Actor
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 ...

Known For
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Henry Fonda for President

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The Fondas: A Cinematic Dynasty

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Charles Bronson: The Spirit of Masculinity

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Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth

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'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War

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