Henry Fonda
Known for Acting · 199 credits
- Born
- 1905-05-16
- Died
- 1982-08-12
- Place of birth
- Grand Island, Nebraska, USA
- Also known as
- Hank Fonda · Henry Jaynes Fonda · One-Take Fonda · هنری فوندا
Biography
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.
Known For
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self / Self (archive footage)
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self
Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Cecil B. DeMille Award Recipient
What's My Line?
1950
as Self - Mystery Guest
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
as Self
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Host / Presenter / Self - Presenter / Self - Nominee / Self - Co-Host / Special Award Recipient / Self (archive footage)
TV Shows (32)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self / Self (archive footage)
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self
Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Cecil B. DeMille Award Recipient
What's My Line?
1950
as Self - Mystery Guest
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
as Self
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Host / Presenter / Self - Presenter / Self - Nominee / Self - Co-Host / Special Award Recipient / Self (archive footage)
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
as Self - Guest
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
as Self
Spécial cinéma
1974
as Self (archive footage)
All in the Family
1971
as Self
Dinah!
1974
as Self
People's Choice Awards
1975
as Self
The Steve Allen Show
1956
as Self
Film '72
1971
as Self
The Deputy
1959
as Marshal Simon Fry
Family
1976
as James Lawrence
The Doris Day Show
1968
as Henry Fonda (uncredited)
The Bell Telephone Hour
1959
as Self - Host
The Kennedy Center Honors
1978
as Self
V.I.P. Schaukel
1971
as Self
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
1973
as Self
The Bill Cosby Show
1969
as Joshua Richards
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973
as Self
Roots: The Next Generations
1979
as Colonel Frederick Warner
Captains and the Kings
1976
as Sen. Enfield Bassett
Cadet Rousselle
1971
as Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Clarence Earl Gideon
General Electric Theater
1953
as Emmett Kelly
The Star and the Story
1955
as Self - Host
The Smith Family
1971
as Chad Smith
Laugh-In
1977
as Guest Performer / Guest Performer (uncredited)
The World About Us
1967
as Narrator
Movies (167)
12 Angry Men
1957
as Juror 8
Once Upon a Time in the West
1968
as Frank
Midway
1976
as Adm. Chester W. Nimitz
The Longest Day
1962
as Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
Sex and the Single Girl
1964
as Frank Broderick
Fort Apache
1948
as Lt. Col. Owen Thursday
My Name Is Nobody
1973
as Jack Beauregard
How the West Was Won
1962
as Jethro Stuart
War and Peace
1956
as Pierre Bezukhov
The Swarm
1978
as Dr. Walter Krim
Mister Roberts
1955
as Lieutenant Roberts
The Grapes of Wrath
1940
as Tom Joad
Meteor
1979
as The President
Jezebel
1938
as Preston Dillard
Battle of the Bulge
1965
as Lt Col Kiley
Rollercoaster
1977
as Simon Davenport
In Harm's Way
1965
as CINCPAC II
Fail Safe
1964
as The President
My Darling Clementine
1946
as Wyatt Earp
There Was a Crooked Man...
1970
as Woodward W. Lopeman
The Boston Strangler
1968
as John S. Bottomly
Warlock
1959
as Clay Blaisedell
On Golden Pond
1981
as Norman Thayer Jr.
The Lady Eve
1941
as Charles Pike
The Biggest Battle
1978
as Generale Foster
Jesse James
1939
as Frank James
The Wrong Man
1956
as Manny Balestrero
The Tin Star
1957
as Morgan Hickman
Advise & Consent
1962
as Robert Leffingwell
Madigan
1968
as Commissioner Anthony X. Russell
Lillian Russell
1940
as Alexander Moore
Spencer's Mountain
1963
as Clay Spencer
The Cheyenne Social Club
1970
as Harley Sullivan
The Big Street
1942
as Little Pinks
Yours, Mine and Ours
1968
as Frank Beardsley
Young Mr. Lincoln
1939
as Abraham Lincoln
Slim
1937
as Slim Kincaid
Wanda Nevada
1979
as Old Prospector
Barn Burning
1980
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
Firecreek
1968
as Bob Larkin
The Ox-Bow Incident
1943
as Gil Carter
Tentacles
1977
as Mr. Whitehead
The Rounders
1965
as Marion 'Howdy' Lewis
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988
as Self (archive footage)
The Serpent
1973
as Alan Davies
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
1991
as Self (archive footage)
A Big Hand for the Little Lady
1966
as Meredith
The Fugitive
1947
as A Fugitive
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991
The Return of Frank James
1940
as Frank James
The Long Night
1947
as Joe Adams
Fedora
1978
as President of the Academy
La Classe américaine
1993
as Hugues (archive footage)
The Best Man
1964
as William Russell
Too Late the Hero
1970
as Capt. John G Nolan
The Mad Miss Manton
1938
as Peter Ames
Stage Struck
1958
as Lewis Easton
Drums Along the Mohawk
1939
as Gilbert Martin
Gideon's Trumpet
1980
as Clarence Earl Gideon
City on Fire
1979
as Fire Chief Risley
You Only Live Once
1937
as Eddie Taylor
The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's
1980
as Self (archive footage)
The Last Four Days
1974
as Kardinal Schuster
The Fabulous Fifties
1960
as Narrator (segment "Fifties Dead Sequence") (voice)
The Magnificent Dope
1942
as Thadeus Winship 'Tad' Page
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
1961
as Self - Narrator
Directed by John Ford
1971
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
1997
as Self (archive footage)
Daisy Kenyon
1947
as Peter Lapham
Blockade
1938
as Marco
The Male Animal
1942
as Tommy Turner
Stranger on the Run
1967
as Ben Chamberlain
The Great Smokey Roadblock
1978
as Elegant John
Jigsaw
1949
as Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
Fonda on Fonda
1992
as Self (archive footage)
An Opera of Violence
2003
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Sometimes a Great Notion
1971
as Henry Stamper
Spendthrift
1936
as Townsend Middleton
Chad Hanna
1940
as Chad Hanna
Tales of Manhattan
1942
as George
The Battle of Midway
1942
as Narrator (voice)
The Man Who Understood Women
1959
as Willie Bauche
The Red Pony
1973
as Carl Tiflin
Henry Fonda for President
2025
as Self (archive footage)
Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth
2020
as Self(archive footage)
The Dirty Game
1965
as Dimitri Koulov
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
1936
as Dave Tolliver
Welcome to Hard Times
1967
as Mayor Will Blue
Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur
1976
as Gen. Douglas MacArthur
Spanish Western
2015
as Self (archive footage)
Inside 'the Swarm'
1978
as Self
Benjy
1951
as Narrator (voice)
Immortal Sergeant
1943
as Corporal Colin Spence
The Oldest Living Graduate
1980
as Col. J.C. Kincaid
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
1939
as Thomas Watson
You Belong to Me
1941
as Peter Kirk
A Special Sesame Street Christmas
1978
as Self
Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984
as (archive footage)
Way Down East
1935
as David Bartlett
The Farmer Takes a Wife
1935
as Dan Harrow
Wild Geese Calling
1941
as John Murdock
I Dream Too Much
1935
as Johnny Street
Breakdowns of 1938
1938
as Self (archive footage)
The Alpha Caper
1973
as Mark Forbes
John Ford: The Man Who Invented America
2019
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Ash Wednesday
1973
as Mark Sawyer
Soldier's Home
1977
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
On Our Merry Way
1948
as Lank Solsky
That Certain Woman
1937
as Jack V. Merrick, Jr.
Rappaccini's Daughter
1980
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
Let Us Live
1939
as "Brick" Tennant
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Making '12 Angry Men'
2008
as Self (archive footage)
Revisiting 'Fail-Safe'
2000
as Self (archive footage)
Let Poland Be Poland
1982
as Self
The Golden Honeymoon
1980
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
The American West of John Ford
1971
as Self - Narrator
Summer Solstice
1981
as Joshua
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
1990
as (archive footage)
The Wages of Sin
2003
as Self (archive footage)
Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero
1997
as Self (archive footage)
About 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 (… With 199 credits spanning from 1935 to 2025, Henry Fonda has appeared in 167 films and 32 TV shows.
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Most Popular Henry Fonda Movies
- 12 Angry Men (1957) — as Juror 8
- Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) — as Frank
- Midway (1976) — as Adm. Chester W. Nimitz
- The Longest Day (1962) — as Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
- Sex and the Single Girl (1964) — as Frank Broderick
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