Henry Fonda

ActorProducer May 16 (died age 77) Grand Island, Nebraska, USA 1935–2025 (90 year career)

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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…

Known For

Film

12 Angry Men

Juror 8

Film

Once Upon a Time in the West

Frank

Film

The Grapes of Wrath

Tom Joad

Film

The Longest Day

Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr.

Film

My Name Is Nobody

Jack Beauregard

Film

Fail Safe

The President

Film

The Ox-Bow Incident

Gil Carter

Film

My Darling Clementine

Wyatt Earp

Filmography

Acting (204)

Movies (168)

Henry Fonda for President

2025

as Self (archive footage)

7.0

The Fondas: A Cinematic Dynasty

2023

as Self - Actor (archive footage)

10.0

Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth

2020

as Self(archive footage)

7.5

Citizen Jane Fonda

2020

7.8

'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War

2020

as Self (archive footage)

John Ford: The Man Who Invented America

2019

as Self - Actor (archive footage)

6.5

Spanish Western

2015

as Self (archive footage)

6.2

John Ford & Monument Valley

2013

as Self (archive footage)

1.0

Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia

2013

as Self (archive footage)

7.8

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Making '12 Angry Men'

2008

as Self (archive footage)

Jezebel: Legend of the South

2006

as Self (archive footage)

7.0

Sacco and Vanzetti

2006

as Prof. Tommy Turner (archive footage)

7.0

Guilt Trip: Hitchcock and 'The Wrong Man'

2004

as Self (archive footage)

6.5

Something to Do with Death

2003

as Self (archive footage)

6.0

An Opera of Violence

2003

as Self - Actor (archive footage)

6.0

The Wages of Sin

2003

as Self (archive footage)

7.4

The Making of Midway

2001

as Self

Revisiting 'Fail-Safe'

2000

as Self (archive footage)

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

1999

as (archive footage)

Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line

1997

as Self (archive footage)

7.5

Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero

1997

as Self (archive footage)

La Classe américaine

1993

as Hugues (archive footage)

7.6

Fonda on Fonda

1992

as Self (archive footage)

6.0

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

1991

7.7

Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire

1991

as Self (archive footage)

5.7

Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To

1990

as (archive footage)

9.0

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

1988

as Self (archive footage)

8.0

Going Hollywood: The '30s

1984

as (archive footage)

10.0

Let Poland Be Poland

1982

as Self

On Golden Pond

1981

as Norman Thayer Jr.

7.3

The Greatest Man in the World

1981

as Self - Series Host (uncredited)

Summer Solstice

as Joshua

Paul's Case

as Self - Series Host (uncredited)

3.0

Rappaccini's Daughter

1980

as Self - Series Host (uncredited)

6.7

Gideon's Trumpet

1980

as Clarence Earl Gideon

6.0

The Golden Honeymoon

1980

as Self - Series Host (uncredited)

4.0

The Oldest Living Graduate

1980

as Col. J.C. Kincaid

4.0

Barn Burning

1980

as Self - Series Host (uncredited)

4.5

The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's

1980

as Self (archive footage)

4.0

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

1980

as Self - Series Host (uncredited)

4.0

The Sky Is Gray

1980

as Self - Series Host (uncredited)

4.0

The Jilting of Granny Weatherall

1980

as Self - Series Host (uncredited)

4.0

Meteor

1979

as The President

5.2

The Man Who Loved Bears

as Self

Wanda Nevada

as Old Prospector

City on Fire

as Fire Chief Risley

Home to Stay

as Grandpa George

The Great Smokey Roadblock

1978

as Elegant John

5.6

Fedora

1978

as President of the Academy

The Swarm

as Dr. Walter Krim

The Biggest Battle

as Generale Foster

Inside 'the Swarm'

as Self

A Special Sesame Street Christmas

as Self

Tentacles

as Mr. Whitehead

Rollercoaster

as Simon Davenport

I'm a Fool

as Self - Series Host (uncredited)

4.0

Soldier's Home

1977

as Self - Series Host (uncredited)

Underground Doctors

as Self - Host

The Displaced Person

as Self - Series Host (uncredited)

6.0

The Blue Hotel

1977

as Self - Series Host (uncredited)

4.7

Midway

1976

as Adm. Chester W. Nimitz

6.6

Bernice Bobs Her Hair

1976

as Self - Series Host (uncredited)

5.2

Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur

1976

as Gen. Douglas MacArthur

4.0

Parkinson: Meet Henry Fonda

1975

as Self

4.0

Henry James' The Jolly Corner

as Narrator

The Music School

as Narrator (voice)

Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still

1974

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

7.0

The Last Four Days

1974

as Kardinal Schuster

6.2

Parker Adderson, Philosopher

as Narrator (Voice)

Clarence Darrow

as Clarence Darrow

My Name Is Nobody

as Jack Beauregard

The Alpha Caper

as Mark Forbes

The Red Pony

as Carl Tiflin

Ash Wednesday

as Mark Sawyer

The Serpent

as Alan Davies

Directed by John Ford

1971

6.9

Sometimes a Great Notion

1971

as Henry Stamper

7.0

The American West of John Ford

1971

as Self - Narrator

6.2

Too Late the Hero

1970

as Capt. John G Nolan

6.4

There Was a Crooked Man...

1970

as Woodward W. Lopeman

6.8

The Cheyenne Social Club

as Harley Sullivan

Stiletto

An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer

1969

as John Steinbeck (voice)

4.5

Once Upon a Time in the West

as Frank

A Space to Grow

as Narrator

Madigan

as Commissioner Anthony X. Russell

Yours, Mine and Ours

as Frank Beardsley

The Boston Strangler

as John S. Bottomly

Firecreek

as Bob Larkin

Pat Paulsen for President

as Narrator (voice)

Stranger on the Run

as Ben Chamberlain

Welcome to Hard Times

1967

as Mayor Will Blue

5.1

The Really Big Family

1966

as Self - Narrator

4.0

A Big Hand for the Little Lady

as Meredith

Born to Buck

as Narrator

To Save a Soldier

as Narrator (voice)

In Harm's Way

as CINCPAC II

Battle of the Bulge

as Lt Col Kiley

The Rounders

as Marion 'Howdy' Lewis

5.5

The Dirty Game

1965

as Dimitri Koulov

5.5

Sex and the Single Girl

as Frank Broderick

Fail Safe

as The President

The Best Man

as William Russell

Spencer's Mountain

as Clay Spencer

Hollywood: The Great Stars

1963

as Self - Host

4.0

The Longest Day

1962

as Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr.

How the West Was Won

as Jethro Stuart

Advise & Consent

as Robert Leffingwell

7.1

Hollywood: The Fabulous Era

1962

as Narrator / Host

President Kennedy's Birthday Salute

1962

as Self

7.3

Hollywood: The Selznick Years

1961

as Self - Narrator

3.5

The Fabulous Fifties

1960

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

5.3

Warlock

1959

as Clay Blaisedell

6.7

The Man Who Understood Women

as Willie Bauche

Stage Struck

as Lewis Easton

12 Angry Men

as Juror 8

The Tin Star

as Morgan Hickman

The Wrong Man

as Manny Balestrero

War and Peace

as Pierre Bezukhov

Mister Roberts

as Lieutenant Roberts

7.1

The Petrified Forest

1955

as Alan Squier

6.8

The Real Miss America

1952

as Narrator (voice)

Benjy

1951

as Narrator (voice)

6.0

Pictura

1951

as Narrator: Grant Wood episode (voice)

Jigsaw

1949

as Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)

4.8

Fort Apache

1948

as Lt. Col. Owen Thursday

On Our Merry Way

as Lank Solsky

Daisy Kenyon

as Peter Lapham

The Fugitive

as A Fugitive

The Long Night

as Joe Adams

My Darling Clementine

as Wyatt Earp

The Ox-Bow Incident

as Gil Carter

Immortal Sergeant

as Corporal Colin Spence

Rings on Her Fingers

as John Wheeler

Tales of Manhattan

as George

The Battle of Midway

as Narrator (voice)

The Big Street

as Agustus 'Little Pinks' Pinkerton, II

5.6

The Magnificent Dope

1942

as Thadeus Winship 'Tad' Page

The Male Animal

as Tommy Turner

It's Everybody's War

as Narrator

The Lady Eve

as Charles Pike

You Belong to Me

as Peter Kirk

Wild Geese Calling

as John Murdock

The Grapes of Wrath

as Tom Joad

The Return of Frank James

as Frank James

Chad Hanna

as Chad Hanna

Lillian Russell

as Alexander Moore

Jesse James

as Frank James

Let Us Live

as "Brick" Tennant

Drums Along the Mohawk

as Gilbert Martin

Young Mr. Lincoln

as Abraham Lincoln

The Story of Alexander Graham Bell

as Thomas Watson

Jezebel

as Preston Dillard

The Mad Miss Manton

as Peter Ames

Spawn of the North

as Jim Kimmerlee

I Met My Love Again

as Ives Towner

Breakdowns of 1938

as Self (archive footage)

Blockade

as Marco

Slim

as Slim Kincaid

You Only Live Once

as Eddie Taylor

That Certain Woman

as Jack V. Merrick, Jr.

Wings of the Morning

as Kerry Gilfallen

Spendthrift

as Townsend Middleton

5.0

The Trail of the Lonesome Pine

1936

as Dave Tolliver

6.5

The Moon's Our Home

1936

as Anthony Amberton / John Smith

6.9

I Dream Too Much

1935

as Johnny Street

5.1

The Farmer Takes a Wife

as Dan Harrow

Way Down East

as David Bartlett

Television (36)

Roots: The Next Generations

1979

as Col. Frederick Warner

7.5

Roots: The Next Generations

1979

as Colonel Frederick Warner

7.5

The Kennedy Center Honors

1978

as Self

7.4

Laugh-In

1977

as Guest Performer (uncredited)

5.8

Family

1976

as James Lawrence

7.2

Captains and the Kings

1976

as Sen. Enfield Bassett

8.3

People's Choice Awards

as Self

Dinah!

as Self

Spécial cinéma

as Self (archive footage)

The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts

1973

as Self

5.4

The American Film Institute Salute to ...

as Self

All in the Family

as Self

V.I.P. Schaukel

as Self

Film '72

as Self

Cadet Rousselle

as Self

The Smith Family

as Chad Smith

The Bill Cosby Show

as Joshua Richards

The Dick Cavett Show

as Self - Guest

The Doris Day Show

as Henry Fonda (uncredited)

5.8

The World About Us

1967

as Narrator

7.8

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

1962

as Self

7.5

The Merv Griffin Show

1962

as Self

6.2

The Mike Douglas Show

1961

as Self

5.4

The Bell Telephone Hour

as Self - Host

The Deputy

as Marshal Simon Fry

Tony Awards

as Self - Host / Presenter

Tony Awards

as Self - Presenter

The Steve Allen Show

as Self

Tony Awards

as Self - Host / Presenter

Tony Awards

1956

as Self - Presenter

The Star and the Story

1955

as Self - Host

7.0

General Electric Theater

1953

as Emmett Kelly

6.4

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951

as Clarence Earl Gideon

8.6

What's My Line?

1950

as Self - Mystery Guest

The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self

Golden Globe Awards

as Self

Crew (2)

Movies (1)

12 Angry Men

1957

Producer

8.6

Television (1)

The Deputy

1959

Executive Producer

6.2