Acting
Henry Fonda
EN, DE, FR, ES cinema · 167 credits
Born
16 May 1905
Died
12 August 1982 (aged 77)
Birthplace
Grand Island, Nebraska, USA
Also known as Hank Fonda · Henry Jaynes Fonda · One-Take Fonda · هنری فوندا
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
Filmography
Loving Against Time: the Making of On Golden Pond
Loving Against Time: the Making of On Golden Pond
as (archive footage)
Henry Fonda for President
as Self (archive footage)
The Fondas: A Cinematic Dynasty
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War
as Self (archive footage)
Citizen Jane Fonda
as Self (archive footage)
Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth
as Self(archive footage)
John Ford: The Man Who Invented America
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Spanish Western
as Self (archive footage)
John Ford & Monument Valley
as Self (archive footage)
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
as Self (archive footage)
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Making '12 Angry Men'
as Self (archive footage)
Jezebel: Legend of the South
as Self (archive footage)
Sacco and Vanzetti
as Prof. Tommy Turner (archive footage)
Guilt Trip: Hitchcock and 'The Wrong Man'
as Self (archive footage)
Something to Do with Death
as Self (archive footage)
The Wages of Sin
as Self (archive footage)
An Opera of Violence
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
The Making of Midway
as Self (archive footage)
Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults
as (archive footage)
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
as Self (archive footage)
Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero
as Self (archive footage)
La Classe américaine
as Hugues (archive footage)
Fonda on Fonda
as Self (archive footage)
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
as Self (archive footage)
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
as (archive footage)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
as Self (archive footage)
Going Hollywood: The '30s
as (archive footage)
On Golden Pond
as Norman Thayer Jr.
The Greatest Man in the World
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
Summer Solstice
as Joshua
The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's
as Self (archive footage)
Gideon's Trumpet
as Clarence Earl Gideon
Rappaccini's Daughter
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
The Sky Is Gray
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
The Golden Honeymoon
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
Paul's Case
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
Barn Burning
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
The Oldest Living Graduate
as Col. J.C. Kincaid
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
Meteor
as The President
Wanda Nevada
as Old Prospector
City on Fire
as Fire Chief Risley
The Great Smokey Roadblock
as Elegant John
The Swarm
as Dr. Krim
The Biggest Battle
as Generale Foster
Fedora
as President of the Academy
Home to Stay
as Grandpa George
Rollercoaster
as Simon Davenport
Tentacles
as Mr. Whitehead
The Blue Hotel
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
The Displaced Person
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
Soldier's Home
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
I'm a Fool
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
Underground Doctors
as Self - Host
Midway
as Adm. Chester W. Nimitz
Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur
as Gen. Douglas MacArthur
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
Henry James' The Jolly Corner
as Narrator
Clarence Darrow
as Clarence Darrow
The Last Four Days
as Kardinal Schuster
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Music School
as Narrator (voice)
Parker Adderson, Philosopher
as Narrator (Voice)
My Name Is Nobody
as Jack Beauregard
The Serpent
as Alan Davies
The Alpha Caper
as Mark Forbes
The Red Pony
as Carl Tiflin
Ash Wednesday
as Mark Sawyer
Sometimes a Great Notion
as Henry Stamper
The American West of John Ford
as Self - Narrator
There Was a Crooked Man...
as Woodward W. Lopeman
The Cheyenne Social Club
as Harley Sullivan
Too Late the Hero
as Capt. John G Nolan
An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer
as John Steinbeck (voice)
Madigan
as Commissioner Anthony X. Russell
Firecreek
as Bob Larkin
The Boston Strangler
as John S. Bottomly
Yours, Mine and Ours
as Frank Beardsley
Pat Paulsen for President
as Narrator (voice)
A Space to Grow
as Narrator
Stranger on the Run
as Ben Chamberlain
Welcome to Hard Times
as Mayor Will Blue
A Big Hand for the Little Lady
as Meredith
Born to Buck
1966
Born to Buck
as Narrator
The Really Big Family
as Self - Narrator
To Save a Soldier
1966
To Save a Soldier
as Narrator (voice)
The Rounders
as Marion 'Howdy' Lewis
Battle of the Bulge
as Lt. Col. Daniel Kiley
In Harm's Way
as CINCPAC II
The Dirty Game
as Dimitri Koulov
Fail Safe
as The President
Sex and the Single Girl
as Frank Broderick
The Best Man
as William Russell
Spencer's Mountain
as Clay Spencer
Hollywood: The Great Stars
as Self - Host
How the West Was Won
as Jethro Stuart
The Longest Day
as Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
Advise & Consent
as Robert Leffingwell
Hollywood: The Fabulous Era
as Narrator / Host
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
as Self - Narrator
The Fabulous Fifties
as Narrator (segment "Fifties Dead Sequence") (voice)
Warlock
as Clay Blaisedell
The Man Who Understood Women
as Willie Bauche
Stage Struck
as Lewis Easton
The Tin Star
as Morgan Hickman
12 Angry Men
as Juror 8, Producer
War and Peace
as Pierre Bezukhov
The Wrong Man
as Manny Balestrero
Mister Roberts
as Lieutenant Roberts
The Petrified Forest
as Alan Squier
The Real Miss America
1952
The Real Miss America
as Narrator (voice)
Benjy
as Narrator (voice)
Pictura
as Narrator (segment "Grant Wood") (voice)
Jigsaw
as Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
Fort Apache
as Lt. Col. Owen Thursday
On Our Merry Way
as Lank Solsky
Daisy Kenyon
as Peter Lapham
The Fugitive
as A Fugitive
The Long Night
as Joe Adams
My Darling Clementine
as Wyatt Earp
The Ox-Bow Incident
as Gil Carter
Immortal Sergeant
as Corporal Colin Spence
Tales of Manhattan
as George
The Male Animal
as Tommy Turner
The Battle of Midway
as Narrator (voice)
Rings on Her Fingers
as John Wheeler
The Big Street
as Little Pinks
The Magnificent Dope
as Thadeus Winship 'Tad' Page
It's Everybody's War
as Narrator
The Lady Eve
as Charles Pike
You Belong to Me
as Peter Kirk
Wild Geese Calling
as John Murdock
The Grapes of Wrath
as Tom Joad
The Return of Frank James
as Frank James
Chad Hanna
as Chad Hanna
Lillian Russell
as Alexander Moore
Jesse James
as Frank James
Young Mr. Lincoln
as Abraham Lincoln
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
as Thomas Watson
Let Us Live
as "Brick" Tennant
Drums Along the Mohawk
as Gilbert Martin
Jezebel
as Preston Dillard
The Mad Miss Manton
as Peter Ames
Breakdowns of 1938
as Self (archive footage)
Spawn of the North
as Jim Kimmerlee
Blockade
as Marco
I Met My Love Again
as Ives Towner
You Only Live Once
as Eddie Taylor
That Certain Woman
as Jack V. Merrick, Jr.
Wings of the Morning
as Kerry Gilfallen
Slim
as Slim Kincaid
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
as Dave Tolliver
The Moon's Our Home
as Anthony Amberton / John Smith
Spendthrift
as Townsend Middleton
The Farmer Takes a Wife
as Dan Harrow
I Dream Too Much
as Johnny Street
Way Down East
as David Bartlett