Henry Fonda
Born in Grand Island, Nebraska, Henry Fonda started his acting debut with the Omaha Community Playhouse, a local amateur theater troupe directed by Dorothy Brando. He moved to the Cape Cod University Players and later Broadway, New York to expand his theatrical career from 1926 to 1934. His first major roles in Broadway include "New Faces of America" and "The Farmer Takes a Wife". The latter play was transfered to the screen in 1935 and became the start-up of Fonda's lifelong Hollywood career. The following year he married Frances Seymour Fonda with whom he had two children: Jane and Peter Fonda also to become screen stars. He is most remembered for his roles as Abe Lincoln in Young Mr. Lincoln (1939), Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath (1940), for which he received an Academy Award Nomination, and more recently, Norman Thayer in On Golden Pond (1981), for which he received an Academy Award for Best Actor in 1982. Henry Fonda is considered one of Hollywood's old-time legends and was friend and contemporary of James Stewart, John Ford and Joshua Logan. His movie career which spanned almost 50 years is completed by a notable presence in American theater and television.
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- Born:
- May 16, 1905 In Grand Island, Nebraska, USA
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 165
- First Appeared:
- In the movie The Farmer Takes a Wife 1935-07-05
- Latest Project:
- Movie Charles Bronson: The Spirit of Masculinity 2020-11-29
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | 'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War | Self (archive footage) | 2020-01-28 |
| Movie | Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth | Self (archive footage) | 2020-03-06 |
| Movie | Charles Bronson: The Spirit of Masculinity | Self (archive footage) | 2020-11-29 |
| Movie | John Ford: The Man Who Invented America | Self - Actor (archive footage) | 2019-02-03 |
| Movie | Jane Fonda in Five Acts | Self (archive footage) | 2018-01-21 |
| Movie | Spanish Western | Self (archive footage) | 2015-05-04 |
| Movie | John Ford & Monument Valley | Self (archive footage) | 2013-03-05 |
| Movie | Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Making '12 Angry Men' | Self (archive footage) | 2008-03-04 |
| Movie | Sacco and Vanzetti | Prof. Tommy Turner (archive footage) | 2006-04-06 |
| Movie | Jezebel: Legend of the South | Self (archive footage) | 2006-05-30 |
| Movie | Guilt Trip: Hitchcock and 'The Wrong Man' | Self (archive footage) | 2004-09-07 |
| Movie | Something to Do with Death | Self (archive footage) | 2003-11-18 |
| Movie | The Wages of Sin | Self (archive footage) | 2003-11-18 |
| Movie | An Opera of Violence | Self - Actor (archive footage) | 2003-11-18 |
| Movie | Revisiting 'Fail-Safe' | Self (archive footage) | 2000-10-31 |
| Movie | Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line | Self (archive footage) | 1997-05-12 |
| Movie | La Classe américaine | Hugues (archive footage) | 1993-12-31 |
| Movie | Fonda on Fonda | Self (archive footage) | 1992-01-13 |
| Movie | Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire | Self (archive footage) | 1991-07-15 |
| Movie | Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker | 1991-10-28 | |
| Movie | Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To | (archive footage) | 1990-06-04 |
| Movie | The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind | Self (archive footage) | 1988-10-01 |
| Movie | Going Hollywood: The '30s | (archive footage) | 1984-01-01 |
| Movie | On Golden Pond | Norman Thayer Jr. | 1981-12-04 |
| Movie | The Greatest Man in the World | Self - Series Host (uncredited) | 1981-06-09 |
| Movie | Summer Solstice | Joshua | 1981-12-30 |
| Movie | The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's | Self (archive footage) | 1980-01-04 |
| Movie | Rappaccini's Daughter | Self - Series Host (uncredited) | 1980-01-01 |
| Movie | The Sky Is Gray | Self - Series Host (uncredited) | 1980-01-01 |
| Movie | Paul's Case | Self - Series Host (uncredited) | 1980-02-11 |
| Movie | The Golden Honeymoon | Self - Series Host (uncredited) | 1980-02-04 |
| Movie | The Jilting of Granny Weatherall | Self - Series Host (uncredited) | 1980-03-03 |
| Movie | Gideon's Trumpet | Clarence Earl Gideon | 1980-04-30 |
| Movie | The Oldest Living Graduate | Col. J.C. Kincaid | 1980-04-07 |
| Movie | Barn Burning | Self - Series Host (uncredited) | 1980-03-17 |
| Movie | The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg | Self - Series Host (uncredited) | 1980-03-17 |
| Movie | Wanda Nevada | Old Prospector | 1979-06-01 |
| Series | Roots: The Next Generations | Col. Frederick Warner | 1979-02-18 |
| Movie | City on Fire | Fire Chief Risley | 1979-07-11 |
| Movie | Meteor | The President | 1979-10-19 |
| Movie | Home to Stay | Grandpa George | 1978-05-02 |
| Movie | The Biggest Battle | Generale Foster | 1978-02-07 |
| Movie | Inside 'the Swarm' | Self | 1978-01-01 |
| Movie | The Great Smokey Roadblock | Elegant John | 1978-06-21 |
| Series | The Kennedy Center Honors | Unknown | 1978-12-28 |
| Movie | Fedora | President of the Academy | 1978-06-29 |
| Movie | A Special Sesame Street Christmas | Self | 1978-12-08 |
| Movie | The Swarm | Dr. Walter Krim | 1978-07-14 |
| Movie | The Blue Hotel | Self - Series Host (uncredited) | 1977-01-01 |
| Movie | Soldier's Home | Self - Series Host (uncredited) | 1977-01-01 |
| Movie | Tentacles | Mr. Whitehead | 1977-02-25 |
| Movie | The Displaced Person | Self - Series Host (uncredited) | 1977-04-12 |
| Movie | I'm a Fool | Self - Series Host (uncredited) | 1977-04-05 |
| Movie | Rollercoaster | Simon Davenport | 1977-06-10 |
| Movie | Midway | Adm. Chester W. Nimitz | 1976-06-18 |
| Movie | Bernice Bobs Her Hair | Self - Series Host (uncredited) | 1976-10-06 |
| Series | Captains and the Kings | Sen. Enfield Bassett | 1976-09-30 |
| Movie | Parkinson: Meet Henry Fonda | Self | 1975-11-01 |
| Movie | The Last Four Days | Kardinal Schuster | 1974-03-27 |
| Movie | Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1974-04-11 |
| Movie | Clarence Darrow | Clarence Darrow | 1974-09-04 |
| Series | The American Film Institute Salute to ... | Unknown | 1973-04-02 |
| Movie | The Red Pony | Carl Tiflin | 1973-03-17 |
| Movie | The Serpent | Alan Davies | 1973-04-07 |
| Movie | Ash Wednesday | Mark Sawyer | 1973-11-01 |
| Movie | The Alpha Caper | Mark Forbes | 1973-10-06 |
| Movie | My Name Is Nobody | Jack Beauregard | 1973-12-13 |
| Series | The Smith Family | Chad Smith | 1971-01-20 |
| Series | V.I.P. Schaukel | Unknown | 1971-05-09 |
| Series | All in the Family | Unknown | 1971-01-12 |
| Movie | Directed by John Ford | 1971-09-06 | |
| Movie | Sometimes a Great Notion | Henry Stamper | 1971-12-17 |
| Movie | The American West of John Ford | Self - Narrator | 1971-12-05 |
| Movie | The Cheyenne Social Club | Harley Sullivan | 1970-06-12 |
| Movie | Too Late the Hero | Capt. John G Nolan | 1970-05-20 |
| Movie | There Was a Crooked Man... | Woodward W. Lopeman | 1970-09-18 |
| Movie | An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer | John Steinbeck (voice) | 1969-01-01 |
| Movie | Stiletto | 1969-07-30 | |
| Series | The Bill Cosby Show | Unknown | 1969-09-14 |
| Movie | Yours, Mine and Ours | Frank Beardsley | 1968-04-24 |
| Movie | Firecreek | Bob Larkin | 1968-01-24 |
| Movie | Madigan | Commissioner Anthony X. Russell | 1968-03-29 |
| Movie | The Boston Strangler | John S. Bottomly | 1968-10-08 |
| Movie | Once Upon a Time in the West | Frank | 1968-12-21 |
| Movie | Stranger on the Run | Ben Chamberlain | 1967-10-31 |
| Movie | Welcome to Hard Times | Mayor Will Blue | 1967-04-30 |
| Series | The World About Us | Narrator | 1967-12-03 |
| Movie | The Really Big Family | Self - Narrator | 1966-01-01 |
| Movie | A Big Hand for the Little Lady | Meredith | 1966-06-08 |
| Movie | To Save a Soldier | Narrator (voice) | 1966-10-23 |
| Movie | The Rounders | Marion 'Howdy' Lewis | 1965-01-08 |
| Movie | In Harm's Way | CINCPAC II | 1965-04-06 |
| Movie | The Dirty Game | Dimitri Koulov | 1965-06-23 |
| Movie | Battle of the Bulge | Lt Col Kiley | 1965-12-16 |
| Movie | Fail Safe | The President | 1964-10-07 |
| Movie | The Best Man | William Russell | 1964-04-05 |
| Movie | Sex and the Single Girl | Frank Broderick | 1964-12-25 |
| Movie | Spencer's Mountain | Clay Spencer | 1963-05-16 |
| Movie | Advise & Consent | Robert Leffingwell | 1962-06-06 |
| Movie | How the West Was Won | Jethro Stuart | 1962-11-02 |
| Movie | The Longest Day | Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. | 1962-09-25 |
| Movie | Hollywood: The Selznick Years | Self - Narrator | 1961-12-31 |
| Movie | The Fabulous Fifties | Narrator (segment "Fifties Dead Sequence") (voice) | 1960-01-22 |
| Movie | Warlock | Clay Blaisedell | 1959-05-15 |
| Series | The Bell Telephone Hour | Self - Host | 1959-01-12 |
| Series | The Deputy | Marshal Simon Fry | 1959-09-12 |
| Movie | The Man Who Understood Women | Willie Bauche | 1959-10-02 |
| Movie | Stage Struck | Lewis Easton | 1958-04-22 |
| Movie | 12 Angry Men | Juror 8 | 1957-04-10 |
| Movie | The Tin Star | Morgan Hickman | 1957-10-23 |
| Series | The Steve Allen Show | Unknown | 1956-06-24 |
| Series | Tony Awards | Unknown | 1956-04-01 |
| Movie | War and Peace | Pierre Bezukhov | 1956-08-21 |
| Movie | The Wrong Man | Manny Balestrero | 1956-12-22 |
| Series | The Star and the Story | Self - Host | 1955-01-08 |
| Movie | Mister Roberts | Lieutenant Roberts | 1955-07-10 |
| Series | General Electric Theater | Unknown | 1953-02-01 |
| Movie | Benjy | Narrator (voice) | 1951-01-01 |
| Series | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Unknown | 1951-12-24 |
| Movie | Pictura | Narrator: Grant Wood episode (voice) | 1951-06-01 |
| Movie | Jigsaw | Nightclub Waiter (uncredited) | 1949-03-11 |
| Movie | Fort Apache | Lt. Col. Owen Thursday | 1948-06-14 |
| Movie | On Our Merry Way | Lank Solsky | 1948-02-03 |
| Series | The Ed Sullivan Show | Unknown | 1948-06-20 |
| Movie | The Long Night | Joe Adams | 1947-05-28 |
| Movie | Daisy Kenyon | Peter Lapham | 1947-12-25 |
| Movie | The Fugitive | A Fugitive | 1947-11-11 |
| Movie | My Darling Clementine | Wyatt Earp | 1946-10-17 |
| Movie | Immortal Sergeant | Corporal Colin Spence | 1943-04-29 |
| Movie | The Ox-Bow Incident | Gil Carter | 1943-03-11 |
| Movie | Rings on Her Fingers | John Wheeler | 1942-03-20 |
| Movie | The Magnificent Dope | Thadeus Winship 'Tad' Page | 1942-07-01 |
| Movie | The Male Animal | Tommy Turner | 1942-03-12 |
| Movie | It's Everybody's War | Narrator | 1942-09-06 |
| Movie | Tales of Manhattan | George | 1942-08-05 |
| Movie | The Battle of Midway | Narrator (voice) | 1942-09-14 |
| Movie | The Big Street | Agustus 'Little Pinks' Pinkerton, II | 1942-08-13 |
| Movie | The Lady Eve | Charles Pike | 1941-02-25 |
| Movie | You Belong to Me | Peter Kirk | 1941-10-22 |
| Movie | Wild Geese Calling | John Murdock | 1941-08-15 |
| Movie | Lillian Russell | Alexander Moore | 1940-05-24 |
| Movie | The Grapes of Wrath | Tom Joad | 1940-03-15 |
| Movie | The Return of Frank James | Frank James | 1940-08-10 |
| Movie | Chad Hanna | Chad Hanna | 1940-12-25 |
| Movie | Jesse James | Frank James | 1939-01-14 |
| Movie | Let Us Live | "Brick" Tennant | 1939-03-29 |
| Movie | The Story of Alexander Graham Bell | Thomas Watson | 1939-04-04 |
| Movie | Drums Along the Mohawk | Gilbert Martin | 1939-11-10 |
| Movie | Young Mr. Lincoln | Abraham Lincoln | 1939-06-09 |
| Movie | Blockade | Marco | 1938-06-17 |
| Movie | I Met My Love Again | Ives Towner | 1938-01-14 |
| Movie | Jezebel | Preston Dillard | 1938-03-26 |
| Movie | Spawn of the North | Jim Kimmerlee | 1938-08-26 |
| Movie | Breakdowns of 1938 | Self (archive footage) | 1938-12-31 |
| Movie | The Mad Miss Manton | Peter Ames | 1938-10-21 |
| Movie | Wings of the Morning | Kerry Gilfallen | 1937-02-19 |
| Movie | You Only Live Once | Eddie Taylor | 1937-01-23 |
| Movie | Slim | Slim | 1937-06-24 |
| Movie | That Certain Woman | Jack V. Merrick, Jr. | 1937-08-30 |
| Movie | The Trail of the Lonesome Pine | Dave Tolliver | 1936-03-13 |
| Movie | The Moon's Our Home | Anthony Amberton / John Smith | 1936-04-10 |
| Movie | Spendthrift | Townsend Middleton | 1936-07-22 |
| Movie | The Farmer Takes a Wife | Dan Harrow | 1935-07-05 |
| Movie | I Dream Too Much | Johnny Street | 1935-11-29 |
| Movie | Way Down East | David Bartlett | 1935-10-25 |