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