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Henry Fonda
Actor, Producer
Died August 12, 1982 (77 years)
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
| 2020 | Jay Sebring.... Cutting to the Truth · as Archive Footage |
| 2017 | Gene Tierney A Forgotten Star · as actor |
| 2016 | Personne · as actor |
| 2013 | Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia · as actor |
| 2008 | Hollywood contra Franco · as Marco |
| 2006 | Sacco and Vanzetti · as Prof. Tommy Turner (archive footage) |
| 1993 | La Classe américaine · as Hugues (archive footage) |
| 1991 | Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker · as Robert Leffingwell (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1989 | The Dream Team · as Tom Joad |
| 1981 | On Golden Pond · as Norman Thayer Jr. |
| 1980 | Gideon's Trumpet · as Clarence Earl Gideon |
| 1980 | Barn Burning · as Narrator |
| 1980 | The Oldest Living Graduate · as Col. J.C. Kincaid |
| 1980 | The Jilting of Granny Weatherall · as Host |
| 1979 | Meteor · as The President |
| 1979 | Wanda Nevada · as Old Prospector |
| 1979 | City on Fire · as Fire Chief Risley |
| 1979 | The Wild West · as actor |
| 1979 | Roots: The Next Generations (TV Series) · as Colonel Frederick Warner |
| 1978 | The Swarm · as Dr. Walter Krim |
| 1978 | The Biggest Battle · as Generale Foster |
| 1978 | Fedora · as Henry Fonda |
| 1977 | The Great Smokey Roadblock · as Elegant John |
| 1977 | Tentacles · as Mr. Whitehead |
| 1977 | The Displaced Person · as Narrator |
| 1977 | I'm a Fool · as Narrator (voice) |
| 1977 | The Blue Hotel · as Narrator |
| 1977 | Rollercoaster · as Simon Davenport |
| 1976 | America at the Movies · as Tom Joad |
| 1976 | Family (TV Series) · as James Lawrence |
| 1976 | Midway · as Adm. Chester W. Nimitz |
| 1974 | The Last 4 Days · as Kardinal Schuster |
| 1973 | The Serpent · as Alan Davies |
| 1973 | Ash Wednesday · as Mark Sawyer |
| 1973 | My Name Is Nobody · as Jack Beauregard |
| 1971 | Sometimes a Great Notion · as Henry |
| 1970 | There Was a Crooked Man... · as Woodward W. Lopeman |
| 1970 | The Cheyenne Social Club · as Harley Sullivan |
| 1970 | Too Late the Hero · as Capt. John G Nolan |
| 1969 | Stiletto · as Man at the Premiere (uncredited) |
| 1969 | The Bill Cosby Show (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1968 | Once Upon a Time in the West · as Frank |
| 1968 | Firecreek · as Bob Larkin |
| 1968 | Yours, Mine and Ours · as Frank Beardsley |
| 1968 | The Doris Day Show (TV Series) · as Henry Fonda |
| 1968 | The Boston Strangler · as John S. Bottomly |
| 1967 | Welcome to Hard Times · as Mayor Will Blue |
| 1967 | Stranger on the Run · as Ben Chamberlain |
| 1966 | A Big Hand for the Little Lady · as Meredith |
| 1965 | Battle of the Bulge · as Lt Col Kiley |
| 1965 | The Rounders · as Marion 'Howdy' Lewis |
| 1965 | In Harm's Way · as CINCPAC II |
| 1965 | The Secret Agents · as Dimitri Koulov |
| 1964 | Fail Safe · as The President |
| 1964 | Sex and the Single Girl · as Frank Luther Broderick |
| 1964 | The Best Man · as William Russell |
| 1963 | Spencer's Mountain · as Clay Spencer |
| 1962 | The Longest Day · as Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt jr. |
| 1962 | How the West Was Won · as Jethro Stuart |
| 1962 | Advise & Consent · as Robert Leffingwell |
| 1960 | The Fabulous Fifties · as Unknown |
| 1959 | Warlock · as Clay Blaisedell |
| 1959 | The Man Who Understood Women · as Willie Bauche |
| 1959 | The Deputy (TV Series) · as Marshal Simon Fry |
| 1957 | The Tin Star · as Morgan Hickman |
| 1957 | 12 Angry Men · as Juror 8 |
| 1956 | War and Peace · as Pierre Bezukhov |
| 1956 | The Wrong Man · as Christopher Emanuel 'Manny' Balestrero |
| 1955 | Mister Roberts · as Mr. Roberts |
| 1953 | General Electric Theater (TV Series) · as Emmett Kelly |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall Of Fame (TV Series) · as Clarence Earl Gideon |
| 1949 | |
| 1948 | Fort Apache · as Lt. Col. Owen Thursday |
| 1948 | On Our Merry Way · as Lank Solsky |
| 1947 | Daisy Kenyon · as Peter Lapham |
| 1947 | The Fugitive · as A Fugitive |
| 1947 | The Long Night · as Joe Adams |
| 1946 | My Darling Clementine · as Wyatt Earp |
| 1942 | The Ox-Bow Incident · as Gil Carter |
| 1942 | The Battle of Midway · as Narrator (voice) |
| 1942 | The Big Street · as Agustus 'Little Pinks' Pinkerton, II |
| 1941 | The Lady Eve · as Charles Pike |
| 1940 | The Grapes of Wrath · as Tom Joad |
| 1940 | The Return of Frank James · as Frank James |
| 1940 | Lillian Russell · as Alexander Moore |
| 1939 | Jesse James · as Frank James |
| 1939 | Young Mr. Lincoln · as Abraham Lincoln |
| 1939 | Let Us Live · as "Brick" Tennant |
| 1939 | Drums Along the Mohawk · as Gilbert Martin |
| 1938 | Jezebel · as Preston Dillard |
| 1938 | The Mad Miss Manton · as Peter Ames |
| 1938 | Blockade · as Marco |
| 1938 | I Met My Love Again · as Ives Towner |
| 1937 | You Only Live Once · as Eddie Taylor |
| 1937 | That Certain Woman · as Jack V. Merrick, Jr. |
| 1937 | Wings of the Morning · as Kerry Gilfallen |
| 1935 | The Farmer Takes a Wife · as Dan Harrow |