Movies List
TV Show List
Jane Fonda in Five Acts

as Self (archive footage)

2018
John Ford & Monument Valley

as Self (archive footage)

2013
Sacco and Vanzetti

as Prof. Tommy Turner (archive footage)

2006
On Golden Pond

as Norman Thayer Jr.

1981
Gideon's Trumpet

as Clarence Earl Gideon

1980
Meteor

as The President

1979
Wanda Nevada

as Old Prospector

1979
City on Fire

as Fire Chief Risley

1979
The Great Smokey Roadblock

as Elegant John

1978
Fedora

as President of the Academy

1979
Rollercoaster

as Simon Davenport

1977
Tentacles

as Mr. Whitehead

1977
Midway

as Adm. Chester W. Nimitz

1976
Clarence Darrow

as Clarence Darrow

1974
My Name Is Nobody

as Jack Beauregard

1974
The Serpent

as Alan Davies

1973
Ash Wednesday

as Mark Sawyer

1973
The Red Pony

as Carl Tiflin

1973
Sometimes a Great Notion

as Henry Stamper

1971
The American West of John Ford

as Self - Narrator

1971
There Was a Crooked Man...

as Woodward W. Lopeman

1970
The Cheyenne Social Club

as Harley Sullivan

1970
Madigan

as Commissioner Anthony X. Russell

1968
Firecreek

as Bob Larkin

1968
The Boston Strangler

as John S. Bottomly

1968
Henry Fonda Henry Fonda

Birthday

1905-05-16

Place of Birth

Grand Island, Nebraska, USA

Biography

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.
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