Henry Fonda
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.
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Golden Globe Awards
Self - Cecil B. DeMille Award Recipient
Golden Globe Awards
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Tony Awards
Self (archive footage)
Tony Awards
Self - Nominee
Tony Awards
Self - Host
Tony Awards
Self - Co-Host/Special Award Recipient
Tony Awards
Self - Presenter
Tony Awards
Self - Host / Presenter
12 Angry Men
Juror 8
All in the Family
Self
The Star and the Story
Self - Host
The Deputy
Marshal Simon Fry
Dinah!
Self
The Doris Day Show
Henry Fonda (uncredited)
Once Upon a Time in the West
Frank
What's My Line?
Self - Mystery Guest
Battle of the Bulge
Lt Col Kiley
Fort Apache
Lt. Col. Owen Thursday
Jesse James
Frank James
Immortal Sergeant
Corporal Colin Spence
The Swarm
Dr. Walter Krim
My Name Is Nobody
Jack Beauregard
The Serpent
Alan Davies
The Longest Day
Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
Wanda Nevada
Old Prospector
The Steve Allen Show
Self - Guest
Jigsaw
Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
Ash Wednesday
Mark Sawyer
Barn Burning
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
The Grapes of Wrath
Tom Joad
The Kennedy Center Honors
Self
Family
James Lawrence
Chad Hanna
Chad Hanna
The Fugitive
A Fugitive
Mister Roberts
Lieutenant Roberts
The Long Night
Joe Adams
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Self
In Harm's Way
CINCPAC II
The Bill Cosby Show
Joshua Richards
Directed by John Ford
Too Late the Hero
Capt. John G Nolan
Warlock
Clay Blaisedell
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
Self (archive footage)
Madigan
Commissioner Anthony X. Russell
Rollercoaster
Simon Davenport
Let Us Live
"Brick" Tennant
The Tin Star
Morgan Hickman
John Ford: The Man Who Invented America
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Way Down East
David Bartlett
I Dream Too Much
Johnny Street
The Boston Strangler
John S. Bottomly
The Biggest Battle
Generale Foster
The Big Street
Agustus 'Little Pinks' Pinkerton, II
Spencer's Mountain
Clay Spencer
A Special Sesame Street Christmas
Self
The Ox-Bow Incident
Gil Carter
The Battle of Midway
Narrator (voice)
That Certain Woman
Jack V. Merrick, Jr.
Midway
Adm. Chester W. Nimitz
Born to Buck
Narrator
Sometimes a Great Notion
Henry Stamper
The Mad Miss Manton
Peter Ames
Gideon's Trumpet
Clarence Earl Gideon
War and Peace
Pierre Bezukhov
Breakdowns of 1938
Self (archive footage)
Spawn of the North
Jim Kimmerlee
The Last Four Days
Kardinal Schuster
The Red Pony
Carl Tiflin
The Alpha Caper
Mark Forbes
The Wrong Man
Manny Balestrero
Paul's Case
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
Self
Roots: The Next Generations
Colonel Frederick Warner
My Darling Clementine
Wyatt Earp
The Male Animal
Tommy Turner
Tentacles
Mr. Whitehead
Daisy Kenyon
Peter Lapham
The Bell Telephone Hour
Self - Host
The Cheyenne Social Club
Harley Sullivan
You Belong to Me
Peter Kirk
The Magnificent Dope
Thadeus Winship 'Tad' Page
Fedora
President of the Academy
Inside 'the Swarm'
Self
Sex and the Single Girl
Frank Broderick
I Met My Love Again
Ives Towner
Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero
Self (archive footage)
Rappaccini's Daughter
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
Wild Geese Calling
John Murdock
Fonda on Fonda
Self (archive footage)
The Displaced Person
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
John Ford & Monument Valley
Self (archive footage)
Rings on Her Fingers
John Wheeler
Stage Struck
Lewis Easton
Film '72
Self
Soldier's Home
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
Benjy
Narrator (voice)
The American West of John Ford
Self - Narrator
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
Self - Narrator
The Golden Honeymoon
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
Tales of Manhattan
George
Stranger on the Run
Ben Chamberlain
On Golden Pond
Norman Thayer Jr.
Wings of the Morning
Kerry Gilfallen
The Greatest Man in the World
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
Jezebel: Legend of the South
Self (archive footage)
Home to Stay
Grandpa George
Spendthrift
Townsend Middleton
The Really Big Family
Self - Narrator
How the West Was Won
Jethro Stuart
Young Mr. Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Slim
Slim Kincaid
Going Hollywood: The '30s
(archive footage)
Yours, Mine and Ours
Frank Beardsley
Sacco and Vanzetti
Prof. Tommy Turner (archive footage)
The Music School
Narrator (voice)
Stiletto
The Dirty Game
Dimitri Koulov
The Great Smokey Roadblock
Elegant John
Captains and the Kings
Sen. Enfield Bassett
Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur
Gen. Douglas MacArthur
The Fabulous Fifties
Narrator (segment "Fifties Dead Sequence") (voice)
Cadet Rousselle
Self
The Lady Eve
Charles Pike
Blockade
Marco
It's Everybody's War
Narrator
Let Poland Be Poland
Self
Fail Safe
The President
Parkinson: Meet Henry Fonda
Self
Meteor
The President
Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Clarence Earl Gideon
Underground Doctors
Self - Host
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
Self (archive footage)
I'm a Fool
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
Drums Along the Mohawk
Gilbert Martin
La Classe américaine
Hugues (archive footage)
The Smith Family
Chad Smith
The Man Who Understood Women
Willie Bauche
Pictura
Narrator: Grant Wood episode (voice)
Jezebel
Preston Dillard
The Rounders
Marion 'Howdy' Lewis
The Return of Frank James
Frank James
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Hollywood: The Great Stars
Self - Host
There Was a Crooked Man...
Woodward W. Lopeman
The World About Us
Narrator
Laugh-In
Guest Performer
Laugh-In
Guest Performer (uncredited)
Firecreek
Bob Larkin
On Our Merry Way
Lank Solsky
A Space to Grow
Narrator
A Big Hand for the Little Lady
Meredith
Parker Adderson, Philosopher
Narrator (Voice)
General Electric Theater
Emmett Kelly
To Save a Soldier
Narrator (voice)
An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer
John Steinbeck (voice)
You Only Live Once
Eddie Taylor
City on Fire
Fire Chief Risley
The Best Man
William Russell
Advise & Consent
Robert Leffingwell
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
Dave Tolliver
The Man Who Loved Bears
Self
Welcome to Hard Times
Mayor Will Blue
Lillian Russell
Alexander Moore
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Watson
An Opera of Violence
Self - Actor (archive footage)
The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's
Self (archive footage)
Henry Fonda for President
Self (archive footage)
Spanish Western
Self (archive footage)
The Oldest Living Graduate
Col. J.C. Kincaid
The Moon's Our Home
Anthony Amberton / John Smith
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
(archive footage)
Hollywood: The Fabulous Era
Narrator / Host
Revisiting 'Fail-Safe'
Self (archive footage)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Self (archive footage)
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
Self (archive footage)
The Petrified Forest
Alan Squier
Something to Do with Death
Self (archive footage)
The Farmer Takes a Wife
Dan Harrow
The Wages of Sin
Self (archive footage)
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Making '12 Angry Men'
Self (archive footage)
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War
Self (archive footage)
The Blue Hotel
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
Guilt Trip: Hitchcock and 'The Wrong Man'
Self (archive footage)
President Kennedy's Birthday Salute
Self
Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults
(archive footage)
The Fondas: A Cinematic Dynasty
Self - Actor (archive footage)
The Sky Is Gray
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
Pat Paulsen for President
Narrator (voice)
Summer Solstice
Joshua
The Real Miss America
Narrator (voice)
Henry James' The Jolly Corner
Narrator
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
Spécial cinéma
Self (archive footage)
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
V.I.P. Schaukel
Self