Born in Grand Island, Nebraska, Henry Fonda started his acting debut with the Omaha Community Playhouse, a local amateur theater troupe directed by Dorothy Brando. He moved to the Cape Cod University Players and later Broadway, New York to expand his theatrical career from 1926 to 1934. His first major roles in Broadway include "New Faces of America" and "The Farmer Takes a Wife". The latter play was transfered to the screen in 1935 and became the start-up of Fonda's lifelong Hollywood career. The following year he married Frances Seymour Fonda with whom he had two children: Jane and Peter Fonda also to become screen stars. He is most remembered for his roles as Abe Lincoln in Young Mr. Lincoln (1939), Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath (1940), for which he received an Academy Award Nomination, and more recently, Norman Thayer in On Golden Pond (1981), for which he received an Academy Award for Best Actor in 1982. Henry Fonda is considered one of Hollywood's old-time legends and was friend and contemporary of James Stewart, John Ford and Joshua Logan. His movie career which spanned almost 50 years is completed by a notable presence in American theater and television.
Movie | Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth | Self (archive footage) | 2020-03-06 |
Movie | Spanish Western | Self (archive footage) | 2015-05-04 |
Movie | John Ford & Monument Valley | Self (archive footage) | 2013-03-05 |
Movie | Sacco and Vanzetti | Prof. Tommy Turner (archive footage) | 2006-04-06 |
Movie | Something to Do with Death | Self (archive footage) | 2003-11-18 |
Movie | The Wages of Sin | Self (archive footage) | 2003-11-18 |
Movie | An Opera of Violence | Self - Actor (archive footage) | 2003-11-18 |
Movie | La Classe américaine | Hugues (archive footage) | 1993-12-31 |
Movie | Fonda on Fonda | Self (archive footage) | 1992-01-13 |
Movie | Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire | Self (archive footage) | 1991-07-15 |
Movie | Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To | (archive footage) | 1990-06-04 |
Movie | The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind | Self (archive footage) | 1988-10-01 |
Movie | On Golden Pond | Norman Thayer Jr. | 1981-12-04 |
Movie | Summer Solstice | Joshua | 1981-12-30 |
Movie | Rappaccini's Daughter | Self - Series Host (uncredited) | 1980-01-01 |
Movie | The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's | Self (archive footage) | 1980-01-04 |
Movie | Barn Burning | Self - Series Host (uncredited) | 1980-03-17 |
Movie | City on Fire | Fire Chief Risley | 1979-07-11 |
Movie | Wanda Nevada | Old Prospector | 1979-06-01 |
Movie | Meteor | The President | 1979-10-19 |
Movie | The Great Smokey Roadblock | Elegant John | 1978-06-21 |
Movie | The Biggest Battle | Generale Foster | 1978-02-07 |
Movie | Fedora | President of the Academy | 1978-06-29 |
Movie | The Swarm | Dr. Walter Krim | 1978-07-14 |
Series | The Kennedy Center Honors | Unknown | 1978-12-28 |
Movie | A Special Sesame Street Christmas | Self | 1978-12-08 |
Movie | Tentacles | Mr. Whitehead | 1977-02-25 |
Movie | The Blue Hotel | Self - Series Host (uncredited) | 1977-01-01 |
Movie | The Displaced Person | Self - Series Host (uncredited) | 1977-04-12 |
Movie | Rollercoaster | Simon Davenport | 1977-06-10 |
Movie | Midway | Adm. Chester W. Nimitz | 1976-06-18 |
Movie | Bernice Bobs Her Hair | Self - Series Host (uncredited) | 1976-10-06 |
Series | Captains and the Kings | 1976-09-30 | |
Movie | Parkinson: Meet Henry Fonda | Self | 1975-11-01 |
Movie | The Last Four Days | Kardinal Schuster | 1974-03-27 |
Movie | Clarence Darrow | Clarence Darrow | 1974-09-04 |
Movie | The Serpent | Alan Davies | 1973-04-07 |
Movie | The Red Pony | Carl Tiflin | 1973-03-17 |
Movie | The Alpha Caper | Mark Forbes | 1973-10-06 |
Movie | Ash Wednesday | Mark Sawyer | 1973-11-01 |
Movie | My Name Is Nobody | Jack Beauregard | 1973-12-13 |
Movie | Letter to Jane | Himself (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1972-10-10 |
Movie | Directed by John Ford | 1971-09-06 | |
Movie | The American West of John Ford | Self - Narrator | 1971-12-05 |
Movie | Sometimes a Great Notion | Henry Stamper | 1971-12-17 |
Movie | The Cheyenne Social Club | Harley Sullivan | 1970-06-12 |
Movie | There Was a Crooked Man... | Woodward W. Lopeman | 1970-09-18 |
Movie | An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer | John Steinbeck (voice) | 1969-01-01 |
Movie | Stiletto | 1969-07-30 | |
Movie | Madigan | Commissioner Anthony X. Russell | 1968-03-29 |
Movie | Firecreek | Bob Larkin | 1968-01-24 |
Movie | Yours, Mine and Ours | Frank Beardsley | 1968-04-24 |
Movie | Once Upon a Time in the West | Frank | 1968-12-21 |
Movie | The Boston Strangler | John S. Bottomly | 1968-10-08 |
Movie | Welcome to Hard Times | Mayor Will Blue | 1967-04-30 |
Movie | Stranger on the Run | Ben Chamberlain | 1967-10-31 |
Movie | The Really Big Family | Self - Narrator | 1966-01-01 |
Movie | A Big Hand for the Little Lady | Meredith | 1966-06-08 |
Movie | To Save a Soldier | Narrator (voice) | 1966-10-23 |
Movie | The Rounders | Marion 'Howdy' Lewis | 1965-01-08 |
Movie | In Harm's Way | CINCPAC II | 1965-04-06 |
Movie | The Dirty Game | Dimitri Koulov | 1965-06-23 |
Movie | Battle of the Bulge | Lt Col Kiley | 1965-12-16 |
Movie | The Best Man | William Russell | 1964-04-05 |
Movie | Sex and the Single Girl | Frank Broderick | 1964-12-25 |
Movie | Spencer's Mountain | Clay Spencer | 1963-05-16 |
Movie | Advise & Consent | Robert Leffingwell | 1962-06-06 |
Movie | The Longest Day | Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt jr. | 1962-09-25 |
Movie | How the West Was Won | Jethro Stuart | 1962-11-02 |
Movie | Warlock | Clay Blaisedell | 1959-05-15 |
Movie | The Man Who Understood Women | Willie Bauche | 1959-10-02 |
Movie | Stage Struck | Lewis Easton | 1958-04-22 |
Movie | The Tin Star | Morgan Hickman | 1957-10-23 |
Movie | 12 Angry Men | Juror 8 | 1957-04-10 |
Movie | The Wrong Man | Manny Balestrero | 1956-12-22 |
Movie | Mister Roberts | Lieutenant Roberts | 1955-07-10 |
Series | General Electric Theater | Unknown | 1953-02-01 |
Movie | Pictura | Narrator: Grant Wood episode (voice) | 1951-06-01 |
Series | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Unknown | 1951-12-24 |
Movie | Jigsaw | 1949-03-11 | |
Movie | On Our Merry Way | Lank Solsky | 1948-02-03 |
Movie | Fort Apache | Lt. Col. Owen Thursday | 1948-06-14 |
Series | The Ed Sullivan Show | Unknown | 1948-06-20 |
Movie | The Long Night | Joe Adams | 1947-05-28 |
Movie | Daisy Kenyon | Peter Lapham | 1947-12-25 |
Movie | The Fugitive | A Fugitive | 1947-11-11 |
Movie | My Darling Clementine | Wyatt Earp | 1946-10-17 |
Movie | Immortal Sergeant | Corporal Colin Spence | 1943-04-29 |
Movie | The Magnificent Dope | Thadeus Winship 'Tad' Page | 1942-07-01 |
Movie | Rings on Her Fingers | John Wheeler | 1942-03-20 |
Movie | The Male Animal | Tommy Turner | 1942-03-12 |
Movie | Tales of Manhattan | George | 1942-08-05 |
Movie | The Big Street | Agustus 'Little Pinks' Pinkerton, II | 1942-08-13 |
Movie | The Battle of Midway | Narrator (voice) | 1942-09-14 |
Movie | It's Everybody's War | Narrator | 1942-09-06 |
Movie | The Lady Eve | Charles Pike | 1941-02-25 |
Movie | You Belong to Me | Peter Kirk | 1941-10-22 |
Movie | Wild Geese Calling | John Murdock | 1941-08-15 |
Movie | The Grapes of Wrath | Tom Joad | 1940-03-15 |
Movie | Lillian Russell | Alexander Moore | 1940-05-24 |
Movie | Chad Hanna | Chad Hanna | 1940-12-25 |
Movie | The Return of Frank James | Frank James | 1940-08-10 |
Movie | Jesse James | Frank James | 1939-01-14 |
Movie | Let Us Live | "Brick" Tennant | 1939-03-29 |
Movie | The Story of Alexander Graham Bell | Thomas Watson | 1939-04-04 |
Movie | Young Mr. Lincoln | Abraham Lincoln | 1939-06-09 |
Movie | Drums Along the Mohawk | Gilbert Martin | 1939-11-10 |
Movie | Jezebel | Preston Dillard | 1938-03-26 |
Movie | I Met My Love Again | Ives Towner | 1938-01-14 |
Movie | Blockade | Marco | 1938-06-17 |
Movie | Breakdowns of 1938 | Self (archive footage) | 1938-12-31 |
Movie | Spawn of the North | Jim Kimmerlee | 1938-08-26 |
Movie | The Mad Miss Manton | Peter Ames | 1938-10-21 |
Movie | Wings of the Morning | Kerry Gilfallen | 1937-02-19 |
Movie | You Only Live Once | Eddie Taylor | 1937-01-23 |
Movie | Slim | Slim | 1937-06-24 |
Movie | That Certain Woman | Jack V. Merrick, Jr. | 1937-08-30 |
Movie | The Trail of the Lonesome Pine | Dave Tolliver | 1936-03-13 |
Movie | The Moon's Our Home | Anthony Amberton / John Smith | 1936-04-10 |
Movie | Spendthrift | Townsend Middleton | 1936-07-22 |
Movie | The Farmer Takes a Wife | Dan Harrow | 1935-07-05 |
Movie | I Dream Too Much | Johnny Street | 1935-11-29 |
Movie | Way Down East | David Bartlett | 1935-10-25 |
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