Cast & creator
Henry Fonda
Best known for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Mike Douglas Show, The Merv Griffin Show
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.
Also known as: Hank Fonda, Henry Jaynes Fonda, One-Take Fonda, هنری فوندا
168
film credits
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television credits
207
1935–2025 · acting roles
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Across film & television
Filmography (209)
Showing 209 of 209 credits
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
1962
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
1961
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
1962
What's My Line?
Self
1950
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Cecil B. DeMille Award Recipient
1944Golden Globe Awards
Self
1944
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
1968
Tony Awards
Self - Host / Presenter
1956Tony Awards
Self - Presenter
1956Tony Awards
Self - Host
1956Tony Awards
Self - Nominee
1956Tony Awards
Self - Co-Host / Special Award Recipient
1956Tony Awards
Self (archive footage)
1956
Spécial cinéma
Self (archive footage)
1974
All in the Family
Self
1971
Dinah!
Self
1974
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
1948
The Doris Day Show
Henry Fonda (uncredited)
1968Film '72
Self
1971
The Steve Allen Show
Self
1956
12 Angry Men
Juror 8
195712 Angry Men
Producer
1957
Parkinson
Self - Guest (archive footage)
2004
People's Choice Awards
Self
1975
Family
James Lawrence
1976
Once Upon a Time in the West
Frank
1968
The Deputy
Marshal Simon Fry
1959The Deputy
Executive Producer
1959
The Kennedy Center Honors
Self
1978
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
Self
1973V.I.P. Schaukel
Self
1971
The Bell Telephone Hour
Self - Host
1959
Sex and the Single Girl
Frank Broderick
1964
The Bill Cosby Show
Joshua Richards
1969
Roots: The Next Generations
Colonel Frederick Warner
1979
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Self
1973
Cadet Rousselle
Self
1971
Captains and the Kings
Sen. Enfield Bassett
1976
The Longest Day
Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
1962
My Name Is Nobody
Jack Beauregard
1973
Midway
Adm. Chester W. Nimitz
1976
How the West Was Won
Jethro Stuart
1962
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Clarence Earl Gideon
1951
War and Peace
Pierre Bezukhov
1956
The Grapes of Wrath
Tom Joad
1940
The Smith Family
Chad Smith
1971
The Star and the Story
Self - Host
1955
General Electric Theater
Emmett Kelly
1953
Battle of the Bulge
Lt Col Kiley
1965
The Wrong Man
Manny Balestrero
1956
My Darling Clementine
Wyatt Earp
1946
In Harm's Way
CINCPAC II
1965
Yours, Mine and Ours
Frank Beardsley
1968
On Golden Pond
Norman Thayer Jr.
1981
Fort Apache
Lt. Col. Owen Thursday
1948
A Big Hand for the Little Lady
Meredith
1966
The Tin Star
Morgan Hickman
1957
The Boston Strangler
John S. Bottomly
1968
There Was a Crooked Man...
Woodward W. Lopeman
1970
Warlock
Clay Blaisedell
1959
The Ox-Bow Incident
Gil Carter
1943
Welcome to Hard Times
Mayor Will Blue
1967
Fail Safe
The President
1964
The Oldest Living Graduate
Col. J.C. Kincaid
1980
The Cheyenne Social Club
Harley Sullivan
1970Laugh-In
Guest Performer
1977Laugh-In
Guest Performer (uncredited)
1977
The Fugitive
A Fugitive
1947
Jezebel
Preston Dillard
1938
Jesse James
Frank James
1939
Meteor
The President
1979
Sometimes a Great Notion
Henry Stamper
1971
Too Late the Hero
Capt. John G Nolan
1970
Madigan
Commissioner Anthony X. Russell
1968
You Only Live Once
Eddie Taylor
1937
The Lady Eve
Charles Pike
1941
Fedora
President of the Academy
1978
Drums Along the Mohawk
Gilbert Martin
1939
The Best Man
William Russell
1964
The Swarm
Dr. Krim
1978
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Watson
1939
The Long Night
Joe Adams
1947
The Blue Hotel
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
1977
The Return of Frank James
Frank James
1940
Advise & Consent
Robert Leffingwell
1962
Directed by John Ford
1971
The Mad Miss Manton
Peter Ames
1938
Rollercoaster
Simon Davenport
1977
Daisy Kenyon
Peter Lapham
1947
Mister Roberts
Lieutenant Roberts
1955
The Rounders
Marion 'Howdy' Lewis
1965
On Our Merry Way
Lank Solsky
1948
Stranger on the Run
Ben Chamberlain
1967
The World About Us
Narrator
1967
Firecreek
Bob Larkin
1968
Young Mr. Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
1939
Tentacles
Mr. Whitehead
1977
The Great Smokey Roadblock
Elegant John
1978
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
1980
Spencer's Mountain
Clay Spencer
1963
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
Self (archive footage)
1991
The Last Four Days
Kardinal Schuster
1974
The Battle of Midway
Narrator (voice)
1942
The Wages of Sin
Self (archive footage)
2003
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
Dave Tolliver
1936
John Ford: The Man Who Invented America
Self - Actor (archive footage)
2019
A Special Sesame Street Christmas
Self
1978
Spawn of the North
Jim Kimmerlee
1938
Slim
Slim Kincaid
1937
La Classe américaine
Hugues (archive footage)
1993
Gideon's Trumpet
Clarence Earl Gideon
1980
The Big Street
Little Pinks
1942
Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth
Self(archive footage)
2020
The Serpent
Alan Davies
1973
The Biggest Battle
Generale Foster
1978
Henry Fonda for President
Self (archive footage)
2025
The Dirty Game
Dimitri Koulov
1965
You Belong to Me
Peter Kirk
1941
Rings on Her Fingers
John Wheeler
1942
City on Fire
Fire Chief Risley
1979
I Met My Love Again
Ives Towner
1938
The Fabulous Fifties
Narrator (segment "Fifties Dead Sequence") (voice)
1960
Citizen Jane Fonda
Self (archive footage)
2020
Going Hollywood: The '30s
(archive footage)
1984
Wanda Nevada
Old Prospector
1979
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
(archive footage)
1990
Tales of Manhattan
George
1942
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
Self (archive footage)
2013
An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer
John Steinbeck (voice)
1969
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1974
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
Self - Narrator
1961
The Making of Midway
Self (archive footage)
2001
Breakdowns of 1938
Self (archive footage)
1938
The American West of John Ford
Self - Narrator
1971
Pictura
Narrator (segment "Grant Wood") (voice)
1951
Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow
1974
The Male Animal
Tommy Turner
1942
Spanish Western
Self (archive footage)
2015
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Self (archive footage)
1988
The Fondas: A Cinematic Dynasty
Self - Actor (archive footage)
2023
Lillian Russell
Alexander Moore
1940
The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's
Self (archive footage)
1980
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
Self (archive footage)
1997
Benjy
Narrator (voice)
1951
Let Poland Be Poland
Self
1982
I'm a Fool
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
1977
'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War
Self (archive footage)
2020
The Alpha Caper
Mark Forbes
1973
Ash Wednesday
Mark Sawyer
1973
Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur
Gen. Douglas MacArthur
1976
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
1976
Henry James' The Jolly Corner
Narrator
1975
The Farmer Takes a Wife
Dan Harrow
1935
Stage Struck
Lewis Easton
1958
Something to Do with Death
Self (archive footage)
2003
Guilt Trip: Hitchcock and 'The Wrong Man'
Self (archive footage)
2004
Jezebel: Legend of the South
Self (archive footage)
2006
The Man Who Understood Women
Willie Bauche
1959
The Petrified Forest
Alan Squier
1955
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
1980
The Red Pony
Carl Tiflin
1973
The Sky Is Gray
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
1980
Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero
Self (archive footage)
1997
Chad Hanna
Chad Hanna
1940
I Dream Too Much
Johnny Street
1935
Paul's Case
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
1980
Inside 'the Swarm'
Self
1978
The Really Big Family
Self - Narrator
1966
That Certain Woman
Jack V. Merrick, Jr.
1937
Let Us Live
"Brick" Tennant
1939
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Making '12 Angry Men'
Self (archive footage)
2008
Wings of the Morning
Kerry Gilfallen
1937
Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults
(archive footage)
1999
The Greatest Man in the World
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
1981
President Kennedy's Birthday Salute
Self
1962Loving Against Time: the Making of On Golden Pond
(archive footage)
The Moon's Our Home
Anthony Amberton / John Smith
1936
Jigsaw
Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
1949
John Ford & Monument Valley
Self (archive footage)
2013
Way Down East
David Bartlett
1935
Sacco and Vanzetti
Prof. Tommy Turner (archive footage)
2006
An Opera of Violence
Self - Actor (archive footage)
2003
Parkinson: Meet Henry Fonda
Self
1975
Immortal Sergeant
Corporal Colin Spence
1943
Blockade
Marco
1938
Pat Paulsen for President
Narrator (voice)
1968
Wild Geese Calling
John Murdock
1941
Fonda on Fonda
Self (archive footage)
1992
Parker Adderson, Philosopher
Narrator (Voice)
1974
The Golden Honeymoon
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
1980
Soldier's Home
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
1977The Man Who Loved Bears
Self
1979
Spendthrift
Townsend Middleton
1936
Hollywood: The Fabulous Era
Narrator / Host
1962
Underground Doctors
Self - Host
1977
Summer Solstice
Joshua
1981
Home to Stay
Grandpa George
1978
The Displaced Person
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
1977To Save a Soldier
Narrator (voice)
1966
A Space to Grow
Narrator
1968
The Magnificent Dope
Thadeus Winship 'Tad' Page
1942
It's Everybody's War
Narrator
1942The Real Miss America
Narrator (voice)
1952
Rappaccini's Daughter
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
1980
Hollywood: The Great Stars
Self - Host
1963
The Music School
Narrator (voice)
1974
Barn Burning
Self - Series Host (uncredited)
1980Born to Buck
Narrator
1966