Henry Fonda

Actor

Born May 16, 1905 in Grand Island, Nebraska, USA

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.

Filmography

Henry Fonda for President

Self (archive footage)

The Fondas: A Cinematic Dynasty

Self - Actor (archive footage)

Citizen Jane Fonda

Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth

Self(archive footage)

'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War

Self (archive footage)

John Ford: The Man Who Invented America

Self - Actor (archive footage)

Spanish Western

Self (archive footage)

Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia

Self (archive footage)

John Ford & Monument Valley

Self (archive footage)

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Making '12 Angry Men'

Self (archive footage)

Jezebel: Legend of the South

Self (archive footage)

Sacco and Vanzetti

Prof. Tommy Turner (archive footage)

Guilt Trip: Hitchcock and 'The Wrong Man'

Self (archive footage)

Something to Do with Death

Self (archive footage)

The Wages of Sin

Self (archive footage)

An Opera of Violence

Self - Actor (archive footage)

The Making of Midway

Self

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

(archive footage)

Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line

Self (archive footage)

Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero

Self (archive footage)

100 Years at the Movies

Self (archive footage)

La Classe américaine

Hugues (archive footage)

Fonda on Fonda

Self (archive footage)

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire

Self (archive footage)

Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To

(archive footage)

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

Self (archive footage)

Going Hollywood: The '30s

(archive footage)

Let Poland Be Poland

Self

Summer Solstice

Joshua

On Golden Pond

Norman Thayer Jr.

The Greatest Man in the World

Self - Series Host (uncredited)

Gideon's Trumpet

Clarence Earl Gideon

The Oldest Living Graduate

Col. J.C. Kincaid

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

Self - Series Host (uncredited)

Barn Burning

Self - Series Host (uncredited)

The Jilting of Granny Weatherall

Self - Series Host (uncredited)

Paul's Case

Self - Series Host (uncredited)

The Golden Honeymoon

Self - Series Host (uncredited)

The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's

Self (archive footage)

Rappaccini's Daughter

Self - Series Host (uncredited)

The Sky Is Gray

Self - Series Host (uncredited)

Meteor

The President

City on Fire

Fire Chief Risley

Wanda Nevada

Old Prospector

Roots: The Next Generations

Colonel Frederick Warner

The Kennedy Center Honors

Self

A Special Sesame Street Christmas

Self

Fedora

President of the Academy

The Swarm

Dr. Walter Krim

The Great Smokey Roadblock

Elegant John

Home to Stay

Grandpa George

The Biggest Battle

Generale Foster

Inside 'the Swarm'

Self

Rollercoaster

Simon Davenport

Soldier's Home

Self - Series Host (uncredited)

The Blue Hotel

Self - Series Host (uncredited)

The Displaced Person

Self - Series Host (uncredited)

I'm a Fool

Self - Series Host (uncredited)

Tentacles

Mr. Whitehead

Underground Doctors

Self - Host

Bernice Bobs Her Hair

Self - Series Host (uncredited)

Captains and the Kings

Sen. Enfield Bassett

Midway

Adm. Chester W. Nimitz

Family

James Lawrence

Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur

Gen. Douglas MacArthur

Parkinson: Meet Henry Fonda

Self

People's Choice Awards

Self

Henry James' The Jolly Corner

Narrator

Dinah!

Self

Spécial cinéma

Self (archive footage)

Clarence Darrow

Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Last Four Days

Kardinal Schuster

The Music School

Narrator (voice)

My Name Is Nobody

Jack Beauregard

Ash Wednesday

Mark Sawyer

The Alpha Caper

Mark Forbes

The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts

Self

The Serpent

Alan Davies

The American Film Institute Salute to ...

Self

The Red Pony

Carl Tiflin

Sometimes a Great Notion

Henry Stamper

The American West of John Ford

Self - Narrator

Cadet Rousselle

Self

Directed by John Ford

The Smith Family

Chad Smith

All in the Family

Self

There Was a Crooked Man...

Woodward W. Lopeman

The Cheyenne Social Club

Harley Sullivan

Too Late the Hero

Capt. John G Nolan

The Bill Cosby Show

Joshua Richards

An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer

John Steinbeck (voice)

Once Upon a Time in the West

Frank

Pat Paulsen for President

Narrator (voice)

The Boston Strangler

John S. Bottomly

The Doris Day Show

Henry Fonda (uncredited)

The Dick Cavett Show

Self - Guest

Yours, Mine and Ours

Frank Beardsley

Madigan

Commissioner Anthony X. Russell

Firecreek

Bob Larkin

A Space to Grow

Narrator

The World About Us

Narrator

Stranger on the Run

Ben Chamberlain

Welcome to Hard Times

Mayor Will Blue

A Big Hand for the Little Lady

Meredith

The Really Big Family

Self - Narrator

Battle of the Bulge

Lt Col Kiley

The Dirty Game

Dimitri Koulov

In Harm's Way

CINCPAC II

The Rounders

Marion 'Howdy' Lewis

Sex and the Single Girl

Frank Broderick

Fail Safe

The President

The Best Man

William Russell

Spencer's Mountain

Clay Spencer

Hollywood: The Great Stars

Self - Host

Hollywood: The Fabulous Era

Narrator / Host

How the West Was Won

Jethro Stuart

The Merv Griffin Show

Self

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Self

The Longest Day

Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr.

Advise & Consent

Robert Leffingwell

President Kennedy's Birthday Salute

Self

Hollywood: The Selznick Years

Self - Narrator

The Mike Douglas Show

Self

The Fabulous Fifties

Narrator (segment "Fifties Dead Sequence") (voice)

The Man Who Understood Women

Willie Bauche

The Deputy

Marshal Simon Fry

Warlock

Clay Blaisedell

The Bell Telephone Hour

Self - Host

Stage Struck

Lewis Easton

The Tin Star

Morgan Hickman

12 Angry Men

Juror 8

The Wrong Man

Manny Balestrero

War and Peace

Pierre Bezukhov

The Steve Allen Show

Self

Tony Awards

Self - Host / Presenter

Mister Roberts

Lieutenant Roberts

The Petrified Forest

Alan Squier

The Star and the Story

Self - Host

General Electric Theater

Emmett Kelly

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Clarence Earl Gideon

Pictura

Narrator (segment "Grant Wood") (voice)

Benjy

Narrator (voice)

What's My Line?

Self - Mystery Guest

Jigsaw

Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)

The Ed Sullivan Show

Self

Fort Apache

Lt. Col. Owen Thursday

On Our Merry Way

Lank Solsky

Daisy Kenyon

Peter Lapham

The Fugitive

A Fugitive

The Long Night

Joe Adams

My Darling Clementine

Wyatt Earp

Golden Globe Awards

Self - Cecil B. DeMille Award Recipient

Immortal Sergeant

Corporal Colin Spence

The Ox-Bow Incident

Gil Carter

The Battle of Midway

Narrator (voice)

It's Everybody's War

Narrator

The Big Street

Little Pinks

Tales of Manhattan

George

The Magnificent Dope

Thadeus Winship 'Tad' Page

Rings on Her Fingers

John Wheeler

The Male Animal

Tommy Turner

You Belong to Me

Peter Kirk

Wild Geese Calling

John Murdock

The Lady Eve

Charles Pike

Chad Hanna

The Return of Frank James

Frank James

Lillian Russell

Alexander Moore

The Grapes of Wrath

Tom Joad

Drums Along the Mohawk

Gilbert Martin

Young Mr. Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

The Story of Alexander Graham Bell

Thomas Watson

Let Us Live

"Brick" Tennant

Jesse James

Frank James

Breakdowns of 1938

Self (archive footage)

The Mad Miss Manton

Peter Ames

Spawn of the North

Jim Kimmerlee

Blockade

Marco

Jezebel

Preston Dillard

I Met My Love Again

Ives Towner

That Certain Woman

Jack V. Merrick, Jr.

Slim

Slim Kincaid

Wings of the Morning

Kerry Gilfallen

You Only Live Once

Eddie Taylor

Spendthrift

Townsend Middleton

The Moon's Our Home

Anthony Amberton / John Smith

The Trail of the Lonesome Pine

Dave Tolliver

I Dream Too Much

Johnny Street

Way Down East

David Bartlett

The Farmer Takes a Wife

Dan Harrow