Cast
Henry Fonda
Acting
Cast
Henry Fonda
Known for
Acting
Born
1905-05-16
From
Grand Island, Nebraska, USA
Died
1982-08-12
Also known as Hank Fonda, Henry Jaynes Fonda, One-Take Fonda
Biography
Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 â 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.
12 Angry Men
as Juror 8
Once Upon a Time in the West
as Frank
Midway
as Adm. Chester W. Nimitz
The Longest Day
as Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
Sex and the Single Girl
as Frank Broderick
Fort Apache
as Lt. Col. Owen Thursday
How the West Was Won
as Jethro Stuart
My Name Is Nobody
as Jack Beauregard
The Swarm
as Dr. Walter Krim
War and Peace
as Pierre Bezukhov
Jezebel
as Preston Dillard
Mister Roberts
as Lieutenant Roberts
The Grapes of Wrath
as Tom Joad
Battle of the Bulge
as Lt Col Kiley
In Harm's Way
as CINCPAC II
Fail Safe
as The President
Meteor
as The President
Rollercoaster
as Simon Davenport
The Rounders
as Marion 'Howdy' Lewis
The Biggest Battle
as Generale Foster
My Darling Clementine
as Wyatt Earp
Warlock
as Clay Blaisedell
Advise & Consent
as Robert Leffingwell
The Lady Eve
as Charles Pike
The Boston Strangler
as John S. Bottomly
Yours, Mine and Ours
as Frank Beardsley
Madigan
as Commissioner Anthony X. Russell
The Tin Star
as Morgan Hickman
There Was a Crooked Man...
as Woodward W. Lopeman
On Golden Pond
as Norman Thayer Jr.
Jesse James
as Frank James
Young Mr. Lincoln
as Abraham Lincoln
Lillian Russell
as Alexander Moore
The Ox-Bow Incident
as Gil Carter
Spencer's Mountain
as Clay Spencer
The Wrong Man
as Manny Balestrero
Slim
as Slim Kincaid
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
as Self (archive footage)
Fedora
as President of the Academy
The Big Street
as Little Pinks
Tentacles
as Mr. Whitehead
Firecreek
as Bob Larkin
The Cheyenne Social Club
as Harley Sullivan
Wanda Nevada
as Old Prospector
La Classe américaine
as Hugues (archive footage)
Barn Burning
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
A Big Hand for the Little Lady
as Meredith
The Fugitive
as A Fugitive
Drums Along the Mohawk
as Gilbert Martin
The Serpent
as Alan Davies
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
The Return of Frank James
as Frank James
The Mad Miss Manton
as Peter Ames
The Long Night
as Joe Adams
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
as Self - Narrator
City on Fire
as Fire Chief Risley
The Great Smokey Roadblock
as Elegant John
Stage Struck
as Lewis Easton
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
as Self (archive footage)
The Best Man
as William Russell
Way Down East
as David Bartlett
Immortal Sergeant
as Corporal Colin Spence
The Fabulous Fifties
as Narrator (segment "Fifties Dead Sequence") (voice)
The Male Animal
as Tommy Turner
Gideon's Trumpet
as Clarence Earl Gideon
The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's
as Self (archive footage)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
as Self (archive footage)
The Last Four Days
as Kardinal Schuster
Spanish Western
as Self (archive footage)
You Only Live Once
as Eddie Taylor
Directed by John Ford
Too Late the Hero
as Capt. John G Nolan
Blockade
as Marco
Daisy Kenyon
as Peter Lapham
An Opera of Violence
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
The Dirty Game
as Dimitri Koulov
Jigsaw
as Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
Tales of Manhattan
as George
Stranger on the Run
as Ben Chamberlain
The Magnificent Dope
as Thadeus Winship 'Tad' Page
The Battle of Midway
as Narrator (voice)
The Oldest Living Graduate
as Col. J.C. Kincaid
The Red Pony
as Carl Tiflin
You Belong to Me
as Peter Kirk
Welcome to Hard Times
as Mayor Will Blue
Breakdowns of 1938
as Self (archive footage)
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
as Thomas Watson
Let Poland Be Poland
as Self
Sometimes a Great Notion
as Henry Stamper
I Dream Too Much
as Johnny Street
Benjy
as Narrator (voice)
Going Hollywood: The '30s
as (archive footage)
Fonda on Fonda
as Self (archive footage)
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
as Dave Tolliver
Soldier's Home
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
The Alpha Caper
as Mark Forbes
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
That Certain Woman
as Jack V. Merrick, Jr.
Jay Sebring⊠Cutting to the Truth
as Self(archive footage)
Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero
as Self (archive footage)
Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur
as Gen. Douglas MacArthur
Spendthrift
as Townsend Middleton
Ash Wednesday
as Mark Sawyer
John Ford: The Man Who Invented America
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Wild Geese Calling
as John Murdock
The Man Who Understood Women
as Willie Bauche
The American West of John Ford
as Self - Narrator
I'm a Fool
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
A Special Sesame Street Christmas
as Self
On Our Merry Way
as Lank Solsky
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
as (archive footage)
Rappaccini's Daughter
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
Chad Hanna
as Chad Hanna
The Farmer Takes a Wife
as Dan Harrow
Spawn of the North
as Jim Kimmerlee
The Wages of Sin
as Self (archive footage)
The Greatest Man in the World
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
Let Us Live
as "Brick" Tennant
Henry Fonda for President
as Self (archive footage)
Revisiting 'Fail-Safe'
as Self (archive footage)
The Making of Midway
as Self
Parkinson: Meet Henry Fonda
as Self
Citizen Jane Fonda
Summer Solstice
as Joshua
The Petrified Forest
as Alan Squier
Inside 'the Swarm'
as Self
The Golden Honeymoon
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Making '12 Angry Men'
as Self (archive footage)
Born to Buck
as Narrator
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
as Self (archive footage)
The Moon's Our Home
as Anthony Amberton / John Smith
Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults
as (archive footage)
Rings on Her Fingers
as John Wheeler
'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War
as Self (archive footage)
The Music School
as Narrator (voice)
Home to Stay
as Grandpa George
The Displaced Person
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
John Ford & Monument Valley
as Self (archive footage)
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
President Kennedy's Birthday Salute
as Self
The Sky Is Gray
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
Paul's Case
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
Henry James' The Jolly Corner
as Narrator
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
Something to Do with Death
as Self (archive footage)
It's Everybody's War
as Narrator
Clarence Darrow
as Clarence Darrow
Sacco and Vanzetti
as Prof. Tommy Turner (archive footage)
Pictura
as Narrator (segment "Grant Wood") (voice)
The Real Miss America
as Narrator (voice)
I Met My Love Again
as Ives Towner
The Fondas: A Cinematic Dynasty
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Jezebel: Legend of the South
as Self (archive footage)
Underground Doctors
as Self - Host
Parker Adderson, Philosopher
as Narrator (Voice)
Hollywood: The Fabulous Era
as Narrator / Host
Guilt Trip: Hitchcock and 'The Wrong Man'
as Self (archive footage)
The Blue Hotel
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
The Man Who Loved Bears
as Self
An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer
as John Steinbeck (voice)
Wings of the Morning
as Kerry Gilfallen
Pat Paulsen for President
as Narrator (voice)
A Space to Grow
as Narrator
To Save a Soldier
as Narrator (voice)
The Really Big Family
as Self - Narrator
Hollywood: The Great Stars
as Self - Host