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