Henry Fonda

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1905-05-16 (77 years old)

Deathday

1982-08-12

Place of Birth

Grand Island, Nebraska, USA

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...

Acting

1943

The Ox-Bow Incident

as Gil Carter

1964

Fail Safe

as The President

1940

1941

The Lady Eve

as Charles Pike

1946

2006

Jezebel: Legend of the South

as Self (archive footage)

1938

Jezebel

as Preston Dillard

1977

Rollercoaster

as Simon Davenport

1947

Daisy Kenyon

as Peter Lapham

1968

Madigan

as Commissioner Anthony X. Russell

1968

Firecreek

as Bob Larkin

1957

The Tin Star

as Morgan Hickman

1976

Midway

as Adm. Chester W. Nimitz

1956

War and Peace

as Pierre Bezukhov

1956

The Wrong Man

as Manny Balestrero

1981

On Golden Pond

as Norman Thayer Jr.

2020

'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War

as Self (archive footage)

2003

The Wages of Sin

as Self (archive footage)

2003

Something to Do with Death

as Self (archive footage)

1965

The Rounders

as Marion 'Howdy' Lewis

1962

How the West Was Won

as Jethro Stuart

1973

My Name Is Nobody

as Jack Beauregard

1962

The Longest Day

as Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr.

1970

There Was a Crooked Man...

as Woodward W. Lopeman

1968

The Boston Strangler

as John S. Bottomly

1964

Sex and the Single Girl

as Frank Broderick

1942

1968

Yours, Mine and Ours

as Frank Beardsley

1965

Battle of the Bulge

as Lt Col Kiley

1971

Sometimes a Great Notion

as Henry Stamper

1979

Meteor

as The President

1970

The Cheyenne Social Club

as Harley Sullivan

1978

1964

The Best Man

as William Russell

1948

Fort Apache

as Lt. Col. Owen Thursday

1947

The Fugitive

as A Fugitive

1959

Warlock

as Clay Blaisedell

1940

1939

Jesse James

as Frank James

1939

Young Mr. Lincoln

as Abraham Lincoln

1938

The Mad Miss Manton

as Peter Ames

1973

The Serpent

as Alan Davies

1947

The Long Night

as Joe Adams

1955

Mister Roberts

as Lieutenant Roberts

1980

Gideon's Trumpet

as Clarence Earl Gideon

1963

Spencer's Mountain

as Clay Spencer

1965

In Harm's Way

as CINCPAC II

1993

La Classe américaine

as Hugues (archive footage)

1938

Breakdowns of 1938

as Self (archive footage)

1949

Jigsaw

as Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)

1979

Wanda Nevada

as Old Prospector

1962

Advise & Consent

as Robert Leffingwell

2006

Sacco and Vanzetti

as Prof. Tommy Turner (archive footage)

1978

The Swarm

as Dr. Walter Krim

1962

Hollywood: The Fabulous Era

as Narrator / Host

1961

1963

1977

Tentacles

as Mr. Whitehead

1939

Let Us Live

as "Brick" Tennant

1978

The Biggest Battle

as Generale Foster

1981

The Greatest Man in the World

as Self - Series Host (uncredited)

1937

You Only Live Once

as Eddie Taylor

1939

Drums Along the Mohawk

as Gilbert Martin

1942

The Male Animal

as Tommy Turner

1948

On Our Merry Way

as Lank Solsky

1978

Fedora

as President of the Academy

1942

The Battle of Midway

as Narrator (voice)

1936

1943

Immortal Sergeant

as Corporal Colin Spence

1938

Spawn of the North

as Jim Kimmerlee

1937

That Certain Woman

as Jack V. Merrick, Jr.

1942

Rings on Her Fingers

as John Wheeler

1941

You Belong to Me

as Peter Kirk

1942

The Big Street

as Agustus 'Little Pinks' Pinkerton, II

2023

The Fondas: A Cinematic Dynasty

as Self - Actor (archive footage)

1967

Stranger on the Run

as Ben Chamberlain

1979

City on Fire

as Fire Chief Risley

1936

The Moon's Our Home

as Anthony Amberton / John Smith

2003

An Opera of Violence

as Self - Actor (archive footage)

2000

Revisiting 'Fail-Safe'

as Self (archive footage)

1958

Stage Struck

as Lewis Easton

1940

Chad Hanna

as Chad Hanna

1938

Blockade

as Marco

1976

1967

Welcome to Hard Times

as Mayor Will Blue

1937

Wings of the Morning

as Kerry Gilfallen

1940

Lillian Russell

as Alexander Moore

1937

Slim

as Slim Kincaid

1965

The Dirty Game

as Dimitri Koulov

1966

Born to Buck

as Narrator

1935

1938

I Met My Love Again

as Ives Towner

1935

I Dream Too Much

as Johnny Street

1951

Benjy

as Narrator (voice)

1959

1935

Way Down East

as David Bartlett

1969

1973

The Alpha Caper

as Mark Forbes

1936

Spendthrift

as Townsend Middleton

1974

Clarence Darrow

as Clarence Darrow

1973

The Red Pony

as Carl Tiflin

1984

Going Hollywood: The '30s

as (archive footage)

1980

Rappaccini's Daughter

as Self - Series Host (uncredited)

1980

The Sky Is Gray

as Self - Series Host (uncredited)

1980

The Golden Honeymoon

as Self - Series Host (uncredited)

1980

Paul's Case

as Self - Series Host (uncredited)

1976

Bernice Bobs Her Hair

as Self - Series Host (uncredited)

1977

The Displaced Person

as Self - Series Host (uncredited)

1980

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

as Self - Series Host (uncredited)

1977

The Blue Hotel

as Self - Series Host (uncredited)

1977

Soldier's Home

as Self - Series Host (uncredited)

1980

Barn Burning

as Self - Series Host (uncredited)

2004

1951

Pictura

as Narrator: Grant Wood episode (voice)

1942

The Magnificent Dope

as Thadeus Winship 'Tad' Page

1973

Ash Wednesday

as Mark Sawyer

1966

The Really Big Family

as Self - Narrator

1941

Wild Geese Calling

as John Murdock

2013

John Ford & Monument Valley

as Self (archive footage)

1952

The Real Miss America

as Narrator (voice)

1942

1997

1971

1968

Pat Paulsen for President

as Narrator (voice)

1997

Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero

as Self (archive footage)

1980

The Oldest Living Graduate

as Col. J.C. Kincaid

1960

The Fabulous Fifties

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

1974

The Last Four Days

as Kardinal Schuster

1966

To Save a Soldier

as Narrator (voice)

1974

Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2020

Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth

as Self (archive footage)

2025

Henry Fonda for President

as Self (archive footage)

1981

1991

Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire

as Self (archive footage)

1970

Too Late the Hero

as Capt. John G Nolan

1990

1988

1978

Home to Stay

as Grandpa George

2019

John Ford: The Man Who Invented America

as Self - Actor (archive footage)

1968

A Space to Grow

as Narrator

1957

12 Angry Men

as Juror 8

2015

Spanish Western

as Self (archive footage)

1977

I'm a Fool

as Self - Series Host (uncredited)

1980

The Jilting of Granny Weatherall

as Self - Series Host (uncredited)

2020

1955

The Petrified Forest

as Alan Squier

1992

Fonda on Fonda

as Self (archive footage)

1977

Underground Doctors

as Self - Host

2018

Jane Fonda in Five Acts

as Self (archive footage)

1974

The Music School

as Narrator (voice)

1974

Parker Adderson, Philosopher

as Narrator (Voice)

2013

Production

1957

12 Angry Men

as Producer

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