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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.
Movie | Charles Bronson: The Spirit of Masculinity | Self (archive footage) | 2020-11-29 |
Movie | Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth | Self (archive footage) | 2020-03-06 |
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 | 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 | 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 | Rappaccini's Daughter | Self - Series Host (uncredited) | 1980-01-01 |
Movie | The Sky Is Gray | Self - Series Host (uncredited) | 1980-01-01 |
Movie | The Golden Honeymoon | Self - Series Host (uncredited) | 1980-02-04 |
Movie | The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's | Self (archive footage) | 1980-01-04 |
Movie | Paul's Case | Self - Series Host (uncredited) | 1980-02-11 |
Movie | Gideon's Trumpet | Clarence Earl Gideon | 1980-04-30 |
Movie | The Oldest Living Graduate | Col. J.C. Kincaid | 1980-04-07 |
Movie | The Jilting of Granny Weatherall | Self - Series Host (uncredited) | 1980-03-03 |
Series | Roots: The Next Generations | Col. Frederick Warner | 1979-02-18 |
Movie | Wanda Nevada | Old Prospector | 1979-06-01 |
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 Great Smokey Roadblock | Elegant John | 1978-06-21 |
Movie | The Biggest Battle | Generale Foster | 1978-02-07 |
Movie | The Swarm | Dr. Walter Krim | 1978-07-14 |
Movie | Fedora | President of the Academy | 1978-06-29 |
Movie | A Special Sesame Street Christmas | Self | 1978-12-08 |
Series | The Kennedy Center Honors | Unknown | 1978-12-28 |
Movie | The Blue Hotel | Self - Series Host (uncredited) | 1977-01-01 |
Movie | Tentacles | Mr. Whitehead | 1977-02-25 |
Movie | Soldier's Home | Self - Series Host (uncredited) | 1977-01-01 |
Movie | The Displaced Person | Self - Series Host (uncredited) | 1977-04-12 |
Movie | Rollercoaster | Simon Davenport | 1977-06-10 |
Movie | Midway | Adm. Chester W. Nimitz | 1976-06-18 |
Series | Captains and the Kings | Sen. Enfield Bassett | 1976-09-30 |
Movie | Parkinson: Meet Henry Fonda | Self | 1975-11-01 |
Movie | Clarence Darrow | Clarence Darrow | 1974-09-04 |
Movie | The Last Four Days | Kardinal Schuster | 1974-03-27 |
Series | The American Film Institute Salute to ... | Unknown | 1973-04-02 |
Movie | The Serpent | Alan Davies | 1973-04-07 |
Movie | The Red Pony | Carl Tiflin | 1973-03-17 |
Movie | The Alpha Caper | Mark Forbes | 1973-10-06 |
Movie | My Name Is Nobody | Jack Beauregard | 1973-12-13 |
Movie | Ash Wednesday | Mark Sawyer | 1973-11-01 |
Series | The Smith Family | Chad Smith | 1971-01-20 |
Series | All in the Family | Unknown | 1971-01-12 |
Series | V.I.P. Schaukel | Unknown | 1971-05-09 |
Movie | The American West of John Ford | Self - Narrator | 1971-12-05 |
Movie | Directed by John Ford | 1971-09-06 | |
Movie | Sometimes a Great Notion | Henry Stamper | 1971-12-17 |
Movie | Too Late the Hero | Capt. John G Nolan | 1970-05-20 |
Movie | The Cheyenne Social Club | Harley Sullivan | 1970-06-12 |
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 | Firecreek | Bob Larkin | 1968-01-24 |
Movie | Madigan | Commissioner Anthony X. Russell | 1968-03-29 |
Movie | Once Upon a Time in the West | Frank | 1968-12-21 |
Movie | Yours, Mine and Ours | Frank Beardsley | 1968-04-24 |
Movie | The Boston Strangler | John S. Bottomly | 1968-10-08 |
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 | Himself and 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 | Battle of the Bulge | Lt Col Kiley | 1965-12-16 |
Movie | The Dirty Game | Dimitri Koulov | 1965-06-23 |
Movie | The Best Man | William Russell | 1964-04-05 |
Movie | Fail Safe | The President | 1964-10-07 |
Movie | Sex and the Single Girl | Frank Broderick | 1964-12-25 |
Movie | Spencer's Mountain | Clay Spencer | 1963-05-16 |
Movie | The Longest Day | Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. | 1962-09-25 |
Movie | Advise & Consent | Robert Leffingwell | 1962-06-06 |
Movie | How the West Was Won | Jethro Stuart | 1962-11-02 |
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 | Tony Awards | Unknown | 1956-04-01 |
Series | The Steve Allen Show | Unknown | 1956-06-24 |
Movie | The Wrong Man | Manny Balestrero | 1956-12-22 |
Movie | War and Peace | Pierre Bezukhov | 1956-08-21 |
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 | Pictura | Narrator: Grant Wood episode (voice) | 1951-06-01 |
Series | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Unknown | 1951-12-24 |
Movie | Jigsaw | 1949-03-11 | |
Movie | On Our Merry Way | Lank Solsky | 1948-02-03 |
Movie | Fort Apache | Lt. Col. Owen Thursday | 1948-06-14 |
Series | The Ed Sullivan Show | Unknown | 1948-06-20 |
Movie | The Long Night | Joe Adams | 1947-05-28 |
Movie | The Fugitive | A Fugitive | 1947-11-11 |
Movie | Daisy Kenyon | Peter Lapham | 1947-12-25 |
Movie | My Darling Clementine | Wyatt Earp | 1946-10-17 |
Movie | The Ox-Bow Incident | Gil Carter | 1943-03-11 |
Movie | Immortal Sergeant | Corporal Colin Spence | 1943-04-29 |
Movie | The Magnificent Dope | Thadeus Winship 'Tad' Page | 1942-07-01 |
Movie | The Male Animal | Tommy Turner | 1942-03-12 |
Movie | Tales of Manhattan | George | 1942-08-05 |
Movie | Rings on Her Fingers | John Wheeler | 1942-03-20 |
Movie | The Big Street | Agustus 'Little Pinks' Pinkerton, II | 1942-08-13 |
Movie | It's Everybody's War | Narrator | 1942-09-06 |
Movie | The Battle of Midway | Narrator (voice) | 1942-09-14 |
Movie | Wild Geese Calling | John Murdock | 1941-08-15 |
Movie | The Lady Eve | Charles Pike | 1941-02-25 |
Movie | You Belong to Me | Peter Kirk | 1941-10-22 |
Movie | The Grapes of Wrath | Tom Joad | 1940-03-15 |
Movie | Lillian Russell | Alexander Moore | 1940-05-24 |
Movie | The Return of Frank James | Frank James | 1940-08-10 |
Movie | Chad Hanna | Chad Hanna | 1940-12-25 |
Movie | Let Us Live | "Brick" Tennant | 1939-03-29 |
Movie | Jesse James | Frank James | 1939-01-14 |
Movie | Young Mr. Lincoln | Abraham Lincoln | 1939-06-09 |
Movie | Drums Along the Mohawk | Gilbert Martin | 1939-11-10 |
Movie | The Story of Alexander Graham Bell | Thomas Watson | 1939-04-04 |
Movie | Jezebel | Preston Dillard | 1938-03-26 |
Movie | I Met My Love Again | Ives Towner | 1938-01-14 |
Movie | Blockade | Marco | 1938-06-17 |
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 | You Only Live Once | Eddie Taylor | 1937-01-23 |
Movie | Wings of the Morning | Kerry Gilfallen | 1937-02-19 |
Movie | That Certain Woman | Jack V. Merrick, Jr. | 1937-08-30 |
Movie | Slim | Slim | 1937-06-24 |
Movie | The Moon's Our Home | Anthony Amberton / John Smith | 1936-04-10 |
Movie | The Trail of the Lonesome Pine | Dave Tolliver | 1936-03-13 |
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 |