Henry Fonda
Acting
🎂 1905-05-16
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Henry Fonda, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Cast credits(204)
Self
1962
Self
1962
Self
1948
James Lawrence
1976
Self
1961
Self - Mystery Guest
1950
Self - Guest
1968
Self (archive footage)
1974
Self - Cecil B. DeMille Award Recipient
1944
Henry Fonda (uncredited)
1968
Self - Guest
1956
Self
1978
Self (archive footage)
1956
Self - Nominee
1956
Self - Host
1956
Self - Co-Host/Special Award Recipient
1956
Self - Host / Presenter
1956
Self - Presenter
1956
Self
1973
Self - Host
1959
Marshal Simon Fry
1959
Self
1971
Clarence Earl Gideon
1951
Self - Host
1955
Joshua Richards
1969
Frank
1968
Juror 8
1957
Self
1973
Self
1974
Narrator
1967
Chad Smith
1971
Adm. Chester W. Nimitz
1976
Emmett Kelly
1953
Col. Frederick Warner
1979
Self
1971
Sen. Enfield Bassett
1976
Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
1962
Bob Larkin
1968
Self
1971
Jethro Stuart
1962
Norman Thayer Jr.
1981
CINCPAC II
1965
Simon Davenport
1977
Jack Beauregard
1973
Tom Joad
1940
Frank Broderick
1964
Woodward W. Lopeman
1970
Wyatt Earp
1946
Preston Dillard
1938
The President
1964
Lt. Col. Owen Thursday
1948
Pierre Bezukhov
1956
Frank Beardsley
1968
Lt Col Kiley
1965
Clay Blaisedell
1959
The President
1979
Gil Carter
1943
Morgan Hickman
1957
Frank James
1940
Dr. Walter Krim
1978
Eddie Taylor
1937
Manny Balestrero
1956
Mr. Whitehead
1977
John S. Bottomly
1968
Charles Pike
1941
Lieutenant Roberts
1955
Guest Performer
1977
Guest Performer (uncredited)
1977
Narrator (voice)
1942
Abraham Lincoln
1939
Marion 'Howdy' Lewis
1965
Gilbert Martin
1939
President of the Academy
1978
Frank James
1939
Lank Solsky
1948
William Russell
1964
Harley Sullivan
1970
Commissioner Anthony X. Russell
1968
1969
Clarence Earl Gideon
1980
Self (archive footage)
2020
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
1976
Henry Stamper
1971
Clay Spencer
1963
Capt. John G Nolan
1970
Meredith
1966
George
1942
Agustus 'Little Pinks' Pinkerton, II
1942
Joe Adams
1947
Old Prospector
1979
Self (archive footage)
2013
Alan Davies
1973
A Fugitive
1947
Self (archive footage)
2018
Dave Tolliver
1936
Peter Ames
1938
Narrator (voice)
1951
1991
John Wheeler
1942
Robert Leffingwell
1962
Self (archive footage)
1988
Chad Hanna
1940
Col. J.C. Kincaid
1980
Self (archive footage)
2015
Elegant John
1978
Thomas Watson
1939
Tommy Turner
1942
Mayor Will Blue
1967
Ives Towner
1938
Self (archive footage)
1991
Dimitri Koulov
1965
Generale Foster
1978
Peter Kirk
1941
Mark Forbes
1973
Alexander Moore
1940
Hugues (archive footage)
1993
"Brick" Tennant
1939
Peter Lapham
1947
Self (archive footage)
2020
Alan Squier
1955
Self
1978
Self (archive footage)
2000
Corporal Colin Spence
1943
Prof. Tommy Turner (archive footage)
2006
Narrator (segment "Fifties Dead Sequence") (voice)
1960
Fire Chief Risley
1979
Self (archive footage)
2025
Slim Kincaid
1937
Jack V. Merrick, Jr.
1937
Mark Sawyer
1973
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
1980
Self
1962
(archive footage)
1984
1971
Self
1982
Self (archive footage)
1938
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
1977
Narrator: Grant Wood episode (voice)
1951
Townsend Middleton
1936
Lewis Easton
1958
Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
1949
Carl Tiflin
1973
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
1980
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
1977
Marco
1938
Johnny Street
1935
Jim Kimmerlee
1938
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
1977
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
1977
Narrator
1942
Self (archive footage)
1992
Ben Chamberlain
1967
Self (archive footage)
1980
Anthony Amberton / John Smith
1936
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1974
Self (archive footage)
1997
Self - Actor (archive footage)
2019
Kardinal Schuster
1974
Gen. Douglas MacArthur
1976
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
1980
(archive footage)
1990
Dan Harrow
1935
Willie Bauche
1959
Self - Narrator
1961
Self - Actor (archive footage)
2003
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
1980
Self
1978
Narrator / Host
1962
Self (archive footage)
2003
Self (archive footage)
2020
Thadeus Winship 'Tad' Page
1942
David Bartlett
1935
Self (archive footage)
2004
Self (archive footage)
2008
Grandpa George
1978
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
1981
Kerry Gilfallen
1937
Self (archive footage)
2003
John Murdock
1941
Self - Host
1963
Self (Archival Footage)
1999
Joshua
1981
Self - Narrator
1971
Self (archive footage)
1997
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
1980
Clarence Darrow
1974
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
1980
Narrator (voice)
1974
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
1980
Self (archive footage)
2013
John Steinbeck (voice)
1969
Self
1979
Narrator
1975
Self (archive footage)
2006
Narrator
1966
Self
1975
Self - Host
1977
Narrator
1968
Self - Actor (archive footage)
2023
Narrator (Voice)
1974
Narrator (voice)
1966
Narrator (voice)
1968
Self - Narrator
1966
Narrator (voice)
1952