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