Henry Fonda
Birthday
1905/05/16
Day of death
1982/08/12 (77 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Grand Island, Nebraska, USA
Also know as
Hank Fonda, Henry Jaynes Fonda, One-Take Fonda, هنری فوندا
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...Read more
Acting
(1943) The Ox-Bow Incident
as Gil Carter
(1964) Fail Safe
as The President
(1940) The Grapes of Wrath
as Tom Joad
(1941) The Lady Eve
as Charles Pike
(1946) My Darling Clementine
as Wyatt Earp
(2006) Jezebel: Legend of the South
as Self (archive footage)
(1938) Jezebel
as Preston Dillard
(1977) Rollercoaster
as Simon Davenport
(1947) Daisy Kenyon
as Peter Lapham
(1968) Madigan
as Commissioner Anthony X. Russell
(1968) Firecreek
as Bob Larkin
(1957) The Tin Star
as Morgan Hickman
(1976) Midway
as Adm. Chester W. Nimitz
(1956) War and Peace
as Pierre Bezukhov
(1956) The Wrong Man
as Manny Balestrero
(1981) On Golden Pond
as Norman Thayer Jr.
(2003) Something to Do with Death
as Self (archive footage)
(2020) 'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War
as Self (archive footage)
(2003) The Wages of Sin
as Self (archive footage)
(2008) Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Making '12 Angry Men'
as Self (archive footage)
(1965) The Rounders
as Marion 'Howdy' Lewis
(1962) How the West Was Won
as Jethro Stuart
(1973) My Name Is Nobody
as Jack Beauregard
(1962) The Longest Day
as Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
(1970) There Was a Crooked Man...
as Woodward W. Lopeman
(1968) The Boston Strangler
as John S. Bottomly
(1964) Sex and the Single Girl
as Frank Broderick
(1942) Tales of Manhattan
as George
(1968) Yours, Mine and Ours
as Frank Beardsley
(1965) Battle of the Bulge
as Lt Col Kiley
(1971) Sometimes a Great Notion
as Henry Stamper
(1979) Meteor
as The President
(1970) The Cheyenne Social Club
as Harley Sullivan
(1980) The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's
as Self (archive footage)
(1978) The Great Smokey Roadblock
as Elegant John
(1966) A Big Hand for the Little Lady
as Meredith
(1964) The Best Man
as William Russell
(1948) Fort Apache
as Lt. Col. Owen Thursday
(1947) The Fugitive
as A Fugitive
(1959) Warlock
as Clay Blaisedell
(1940) The Return of Frank James
as Frank James
(1939) Jesse James
as Frank James
(1939) Young Mr. Lincoln
as Abraham Lincoln
(1938) The Mad Miss Manton
as Peter Ames
(1973) The Serpent
as Alan Davies
(1947) The Long Night
as Joe Adams
(1955) Mister Roberts
as Lieutenant Roberts
(1980) Gideon's Trumpet
as Clarence Earl Gideon
(1963) Spencer's Mountain
as Clay Spencer
(1965) In Harm's Way
as CINCPAC II
(1993) La Classe américaine
as Hugues (archive footage)
(1964) Hollywood and the Stars
as Self
(1971) Directed by John Ford
as ---
(1949) Jigsaw
as Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
(1991) Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
as ---
(1938) Breakdowns of 1938
as Self (archive footage)
(1969) Stiletto
as ---
(1979) Wanda Nevada
as Old Prospector
(1962) Advise & Consent
as Robert Leffingwell
(2006) Sacco and Vanzetti
as Prof. Tommy Turner (archive footage)
(1978) The Swarm
as Dr. Walter Krim
(1963) Hollywood: The Great Stars
as Self - Host
(1961) Hollywood: The Selznick Years
as Self - Narrator
(1962) Hollywood: The Fabulous Era
as Narrator / Host
(1977) Tentacles
as Mr. Whitehead
(1939) The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
as Thomas Watson
(1939) Let Us Live
as "Brick" Tennant
(1978) The Biggest Battle
as Generale Foster
(1981) The Greatest Man in the World
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
(1937) You Only Live Once
as Eddie Taylor
(1939) Drums Along the Mohawk
as Gilbert Martin
(1948) On Our Merry Way
as Lank Solsky
(1942) The Male Animal
as Tommy Turner
(1978) Fedora
as President of the Academy
(1942) The Battle of Midway
as Narrator (voice)
(1936) The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
as Dave Tolliver
(1943) Immortal Sergeant
as Corporal Colin Spence
(1938) Spawn of the North
as Jim Kimmerlee
(1937) That Certain Woman
as Jack V. Merrick, Jr.
(1942) Rings on Her Fingers
as John Wheeler
(1941) You Belong to Me
as Peter Kirk
(1942) The Big Street
as Agustus 'Little Pinks' Pinkerton, II
(1979) The Man Who Loved Bears
as Self
(2023) The Fondas: A Cinematic Dynasty
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
(1967) Stranger on the Run
as Ben Chamberlain
(1979) City on Fire
as Fire Chief Risley
(1936) The Moon's Our Home
as Anthony Amberton / John Smith
(2003) An Opera of Violence
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
(1978) Inside 'the Swarm'
as Self
(2000) Revisiting 'Fail-Safe'
as Self (archive footage)
(1958) Stage Struck
as Lewis Easton
(1940) Chad Hanna
as Chad Hanna
(1938) Blockade
as Marco
(1976) Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur
as Gen. Douglas MacArthur
(1967) Welcome to Hard Times
as Mayor Will Blue
(1937) Wings of the Morning
as Kerry Gilfallen
(1940) Lillian Russell
as Alexander Moore
(1937) Slim
as Slim
(1965) The Dirty Game
as Dimitri Koulov
(1966) Born to Buck
as Narrator
(1935) The Farmer Takes a Wife
as Dan Harrow
(1938) I Met My Love Again
as Ives Towner
(1935) I Dream Too Much
as Johnny Street
(1951) Benjy
as Narrator (voice)
(1959) The Man Who Understood Women
as Willie Bauche
(1935) Way Down East
as David Bartlett
(1969) An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer
as John Steinbeck (voice)
(1973) The Alpha Caper
as Mark Forbes
(1936) Spendthrift
as Townsend Middleton
(1973) The Red Pony
as Carl Tiflin
(1974) Clarence Darrow
as Clarence Darrow
(1984) Going Hollywood: The '30s
as (archive footage)
(1980) Rappaccini's Daughter
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
(1980) The Sky Is Gray
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
(1980) The Golden Honeymoon
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
(1980) Paul's Case
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
(1977) The Blue Hotel
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
(1976) Bernice Bobs Her Hair
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
(1977) The Displaced Person
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
(1977) Soldier's Home
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
(1980) The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
(1980) Barn Burning
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
(2004) Guilt Trip: Hitchcock and 'The Wrong Man'
as Self (archive footage)
(1951) Pictura
as Narrator: Grant Wood episode (voice)
(1942) The Magnificent Dope
as Thadeus Winship 'Tad' Page
(1973) Ash Wednesday
as Mark Sawyer
(1966) The Really Big Family
as Self - Narrator
(1941) Wild Geese Calling
as John Murdock
(2013) John Ford & Monument Valley
as Self (archive footage)
(1952) The Real Miss America
as Narrator (voice)
(1942) It's Everybody's War
as Narrator
(1997) Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
as Self (archive footage)
(1971) The American West of John Ford
as Self - Narrator
(1982) Let Poland Be Poland
as Self
(1968) Pat Paulsen for President
as Narrator (voice)
(1997) Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero
as Self (archive footage)
(1980) The Oldest Living Graduate
as Col. J.C. Kincaid
(1960) The Fabulous Fifties
as Narrator (segment "Fifties Dead Sequence") (voice)
(1974) The Last Four Days
as Kardinal Schuster
(1966) To Save a Soldier
as Narrator (voice)
(1974) Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
(2020) Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth
as Self (archive footage)
(2025) Henry Fonda for President
as Self (archive footage)
(1981) Summer Solstice
as Joshua
(1991) Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
as Self (archive footage)
(1975) Parkinson: Meet Henry Fonda
as Self
(1970) Too Late the Hero
as Capt. John G Nolan
(1978) A Special Sesame Street Christmas
as Self
(1990) Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
as (archive footage)
(1988) The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
as Self (archive footage)
(1978) Home to Stay
as Grandpa George
(2019) John Ford: The Man Who Invented America
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
(1968) A Space to Grow
as Narrator
(1957) 12 Angry Men
as Juror 8
(2015) Spanish Western
as Self (archive footage)
(1968) Once Upon a Time in the West
as Frank
(1977) I'm a Fool
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
(1980) The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
(2020) Charles Bronson: The Spirit of Masculinity
as Self (archive footage)
(1955) The Petrified Forest
as Alan Squier
(1962) President Kennedy's Birthday Salute
as Self
(1992) Fonda on Fonda
as Self (archive footage)
(1977) Underground Doctors
as Self - Host
(2018) Jane Fonda in Five Acts
as Self (archive footage)
(1971) All in the Family
as Self
(1969) The Bill Cosby Show
as Joshua Richards
(1962) The Merv Griffin Show
as Self
(1948) The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
(1953) General Electric Theater
as Emmett Kelly
(1951) Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Clarence Earl Gideon
(1979) Roots: The Next Generations
as Col. Frederick Warner
(1959) The Deputy
as Marshal Simon Fry
(1973) The American Film Institute Salute to ...
as Self
(1956) The Steve Allen Show
as Self - Guest
(1976) Captains and the Kings
as Sen. Enfield Bassett
(1971) The Smith Family
as Chad Smith
(1978) The Kennedy Center Honors
as Self
(1955) The Star and the Story
as Self - Host
(1956) Tony Awards
as Self (archive footage)
(1961) The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
(1976) Family
as James Lawrence
(1974) Dinah!
as Self
(1956) Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee
(1956) Tony Awards
as Self - Host
(1967) The World About Us
as Narrator
(1977) Laugh-In
as Guest Performer
(1950) What's My Line?
as Self - Mystery Guest
(1956) Tony Awards
as Self - Co-Host/Special Award Recipient
(1971) V.I.P. Schaukel
as Self
(1974) Spécial cinéma
as Self (archive footage)
(1971) Cadet Rousselle
as Self
(1956) Tony Awards
as Self - Presenter
(1956) Tony Awards
as Self - Host / Presenter
(1968) The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
(1973) The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
as Self
(1968) The Doris Day Show
as Henry Fonda (uncredited)
(1944) Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Cecil B. DeMille Award Recipient
(1962) The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
(1977) Laugh-In
as Guest Performer (uncredited)