Henry Fonda

Henry Fonda

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

16/05/1905

Day of Death

12/08/1982
(77) years old

Place of Birth

Grand Island, Nebraska, USA

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 mad... Read More

Filmography

Cast

2025

Henry Fonda for President

as Self (archive footage)

2023

The Fondas: A Cinematic Dynasty

as Self - Actor (archive footage)

2020

Charles Bronson: The Spirit of Masculini...

as Self (archive footage)

2020

Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth

as Self (archive footage)

2020

'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War

as Self (archive footage)

2019

John Ford: The Man Who Invented America

as Self - Actor (archive footage)

2018

Jane Fonda in Five Acts

as Self (archive footage)

2015

Spanish Western

as Self (archive footage)

2013

Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia

as Self (archive footage)

2013

John Ford & Monument Valley

as Self (archive footage)

2008

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Making '12 An...

as Self (archive footage)

2006

Jezebel: Legend of the South

as Self (archive footage)

2006

Sacco and Vanzetti

as Prof. Tommy Turner (archive footage)

2004

Guilt Trip: Hitchcock and 'The Wrong Man...

as Self (archive footage)

2003

Something to Do with Death

as Self (archive footage)

2003

The Wages of Sin

as Self (archive footage)

2003

An Opera of Violence

as Self - Actor (archive footage)

2000

Revisiting 'Fail-Safe'

as Self (archive footage)

1999

Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from...

as Self (Archival Footage)

1997

Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line

as Self (archive footage)

1997

Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero

as Self (archive footage)

1993

La Classe américaine

as Hugues (archive footage)

1992

Fonda on Fonda

as Self (archive footage)

1991

Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire

as Self (archive footage)

1990

Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To

as (archive footage)

1988

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wi...

as Self (archive footage)

1984

Going Hollywood: The '30s

as (archive footage)

1981

Summer Solstice

as Joshua

1981

On Golden Pond

as Norman Thayer Jr.

1981

The Greatest Man in the World

as Self - Series Host (uncredited)

1980

Gideon's Trumpet

as Clarence Earl Gideon

1980

The Oldest Living Graduate

as Col. J.C. Kincaid

1980

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

as Self - Series Host (uncredited)

1980

Barn Burning

as Self - Series Host (uncredited)

1980

The Jilting of Granny Weatherall

as Self - Series Host (uncredited)

1980

Paul's Case

as Self - Series Host (uncredited)

1980

The Golden Honeymoon

as Self - Series Host (uncredited)

1980

The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky...

as Self (archive footage)

1980

Rappaccini's Daughter

as Self - Series Host (uncredited)

1980

The Sky Is Gray

as Self - Series Host (uncredited)

1979

Meteor

as The President

1979

City on Fire

as Fire Chief Risley

1979

Wanda Nevada

as Old Prospector

1978

The Swarm

as Dr. Walter Krim

1978

Fedora

as President of the Academy

1978

The Great Smokey Roadblock

as Elegant John

1978

Home to Stay

as Grandpa George

1978

The Biggest Battle

as Generale Foster

1977

Rollercoaster

as Simon Davenport

1977

The Displaced Person

as Self - Series Host (uncredited)

1977

I'm a Fool

as Self - Series Host (uncredited)

1977

Tentacles

as Mr. Whitehead

1977

The Blue Hotel

as Self - Series Host (uncredited)

1977

Soldier's Home

as Self - Series Host (uncredited)

1977

Underground Doctors

as Self - Host

1976

Bernice Bobs Her Hair

as Self - Series Host (uncredited)

1976

Midway

as Adm. Chester W. Nimitz

1976

Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur

as Gen. Douglas MacArthur

1974

Clarence Darrow

as Clarence Darrow

1974

Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a...

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1974

The Last Four Days

as Kardinal Schuster

1974

Parker Adderson, Philosopher

as Narrator (Voice)

1974

The Music School

as Narrator (voice)

1973

My Name Is Nobody

as Jack Beauregard

1973

Ash Wednesday

as Mark Sawyer

1973

The Alpha Caper

as Mark Forbes

1973

The Serpent

as Alan Davies

1973

The Red Pony

as Carl Tiflin

1971

Sometimes a Great Notion

as Henry Stamper

1971

The American West of John Ford

as Self - Narrator

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

An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer

as John Steinbeck (voice)

1968

Pat Paulsen for President

as Narrator (voice)

1968

The Boston Strangler

as John S. Bottomly

1968

Yours, Mine and Ours

as Frank Beardsley

1968

Madigan

as Commissioner Anthony X. Russell

1968

Firecreek

as Bob Larkin

1968

A Space to Grow

as Narrator

1967

Stranger on the Run

as Ben Chamberlain

1967

Welcome to Hard Times

as Mayor Will Blue

1966

To Save a Soldier

as Narrator (voice)

1966

Born to Buck

as Narrator

1966

The Really Big Family

as Self - Narrator

1965

Battle of the Bulge

as Lt Col Kiley

1965

The Dirty Game

as Dimitri Koulov

1965

In Harm's Way

as CINCPAC II

1965

The Rounders

as Marion 'Howdy' Lewis

1964

Sex and the Single Girl

as Frank Broderick

1964

Fail Safe

as The President

1964

The Best Man

as William Russell

1963

Spencer's Mountain

as Clay Spencer

1963

Hollywood: The Great Stars

as Self - Host

1962

Hollywood: The Fabulous Era

as Narrator / Host

1962

How the West Was Won

as Jethro Stuart

1962

The Longest Day

as Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr.

1962

Advise & Consent

as Robert Leffingwell

1961

Hollywood: The Selznick Years

as Self - Narrator

1960

The Fabulous Fifties

as Narrator (segment "Fifties Dead Sequence...

1959

The Man Who Understood Women

as Willie Bauche

1959

Warlock

as Clay Blaisedell

1958

Stage Struck

as Lewis Easton

1957

The Tin Star

as Morgan Hickman

1957

12 Angry Men

as Juror 8

1956

The Wrong Man

as Manny Balestrero

1956

War and Peace

as Pierre Bezukhov

1955

Mister Roberts

as Lieutenant Roberts

1955

The Petrified Forest

as Alan Squier

1952

The Real Miss America

as Narrator (voice)

1951

Pictura

as Narrator: Grant Wood episode (voice)

1951

Benjy

as Narrator (voice)

1949

Jigsaw

as Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)

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

1943

Immortal Sergeant

as Corporal Colin Spence

1943

The Ox-Bow Incident

as Gil Carter

1942

The Battle of Midway

as Narrator (voice)

1942

It's Everybody's War

as Narrator

1942

The Big Street

as Agustus 'Little Pinks' Pinkerton, II

1942

Tales of Manhattan

as George

1942

The Magnificent Dope

as Thadeus Winship 'Tad' Page

1942

Rings on Her Fingers

as John Wheeler

1942

The Male Animal

as Tommy Turner

1941

You Belong to Me

as Peter Kirk

1941

Wild Geese Calling

as John Murdock

1941

The Lady Eve

as Charles Pike

1940

Chad Hanna

as Chad Hanna

1940

The Return of Frank James

as Frank James

1940

Lillian Russell

as Alexander Moore

1940

The Grapes of Wrath

as Tom Joad

1939

Drums Along the Mohawk

as Gilbert Martin

1939

Young Mr. Lincoln

as Abraham Lincoln

1939

Let Us Live

as "Brick" Tennant

1939

Jesse James

as Frank James

1938

Breakdowns of 1938

as Self (archive footage)

1938

The Mad Miss Manton

as Peter Ames

1938

Spawn of the North

as Jim Kimmerlee

1938

Blockade

as Marco

1938

Jezebel

as Preston Dillard

1938

I Met My Love Again

as Ives Towner

1937

That Certain Woman

as Jack V. Merrick, Jr.

1937

Slim

as Slim Kincaid

1937

Wings of the Morning

as Kerry Gilfallen

1937

You Only Live Once

as Eddie Taylor

1936

Spendthrift

as Townsend Middleton

1936

The Moon's Our Home

as Anthony Amberton / John Smith

1936

The Trail of the Lonesome Pine

as Dave Tolliver

1935

I Dream Too Much

as Johnny Street

1935

Way Down East

as David Bartlett

1935

The Farmer Takes a Wife

as Dan Harrow

Crew

1957

12 Angry Men

as Producer