandpa George
- 1978 The Biggest Battle
as Generale Foster
- 1977
- 1977 Rollercoaster
as Simon Davenport
- 1977 Tentacles
as Mr. Whitehead
- 1976
- 1976 Midway
as Adm. Chester W. Nimitz
- 1976
- 1976 Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur
as Gen. Douglas MacArthur
- 1975 Henry James' The Jolly Corner
as Narrator
- 1974 Clarence Darrow
as Clarence Darrow
- 1974 The Last Four Days
as Kardinal Schuster
- 1974 Parker Adderson, Philosopher
as Narrator (Voice)
- 1974 The Music School
as Narrator (voice)
- 1973 My Name Is Nobody
as Jack Beauregard
- 1973 Ash Wednesday
as Mark Sawyer
- 1973 The Alpha Caper
as Mark Forbes
- 1973 The Serpent
as Alan Davies
- 1973 The Red Pony
as Carl Tiflin
- 1971 Sometimes a Great Notion
as Henry Stamper
- 1971
- 1971
- 1970 There Was a Crooked Man...
as Woodward W. Lopeman
- 1970 The Cheyenne Social Club
as Harley Sullivan
- 1970 Too Late the Hero
as Capt. John G Nolan
- 1969
- 1969 An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer
as John Steinbeck (voice)
- 1968 Once Upon a Time in the West
as Frank
- 1968 Pat Paulsen for President
as Narrator (voice)
- 1968 The Boston Strangler
as John S. Bottomly
- 1968
- 1968 Yours, Mine and Ours
as Frank Beardsley
- 1968 Madigan
as Commissioner Anthony X. Russell
- 1968 Firecreek
as Bob Larkin
- 1968 A Space to Grow
as Narrator
- 1967
- 1967 Stranger on the Run
as Ben Chamberlain
- 1967 Welcome to Hard Times
as Mayor Will Blue
- 1966 To Save a Soldier
as Narrator (voice)
- 1966 Born to Buck
as Narrator
- 1966 A Big Hand for the Little Lady
as Meredith
- 1965 Battle of the Bulge
as Lt Col Kiley
- 1965 The Dirty Game
as Dimitri Koulov
- 1965 In Harm's Way
as CINCPAC II
- 1965 The Rounders
as Marion 'Howdy' Lewis
- 1964 Sex and the Single Girl
as Frank Broderick
- 1964 Fail Safe
as The President
- 1964 The Best Man
as William Russell
- 1963 Spencer's Mountain
as Clay Spencer
- 1962 Hollywood: The Fabulous Era
as Narrator / Host
- 1962 How the West Was Won
as Jethro Stuart
- 1962 The Longest Day
as Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
- 1962 Advise & Consent
as Robert Leffingwell
- 1960 The Fabulous Fifties
as Narrator (segment "Fifties Dead Sequence") (voice)
- 1959 The Man Who Understood Women
as Willie Bauche
- 1959
- 1959 Warlock
as Clay Blaisedell
- 1958 Stage Struck
as Lewis Easton
- 1957 The Tin Star
as Morgan Hickman
- 1957 12 Angry Men
as Juror 8
- 1956 The Wrong Man
as Manny Balestrero
- 1956 War and Peace
as Pierre Bezukhov
- 1955 Mister Roberts
as Lieutenant Roberts
- 1955 The Petrified Forest
as Alan Squier
- 1953
- 1952 The Real Miss America
as Narrator (voice)
- 1951
- 1951 Pictura
as Narrator (segment "Grant Wood") (voice)
- 1951 Benjy
as Narrator (voice)
- 1949 Jigsaw
as Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
- 1948 Fort Apache
as Lt. Col. Owen Thursday
- 1948 On Our Merry Way
as Lank Solsky
- 1947 Daisy Kenyon
as Peter Lapham
- 1947 The Fugitive
as A Fugitive
- 1947 The Long Night
as Joe Adams
- 1946 My Darling Clementine
as Wyatt Earp
- 1943 Immortal Sergeant
as Corporal Colin Spence
- 1943 The Ox-Bow Incident
as Gil Carter
- 1942 The Battle of Midway
as Narrator (voice)
- 1942 It's Everybody's War
as Narrator
- 1942 The Big Street
as Little Pinks
- 1942 Tales of Manhattan
as George
- 1942 The Magnificent Dope
as Thadeus Winship 'Tad' Page
- 1942 Rings on Her Fingers
as John Wheeler
- 1942 The Male Animal
as Tommy Turner
- 1941 You Belong to Me
as Peter Kirk
- 1941 Wild Geese Calling
as John Murdock
- 1941 The Lady Eve
as Charles Pike
- 1940 Chad Hanna
as Chad Hanna
- 1940 The Return of Frank James
as Frank James
- 1940 Lillian Russell
as Alexander Moore
- 1940 The Grapes of Wrath
as Tom Joad
- 1939 Drums Along the Mohawk
as Gilbert Martin
- 1939 Young Mr. Lincoln
as Abraham Lincoln
- 1939 The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
as Thomas Watson
- 1939 Let Us Live
as "Brick" Tennant
- 1939 Jesse James
as Frank James
- 1938 The Mad Miss Manton
as Peter Ames
- 1938 Spawn of the North
as Jim Kimmerlee
- 1938 Blockade
as Marco
- 1938 Jezebel
as Preston Dillard
- 1938 I Met My Love Again
as Ives Towner
- 1937 That Certain Woman
as Jack V. Merrick, Jr.
- 1937 Slim
as Slim Kincaid
- 1937 Wings of the Morning
as Kerry Gilfallen
- 1937 You Only Live Once
as Eddie Taylor
- 1936 Spendthrift
as Townsend Middleton
- 1936 The Moon's Our Home
as Anthony Amberton / John Smith
- 1936 The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
as Dave Tolliver
- 1935 I Dream Too Much
as Johnny Street
- 1935 Way Down East
as David Bartlett
- 1935 The Farmer Takes a Wife
as Dan Harrow
Behind the camera (2)
- 1959
- 1957 12 Angry Men
Producer
Talk shows and appearances (70)
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- 2004 Parkinson
1 episode
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- 1978 The Kennedy Center Honors
1 episode
- 1978
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- 1977
- 1976
- 1975
- 1975 People's Choice Awards
1 episode
- 1974 Dinah!
2 episodes
- 1974 Spécial cinéma
1 episode
- 1974
- 1973 The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
1 episode
- 1973 The American Film Institute Salute to ...
4 episodes
- 1971
- 1971 Film '72
1 episode
- 1971 Cadet Rousselle
1 episode
- 1971 V.I.P. Schaukel
1 episode
- 1971 All in the Family
2 episodes
- 1968 The Dick Cavett Show
3 episodes
- 1966
- 1963
- 1962 The Merv Griffin Show
2 episodes
- 1962 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
2 episodes
- 1962
- 1961
- 1961 The Mike Douglas Show
1 episode
- 1959 The Bell Telephone Hour
1 episode
- 1956 The Steve Allen Show
2 episodes
- 1956 Tony Awards
8 episodes
- 1955 The Star and the Story
38 episodes
- 1950 What's My Line?
4 episodes
- 1948 The Ed Sullivan Show
6 episodes
- 1944 Golden Globe Awards
2 episodes
- 1938