Henry Fonda
Age: N/A | From: Grand Island, Nebraska, USA
Person Details
Birthday:
Aliases: Hank Fonda , Henry Jaynes Fonda , One-Take Fonda
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Grand Island, Nebraska, USA
Homepage: http://www.henry-fonda.com/
Movie Involvements: 132
TV Involvements: 19
Most Famous Work
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Henry Fonda, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Most Famous Work
Tony Awards
(1956) Self - Presenter
12 Angry Men
(1957) Juror 8
Once Upon a Time in the West
(1968) Frank
Dinah!
(1974) Self
Family
(1976) James Lawrence
The Kennedy Center Honors
(1978) Self
The Deputy
(1959) Marshal Simon Fry
Midway
(1976) Adm. Chester W. NimitzActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2023 | Self - Actor (archive footage) | |
| 2020 | Self (archive footage) | |
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| 2019 | Self - Actor (archive footage) | |
| 2018 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2015 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2013 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2008 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2006 | Self (archive footage) | |
| Prof. Tommy Turner (archive footage) | ||
| 2004 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2003 | Self (archive footage) | |
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| Self - Actor (archive footage) | ||
| 2000 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1997 | Self (archive footage) | |
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| 1993 | Hugues (archive footage) | |
| 1992 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1991 | N/A | |
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| 1990 | (archive footage) | |
| 1988 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1984 | (archive footage) | |
| 1982 | Self | |
| 1981 | Joshua | |
| Norman Thayer Jr. | ||
| Self - Series Host (uncredited) | ||
| 1980 | Clarence Earl Gideon | |
| Col. J.C. Kincaid | ||
| Self - Series Host (uncredited) | ||
| Self - Series Host (uncredited) | ||
| Self - Series Host (uncredited) | ||
| Self - Series Host (uncredited) | ||
| Self - Series Host (uncredited) | ||
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| Self - Series Host (uncredited) | ||
| Self - Series Host (uncredited) | ||
| 1979 | The President | |
| Fire Chief Risley | ||
| Self | ||
| Old Prospector | ||
| Col. Frederick Warner | ||
| 1978 | Self | |
| Self | ||
| Dr. Walter Krim | ||
| President of the Academy | ||
| Elegant John | ||
| Grandpa George | ||
| Generale Foster | ||
| Self | ||
| 1977 | Guest Performer | |
| Simon Davenport | ||
| Self - Series Host (uncredited) | ||
| Self - Series Host (uncredited) | ||
| Mr. Whitehead | ||
| Self - Series Host (uncredited) | ||
| Self - Series Host (uncredited) | ||
| Self - Host | ||
| 1976 | Self - Series Host (uncredited) | |
| Sen. Enfield Bassett | ||
| Adm. Chester W. Nimitz | ||
| James Lawrence | ||
| Gen. Douglas MacArthur | ||
| 1975 | Self | |
| 1974 | Self | |
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| Clarence Darrow | ||
| Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | ||
| Kardinal Schuster | ||
| 1973 | Jack Beauregard | |
| Mark Sawyer | ||
| Mark Forbes | ||
| Self | ||
| Alan Davies | ||
| Self | ||
| Carl Tiflin | ||
| 1971 | Henry Stamper | |
| Self - Narrator | ||
| Self | ||
| N/A | ||
| Self | ||
| Chad Smith | ||
| Self | ||
| 1970 | Woodward W. Lopeman | |
| Harley Sullivan | ||
| Capt. John G Nolan | ||
| 1969 | Joshua Richards | |
| N/A | ||
| John Steinbeck (voice) | ||
| 1968 | Frank | |
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| John S. Bottomly | ||
| Henry Fonda (uncredited) | ||
| Self - Guest | ||
| Frank Beardsley | ||
| Commissioner Anthony X. Russell | ||
| Bob Larkin | ||
| Narrator | ||
| 1967 | Narrator | |
| Ben Chamberlain | ||
| Mayor Will Blue | ||
| 1966 | Narrator (voice) | |
| Narrator | ||
| Meredith | ||
| Self - Narrator | ||
| 1965 | Lt Col Kiley | |
| Dimitri Koulov | ||
| CINCPAC II | ||
| Marion 'Howdy' Lewis | ||
| 1964 | Frank Broderick | |
| The President | ||
| Self | ||
| William Russell | ||
| 1963 | Clay Spencer | |
| Self - Host | ||
| 1962 | Narrator / Host | |
| Jethro Stuart | ||
| Self | ||
| Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. | ||
| Robert Leffingwell | ||
| Self | ||
| 1961 | Self - Narrator | |
| Self | ||
| 1960 | Narrator (segment "Fifties Dead Sequence") (voice) | |
| 1959 | Willie Bauche | |
| Marshal Simon Fry | ||
| Clay Blaisedell | ||
| 1958 | Lewis Easton | |
| 1957 | Morgan Hickman | |
| Juror 8 | ||
| 1956 | Manny Balestrero | |
| Pierre Bezukhov | ||
| Self - Guest | ||
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| Self - Nominee | ||
| Self - Host | ||
| Self - Co-Host/Special Award Recipient | ||
| Self - Host / Presenter | ||
| Self - Presenter | ||
| 1955 | Lieutenant Roberts | |
| Alan Squier | ||
| Self - Host | ||
| 1953 | Emmett Kelly | |
| 1952 | Narrator (voice) | |
| 1951 | Clarence Earl Gideon | |
| Narrator: Grant Wood episode (voice) | ||
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| 1950 | Self - Mystery Guest | |
| 1949 | Nightclub Waiter (uncredited) | |
| 1948 | Self | |
| Actor - Dramatic Reading | ||
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| Lt. Col. Owen Thursday | ||
| Lank Solsky | ||
| 1947 | Peter Lapham | |
| A Fugitive | ||
| Joe Adams | ||
| 1946 | Wyatt Earp | |
| 1943 | Corporal Colin Spence | |
| Gil Carter | ||
| 1942 | Narrator (voice) | |
| Narrator | ||
| Agustus 'Little Pinks' Pinkerton, II | ||
| George | ||
| Thadeus Winship 'Tad' Page | ||
| John Wheeler | ||
| Tommy Turner | ||
| 1941 | Peter Kirk | |
| John Murdock | ||
| Charles Pike | ||
| 1940 | Chad Hanna | |
| Frank James | ||
| Alexander Moore | ||
| Tom Joad | ||
| 1939 | Gilbert Martin | |
| Abraham Lincoln | ||
| Thomas Watson | ||
| "Brick" Tennant | ||
| Frank James | ||
| 1938 | Self (archive footage) | |
| Peter Ames | ||
| Jim Kimmerlee | ||
| Marco | ||
| Preston Dillard | ||
| Ives Towner | ||
| 1937 | Jack V. Merrick, Jr. | |
| Slim | ||
| Kerry Gilfallen | ||
| Eddie Taylor | ||
| 1936 | Townsend Middleton | |
| Anthony Amberton / John Smith | ||
| Dave Tolliver | ||
| 1935 | Johnny Street | |
| David Bartlett | ||
| Dan Harrow | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Production
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1959 | Executive Producer | |
| 1957 | Producer | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
