Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1905-05-16 (77 years old)
Deathday
1982-08-12
Place of Birth
Grand Island, Nebraska, USA
Also known As
Hank Fonda
Henry Jaynes Fonda
One-Take Fonda
هنری فوندا
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...
1943
as Gil Carter
1964
as The President
1940
as Tom Joad
1941
as Charles Pike
1946
as Wyatt Earp
2006
as Self (archive footage)
1938
as Preston Dillard
1977
as Simon Davenport
1947
as Peter Lapham
1968
as Commissioner Anthony X. Russell
1968
as Bob Larkin
1957
as Morgan Hickman
1976
as Adm. Chester W. Nimitz
1956
as Pierre Bezukhov
1956
as Manny Balestrero
1981
as Norman Thayer Jr.
2020
as Self (archive footage)
2008
as Self (archive footage)
2003
as Self (archive footage)
2003
as Self (archive footage)
1965
as Marion 'Howdy' Lewis
1962
as Jethro Stuart
1973
as Jack Beauregard
1962
as Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
1970
as Woodward W. Lopeman
1968
as John S. Bottomly
1964
as Frank Broderick
1942
as George
1968
as Frank Beardsley
1965
as Lt Col Kiley
1971
as Henry Stamper
1979
as The President
1970
as Harley Sullivan
1980
as Self (archive footage)
1978
as Elegant John
1966
as Meredith
1964
as William Russell
1948
as Lt. Col. Owen Thursday
1947
as A Fugitive
1959
as Clay Blaisedell
1940
as Frank James
1939
as Frank James
1939
as Abraham Lincoln
1938
as Peter Ames
1973
as Alan Davies
1947
as Joe Adams
1955
as Lieutenant Roberts
1980
as Clarence Earl Gideon
1963
as Clay Spencer
1965
as CINCPAC II
1993
as Hugues (archive footage)
1938
as Self (archive footage)
1969
1949
as Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
1979
as Old Prospector
1962
as Robert Leffingwell
2006
as Prof. Tommy Turner (archive footage)
1978
as Dr. Walter Krim
1962
as Narrator / Host
1961
as Self - Narrator
1963
as Self - Host
1977
as Mr. Whitehead
1939
as Thomas Watson
1939
as "Brick" Tennant
1978
as Generale Foster
1981
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
1937
as Eddie Taylor
1939
as Gilbert Martin
1942
as Tommy Turner
1948
as Lank Solsky
1978
as President of the Academy
1942
as Narrator (voice)
1936
as Dave Tolliver
1943
as Corporal Colin Spence
1938
as Jim Kimmerlee
1937
as Jack V. Merrick, Jr.
1942
as John Wheeler
1941
as Peter Kirk
1942
as Agustus 'Little Pinks' Pinkerton, II
1979
as Self
2023
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
1967
as Ben Chamberlain
1979
as Fire Chief Risley
1936
as Anthony Amberton / John Smith
2003
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
1978
as Self
2000
as Self (archive footage)
1958
as Lewis Easton
1940
as Chad Hanna
1938
as Marco
1976
as Gen. Douglas MacArthur
1967
as Mayor Will Blue
1937
as Kerry Gilfallen
1940
as Alexander Moore
1937
as Slim Kincaid
1965
as Dimitri Koulov
1966
as Narrator
1935
as Dan Harrow
1938
as Ives Towner
1935
as Johnny Street
1951
as Narrator (voice)
1959
as Willie Bauche
1935
as David Bartlett
1969
as John Steinbeck (voice)
1973
as Mark Forbes
1936
as Townsend Middleton
1974
as Clarence Darrow
1973
as Carl Tiflin
1984
as (archive footage)
1980
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
1980
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
1980
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
1980
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
1976
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
1977
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
1980
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
1977
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
1977
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
1980
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
2004
as Self (archive footage)
1951
as Narrator: Grant Wood episode (voice)
1942
as Thadeus Winship 'Tad' Page
1973
as Mark Sawyer
1966
as Self - Narrator
1941
as John Murdock
2013
as Self (archive footage)
1952
as Narrator (voice)
1942
as Narrator
1997
as Self (archive footage)
1971
as Self - Narrator
1982
as Self
1968
as Narrator (voice)
1997
as Self (archive footage)
1980
as Col. J.C. Kincaid
1960
as Narrator (segment "Fifties Dead Sequence") (voice)
1974
as Kardinal Schuster
1966
as Narrator (voice)
1974
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2020
as Self (archive footage)
2025
as Self (archive footage)
1981
as Joshua
1991
as Self (archive footage)
1975
as Self
1970
as Capt. John G Nolan
1978
1990
as (archive footage)
1988
as Self (archive footage)
1978
as Grandpa George
2019
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
1968
as Narrator
1957
as Juror 8
1968
as Frank
2015
as Self (archive footage)
1977
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
1980
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
2020
as Self (archive footage)
1955
as Alan Squier
1962
1992
as Self (archive footage)
1977
as Self - Host
2018
as Self (archive footage)
1999
as Self (Archival Footage)
1975
as Narrator
1974
as Narrator (voice)
1974
as Narrator (Voice)
2013
as Self (archive footage)
1957
as Producer
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