Henry Fonda

Personal Info

Birthday

May 16, 1905

Day of Death

1982-08-12

(77 years old)

Place of Birth

Grand Island, Nebraska, USA

Also Known As

Hank Fonda

Henry Jaynes Fonda

One-Take Fonda

هنری فوندا

Henry Fonda

Biography

Henry Jaynes Fonda 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.

Known For

12 Angry Men

The Deputy

Family

Once Upon a Time in the West

The Doris Day Show

The Bill Cosby Show

Midway

Roots: The Next Generations

Filmography

2025
Henry Fonda for President
as Self (archive footage)
2023
The Fondas: A Cinematic Dynasty
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
2020
Charles Bronson: The Spirit of Masculinity
as Self (archive footage)
Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth
as Self (archive footage)
'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War
as Self (archive footage)
2019
John Ford: The Man Who Invented America
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
2018
Jane Fonda in Five Acts
as Self (archive footage)
2015
Spanish Western
as Self (archive footage)
2013
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
as Self (archive footage)
John Ford & Monument Valley
as Self (archive footage)
2008
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Making '12 Angry Men'
as Self (archive footage)
2006
Jezebel: Legend of the South
as Self (archive footage)
Sacco and Vanzetti
as Prof. Tommy Turner (archive footage)
2004
Guilt Trip: Hitchcock and 'The Wrong Man'
as Self (archive footage)
2003
An Opera of Violence
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Something to Do with Death
as Self (archive footage)
The Wages of Sin
as Self (archive footage)
2000
Revisiting 'Fail-Safe'
as Self (archive footage)
1999
Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults
as Self (Archival Footage)
1997
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
as Self (archive footage)
Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero
as Self (archive footage)
1993
La Classe américaine
as Hugues (archive footage)
1992
Fonda on Fonda
as Self (archive footage)
1991
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
as Self (archive footage)
1990
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
as (archive footage)
1988
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
as Self (archive footage)
1984
Going Hollywood: The '30s
as (archive footage)
1982
Let Poland Be Poland
as Self
1981
Summer Solstice
as Joshua
On Golden Pond
as Norman Thayer Jr.
The Greatest Man in the World
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
1980
Gideon's Trumpet
as Clarence Earl Gideon
The Oldest Living Graduate
as Col. J.C. Kincaid
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
Barn Burning
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
Paul's Case
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
The Golden Honeymoon
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's
as Self (archive footage)
The Sky Is Gray
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
Rappaccini's Daughter
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
1979
Meteor
as The President
City on Fire
as Fire Chief Risley
The Man Who Loved Bears
as Self
Wanda Nevada
as Old Prospector
1978
A Special Sesame Street Christmas
as Self
The Swarm
as Dr. Walter Krim
Fedora
as President of the Academy
The Great Smokey Roadblock
as Elegant John
Home to Stay
as Grandpa George
The Biggest Battle
as Generale Foster
Inside 'the Swarm'
as Self
1977
Rollercoaster
as Simon Davenport
The Displaced Person
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
I'm a Fool
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
Tentacles
as Mr. Whitehead
The Blue Hotel
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
Soldier's Home
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
Underground Doctors
as Self - Host
1976
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
Midway
as Adm. Chester W. Nimitz
Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur
as Gen. Douglas MacArthur
1975
Parkinson: Meet Henry Fonda
as Self
Henry James' The Jolly Corner
as Narrator
1974
Clarence Darrow
as Clarence Darrow
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Last Four Days
as Kardinal Schuster
Parker Adderson, Philosopher
as Narrator (Voice)
The Music School
as Narrator (voice)
1973
My Name Is Nobody
as Jack Beauregard
Ash Wednesday
as Mark Sawyer
The Alpha Caper
as Mark Forbes
The Serpent
as Alan Davies
The Red Pony
as Carl Tiflin
1971
Sometimes a Great Notion
as Henry Stamper
The American West of John Ford
as Self - Narrator
1970
There Was a Crooked Man...
as Woodward W. Lopeman
The Cheyenne Social Club
as Harley Sullivan
Too Late the Hero
as Capt. John G Nolan
1969
An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer
as John Steinbeck (voice)
1968
Once Upon a Time in the West
as Frank
Pat Paulsen for President
as Narrator (voice)
The Boston Strangler
as John S. Bottomly
Yours, Mine and Ours
as Frank Beardsley
Madigan
as Commissioner Anthony X. Russell
Firecreek
as Bob Larkin
A Space to Grow
as Narrator
1967
Stranger on the Run
as Ben Chamberlain
Welcome to Hard Times
as Mayor Will Blue
1966
To Save a Soldier
as Narrator (voice)
Born to Buck
as Narrator
A Big Hand for the Little Lady
as Meredith
The Really Big Family
as Self - Narrator
1965
Battle of the Bulge
as Lt Col Kiley
The Dirty Game
as Dimitri Koulov
In Harm's Way
as CINCPAC II
The Rounders
as Marion 'Howdy' Lewis
1964
Sex and the Single Girl
as Frank Broderick
Fail Safe
as The President
The Best Man
as William Russell
1963
Spencer's Mountain
as Clay Spencer
Hollywood: The Great Stars
as Self - Host
1962
Hollywood: The Fabulous Era
as Narrator / Host
How the West Was Won
as Jethro Stuart
The Longest Day
as Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
Advise & Consent
as Robert Leffingwell
President Kennedy's Birthday Salute
as Self
1961
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
as Self - Narrator
1960
The Fabulous Fifties
as Narrator (segment "Fifties Dead Sequence") (voice)
1959
The Man Who Understood Women
as Willie Bauche
Warlock
as Clay Blaisedell
1958
Stage Struck
as Lewis Easton
1957
The Tin Star
as Morgan Hickman
12 Angry Men
as Juror 8
1956
The Wrong Man
as Manny Balestrero
War and Peace
as Pierre Bezukhov
1955
Mister Roberts
as Lieutenant Roberts
The Petrified Forest
as Alan Squier
1952
The Real Miss America
as Narrator (voice)
1951
Pictura
as Narrator: Grant Wood episode (voice)
Benjy
as Narrator (voice)
1949
Jigsaw
as Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
1948
Fort Apache
as Lt. Col. Owen Thursday
On Our Merry Way
as Lank Solsky
1947
Daisy Kenyon
as Peter Lapham
The Fugitive
as A Fugitive
The Long Night
as Joe Adams
1946
My Darling Clementine
as Wyatt Earp
1943
Immortal Sergeant
as Corporal Colin Spence
The Ox-Bow Incident
as Gil Carter
1942
The Battle of Midway
as Narrator (voice)
It's Everybody's War
as Narrator
The Big Street
as Agustus 'Little Pinks' Pinkerton, II
Tales of Manhattan
as George
The Magnificent Dope
as Thadeus Winship 'Tad' Page
Rings on Her Fingers
as John Wheeler
The Male Animal
as Tommy Turner
1941
You Belong to Me
as Peter Kirk
Wild Geese Calling
as John Murdock
The Lady Eve
as Charles Pike
1940
Chad Hanna
as Chad Hanna
The Return of Frank James
as Frank James
Lillian Russell
as Alexander Moore
The Grapes of Wrath
as Tom Joad
1939
Drums Along the Mohawk
as Gilbert Martin
Young Mr. Lincoln
as Abraham Lincoln
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
as Thomas Watson
Let Us Live
as "Brick" Tennant
Jesse James
as Frank James
1938
Breakdowns of 1938
as Self (archive footage)
The Mad Miss Manton
as Peter Ames
Spawn of the North
as Jim Kimmerlee
Blockade
as Marco
Jezebel
as Preston Dillard
I Met My Love Again
as Ives Towner
1937
That Certain Woman
as Jack V. Merrick, Jr.
Slim
as Slim Kincaid
Wings of the Morning
as Kerry Gilfallen
You Only Live Once
as Eddie Taylor
1936
Spendthrift
as Townsend Middleton
The Moon's Our Home
as Anthony Amberton / John Smith
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
as Dave Tolliver
1935
I Dream Too Much
as Johnny Street
Way Down East
as David Bartlett
The Farmer Takes a Wife
as Dan Harrow