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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Henry Fonda, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Grand Island, Nebraska, USA, 1905-05-16

Died: 1982-08-12

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1935	The Farmer Takes a Wife	Dan Harrow	61
2	1935	Way Down East	David Bartlett	30
3	1935	I Dream Too Much	Johnny Street	50
4	1936	The Trail of the Lonesome Pine	Dave Tolliver	64
5	1936	The Moon's Our Home	Anthony Amberton / John Smith	65
6	1936	Spendthrift	Townsend Middleton	50
7	1937	You Only Live Once	Eddie Taylor	71
8	1937	Wings of the Morning	Kerry Gilfallen	61
9	1937	Slim	Slim Kincaid	63
10	1937	That Certain Woman	Jack V. Merrick, Jr.	57
11	1938	I Met My Love Again	Ives Towner	54
12	1938	Jezebel	Preston Dillard	70
13	1938	Blockade	Marco	54
14	1938	Spawn of the North	Jim Kimmerlee	56
15	1938	The Mad Miss Manton	Peter Ames	64
16	1938	Breakdowns of 1938	Self (archive footage)	50
17	1939	Jesse James	Frank James	64
18	1939	Let Us Live	"Brick" Tennant	68
19	1939	The Story of Alexander Graham Bell	Thomas Watson	60
20	1939	Young Mr. Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln	72
21	1939	Drums Along the Mohawk	Gilbert Martin	64
22	1940	The Grapes of Wrath	Tom Joad	78
23	1940	Lillian Russell	Alexander Moore	61
24	1940	The Return of Frank James	Frank James	63
25	1940	Chad Hanna	Chad Hanna	60
26	1941	The Lady Eve	Charles Pike	72
27	1941	Wild Geese Calling	John Murdock	58
28	1941	You Belong to Me	Peter Kirk	58
29	1942	The Male Animal	Tommy Turner	41
30	1942	Rings on Her Fingers	John Wheeler	65
31	1942	The Magnificent Dope	Thadeus Winship 'Tad' Page	72
32	1942	Tales of Manhattan	George	63
33	1942	The Big Street	Agustus 'Little Pinks' Pinkerton, II	58
34	1942	It's Everybody's War	Narrator	56
35	1942	The Battle of Midway	Narrator (voice)	58
36	1943	The Ox-Bow Incident	Gil Carter	77
37	1943	Immortal Sergeant	Corporal Colin Spence	56
38	1946	My Darling Clementine	Wyatt Earp	75
39	1947	The Long Night	Joe Adams	57
40	1947	The Fugitive	A Fugitive	59
41	1947	Daisy Kenyon	Peter Lapham	67
42	1948	On Our Merry Way	Lank Solsky	55
43	1948	Fort Apache	Lt. Col. Owen Thursday	70
44	1949	Jigsaw	Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)	48
45	1951	Benjy	Narrator (voice)	65
46	1951	Pictura	Narrator: Grant Wood episode (voice)	0
47	1952	The Real Miss America	Narrator (voice)	0
48	1955	The Petrified Forest	Alan Squier	68
49	1955	Mister Roberts	Lieutenant Roberts	70
50	1956	War and Peace	Pierre Bezukhov	67
51	1956	The Wrong Man	Manny Balestrero	71
52	1957	12 Angry Men	Juror 8	85
53	1957	The Tin Star	Morgan Hickman	70
54	1958	Stage Struck	Lewis Easton	59
55	1959	Warlock	Clay Blaisedell	67
56	1959	The Man Who Understood Women	Willie Bauche	33
57	1960	The Fabulous Fifties	Narrator (segment "Fifties Dead Sequence") (voice)	60
58	1961	Hollywood: The Selznick Years	Self - Narrator	33
59	1962	President Kennedy's Birthday Salute	Self	73
60	1962	Advise & Consent	Robert Leffingwell	72
61	1962	The Longest Day	Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr.	76
62	1962	How the West Was Won	Jethro Stuart	70
63	1962	Hollywood: The Fabulous Era	Narrator / Host	0
64	1963	Hollywood: The Great Stars	Self - Host	0
65	1963	Spencer's Mountain	Clay Spencer	67
66	1964	The Best Man	William Russell	73
67	1964	Fail Safe	The President	78
68	1964	Sex and the Single Girl	Frank Broderick	66
69	1965	The Rounders	Marion 'Howdy' Lewis	56
70	1965	In Harm's Way	CINCPAC II	66
71	1965	The Dirty Game	Dimitri Koulov	58
72	1965	Battle of the Bulge	Lt Col Kiley	69
73	1966	The Really Big Family	Self - Narrator	0
74	1966	A Big Hand for the Little Lady	Meredith	71
75	1966	Born to Buck	Narrator	0
76	1966	To Save a Soldier	Narrator (voice)	0
77	1967	Welcome to Hard Times	Mayor Will Blue	50
78	1967	Stranger on the Run	Ben Chamberlain	54
79	1968	A Space to Grow	Narrator	62
80	1968	Firecreek	Bob Larkin	64
81	1968	Madigan	Commissioner Anthony X. Russell	62
82	1968	Yours, Mine and Ours	Frank Beardsley	68
83	1968	The Boston Strangler	John S. Bottomly	67
84	1968	Pat Paulsen for President	Narrator (voice)	0
85	1968	Once Upon a Time in the West	Frank	83
86	1969	An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer	John Steinbeck (voice)	50
87	1969	Stiletto		52
88	1970	Too Late the Hero	Capt. John G Nolan	65
89	1970	The Cheyenne Social Club	Harley Sullivan	64
90	1970	There Was a Crooked Man...	Woodward W. Lopeman	68
91	1971	Directed by John Ford		69
92	1971	The American West of John Ford	Self - Narrator	63
93	1971	Sometimes a Great Notion	Henry Stamper	69
94	1973	The Red Pony	Carl Tiflin	0
95	1973	The Serpent	Alan Davies	61
96	1973	The Alpha Caper	Mark Forbes	70
97	1973	Ash Wednesday	Mark Sawyer	54
98	1973	My Name Is Nobody	Jack Beauregard	73
99	1974	The Music School	Narrator (voice)	0
100	1974	Parker Adderson, Philosopher	Narrator (Voice)	0
101	1974	The Last Four Days	Kardinal Schuster	62
102	1974	Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	73
103	1974	Clarence Darrow	Clarence Darrow	90
104	1975	Henry James' The Jolly Corner	Narrator	0
105	1975	Parkinson: Meet Henry Fonda	Self	0
106	1976	Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur	Gen. Douglas MacArthur	0
107	1976	Midway	Adm. Chester W. Nimitz	66
108	1976	Bernice Bobs Her Hair	Self - Series Host (uncredited)	56
109	1977	The Blue Hotel	Self - Series Host (uncredited)	50
110	1977	Soldier's Home	Self - Series Host (uncredited)	0
111	1977	Underground Doctors	Self - Host	60
112	1977	Tentacles	Mr. Whitehead	46
113	1977	I'm a Fool	Self - Series Host (uncredited)	0
114	1977	The Displaced Person	Self - Series Host (uncredited)	70
115	1977	Rollercoaster	Simon Davenport	60
116	1978	Inside 'the Swarm'	Self	100
117	1978	The Biggest Battle	Generale Foster	47
118	1978	Home to Stay	Grandpa George	20
119	1978	The Great Smokey Roadblock	Elegant John	59
120	1978	Fedora	President of the Academy	67
121	1978	The Swarm	Dr. Walter Krim	49
122	1978	A Special Sesame Street Christmas	Self	63
123	1979	Wanda Nevada	Old Prospector	57
124	1979	The Man Who Loved Bears	Self	0
125	1979	City on Fire	Fire Chief Risley	50
126	1979	Meteor	The President	51
127	1980	Rappaccini's Daughter	Self - Series Host (uncredited)	80
128	1980	The Sky Is Gray	Self - Series Host (uncredited)	0
129	1980	The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's	Self (archive footage)	0
130	1980	The Golden Honeymoon	Self - Series Host (uncredited)	0
131	1980	Paul's Case	Self - Series Host (uncredited)	33
132	1980	The Jilting of Granny Weatherall	Self - Series Host (uncredited)	0
133	1980	The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg	Self - Series Host (uncredited)	0
134	1980	Barn Burning	Self - Series Host (uncredited)	47
135	1980	The Oldest Living Graduate	Col. J.C. Kincaid	0
136	1980	Gideon's Trumpet	Clarence Earl Gideon	62
137	1981	The Greatest Man in the World	Self - Series Host (uncredited)	0
138	1981	On Golden Pond	Norman Thayer Jr.	72
139	1981	Summer Solstice	Joshua	55
140	1982	Let Poland Be Poland	Self	0
141	1984	Going Hollywood: The '30s	(archive footage)	100
142	1988	The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind	Self (archive footage)	80
143	1990	Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To	(archive footage)	90
144	1991	Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire	Self (archive footage)	57
145	1991	Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker		77
146	1992	Fonda on Fonda	Self (archive footage)	60
147	1993	La Classe américaine	Hugues (archive footage)	76
148	1997	Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero	Self (archive footage)	0
149	1997	Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line	Self (archive footage)	70
150	1999	Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults	Self (Archival Footage)	0
151	2000	Revisiting 'Fail-Safe'	Self (archive footage)	0
152	2003	The Wages of Sin	Self (archive footage)	74
153	2003	Something to Do with Death	Self (archive footage)	60
154	2003	An Opera of Violence	Self - Actor (archive footage)	60
155	2004	Guilt Trip: Hitchcock and 'The Wrong Man'	Self (archive footage)	65
156	2006	Sacco and Vanzetti	Prof. Tommy Turner (archive footage)	70
157	2006	Jezebel: Legend of the South	Self (archive footage)	0
158	2008	Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Making '12 Angry Men'	Self (archive footage)	0
159	2013	John Ford & Monument Valley	Self (archive footage)	10
160	2013	Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia	Self (archive footage)	78
161	2015	Spanish Western	Self (archive footage)	62
162	2018	Jane Fonda in Five Acts	Self (archive footage)	75
163	2019	John Ford: The Man Who Invented America	Self - Actor (archive footage)	65
164	2020	'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War	Self (archive footage)	0
165	2020	Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth	Self (archive footage)	75
166	2020	Charles Bronson: The Spirit of Masculinity	Self (archive footage)	78
167	2023	The Fondas: A Cinematic Dynasty	Self - Actor (archive footage)	100
168	2025	Henry Fonda for President	Self (archive footage)	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Cecil B. DeMille Award Recipient	72
2	1948	The Ed Sullivan Show	Self	68
3	1950	What's My Line?	Self - Mystery Guest	69
4	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Clarence Earl Gideon	86
5	1953	General Electric Theater	Emmett Kelly	63
6	1955	The Star and the Story	Self - Host	70
7	1956	Tony Awards	Self (archive footage)	51
8	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Nominee	51
9	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Host	51
10	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Co-Host/Special Award Recipient	51
11	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Host / Presenter	51
12	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Presenter	51
13	1956	The Steve Allen Show	Self - Guest	56
14	1959	The Bell Telephone Hour	Self - Host	73
15	1959	The Deputy	Marshal Simon Fry	62
16	1961	The Mike Douglas Show	Self	54
17	1962	The Merv Griffin Show	Self	58
18	1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	Self	75
19	1967	The World About Us	Narrator	77
20	1968	The Dick Cavett Show	Self - Guest	67
21	1968	The Doris Day Show	Henry Fonda (uncredited)	53
22	1969	The Bill Cosby Show	Joshua Richards	54
23	1971	All in the Family	Self	79
24	1971	The Smith Family	Chad Smith	60
25	1971	V.I.P. Schaukel	Self	60
26	1971	Cadet Rousselle	Self	0
27	1973	The American Film Institute Salute to ...	Self	63
28	1973	The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts	Self	54
29	1974	Spécial cinéma	Self (archive footage)	0
30	1974	Dinah!	Self	67
31	1976	Family	James Lawrence	72
32	1976	Captains and the Kings	Sen. Enfield Bassett	83
33	1977	Laugh-In	Guest Performer	58
34	1977	Laugh-In	Guest Performer (uncredited)	58
35	1978	The Kennedy Center Honors	Self	74
36	1979	Roots: The Next Generations	Col. Frederick Warner	75

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