Henry Fonda
Born in Grand Island, Nebraska, USA — May 16 1905• Died Aug 12 1982
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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…
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People's Choice Awards
Self
Dinah!
Self
What's My Line?
Self - Mystery Guest
The Steve Allen Show
Self
All in the Family
Self
12 Angry Men
Juror 8
The Kennedy Center Honors
Self
Film '72
Self
Family
James Lawrence
The Deputy
Marshal Simon Fry
The Doris Day Show
Henry Fonda (uncredited)
Once Upon a Time in the West
Frank
The Bill Cosby Show
Joshua Richards
The Bell Telephone Hour
Self - Host
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Self
Roots: The Next Generations
Colonel Frederick Warner
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
Self
Captains and the Kings
Sen. Enfield Bassett
Cadet Rousselle
Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Clarence Earl Gideon
The Longest Day
Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
How the West Was Won
Jethro Stuart
On Golden Pond
Norman Thayer Jr.
Midway
Adm. Chester W. Nimitz
Fort Apache
Lt. Col. Owen Thursday
The Star and the Story
Self - Host
The Grapes of Wrath
Tom Joad
Warlock
Clay Blaisedell
General Electric Theater
Emmett Kelly
Jezebel
Preston Dillard
My Name Is Nobody
Jack Beauregard
The Swarm
Dr. Walter Krim
Laugh-In
Guest Performer
The Wrong Man
Manny Balestrero
Battle of the Bulge
Lt Col Kiley
The Smith Family
Chad Smith
Sex and the Single Girl
Frank Broderick
War and Peace
Pierre Bezukhov
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Going Hollywood: The '30s
(archive footage)
In Harm's Way
CINCPAC II
La Classe américaine
Hugues (archive footage)
Firecreek
Bob Larkin
Yours, Mine and Ours
Frank Beardsley
The Rounders
Marion 'Howdy' Lewis
The Best Man
William Russell
Fail Safe
The President
The Male Animal
Tommy Turner
Advise & Consent
Robert Leffingwell
The Fugitive
A Fugitive
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Self (archive footage)
Young Mr. Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Directed by John Ford
Jesse James
Frank James
The Boston Strangler
John S. Bottomly
The Long Night
Joe Adams
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
Self (archive footage)
The Return of Frank James
Frank James
Fedora
President of the Academy
The Tin Star
Morgan Hickman
Drums Along the Mohawk
Gilbert Martin
The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's
Self (archive footage)
Tales of Manhattan
George
Madigan
Commissioner Anthony X. Russell
Sometimes a Great Notion
Henry Stamper
Meteor
The President
The Ox-Bow Incident
Gil Carter
The Big Street
Agustus 'Little Pinks' Pinkerton, II
A Big Hand for the Little Lady
Meredith
Rollercoaster
Simon Davenport
Breakdowns of 1938
Self (archive footage)
The Mad Miss Manton
Peter Ames
Welcome to Hard Times
Mayor Will Blue
Too Late the Hero
Capt. John G Nolan
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
Dave Tolliver
That Certain Woman
Jack V. Merrick, Jr.
The Lady Eve
Charles Pike
My Darling Clementine
Wyatt Earp
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Watson
Spencer's Mountain
Clay Spencer
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
The Cheyenne Social Club
Harley Sullivan
There Was a Crooked Man...
Woodward W. Lopeman
The Battle of Midway
Narrator (voice)
The Serpent
Alan Davies
Slim
Slim Kincaid
Tentacles
Mr. Whitehead
Let Us Live
"Brick" Tennant
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
Mister Roberts
Lieutenant Roberts
Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur
Gen. Douglas MacArthur
The Fabulous Fifties
Narrator (segment "Fifties Dead Sequence") (voice)
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
Self (archive footage)
The Red Pony
Carl Tiflin
You Only Live Once
Eddie Taylor
Fonda on Fonda
Self (archive footage)
Chad Hanna
Chad Hanna
The Man Who Understood Women
Willie Bauche
The Greatest Man in the World
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
The Oldest Living Graduate
Col. J.C. Kincaid
On Our Merry Way
Lank Solsky
Way Down East
David Bartlett
The Displaced Person
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
The Farmer Takes a Wife
Dan Harrow
The Dirty Game
Dimitri Koulov
Benjy
Narrator (voice)
Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults
(archive footage)
The Last Four Days
Kardinal Schuster
Gideon's Trumpet
Clarence Earl Gideon
Stranger on the Run
Ben Chamberlain
City on Fire
Fire Chief Risley
I'm a Fool
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
I Dream Too Much
Johnny Street
The Great Smokey Roadblock
Elegant John
Paul's Case
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
Henry Fonda for President
Self (archive footage)
A Special Sesame Street Christmas
Self
I Met My Love Again
Ives Towner
John Ford: The Man Who Invented America
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Revisiting 'Fail-Safe'
Self (archive footage)
Stage Struck
Lewis Easton
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
(archive footage)
Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero
Self (archive footage)
Wanda Nevada
Old Prospector
Spendthrift
Townsend Middleton
Home to Stay
Grandpa George
Spawn of the North
Jim Kimmerlee
The Golden Honeymoon
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
Citizen Jane Fonda
Ash Wednesday
Mark Sawyer
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Music School
Narrator (voice)
Daisy Kenyon
Peter Lapham
Lillian Russell
Alexander Moore
Barn Burning
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
An Opera of Violence
Self - Actor (archive footage)
The Petrified Forest
Alan Squier
'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War
Self (archive footage)
The Alpha Caper
Mark Forbes
Parker Adderson, Philosopher
Narrator (Voice)
Blockade
Marco
The Sky Is Gray
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
Spanish Western
Self (archive footage)
The Biggest Battle
Generale Foster
Let Poland Be Poland
Self
The Wages of Sin
Self (archive footage)
The Making of Midway
Self
The Moon's Our Home
Anthony Amberton / John Smith
Jigsaw
Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
It's Everybody's War
Narrator
The Magnificent Dope
Thadeus Winship 'Tad' Page
You Belong to Me
Peter Kirk
Soldier's Home
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
Inside 'the Swarm'
Self
Wings of the Morning
Kerry Gilfallen
John Ford & Monument Valley
Self (archive footage)
The American West of John Ford
Self - Narrator
Something to Do with Death
Self (archive footage)
Pictura
Narrator (segment "Grant Wood") (voice)
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
Self - Narrator
Guilt Trip: Hitchcock and 'The Wrong Man'
Self (archive footage)
Rings on Her Fingers
John Wheeler
Pat Paulsen for President
Narrator (voice)
Immortal Sergeant
Corporal Colin Spence
The World About Us
Narrator
Sacco and Vanzetti
Prof. Tommy Turner (archive footage)
The Blue Hotel
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
Rappaccini's Daughter
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer
John Steinbeck (voice)
The Fondas: A Cinematic Dynasty
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Wild Geese Calling
John Murdock
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Making '12 Angry Men'
Self (archive footage)
Jezebel: Legend of the South
Self (archive footage)
Summer Solstice
Joshua
Henry James' The Jolly Corner
Narrator
Underground Doctors
Self - Host
A Space to Grow
Narrator
Parkinson: Meet Henry Fonda
Self
Hollywood: The Great Stars
Self - Host
Hollywood: The Fabulous Era
Narrator / Host
President Kennedy's Birthday Salute
Self
Born to Buck
Narrator
The Man Who Loved Bears
Self
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
Self (archive footage)
Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow
The Really Big Family
Self - Narrator
The Real Miss America
Narrator (voice)
To Save a Soldier
Narrator (voice)
Tony Awards
Self - Host / Presenter