Henry Fonda
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.
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1905-05-16
Place of birth
Grand Island, Nebraska, USA
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Cast
The Ox-Bow Incident
1943
7.71
Fail Safe
1964
7.81
The Grapes of Wrath
1940
7.82
The Lady Eve
1941
7.23
My Darling Clementine
1946
7.45
Jezebel: Legend of the South
2006
7.00
Jezebel
1938
7.00
Rollercoaster
1977
6.00
Daisy Kenyon
1947
6.60
Madigan
1968
6.10
Firecreek
1968
6.33
The Tin Star
1957
7.00
Midway
1976
6.60
War and Peace
1956
6.70
The Wrong Man
1956
7.10
On Golden Pond
1981
7.25
'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War
2020
0.00
The Wages of Sin
2003
7.40
Something to Do with Death
2003
6.00
The Rounders
1965
5.52
How the West Was Won
1962
6.99
My Name Is Nobody
1973
7.26
The Longest Day
1962
7.60
There Was a Crooked Man...
1970
6.80
The Boston Strangler
1968
6.70
Sex and the Single Girl
1964
6.40
Tales of Manhattan
1942
6.21
Yours, Mine and Ours
1968
6.90
Battle of the Bulge
1965
6.90
Sometimes a Great Notion
1971
6.95
Meteor
1979
5.12
The Cheyenne Social Club
1970
6.30
The Great Smokey Roadblock
1978
5.60
A Big Hand for the Little Lady
1966
7.10
The Best Man
1964
7.21
Fort Apache
1948
7.01
The Fugitive
1947
5.90
Warlock
1959
6.70
The Return of Frank James
1940
6.30
Jesse James
1939
6.50
Young Mr. Lincoln
1939
7.20
The Mad Miss Manton
1938
6.30
The Serpent
1973
6.10
The Long Night
1947
5.55
Mister Roberts
1955
7.04
Gideon's Trumpet
1980
6.00
Spencer's Mountain
1963
6.70
In Harm's Way
1965
6.56
La Classe américaine
1993
7.57
Jigsaw
1949
4.80
Directed by John Ford
1971
6.88
Stiletto
1969
5.00
Breakdowns of 1938
1938
4.70
Wanda Nevada
1979
5.60
Advise & Consent
1962
7.15
Sacco and Vanzetti
2006
7.00
The Swarm
1978
5.01
Hollywood: The Fabulous Era
1962
0.00
Hollywood: The Great Stars
1963
4.00
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
1961
3.50
Tentacles
1977
4.60
Let Us Live
1939
6.80
The Biggest Battle
1978
4.40
The Greatest Man in the World
1981
4.00
You Only Live Once
1937
7.11
Drums Along the Mohawk
1939
6.42
On Our Merry Way
1948
5.56
The Male Animal
1942
3.90
Fedora
1978
6.68
The Battle of Midway
1942
5.84
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
1936
6.50
Immortal Sergeant
1943
5.81
Spawn of the North
1938
5.68
That Certain Woman
1937
5.38
Rings on Her Fingers
1942
6.46
You Belong to Me
1941
5.80
The Big Street
1942
5.58
The Man Who Loved Bears
1979
4.00
The Fondas: A Cinematic Dynasty
2023
10.00
Stranger on the Run
1967
5.50
City on Fire
1979
5.00
The Moon's Our Home
1936
6.60
An Opera of Violence
2003
6.00
Inside 'the Swarm'
1978
7.00
Revisiting 'Fail-Safe'
2000
0.00
Stage Struck
1958
5.90
Chad Hanna
1940
6.00
Blockade
1938
5.54
Welcome to Hard Times
1967
5.06
Wings of the Morning
1937
6.10
Lillian Russell
1940
6.10
Slim
1937
6.30
The Dirty Game
1965
5.55
Born to Buck
1966
4.00
The Farmer Takes a Wife
1935
6.10
I Met My Love Again
1938
5.40
I Dream Too Much
1935
5.13
Benjy
1951
6.00
The Man Who Understood Women
1959
3.00
Way Down East
1935
3.00
The Alpha Caper
1973
5.50
Spendthrift
1936
5.00
The Red Pony
1973
0.00
Clarence Darrow
1974
9.00
Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984
10.00
Rappaccini's Daughter
1980
6.70
The Sky Is Gray
1980
4.00
The Golden Honeymoon
1980
4.00
Paul's Case
1980
3.00
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
1976
5.20
The Blue Hotel
1977
4.70
The Displaced Person
1977
6.00
Soldier's Home
1977
4.00
Barn Burning
1980
4.50
Pictura
1951
0.00
The Magnificent Dope
1942
7.20
Ash Wednesday
1973
5.40
The Really Big Family
1966
4.00
Wild Geese Calling
1941
5.80
John Ford & Monument Valley
2013
1.00
The Real Miss America
1952
0.00
It's Everybody's War
1942
5.70
The American West of John Ford
1971
6.20
Let Poland Be Poland
1982
0.00
Pat Paulsen for President
1968
4.00
The Oldest Living Graduate
1980
4.00
The Fabulous Fifties
1960
5.30
The Last Four Days
1974
6.20
To Save a Soldier
1966
4.00
Henry Fonda for President
2025
0.00
Summer Solstice
1981
4.00
Parkinson: Meet Henry Fonda
1975
4.00
Too Late the Hero
1970
6.40
Home to Stay
1978
3.00
A Space to Grow
1968
5.80
12 Angry Men
1957
8.55
Once Upon a Time in the West
1968
8.28
Spanish Western
2015
6.20
I'm a Fool
1977
4.00
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
1980
4.00
The Petrified Forest
1955
6.80
Fonda on Fonda
1992
6.00
Underground Doctors
1977
6.00
Henry James' The Jolly Corner
1975
4.00
The Music School
1974
4.00
Parker Adderson, Philosopher
1974
4.00
