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 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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Filmography
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Movies 179
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TV Shows 29
Narrator 12
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AFI Life Achievement Award: 50th Anniversary Special (2023)
Norman Lear: A Life on Television (2023)
The Fondas: A Cinematic Dynasty (2023)
Charles Bronson: The Spirit of Masculinity (2020)
Citizen Jane Fonda (2020)
Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth (2020)
'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War (2020)
John Ford: The Man Who Invented America (2019)
Jane Fonda in Five Acts (2018)
Gene Tierney: A Forgotten Star (2017)
Personne (2016)
Spanish Western (2015)
John Ford & Monument Valley (2013)
Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored (2013)
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Making '12 Angry Men' (2008)
Inside the Jury Room (2008)
Amérique, notre histoire (2006)
Jezebel: Legend of the South (2006)
Sacco and Vanzetti (2006)
Guilt Trip: Hitchcock and 'The Wrong Man' (2004)
An Opera of Violence (2003)
Something to Do with Death (2003)
The Wages of Sin (2003)
John Ford Goes to War (2002)
Revisiting 'Fail-Safe' (2000)
50 Years: The Best of Hollywood (1998)
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line (1997)
Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero (1997)
La Classe américaine (1993)
Omnibus: John Ford, Part One (1992)
Fonda on Fonda (1992)
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker (1991)
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire (1991)
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To (1990)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind (1988)
Going Hollywood: The '30s (1984)
Let Poland Be Poland (1982)
Summer Solstice (1981)
On Golden Pond (1981)
The Greatest Man in the World (1981)
Starring Katharine Hepburn (1981)
Gideon's Trumpet (1980)
The Oldest Living Graduate (1980)
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (1980)
Barn Burning (1980)
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall (1980)
Paul's Case (1980)
The Golden Honeymoon (1980)
The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's (1980)
Rappaccini's Daughter (1980)
The Sky Is Gray (1980)
Meteor (1979)
City on Fire (1979)
The Man Who Loved Bears (1979)
Wanda Nevada (1979)
Roots: The Next Generations (1979)
The Kennedy Center Honors (1978)
A Special Sesame Street Christmas (1978)
The Swarm (1978)
Fedora (1978)
The Great Smokey Roadblock (1978)
Home to Stay (1978)
The Biggest Battle (1978)
Inside 'the Swarm' (1978)
Laugh-In (1977)
Rollercoaster (1977)
The Displaced Person (1977)
I'm a Fool (1977)
Tentacles (1977)
Underground Doctors (1977)
Soldier's Home (1977)
The Blue Hotel (1977)
All This and World War II (1976)
Bernice Bobs Her Hair (1976)
Captains and the Kings (1976)
Midway (1976)
LIFE Goes to the Movies (1976)
Almos' a Man (1976)
Family (1976)
Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur (1976)
Parkinson: Meet Henry Fonda (1975)
Dinah! (1974)
Spécial cinéma (1974)
Clarence Darrow (1974)
The Last Four Days (1974)
My Name Is Nobody (1973)
Ash Wednesday (1973)
The Alpha Caper (1973)
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts (1973)
The Serpent (1973)
The American Film Institute Salute to ... (1973)
The Red Pony (1973)
Letter to Jane (1972)
Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)
The American West of John Ford (1971)
Cadet Rousselle (1971)
Directed by John Ford (1971)
V.I.P. Schaukel (1971)
The Smith Family (1971)
All in the Family (1971)
There Was a Crooked Man... (1970)
The Cheyenne Social Club (1970)
Too Late the Hero (1970)
The Bill Cosby Show (1969)
Stiletto (1969)
An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer (1969)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Pat Paulsen for President (1968)
The Boston Strangler (1968)
The Doris Day Show (1968)
The Dick Cavett Show (1968)
Yours, Mine and Ours (1968)
Madigan (1968)
Firecreek (1968)
A Space to Grow (1968)
The World About Us (1967)
Stranger on the Run (1967)
Welcome to Hard Times (1967)
To Save a Soldier (1966)
Born to Buck (1966)
A Big Hand for the Little Lady (1966)
The Really Big Family (1966)
Battle of the Bulge (1965)
The Dirty Game (1965)
In Harm's Way (1965)
The Rounders (1965)
Sex and the Single Girl (1964)
Fail Safe (1964)
Hollywood and the Stars (1964)
The Best Man (1964)
Spencer's Mountain (1963)
Hollywood: The Great Stars (1963)
Hollywood: The Fabulous Era (1962)
How the West Was Won (1962)
The Merv Griffin Show (1962)
The Longest Day (1962)
Advise & Consent (1962)
President Kennedy's Birthday Salute (1962)
Hollywood: The Selznick Years (1961)
The Mike Douglas Show (1961)
The Fabulous Fifties (1960)
The Man Who Understood Women (1959)
The Deputy (1959)
Warlock (1959)
The Bell Telephone Hour (1959)
Stage Struck (1958)
The Tin Star (1957)
12 Angry Men (1957)
The Wrong Man (1956)
War and Peace (1956)
The Steve Allen Show (1956)
Tony Awards (1956)
Mister Roberts (1955)
The Petrified Forest (1955)
The Star and the Story (1955)
General Electric Theater (1953)
The Real Miss America (1952)
Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951)
Pictura (1951)
Benjy (1951)
What's My Line? (1950)
Jigsaw (1949)
The Ed Sullivan Show (1948)
Fort Apache (1948)
On Our Merry Way (1948)
Daisy Kenyon (1947)
The Fugitive (1947)
The Long Night (1947)
My Darling Clementine (1946)
Immortal Sergeant (1943)
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
The Battle of Midway (1942)
It's Everybody's War (1942)
The Big Street (1942)
Tales of Manhattan (1942)
The Magnificent Dope (1942)
Rings on Her Fingers (1942)
The Male Animal (1942)
You Belong to Me (1941)
Wild Geese Calling (1941)
Meet the Stars #5: Hollywood Meets the Navy (1941)
The Lady Eve (1941)
Chad Hanna (1940)
The Return of Frank James (1940)
Lillian Russell (1940)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)
Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)
Let Us Live (1939)
Jesse James (1939)
Breakdowns of 1938 (1938)
The Mad Miss Manton (1938)
Spawn of the North (1938)
Blockade (1938)
Jezebel (1938)
I Met My Love Again (1938)
That Certain Woman (1937)
Slim (1937)
Wings of the Morning (1937)
You Only Live Once (1937)
Spendthrift (1936)
The Moon's Our Home (1936)
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936)
I Dream Too Much (1935)
Way Down East (1935)
The Farmer Takes a Wife (1935)
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1905-05-16
Deathday1982-08-12 (77 years old)
Birth NameHenry Jaynes Fonda
Birth PlaceGrand Island, United States of America
Height185-centimeter
RelationshipsFrances Ford Seymour (1936-09-16 - 1950-01-01), Afdera Franchetti (1957-01-01 - 1961-01-01), Margaret Sullavan (1931-12-25 - 1933-01-01), Susan Blanchard (1950-12-27 - 1956-01-01)
SpouseShirley Maye Adams
ChildrenPeter Fonda, Jane Fonda
FatherWilliam Brace Fonda
MotherElma Herberta Jaynes
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsHank Fonda, Henry Jaynes Fonda, One-Take Fonda, Генри Фонда
AwardsEagle Scout, Kennedy Center Honors, Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play, BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor, star on Hollywood Walk of Fame, Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album, Grammy Award for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording, Bronze Star Medal, Academy Honorary Award, AFI Life Achievement Award, Academy Award for Best Actor
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