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The Fondas: A Cinematic Dynasty
2023
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Henry Fonda
Also known as: Henry Jaynes Fonda
Acting
Born:May 16, 1905
Died:August 12, 1982(aged 77)
Birthplace:Grand Island, Nebraska, USA
Nationality:United States
Height:6'1" (185 cm)
Education:University of Minnesota, Omaha Central High School
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CommunityBiography
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 peaked with his Academy Award-nominated performance as Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath, about an Oklahoma family who moved to California during the Dust Bowl 1930s. This film is widely considered to be among the greatest American films. In 1941 he starred opposite Barbara Stanwyck in the screwball comedy classic The Lady Eve. Book-ending his service in WWII were his starring roles in two highly regarded westerns: The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) and My Darling Clementine (1946), the latter directed by John Ford, and he also starred in Ford's western Fort Apache (1948). After a seven-year break from films, during which Fonda focused on stage productions, he returned with the WWII war-boat ensemble Mister Roberts (1955). In 1957 he starred as Juror No.8, the hold-out juror, in 12 Angry Men. Fonda, who was also co-producer, won the BAFTA for Best Foreign Actor. Later in his career, Fonda moved into darker roles, such as the villain in the epic Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), underrated and a box office disappointment at its time of release, but now regarded as one of the best westerns of all time. He also played in lighter-hearted fare such as Yours, Mine and Ours with Lucille Ball, but also often played important military figures, such as a Colonel in Battle of the Bulge (1965), and Admiral Nimitz in Midway (1976). He finally won the Academy Award for Best Actor at the 54th Academy Awards for his final film role in On Golden Pond (1981), which also starred Katharine Hepburn and his daughter Jane Fonda, but was too ill to attend the ceremony. He died from heart disease a few months later.
Filmography (157 movies)
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Clarence Darrow
1974
as Clarence Darrow
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Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
1990
as (archive footage)
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12 Angry Men
1957
Producer
8.3
8.3
Once Upon a Time in the West
1968
as Frank
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The Grapes of Wrath
1940
as Tom Joad
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7.8
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
2013
as Self (archive footage)
7.8
7.8
Fail Safe
1964
as The President
7.7
7.7
The Ox-Bow Incident
1943
as Gil Carter
7.6
7.6
The Longest Day
1962
as Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
7.5
7.5
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
1997
as Self (archive footage)
7.4
7.4
The Wages of Sin
2003
as Self (archive footage)
7.4
7.4
My Darling Clementine
1946
as Wyatt Earp
7.3
7.3
President Kennedy's Birthday Salute
1962
as Self
7.3
7.3
My Name Is Nobody
1973
as Jack Beauregard
7.2
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On Golden Pond
1981
as Norman Thayer Jr.
7.2
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The Lady Eve
1941
as Charles Pike
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The Best Man
1964
as William Russell
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Advise & Consent
1962
as Robert Leffingwell
7.2
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The Magnificent Dope
1942
as Thadeus Winship 'Tad' Page
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Young Mr. Lincoln
1939
as Abraham Lincoln
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The Wrong Man
1956
as Manny Balestrero
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You Only Live Once
1937
as Eddie Taylor
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A Big Hand for the Little Lady
1966
as Meredith
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Mister Roberts
1955
as Lieutenant Roberts
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Fort Apache
1948
as Lt. Col. Owen Thursday
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Jezebel
1938
as Preston Dillard
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The Tin Star
1957
as Morgan Hickman
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Sacco and Vanzetti
2006
as Prof. Tommy Turner (archive footage)
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Inside 'the Swarm'
1978
as Self
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Jezebel: Legend of the South
2006
as Self (archive footage)
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Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
1974
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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How the West Was Won
1962
as Jethro Stuart
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Battle of the Bulge
1965
as Lt Col Kiley
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Sometimes a Great Notion
1971
as Henry Stamper
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Yours, Mine and Ours
1968
as Frank Beardsley
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Directed by John Ford
1971
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There Was a Crooked Man...
1970
as Woodward W. Lopeman
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Let Us Live
1939
as "Brick" Tennant
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The Petrified Forest
1955
as Alan Squier
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Warlock
1959
as Clay Blaisedell
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Spencer's Mountain
1963
as Clay Spencer
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Rappaccini's Daughter
1980
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
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War and Peace
1956
as Pierre Bezukhov
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The Boston Strangler
1968
as John S. Bottomly
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Fedora
1978
as President of the Academy
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Midway
1976
as Adm. Chester W. Nimitz
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Daisy Kenyon
1947
as Peter Lapham
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In Harm's Way
1965
as CINCPAC II
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John Ford: The Man Who Invented America
2019
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
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Guilt Trip: Hitchcock and 'The Wrong Man'
2004
as Self (archive footage)
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The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
1936
as Dave Tolliver
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Rings on Her Fingers
1942
as John Wheeler
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The Moon's Our Home
1936
as Anthony Amberton / John Smith
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Sex and the Single Girl
1964
as Frank Broderick
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Jesse James
1939
as Frank James
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Drums Along the Mohawk
1939
as Gilbert Martin
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Too Late the Hero
1970
as Capt. John G Nolan
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Firecreek
1968
as Bob Larkin
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Slim
1937
as Slim Kincaid
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The Cheyenne Social Club
1970
as Harley Sullivan
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The Mad Miss Manton
1938
as Peter Ames
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The Return of Frank James
1940
as Frank James
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Tales of Manhattan
1942
as George
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The Last Four Days
1974
as Kardinal Schuster
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The American West of John Ford
1971
as Self - Narrator
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6.2
A Special Sesame Street Christmas
1978
as Self
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Lillian Russell
1940
as Alexander Moore
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The Farmer Takes a Wife
1935
as Dan Harrow
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Wings of the Morning
1937
as Kerry Gilfallen
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Madigan
1968
as Commissioner Anthony X. Russell
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The Serpent
1973
as Alan Davies
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The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
1939
as Thomas Watson
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Benjy
1951
as Narrator (voice)
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The Displaced Person
1977
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
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Rollercoaster
1977
as Simon Davenport
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Chad Hanna
1940
as Chad Hanna
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Gideon's Trumpet
1980
as Clarence Earl Gideon
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An Opera of Violence
2003
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
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Fonda on Fonda
1992
as Self (archive footage)
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Underground Doctors
1977
as Self - Host
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Something to Do with Death
2003
as Self (archive footage)
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The Fugitive
1947
as A Fugitive
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Stage Struck
1958
as Lewis Easton
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The Battle of Midway
1942
as Narrator (voice)
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A Space to Grow
1968
as Narrator
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You Belong to Me
1941
as Peter Kirk
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Wild Geese Calling
1941
as John Murdock
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Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
1991
as Self (archive footage)
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It's Everybody's War
1942
as Narrator
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Spawn of the North
1938
as Jim Kimmerlee
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The Great Smokey Roadblock
1978
as Elegant John
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Wanda Nevada
1979
as Old Prospector
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Immortal Sergeant
1943
as Corporal Colin Spence
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The Dirty Game
1965
as Dimitri Koulov
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The Big Street
1942
as Agustus 'Little Pinks' Pinkerton, II
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The Long Night
1947
as Joe Adams
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Blockade
1938
as Marco
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The Rounders
1965
as Marion 'Howdy' Lewis
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Stranger on the Run
1967
as Ben Chamberlain
5.5
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The Alpha Caper
1973
as Mark Forbes
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5.5
On Our Merry Way
1948
as Lank Solsky
5.4
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I Met My Love Again
1938
as Ives Towner
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Ash Wednesday
1973
as Mark Sawyer
5.4
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That Certain Woman
1937
as Jack V. Merrick, Jr.
5.3
5.3
The Fabulous Fifties
1960
as Narrator (segment "Fifties Dead Sequence") (voice)
5.2
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Bernice Bobs Her Hair
1976
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
5.1
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I Dream Too Much
1935
as Johnny Street
5.1
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Meteor
1979
as The President
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Spendthrift
1936
as Townsend Middleton
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5.0
The Swarm
1978
as Dr. Walter Krim
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City on Fire
1979
as Fire Chief Risley
4.8
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Welcome to Hard Times
1967
as Mayor Will Blue
4.8
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Jigsaw
1949
as Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
4.7
4.7
The Blue Hotel
1977
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
4.6
4.6
Tentacles
1977
as Mr. Whitehead
4.5
4.5
An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer
1969
as John Steinbeck (voice)
4.5
4.5
Barn Burning
1980
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
4.4
4.4
The Biggest Battle
1978
as Generale Foster
4.0
4.0
Soldier's Home
1977
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
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4.0
The Music School
1974
as Narrator (voice)
4.0
4.0
The Man Who Loved Bears
1979
as Self
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The Sky Is Gray
1980
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
4.0
4.0
Hollywood: The Great Stars
1963
as Self - Host
4.0
4.0
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
1980
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
4.0
4.0
I'm a Fool
1977
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
4.0
4.0
The Oldest Living Graduate
1980
as Col. J.C. Kincaid
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The Really Big Family
1966
as Self - Narrator
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4.0
Parker Adderson, Philosopher
1974
as Narrator (Voice)
4.0
4.0
Born to Buck
1966
as Narrator
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Parkinson: Meet Henry Fonda
1975
as Self
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To Save a Soldier
1966
as Narrator (voice)
4.0
4.0
Summer Solstice
1981
as Joshua
4.0
4.0
The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's
1980
as Self (archive footage)
4.0
4.0
Pat Paulsen for President
1968
as Narrator (voice)
4.0
4.0
Henry James' The Jolly Corner
1975
as Narrator
4.0
4.0
Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur
1976
as Gen. Douglas MacArthur
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The Golden Honeymoon
1980
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
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The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
1980
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
4.0
4.0
The Greatest Man in the World
1981
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
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3.9
The Male Animal
1942
as Tommy Turner
3.5
3.5
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
1961
as Self - Narrator
3.0
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Way Down East
1935
as David Bartlett
3.0
3.0
The Man Who Understood Women
1959
as Willie Bauche
3.0
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Home to Stay
1978
as Grandpa George
1.0
1.0
John Ford & Monument Valley
2013
as Self (archive footage)
Hollywood: The Fabulous Era
1962
as Narrator / Host
Let Poland Be Poland
1982
as Self
Henry Fonda for President
2025
as Self (archive footage)
The Real Miss America
1952
as Narrator (voice)
Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero
1997
as Self (archive footage)
Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults
1999
as (archive footage)
Revisiting 'Fail-Safe'
2000
as Self (archive footage)
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Making '12 Angry Men'
2008
as Self (archive footage)
Pictura
1951
as Narrator: Grant Wood episode (voice)
The Red Pony
1973
as Carl Tiflin
'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War
2020
as Self (archive footage)
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