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 | Charles Bronson: The Spirit of Masculinity | Self (archive footage) | 2020-11-29 |
Movie | Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth | Self (archive footage) | 2020-03-06 |
Movie | Jane Fonda in Five Acts | Self (archive footage) | 2018-01-21 |
Movie | Spanish Western | Self (archive footage) | 2015-05-04 |
Movie | John Ford & Monument Valley | Self (archive footage) | 2013-03-05 |
Movie | Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Making '12 Angry Men' | Self (archive footage) | 2008-03-04 |
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 | An Opera of Violence | Self - Actor (archive footage) | 2003-11-18 |
Movie | The Wages of Sin | Self (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 | Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker | 1991-10-28 | |
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 | Summer Solstice | Joshua | 1981-12-30 |
Movie | The Greatest Man in the World | Self - Series Host (uncredited) | 1981-06-09 |
Movie | On Golden Pond | Norman Thayer Jr. | 1981-12-04 |
Movie | Rappaccini's Daughter | Self - Series Host (uncredited) | 1980-01-01 |
Movie | Paul's Case | Self - Series Host (uncredited) | 1980-02-11 |
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 | Gideon's Trumpet | Clarence Earl Gideon | 1980-04-30 |
Movie | The Oldest Living Graduate | Col. J.C. Kincaid | 1980-04-07 |
Series | Roots: The Next Generations | Col. Frederick Warner | 1979-02-18 |
Movie | Wanda Nevada | Old Prospector | 1979-06-01 |
Movie | City on Fire | Fire Chief Risley | 1979-07-11 |
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 | Home to Stay | Grandpa George | 1978-05-02 |
Movie | Fedora | President of the Academy | 1978-06-29 |
Movie | A Special Sesame Street Christmas | Self | 1978-12-08 |
Movie | The Swarm | Dr. Walter Krim | 1978-07-14 |
Movie | Soldier's Home | Self - Series Host (uncredited) | 1977-01-01 |
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 |
Series | Captains and the Kings | Sen. Enfield Bassett | 1976-09-30 |
Movie | Midway | Adm. Chester W. Nimitz | 1976-06-18 |
Movie | Bernice Bobs Her Hair | Self - Series Host (uncredited) | 1976-10-06 |
Movie | Parkinson: Meet Henry Fonda | Self | 1975-11-01 |
Movie | The Last Four Days | Kardinal Schuster | 1974-03-27 |
Movie | The Serpent | Alan Davies | 1973-04-07 |
Movie | The Alpha Caper | Mark Forbes | 1973-10-06 |
Movie | The Red Pony | Carl Tiflin | 1973-03-17 |
Movie | My Name Is Nobody | Jack Beauregard | 1973-12-13 |
Movie | Ash Wednesday | Mark Sawyer | 1973-11-01 |
Movie | Letter to Jane | Himself (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1972-10-10 |
Series | The Smith Family | Chad Smith | 1971-01-20 |
Movie | Directed by John Ford | 1971-09-06 | |
Movie | Sometimes a Great Notion | Henry Stamper | 1971-12-17 |
Movie | The American West of John Ford | Self - Narrator | 1971-12-05 |
Movie | The Cheyenne Social Club | Harley Sullivan | 1970-06-12 |
Movie | Too Late the Hero | Capt. John G Nolan | 1970-05-20 |
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 | Firecreek | Bob Larkin | 1968-01-24 |
Movie | Madigan | Commissioner Anthony X. Russell | 1968-03-29 |
Movie | The Boston Strangler | John S. Bottomly | 1968-10-08 |
Movie | Yours, Mine and Ours | Frank Beardsley | 1968-04-24 |
Movie | Once Upon a Time in the West | Frank | 1968-12-21 |
Movie | Welcome to Hard Times | Mayor Will Blue | 1967-04-30 |
Movie | Stranger on the Run | Ben Chamberlain | 1967-10-31 |
Movie | A Big Hand for the Little Lady | Meredith | 1966-06-08 |
Movie | Battle of the Bulge | Lt Col Kiley | 1965-12-16 |
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 | The Best Man | William Russell | 1964-04-05 |
Movie | Sex and the Single Girl | Frank Broderick | 1964-12-25 |
Movie | Fail Safe | The President | 1964-10-07 |
Movie | Spencer's Mountain | Clay Spencer | 1963-05-16 |
Movie | Advise & Consent | Robert Leffingwell | 1962-06-06 |
Movie | How the West Was Won | Jethro Stuart | 1962-11-02 |
Movie | The Longest Day | Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt jr. | 1962-09-25 |
Movie | The Fabulous Fifties | Narrator (segment "Fifties Dead Sequence") (voice) | 1960-01-22 |
Movie | Warlock | Clay Blaisedell | 1959-05-15 |
Series | The Bell Telephone Hour | Self - Host | 1959-01-12 |
Series | The Deputy | Marshal Simon Fry | 1959-09-12 |
Movie | The Man Who Understood Women | Willie Bauche | 1959-10-02 |
Movie | Stage Struck | Lewis Easton | 1958-04-22 |
Movie | 12 Angry Men | Juror 8 | 1957-04-10 |
Movie | The Tin Star | Morgan Hickman | 1957-10-23 |
Movie | The Wrong Man | Manny Balestrero | 1956-12-22 |
Movie | War and Peace | Pierre Bezukhov | 1956-08-21 |
Series | The Star and the Story | Self - Host | 1955-01-08 |
Movie | Mister Roberts | Lieutenant Roberts | 1955-07-10 |
Movie | Pictura | Narrator: Grant Wood episode (voice) | 1951-06-01 |
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 |
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 | The Ox-Bow Incident | Gil Carter | 1943-03-11 |
Movie | Immortal Sergeant | Corporal Colin Spence | 1943-04-29 |
Movie | Rings on Her Fingers | John Wheeler | 1942-03-20 |
Movie | The Magnificent Dope | Thadeus Winship 'Tad' Page | 1942-07-01 |
Movie | The Male Animal | Tommy Turner | 1942-03-12 |
Movie | The Battle of Midway | Narrator (voice) | 1942-09-14 |
Movie | Tales of Manhattan | George | 1942-08-05 |
Movie | The Big Street | Agustus 'Little Pinks' Pinkerton, II | 1942-08-13 |
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 | Lillian Russell | Alexander Moore | 1940-05-24 |
Movie | The Grapes of Wrath | Tom Joad | 1940-03-15 |
Movie | The Return of Frank James | Frank James | 1940-08-10 |
Movie | Chad Hanna | Chad Hanna | 1940-12-25 |
Movie | Let Us Live | "Brick" Tennant | 1939-03-29 |
Movie | Jesse James | Frank James | 1939-01-14 |
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 | Blockade | Marco | 1938-06-17 |
Movie | I Met My Love Again | Ives Towner | 1938-01-14 |
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 |