Acting
Henry Fonda
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.
Movies with Henry Fonda
12 Angry Men
1957
Once Upon a Time in the West
1968
Midway
1976
Sex and the Single Girl
1964
The Longest Day
1962
Yours, Mine and Ours
1968
How the West Was Won
1962
War and Peace
1956
My Name Is Nobody
1973
Battle of the Bulge
1965
The Grapes of Wrath
1940
Fort Apache
1948
On Golden Pond
1981
In Harm's Way
1965
Warlock
1959
The Wrong Man
1956
Jezebel
1938
Fail Safe
1964
The Ox-Bow Incident
1943
Fedora
1978
The Tin Star
1957
Firecreek
1968
Madigan
1968
Slim
1937
The Swarm
1978
A Big Hand for the Little Lady
1966
Directed by John Ford
1971
The Boston Strangler
1968
My Darling Clementine
1946
Too Late the Hero
1970
Drums Along the Mohawk
1939
Mister Roberts
1955
Young Mr. Lincoln
1939
The Alpha Caper
1973
La Classe américaine
1993
The Fabulous Fifties
1960
Gideon's Trumpet
1980
The Lady Eve
1941
Advise & Consent
1962
Jesse James
1939
Meteor
1979
The Biggest Battle
1978
Benjy
1951
Spencer's Mountain
1963
Tentacles
1977
The Serpent
1973
Let Us Live
1939
The Long Night
1947
The Rounders
1965
Rollercoaster
1977
The Fugitive
1947
100 Years at the Movies
1994
The Red Pony
1973
On Our Merry Way
1948
The Return of Frank James
1940
Spanish Western
2015
The Big Street
1942
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
1997
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
1991
The Cheyenne Social Club
1970
The Battle of Midway
1942
A Special Sesame Street Christmas
1978
The Last Four Days
1974
The Dirty Game
1965
The American West of John Ford
1971
City on Fire
1979
Clarence Darrow
1974
The Displaced Person
1977
Let Poland Be Poland
1982
Wanda Nevada
1979
There Was a Crooked Man...
1970
Spawn of the North
1938
Pictura
1951
Daisy Kenyon
1947
Fonda on Fonda
1992
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
1939
The Best Man
1964
I'm a Fool
1977
Sometimes a Great Notion
1971
You Only Live Once
1937
The Male Animal
1942
The Man Who Understood Women
1959
Tales of Manhattan
1942
John Ford: The Man Who Invented America
2019
Citizen Jane Fonda
2020
Sacco and Vanzetti
2006
You Belong to Me
1941
Lillian Russell
1940
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988
Parker Adderson, Philosopher
1974
The Making of Midway
2001
Soldier's Home
1977
Way Down East
1935
Stage Struck
1958
Rings on Her Fingers
1942
Inside 'the Swarm'
1978
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
1936
Henry Fonda for President
2025
Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991
Breakdowns of 1938
1938
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
1974
Jigsaw
1949
Spendthrift
1936
Welcome to Hard Times
1967
The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's
1980
The Mad Miss Manton
1938
Ash Wednesday
1973
Underground Doctors
1977
The Sky Is Gray
1980
I Met My Love Again
1938
The Blue Hotel
1977
The Great Smokey Roadblock
1978
Chad Hanna
1940
Stranger on the Run
1967
Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults
1999
That Certain Woman
1937
Jezebel: Legend of the South
2006
The Golden Honeymoon
1980
Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth
2020
Immortal Sergeant
1943
The Wages of Sin
2003
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
2013
Paul's Case
1980
The Man Who Loved Bears
1979
I Dream Too Much
1935
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
1990
Barn Burning
1980
Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero
1997
Parkinson: Meet Henry Fonda
1975
Wild Geese Calling
1941
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
1976
It's Everybody's War
1942
Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur
1976
The Farmer Takes a Wife
1935
Hollywood: The Fabulous Era
1962
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
1961
The Real Miss America
1952
The Oldest Living Graduate
1980
Wings of the Morning
1937
Blockade
1938
The Greatest Man in the World
1981
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Making '12 Angry Men'
2008
The Moon's Our Home
1936
John Ford & Monument Valley
2013
'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War
2020
Rappaccini's Daughter
1980
Home to Stay
1978
Hollywood: The Great Stars
1963
An Opera of Violence
2003
An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer
1969
Henry James' The Jolly Corner
1975
Something to Do with Death
2003
The Magnificent Dope
1942
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
1980
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
1980
The Petrified Forest
1955
The Really Big Family
1966
Guilt Trip: Hitchcock and 'The Wrong Man'
2004
The Music School
1974
Pat Paulsen for President
1968
President Kennedy's Birthday Salute
1962
Summer Solstice
1981
Born to Buck
1966
To Save a Soldier
1966
The Fondas: A Cinematic Dynasty
2023
A Space to Grow
1968
TV Shows with Henry Fonda
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
Spécial cinéma
1974
Golden Globe Awards
1944
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
Tony Awards
1956
The Deputy
1959
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
What's My Line?
1950
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
People's Choice Awards
1975
All in the Family
1971
The Steve Allen Show
1956
Dinah!
1974
Film '72
1971
Family
1976
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
1973
The Kennedy Center Honors
1978
Roots: The Next Generations
1979
The Doris Day Show
1968
The Bell Telephone Hour
1959
The Bill Cosby Show
1969
V.I.P. Schaukel
1971
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973
Cadet Rousselle
1971
Captains and the Kings
1976
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
The Star and the Story
1955
The Smith Family
1971
General Electric Theater
1953
The World About Us
1967
Laugh-In
1977