Henry Fonda
Known for: Acting
Born: May 16, 1905
Died: August 12, 1982
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…
Known for
The Ox-Bow Incident
1943
Fail Safe
1964
The Grapes of Wrath
1940
My Darling Clementine
1946
The Tin Star
1957
The Wrong Man
1956
Battle of the Bulge
1965
The Great Smokey Roadblock
1978
A Big Hand for the Little Lady
1966
The Best Man
1964
The Fugitive
1947
The Return of Frank James
1940
Young Mr. Lincoln
1939
The Long Night
1947
Mister Roberts
1955
Gideon's Trumpet
1980
Spencer's Mountain
1963
Advise & Consent
1962
Hollywood: The Great Stars
1963
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
1961
Hollywood: The Fabulous Era
1962
The Male Animal
1942
The Battle of Midway
1942
Immortal Sergeant
1943
The Big Street
1942
The Man Who Loved Bears
1979
The Fondas: A Cinematic Dynasty
2023
Stranger on the Run
1967
Stage Struck
1958
Chad Hanna
1940
Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur
1976
Welcome to Hard Times
1967
The Dirty Game
1965
Born to Buck
1966
An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer
1969
The Alpha Caper
1973
Spendthrift
1936
The Red Pony
1973
Clarence Darrow
1974
The Magnificent Dope
1942
Wild Geese Calling
1941
The Real Miss America
1952
It's Everybody's War
1942
Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero
1997
The Oldest Living Graduate
1980
To Save a Soldier
1966
Henry Fonda for President
2025
Summer Solstice
1981
Parkinson: Meet Henry Fonda
1975
Home to Stay
1978
A Space to Grow
1968
Fonda on Fonda
1992
Underground Doctors
1977
The Lady Eve
1941
Jezebel
1938
Madigan
1968
Firecreek
1968
Midway
1976
War and Peace
1956
On Golden Pond
1981
The Rounders
1965
My Name Is Nobody
1973
There Was a Crooked Man...
1970
The Boston Strangler
1968
Yours, Mine and Ours
1968
Sometimes a Great Notion
1971
The Cheyenne Social Club
1970
Fort Apache
1948
Warlock
1959
Jesse James
1939
The Mad Miss Manton
1938
The Serpent
1973
Let Us Live
1939
You Only Live Once
1937
Drums Along the Mohawk
1939
Spawn of the North
1938
That Certain Woman
1937
Rings on Her Fingers
1942
You Belong to Me
1941
The Moon's Our Home
1936
Blockade
1938
Wings of the Morning
1937
Slim
1937
The Farmer Takes a Wife
1935
I Met My Love Again
1938
I Dream Too Much
1935
The Man Who Understood Women
1959
Way Down East
1935
Ash Wednesday
1973
The American West of John Ford
1971
Once Upon a Time in the West
1968
The Petrified Forest
1955
The Making of Midway
2001
Daisy Kenyon
1947
How the West Was Won
1962
The Longest Day
1962
Sex and the Single Girl
1964
Sacco and Vanzetti
2006
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
1939
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
1936
Lillian Russell
1940
The Really Big Family
1966
Tales of Manhattan
1942
Tentacles
1977
On Our Merry Way
1948
Inside 'the Swarm'
1978
Benjy
1951
Pat Paulsen for President
1968
The Last Four Days
1974
Henry James' The Jolly Corner
1975
John Ford & Monument Valley
2013
Rollercoaster
1977
'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War
2020
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
1991
A Special Sesame Street Christmas
1978
Citizen Jane Fonda
2020
City on Fire
1979
Guilt Trip: Hitchcock and 'The Wrong Man'
2004
Pictura
1951
Let Poland Be Poland
1982
The Fabulous Fifties
1960
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
1990
Jezebel: Legend of the South
2006
Something to Do with Death
2003
The Wages of Sin
2003
Meteor
1979
Wanda Nevada
1979
Fedora
1978
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
1997
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
1974
12 Angry Men
1957
I'm a Fool
1977
Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults
1999
An Opera of Violence
2003
Rappaccini's Daughter
1980
President Kennedy's Birthday Salute
1962
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Making '12 Angry Men'
2008
The Blue Hotel
1977
The Biggest Battle
1978
In Harm's Way
1965
The Swarm
1978
Soldier's Home
1977
Parker Adderson, Philosopher
1974
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
2013
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
1976
The Displaced Person
1977
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
1980
Barn Burning
1980
John Ford: The Man Who Invented America
2019
The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's
1980
Directed by John Ford
1971
The Music School
1974
The Greatest Man in the World
1981
The Golden Honeymoon
1980
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
1980
Jigsaw
1949
The Sky Is Gray
1980
Too Late the Hero
1970
La Classe américaine
1993
Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth
2020
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988
Spanish Western
2015
Paul's Case
1980
Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984
100 Years at the Movies
1994
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991
Breakdowns of 1938
1938
All in the Family
1971
The Bill Cosby Show
1969
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
General Electric Theater
1953
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
The Deputy
1959
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973
The Steve Allen Show
1956
Captains and the Kings
1976
The Smith Family
1971
The Kennedy Center Honors
1978
The Star and the Story
1955
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
Family
1976
Dinah!
1974
The World About Us
1967
Laugh-In
1977
What's My Line?
1950
V.I.P. Schaukel
1971
Spécial cinéma
1974
Cadet Rousselle
1971
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
1973
The Doris Day Show
1968
Golden Globe Awards
1944
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
The Bell Telephone Hour
1959
Film '72
1971
Roots: The Next Generations
1979
People's Choice Awards
1975
Tony Awards
1956