Henry Fonda
Acting
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.
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Henry Fonda
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Filmography of
Henry Fonda
Self (archive footage)
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Self - Actor (archive footage)
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Self (archive footage)
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Self - Actor (archive footage)
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Self (archive footage)
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Self (archive footage)
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Self (archive footage)
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Self (archive footage)
... 2008
Self (archive footage)
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Prof. Tommy Turner (archive footage)
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Self (archive footage)
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Self - Actor (archive footage)
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Self (Archival Footage)
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Self (archive footage)
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Self (archive footage)
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Hugues (archive footage)
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Self (archive footage)
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Self (archive footage)
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Self
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Joshua
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Norman Thayer Jr.
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Self - Series Host (uncredited)
... 1981
Clarence Earl Gideon
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Col. J.C. Kincaid
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Self - Series Host (uncredited)
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Self - Series Host (uncredited)
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Self - Series Host (uncredited)
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Self - Series Host (uncredited)
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Self - Series Host (uncredited)
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Self (archive footage)
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Self - Series Host (uncredited)
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Self - Series Host (uncredited)
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The President
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Fire Chief Risley
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Old Prospector
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Dr. Walter Krim
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President of the Academy
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Elegant John
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Grandpa George
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Generale Foster
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Self
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Simon Davenport
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Self - Series Host (uncredited)
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Self - Series Host (uncredited)
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Self - Series Host (uncredited)
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Self - Series Host (uncredited)
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Mr. Whitehead
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Self - Host
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Self - Series Host (uncredited)
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Adm. Chester W. Nimitz
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Gen. Douglas MacArthur
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Narrator
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Clarence Darrow
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Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Kardinal Schuster
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Narrator (Voice)
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Narrator (voice)
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Jack Beauregard
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Mark Sawyer
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Mark Forbes
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Alan Davies
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Carl Tiflin
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Henry Stamper
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Self - Narrator
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Woodward W. Lopeman
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Harley Sullivan
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Capt. John G Nolan
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John Steinbeck (voice)
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Narrator (voice)
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John S. Bottomly
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Frank Beardsley
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Commissioner Anthony X. Russell
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Bob Larkin
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Narrator
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Ben Chamberlain
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Mayor Will Blue
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Narrator (voice)
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Narrator
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Meredith
... 1966
Self - Narrator
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Lt Col Kiley
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Dimitri Koulov
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CINCPAC II
... 1965
Marion 'Howdy' Lewis
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Frank Broderick
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The President
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William Russell
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Clay Spencer
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Self - Host
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Narrator / Host
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Jethro Stuart
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Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
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Robert Leffingwell
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Self - Narrator
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Narrator (segment "Fifties Dead Sequence") (voice)
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Willie Bauche
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Clay Blaisedell
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Lewis Easton
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Morgan Hickman
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Juror 8
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Manny Balestrero
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Pierre Bezukhov
... 1956
Lieutenant Roberts
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Alan Squier
... 1955
Narrator (voice)
... 1952
Narrator: Grant Wood episode (voice)
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Narrator (voice)
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Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
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Lt. Col. Owen Thursday
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Lank Solsky
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Peter Lapham
... 1947
A Fugitive
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Joe Adams
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Wyatt Earp
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Corporal Colin Spence
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Gil Carter
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Narrator (voice)
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Narrator
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Agustus 'Little Pinks' Pinkerton, II
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George
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Thadeus Winship 'Tad' Page
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John Wheeler
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Tommy Turner
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Peter Kirk
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John Murdock
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Charles Pike
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Chad Hanna
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Frank James
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Alexander Moore
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Tom Joad
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Gilbert Martin
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Abraham Lincoln
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Thomas Watson
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"Brick" Tennant
... 1939
Frank James
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Self (archive footage)
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Peter Ames
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Jim Kimmerlee
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Marco
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Preston Dillard
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Ives Towner
... 1938
Jack V. Merrick, Jr.
... 1937
Slim Kincaid
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Kerry Gilfallen
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Eddie Taylor
... 1937
Townsend Middleton
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Anthony Amberton / John Smith
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Dave Tolliver
... 1936
Johnny Street
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David Bartlett
... 1935
Dan Harrow
... 1935