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.
199 acting credits
Acting · 199
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
Golden Globe Awards
1944
Tony Awards
1956
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
12 Angry Men
1957
What's My Line?
1950
All in the Family
1971
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
People's Choice Awards
1975
Spécial cinéma
1974
Dinah!
1974
The Steve Allen Show
1956
Once Upon a Time in the West
1968
Midway
1976
Film '72
1971
Family
1976
The Deputy
1959
The Doris Day Show
1968
The Kennedy Center Honors
1978
The Bill Cosby Show
1969
V.I.P. Schaukel
1971
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
1973
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973
Roots: The Next Generations
1979
The Bell Telephone Hour
1959
The Longest Day
1962
Cadet Rousselle
1971
My Name Is Nobody
1973
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Captains and the Kings
1976
How the West Was Won
1962
War and Peace
1956
General Electric Theater
1953
Fort Apache
1948
The Star and the Story
1955
In Harm's Way
1965
Battle of the Bulge
1965
On Golden Pond
1981
The Grapes of Wrath
1940
Warlock
1959
The Smith Family
1971
Fail Safe
1964
Sex and the Single Girl
1964
Mister Roberts
1955
My Darling Clementine
1946
The Boston Strangler
1968
The Swarm
1978
Jezebel
1938
The Wrong Man
1956
Meteor
1979
Jesse James
1939
The Tin Star
1957
Yours, Mine and Ours
1968
Spencer's Mountain
1963
Tentacles
1977
There Was a Crooked Man...
1970
The Ox-Bow Incident
1943
The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's
1980
The Lady Eve
1941
Firecreek
1968
Drums Along the Mohawk
1939
The Rounders
1965
Fedora
1978
Laugh-In
1977
The Return of Frank James
1940
Rollercoaster
1977
The Serpent
1973
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
1997
A Big Hand for the Little Lady
1966
Too Late the Hero
1970
La Classe américaine
1993
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988
Directed by John Ford
1971
Advise & Consent
1962
Sometimes a Great Notion
1971
Young Mr. Lincoln
1939
The Best Man
1964
The Last Four Days
1974
The Displaced Person
1977
You Only Live Once
1937
The Fugitive
1947
Tales of Manhattan
1942
The Cheyenne Social Club
1970
City on Fire
1979
Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth
2020
Madigan
1968
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991
John Ford: The Man Who Invented America
2019
Let Us Live
1939
The World About Us
1967
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
1939
Gideon's Trumpet
1980
Daisy Kenyon
1947
Wanda Nevada
1979
The Mad Miss Manton
1938
Jigsaw
1949
The Biggest Battle
1978
Stage Struck
1958
The Big Street
1942
You Belong to Me
1941
Spanish Western
2015
Stranger on the Run
1967
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
1936
Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984
The Great Smokey Roadblock
1978
The Battle of Midway
1942
Chad Hanna
1940
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
1976
The Long Night
1947
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Making '12 Angry Men'
2008
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
2013
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
1974
Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero
1997
Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults
1999
The Male Animal
1942
Way Down East
1935
Welcome to Hard Times
1967
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
1991
Breakdowns of 1938
1938
That Certain Woman
1937
Henry James' The Jolly Corner
1975
Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur
1976
Barn Burning
1980
The Farmer Takes a Wife
1935
Rings on Her Fingers
1942
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
1961
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
1990
The Alpha Caper
1973
The Dirty Game
1965
Immortal Sergeant
1943
The Magnificent Dope
1942
The Red Pony
1973
I Dream Too Much
1935
Spawn of the North
1938
Blockade
1938
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
1980
A Special Sesame Street Christmas
1978
Citizen Jane Fonda
2020
An Opera of Violence
2003
Clarence Darrow
1974
Revisiting 'Fail-Safe'
2000
Soldier's Home
1977
Inside 'the Swarm'
1978
Benjy
1951
Wings of the Morning
1937
The Fabulous Fifties
1960
The Wages of Sin
2003
The Petrified Forest
1955
Slim
1937
The Greatest Man in the World
1981
On Our Merry Way
1948
Wild Geese Calling
1941
'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War
2020
It's Everybody's War
1942
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
1980
Paul's Case
1980
Born to Buck
1966
Something to Do with Death
2003
Spendthrift
1936
Summer Solstice
1981
The Oldest Living Graduate
1980
Fonda on Fonda
1992
The Sky Is Gray
1980
The Fondas: A Cinematic Dynasty
2023
Pictura
1951
Ash Wednesday
1973
The Man Who Understood Women
1959
I Met My Love Again
1938
The American West of John Ford
1971
Home to Stay
1978
President Kennedy's Birthday Salute
1962
The Music School
1974
An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer
1969
The Moon's Our Home
1936
Henry Fonda for President
2025
Let Poland Be Poland
1982
The Golden Honeymoon
1980
Lillian Russell
1940
To Save a Soldier
1966
I'm a Fool
1977
The Blue Hotel
1977
Sacco and Vanzetti
2006
John Ford & Monument Valley
2013
Parker Adderson, Philosopher
1974
Pat Paulsen for President
1968
The Making of Midway
2001
Parkinson: Meet Henry Fonda
1975
Rappaccini's Daughter
1980
The Real Miss America
1952
The Man Who Loved Bears
1979
Jezebel: Legend of the South
2006
Hollywood: The Great Stars
1963
The Really Big Family
1966
Guilt Trip: Hitchcock and 'The Wrong Man'
2004
A Space to Grow
1968
Hollywood: The Fabulous Era
1962
Underground Doctors
1977