
Henry Fonda
Born May 16, 1905 · 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. 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

12 Angry Men

Once Upon a Time in the West

Sex and the Single Girl

The Longest Day

How the West Was Won

Midway

The Grapes of Wrath

My Name Is Nobody

War and Peace

My Darling Clementine

Battle of the Bulge

The Ox-Bow Incident

On Golden Pond

Yours, Mine and Ours

The Wrong Man

The Cheyenne Social Club

In Harm's Way

Fort Apache

Directed by John Ford

The Swarm

Fail Safe

You Only Live Once

The Fugitive

The Tin Star

Warlock

Mister Roberts
TV Shows

The Merv Griffin Show

The Dick Cavett Show

Tony Awards

Spécial cinéma

Dinah!

All in the Family

The Steve Allen Show

The Ed Sullivan Show

The Doris Day Show

People's Choice Awards

Family

Parkinson

The Kennedy Center Honors

The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts

The Deputy

The Bell Telephone Hour

Roots: The Next Generations

The Bill Cosby Show

The American Film Institute Salute to ...

Cadet Rousselle

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Captains and the Kings

The Star and the Story

The Smith Family

General Electric Theater

The World About Us
More Movies

There Was a Crooked Man...

Too Late the Hero

The Boston Strangler

A Big Hand for the Little Lady

Jesse James

The Story of Alexander Graham Bell

The Return of Frank James

Meteor

Fedora

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

Advise & Consent

Welcome to Hard Times

Drums Along the Mohawk

The Lady Eve

On Our Merry Way

Sometimes a Great Notion

Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To

The Mad Miss Manton

The Jilting of Granny Weatherall

Madigan

The Best Man

Young Mr. Lincoln

Citizen Jane Fonda

Rollercoaster

The Long Night

The Trail of the Lonesome Pine

Going Hollywood: The '30s

Firecreek

Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line

La Classe américaine

Tentacles

Let Poland Be Poland

Rings on Her Fingers

Jezebel

Daisy Kenyon

The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's

Stranger on the Run

Henry Fonda for President

The Blue Hotel

The Serpent

The Oldest Living Graduate

The Battle of Midway

Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth

The Great Smokey Roadblock

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

Spencer's Mountain

Hollywood: The Selznick Years

Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire

Gideon's Trumpet

Benjy

The Big Street

Wanda Nevada

Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia

The Rounders

Tales of Manhattan

Spawn of the North

City on Fire

The Alpha Caper

The Dirty Game

A Special Sesame Street Christmas

Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still

The Man Who Understood Women

The Biggest Battle

John Ford: The Man Who Invented America

The Last Four Days

I Met My Love Again

I'm a Fool

The Fabulous Fifties

You Belong to Me

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

Slim

President Kennedy's Birthday Salute

The Making of Midway

The Farmer Takes a Wife

Let Us Live

Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur

The Male Animal

The Moon's Our Home

'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War

Bernice Bobs Her Hair

The American West of John Ford

The Greatest Man in the World

Pictura

That Certain Woman

An Opera of Violence

The Red Pony

The Sky Is Gray

Jezebel: Legend of the South

The Wages of Sin

I Dream Too Much

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

Something to Do with Death

Stage Struck

John Ford & Monument Valley

Breakdowns of 1938

Wings of the Morning

Guilt Trip: Hitchcock and 'The Wrong Man'

Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero

Inside 'the Swarm'

An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer

Summer Solstice

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Making '12 Angry Men'

Way Down East

The Fondas: A Cinematic Dynasty

The Petrified Forest

Fonda on Fonda

Paul's Case

Henry James' The Jolly Corner

Spanish Western

Blockade

Immortal Sergeant

Jigsaw

Lillian Russell

The Magnificent Dope

Pat Paulsen for President

Chad Hanna

Clarence Darrow

Parker Adderson, Philosopher

Ash Wednesday

Soldier's Home

Parkinson: Meet Henry Fonda

Spendthrift

The Golden Honeymoon

Wild Geese Calling

Home to Stay

Rappaccini's Daughter

Hollywood: The Fabulous Era

The Displaced Person

Sacco and Vanzetti

The Really Big Family

Barn Burning

The Music School

A Space to Grow

It's Everybody's War

Underground Doctors




