Henry Fonda

Acting · 2.2 popularity

Age

121

Movies

167

Born: May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982
From: Grand Island, Nebraska, USA
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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.

Works

167 films

12 Angry Men

19578.6

Once Upon a Time in the West

19688.3

The Longest Day

19627.6

Sex and the Single Girl

19646.6

How the West Was Won

19627.0

Midway

19766.6

War and Peace

19566.6

My Name Is Nobody

19737.3

Fail Safe

19647.8

Let Poland Be Poland

1982

The Swarm

19785.0

On Golden Pond

19817.3

The Grapes of Wrath

19407.8

Fort Apache

19487.0

Warlock

19596.8

The Wrong Man

19567.1

The Tin Star

19577.0

Yours, Mine and Ours

19686.9

Fedora

19786.7

Battle of the Bulge

19656.9

In Harm's Way

19656.6

My Darling Clementine

19467.5

A Special Sesame Street Christmas

19786.7

The Boston Strangler

19686.6

A Big Hand for the Little Lady

19667.1

Citizen Jane Fonda

20207.2

The Biggest Battle

19784.7

Jezebel

19387.0

Jesse James

19396.5

Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire

19916.5

The Ox-Bow Incident

19437.7

The Last Four Days

19746.3

Directed by John Ford

19717.0

Young Mr. Lincoln

19397.2

Madigan

19686.2

The Rounders

19655.5

The Lady Eve

19417.3

Slim

19376.5

Meteor

19795.2

John Ford: The Man Who Invented America

20195.9

Mister Roberts

19557.0

Too Late the Hero

19706.4

Firecreek

19686.3

The Serpent

19736.1

Sometimes a Great Notion

19716.9

Tentacles

19774.6

Drums Along the Mohawk

19396.5

The Best Man

19647.3

The Return of Frank James

19406.3

City on Fire

19795.1

Spencer's Mountain

19636.8

You Only Live Once

19377.1

The Long Night

19475.8

The Cheyenne Social Club

19706.4

Advise & Consent

19627.2

The Battle of Midway

19425.9

The Story of Alexander Graham Bell

19396.3

There Was a Crooked Man...

19706.8

Benjy

19516.2

Henry James' The Jolly Corner

19756.5

Rollercoaster

19776.0

La Classe américaine

19937.6

Summer Solstice

19815.0

The Fugitive

19476.0

Gideon's Trumpet

19806.4

Wanda Nevada

19795.8

The Trail of the Lonesome Pine

19366.5

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

19888.2

The Fabulous Fifties

19606.0

On Our Merry Way

19485.7

Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth

20207.5

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

19918.0

Daisy Kenyon

19476.6

Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line

19977.7

The Big Street

19425.8

The Dirty Game

19656.0

Welcome to Hard Times

19675.3

The Red Pony

197310.0

Tales of Manhattan

19426.4

The Great Smokey Roadblock

19785.7

Bernice Bobs Her Hair

19765.3

The Mad Miss Manton

19386.4

I Met My Love Again

19386.0

Breakdowns of 1938

19385.8

The Male Animal

19424.5

Inside 'the Swarm'

19788.0

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

19806.0

The Oldest Living Graduate

19804.0

Let Us Live

19396.8

Stage Struck

19586.0

The American West of John Ford

19716.4

An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer

19695.7

I Dream Too Much

19355.4

Lillian Russell

19406.7

Hollywood: The Selznick Years

19614.4

Way Down East

19354.3

Sacco and Vanzetti

20067.0

Henry Fonda for President

20257.0

Going Hollywood: The '30s

19849.0

Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero

19977.0

I'm a Fool

19776.0

Rings on Her Fingers

19426.8

Stranger on the Run

19675.7

Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults

19999.0

The Man Who Understood Women

19593.9

The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's

19804.0

Pictura

195110.0

Immortal Sergeant

19436.1

You Belong to Me

19416.0

Jigsaw

19495.0

The Jilting of Granny Weatherall

19804.0

The Golden Honeymoon

19806.0

Clarence Darrow

19749.5

The Magnificent Dope

19427.3

Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To

19908.5

Soldier's Home

19776.0

Barn Burning

19805.4

Ash Wednesday

19735.5

'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War

2020

Spawn of the North

19386.1

The Alpha Caper

19736.0

Jezebel: Legend of the South

20067.0

Something to Do with Death

20036.3

The Wages of Sin

20037.5

The Displaced Person

19777.0

An Opera of Violence

20036.8

Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia

20137.7

The Blue Hotel

19775.3

Parker Adderson, Philosopher

19747.0

Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still

19747.2

Spanish Western

20156.2

Spendthrift

19366.0

The Fondas: A Cinematic Dynasty

20239.0

The Greatest Man in the World

19817.0

Wild Geese Calling

19416.5

The Farmer Takes a Wife

19356.2

President Kennedy's Birthday Salute

19627.8

Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur

19764.0

Fonda on Fonda

19927.0

Chad Hanna

19407.3

Blockade

19385.8

To Save a Soldier

19667.0

Parkinson: Meet Henry Fonda

19754.0

The Making of Midway

20019.0

It's Everybody's War

19425.9

John Ford & Monument Valley

20131.0

The Petrified Forest

19556.8

That Certain Woman

19375.6

The Man Who Loved Bears

19794.0

Loving Against Time: the Making of On Golden Pond

2026

The Moon's Our Home

19366.9

Guilt Trip: Hitchcock and 'The Wrong Man'

20047.3

Wings of the Morning

19376.2

Home to Stay

19785.3

The Real Miss America

1952

Hollywood: The Fabulous Era

1962

The Really Big Family

19666.5

The Music School

19747.0

Paul's Case

19804.0

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Making '12 Angry Men'

2008

The Sky Is Gray

19807.0

Hollywood: The Great Stars

19634.0

Born to Buck

19667.0

Rappaccini's Daughter

19807.3

Pat Paulsen for President

19684.0

Underground Doctors

19776.0

A Space to Grow

19686.2