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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The Kennedy Center Honors
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The Steve Allen Show
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The Doris Day Show
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All in the Family
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The Bell Telephone Hour
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Hallmark Hall of Fame
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The Star and the Story
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Once Upon a Time in the West
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Dinah!
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12 Angry Men
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The World About Us
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Roots: The Next Generations
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On Golden Pond
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In Harm's Way
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Fort Apache
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My Name Is Nobody
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Yours, Mine and Ours
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My Darling Clementine
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Fail Safe
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You Only Live Once
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War and Peace
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Mister Roberts
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Bernice Bobs Her Hair
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Drums Along the Mohawk
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A Big Hand for the Little Lady
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The Battle of Midway
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Young Mr. Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Spencer's Mountain
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Jane Fonda in Five Acts
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The Best Man
William Russell
Too Late the Hero
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You Belong to Me
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That Certain Woman
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I Met My Love Again
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Rings on Her Fingers
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The Long Night
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The Biggest Battle
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The Male Animal
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Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
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Let Poland Be Poland
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Let Us Live
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Lillian Russell
Alexander Moore
Fonda on Fonda
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Breakdowns of 1938
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The Alpha Caper
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Sacco and Vanzetti
Prof. Tommy Turner (archive footage)
Way Down East
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Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur
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Ash Wednesday
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It's Everybody's War
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Henry Fonda for President
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President Kennedy's Birthday Salute
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Barn Burning
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Jigsaw
Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
Directed by John Ford
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The Fabulous Fifties
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The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
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An Opera of Violence
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Going Hollywood: The '30s
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The Moon's Our Home
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The Merv Griffin Show
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The Farmer Takes a Wife
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Wings of the Morning
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The Displaced Person
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The Last Four Days
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John Ford: The Man Who Invented America
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The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's
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Home to Stay
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I'm a Fool
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Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
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Spawn of the North
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Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Making '12 Angry Men'
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Summer Solstice
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The American West of John Ford
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Wild Geese Calling
John Murdock
The Greatest Man in the World
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I Dream Too Much
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The Wages of Sin
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The Man Who Understood Women
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Soldier's Home
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Inside 'the Swarm'
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Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
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Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero
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'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War
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John Ford & Monument Valley
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Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults
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The Music School
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Rappaccini's Daughter
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Pictura
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Something to Do with Death
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Guilt Trip: Hitchcock and 'The Wrong Man'
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Hollywood: The Fabulous Era
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The Golden Honeymoon
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Paul's Case
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The Magnificent Dope
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The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
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Hollywood: The Great Stars
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Henry James' The Jolly Corner
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Parkinson: Meet Henry Fonda
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The Sky Is Gray
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Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
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Clarence Darrow
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The Blue Hotel
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An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer
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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
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Jezebel: Legend of the South
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Parker Adderson, Philosopher
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The Man Who Loved Bears
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Born to Buck
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The Fondas: A Cinematic Dynasty
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A Space to Grow
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The Really Big Family
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Underground Doctors
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