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 Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · Self
Tony Awards
1956 · Self - Host / Presente...
The Mike Douglas Show
1961 · Self
Spécial cinéma
1974 · Self (archive footage)
Golden Globe Awards
1944 · Self - Cecil B. DeMill...
The Merv Griffin Show
1962 · Self
12 Angry Men
1957 · Juror 8
What's My Line?
1950 · Self - Mystery Guest
The Dick Cavett Show
1968 · Self - Guest
The Deputy
1959 · Marshal Simon Fry
The Steve Allen Show
1956 · Self
People's Choice Awards
1975 · Self
All in the Family
1971 · Self
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948 · Self
Dinah!
1974 · Self
Once Upon a Time in the West
1968 · Frank
The Kennedy Center Honors
1978 · Self
Family
1976 · James Lawrence
The Doris Day Show
1968 · Henry Fonda (uncredite...
Sex and the Single Girl
1964 · Frank Broderick
The Bell Telephone Hour
1959 · Self - Host
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
1973 · Self
The Bill Cosby Show
1969 · Joshua Richards
The Longest Day
1962 · Brig. Gen. Theodore Ro...
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973 · Self
How the West Was Won
1962 · Jethro Stuart
Roots: The Next Generations
1979 · Colonel Frederick Warn...
Cadet Rousselle
1971 · Self
Midway
1976 · Adm. Chester W. Nimitz
The Star and the Story
1955 · Self - Host
My Name Is Nobody
1973 · Jack Beauregard
War and Peace
1956 · Pierre Bezukhov
Fail Safe
1964 · The President
The Grapes of Wrath
1940 · Tom Joad
Battle of the Bulge
1965 · Lt Col Kiley
My Darling Clementine
1946 · Wyatt Earp
Fedora
1978 · President of the Acade...
Captains and the Kings
1976 · Sen. Enfield Bassett
General Electric Theater
1953 · Emmett Kelly
The Smith Family
1971 · Chad Smith
Fort Apache
1948 · Lt. Col. Owen Thursday
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Clarence Earl Gideon
The Boston Strangler
1968 · John S. Bottomly
On Golden Pond
1981 · Norman Thayer Jr.
The Swarm
1978 · Dr. Krim
Yours, Mine and Ours
1968 · Frank Beardsley
Warlock
1959 · Clay Blaisedell
In Harm's Way
1965 · CINCPAC II
The Tin Star
1957 · Morgan Hickman
Directed by John Ford
1971
Jezebel
1938 · Preston Dillard
The Ox-Bow Incident
1943 · Gil Carter
Meteor
1979 · The President
The Fabulous Fifties
1960 · Narrator (segment "Fif...
A Big Hand for the Little Lady
1966 · Meredith
The Wrong Man
1956 · Manny Balestrero
Drums Along the Mohawk
1939 · Gilbert Martin
Madigan
1968 · Commissioner Anthony X...
The Lady Eve
1941 · Charles Pike
Jesse James
1939 · Frank James
Young Mr. Lincoln
1939 · Abraham Lincoln
The Rounders
1965 · Marion 'Howdy' Lewis
Slim
1937 · Slim Kincaid
Mister Roberts
1955 · Lieutenant Roberts
Let Poland Be Poland
1982 · Self
Too Late the Hero
1970 · Capt. John G Nolan
La Classe américaine
1993 · Hugues (archive footag...
Firecreek
1968 · Bob Larkin
Advise & Consent
1962 · Robert Leffingwell
The Return of Frank James
1940 · Frank James
The Cheyenne Social Club
1970 · Harley Sullivan
The Biggest Battle
1978 · Generale Foster
Tentacles
1977 · Mr. Whitehead
Rollercoaster
1977 · Simon Davenport
The Last Four Days
1974 · Kardinal Schuster
The World About Us
1967 · Narrator
Wanda Nevada
1979 · Old Prospector
Benjy
1951 · Narrator (voice)
There Was a Crooked Man...
1970 · Woodward W. Lopeman
Spencer's Mountain
1963 · Clay Spencer
City on Fire
1979 · Fire Chief Risley
The Best Man
1964 · William Russell
The Battle of Midway
1942 · Narrator (voice)
The Mad Miss Manton
1938 · Peter Ames
John Ford: The Man Who Invented America
2019 · Self - Actor (archive...
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
1936 · Dave Tolliver
You Only Live Once
1937 · Eddie Taylor
Sometimes a Great Notion
1971 · Henry Stamper
Stranger on the Run
1967 · Ben Chamberlain
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
1939 · Thomas Watson
The Fugitive
1947 · A Fugitive
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991
Jezebel: Legend of the South
2006 · Self (archive footage)
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
1991 · Self (archive footage)
The Red Pony
1973 · Carl Tiflin
A Special Sesame Street Christmas
1978 · Self
The Serpent
1973 · Alan Davies
The Big Street
1942 · Little Pinks
Rings on Her Fingers
1942 · John Wheeler
Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984 · (archive footage)
The Man Who Understood Women
1959 · Willie Bauche
The American West of John Ford
1971 · Self - Narrator
The Great Smokey Roadblock
1978 · Elegant John
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
1961 · Self - Narrator
Way Down East
1935 · David Bartlett
Daisy Kenyon
1947 · Peter Lapham
The Oldest Living Graduate
1980 · Col. J.C. Kincaid
Tales of Manhattan
1942 · George
That Certain Woman
1937 · Jack V. Merrick, Jr.
Let Us Live
1939 · "Brick" Tennant
Pictura
1951 · Narrator (segment "Gra...
Welcome to Hard Times
1967 · Mayor Will Blue
Citizen Jane Fonda
2020
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988 · Self (archive footage)
The Long Night
1947 · Joe Adams
The Making of Midway
2001 · Self
Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth
2020 · Self(archive footage)
I'm a Fool
1977 · Self - Series Host (un...
Gideon's Trumpet
1980 · Clarence Earl Gideon
Henry Fonda for President
2025 · Self (archive footage)
The Dirty Game
1965 · Dimitri Koulov
The Farmer Takes a Wife
1935 · Dan Harrow
On Our Merry Way
1948 · Lank Solsky
The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's
1980 · Self (archive footage)
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
1974 · Self (archive footage)...
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
1997 · Self (archive footage)
Something to Do with Death
2003 · Self (archive footage)
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
1976 · Self - Series Host (un...
The Fondas: A Cinematic Dynasty
2023 · Self - Actor (archive...
Ash Wednesday
1973 · Mark Sawyer
The Male Animal
1942 · Tommy Turner
The Displaced Person
1977 · Self - Series Host (un...
Inside 'the Swarm'
1978 · Self
The Petrified Forest
1955 · Alan Squier
Breakdowns of 1938
1938 · Self (archive footage)
You Belong to Me
1941 · Peter Kirk
Spawn of the North
1938 · Jim Kimmerlee
Spanish Western
2015 · Self (archive footage)
Jigsaw
1949 · Nightclub Waiter (uncr...
Lillian Russell
1940 · Alexander Moore
The Golden Honeymoon
1980 · Self - Series Host (un...
Parkinson: Meet Henry Fonda
1975 · Self
Clarence Darrow
1974 · Clarence Darrow
I Dream Too Much
1935 · Johnny Street
I Met My Love Again
1938 · Ives Towner
The Greatest Man in the World
1981 · Self - Series Host (un...
'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War
2020 · Self (archive footage)
Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero
1997 · Self (archive footage)
Immortal Sergeant
1943 · Corporal Colin Spence
An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer
1969 · John Steinbeck (voice)
John Ford & Monument Valley
2013 · Self (archive footage)
An Opera of Violence
2003 · Self - Actor (archive...
Soldier's Home
1977 · Self - Series Host (un...
Hollywood: The Fabulous Era
1962 · Narrator / Host
Blockade
1938 · Marco
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
1990 · (archive footage)
Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults
1999 · (archive footage)
Stage Struck
1958 · Lewis Easton
The Wages of Sin
2003 · Self (archive footage)
Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur
1976 · Gen. Douglas MacArthur
Sacco and Vanzetti
2006 · Prof. Tommy Turner (ar...
Guilt Trip: Hitchcock and 'The Wrong Man'
2004 · Self (archive footage...
The Alpha Caper
1973 · Mark Forbes
Rappaccini's Daughter
1980 · Self - Series Host (un...
Fonda on Fonda
1992 · Self (archive footage)
Henry James' The Jolly Corner
1975 · Narrator
The Magnificent Dope
1942 · Thadeus Winship 'Tad'...
Summer Solstice
1981 · Joshua
Wild Geese Calling
1941 · John Murdock
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
1980 · Self - Series Host (un...
Wings of the Morning
1937 · Kerry Gilfallen
Chad Hanna
1940 · Chad Hanna
The Blue Hotel
1977 · Self - Series Host (un...
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
1980 · Self - Series Host (un...
The Moon's Our Home
1936 · Anthony Amberton / Joh...
President Kennedy's Birthday Salute
1962 · Self
The Sky Is Gray
1980 · Self - Series Host (un...
Paul's Case
1980 · Self - Series Host (un...
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
2013 · Self (archive footage)
A Space to Grow
1968 · Narrator
The Really Big Family
1966 · Self - Narrator
Underground Doctors
1977 · Self - Host
Barn Burning
1980 · Self - Series Host (un...
The Music School
1974 · Narrator (voice)
Spendthrift
1936 · Townsend Middleton
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Making '12 Angry Men'
2008 · Self (archive footage)
Pat Paulsen for President
1968 · Narrator (voice)
Hollywood: The Great Stars
1963 · Self - Host
It's Everybody's War
1942 · Narrator
Home to Stay
1978 · Grandpa George