12 Angry Men1957
As Juror 8
TMDb 8.6 / 10
Henry Fonda
Born
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.
Filmography (167)
Once Upon a Time in the West1968
As Frank
TMDb 8.3 / 10
The Longest Day1962
As Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
TMDb 7.6 / 10
Sex and the Single Girl1964
As Frank Broderick
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Midway1976
As Adm. Chester W. Nimitz
TMDb 6.6 / 10
My Name Is Nobody1973
As Jack Beauregard
TMDb 7.3 / 10
War and Peace1956
As Pierre Bezukhov
TMDb 6.6 / 10
The Wrong Man1956
As Manny Balestrero
TMDb 7.1 / 10
The Grapes of Wrath1940
As Tom Joad
TMDb 7.8 / 10
How the West Was Won1962
As Jethro Stuart
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Spencer's Mountain1963
As Clay Spencer
TMDb 6.8 / 10
On Golden Pond1981
As Norman Thayer Jr.
TMDb 7.3 / 10
My Darling Clementine1946
As Wyatt Earp
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Warlock1959
As Clay Blaisedell
TMDb 6.8 / 10
The Tin Star1957
As Morgan Hickman
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Battle of the Bulge1965
As Lt Col Kiley
TMDb 6.9 / 10
Fort Apache1948
As Lt. Col. Owen Thursday
TMDb 7.0 / 10
In Harm's Way1965
As CINCPAC II
TMDb 6.6 / 10
The Swarm1978
As Dr. Krim
TMDb 5.0 / 10
Advise & Consent1962
As Robert Leffingwell
TMDb 7.2 / 10
Yours, Mine and Ours1968
As Frank Beardsley
TMDb 6.9 / 10
Fail Safe1964
As The President
TMDb 7.8 / 10
Mister Roberts1955
As Lieutenant Roberts
TMDb 7.0 / 10
The Ox-Bow Incident1943
As Gil Carter
TMDb 7.7 / 10
Madigan1968
As Commissioner Anthony X. Russell
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Jesse James1939
As Frank James
TMDb 6.6 / 10
The Boston Strangler1968
As John S. Bottomly
TMDb 6.6 / 10
The Lady Eve1941
As Charles Pike
TMDb 7.3 / 10
Jezebel1938
As Preston Dillard
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Tentacles1977
As Mr. Whitehead
TMDb 4.6 / 10
The Fugitive1947
As A Fugitive
TMDb 6.0 / 10
The Rounders1965
As Marion 'Howdy' Lewis
TMDb 5.5 / 10
Fedora1978
As President of the Academy
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Meteor1979
As The President
TMDb 5.2 / 10
Daisy Kenyon1947
As Peter Lapham
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Young Mr. Lincoln1939
As Abraham Lincoln
TMDb 7.2 / 10
Too Late the Hero1970
As Capt. John G Nolan
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Sometimes a Great Notion1971
As Henry Stamper
TMDb 6.9 / 10
The Long Night1947
As Joe Adams
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Firecreek1968
As Bob Larkin
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Wanda Nevada1979
As Old Prospector
TMDb 5.8 / 10
The Best Man1964
As William Russell
TMDb 7.3 / 10
A Big Hand for the Little Lady1966
As Meredith
TMDb 7.1 / 10
The Serpent1973
As Alan Davies
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Tales of Manhattan1942
As George
TMDb 6.4 / 10
The Cheyenne Social Club1970
As Harley Sullivan
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Slim1937
As Slim Kincaid
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Drums Along the Mohawk1939
As Gilbert Martin
TMDb 6.5 / 10
The Return of Frank James1940
As Frank James
TMDb 6.4 / 10
There Was a Crooked Man...1970
As Woodward W. Lopeman
TMDb 6.8 / 10
La Classe américaine1993
As Hugues (archive footage)
TMDb 7.6 / 10
You Only Live Once1937
As Eddie Taylor
TMDb 7.1 / 10
City on Fire1979
As Fire Chief Risley
TMDb 5.1 / 10
Rollercoaster1977
As Simon Davenport
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Stage Struck1958
As Lewis Easton
TMDb 6.0 / 10
The Big Street1942
As Little Pinks
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Welcome to Hard Times1967
As Mayor Will Blue
TMDb 5.3 / 10
John Ford: The Man Who Invented America2019
As Self - Actor (archive footage)
TMDb 5.9 / 10
Gideon's Trumpet1980
As Clarence Earl Gideon
TMDb 6.5 / 10
The Dirty Game1965
As Dimitri Koulov
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker1991
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Directed by John Ford1971
TMDb 7.0 / 10
On Our Merry Way1948
As Lank Solsky
TMDb 5.7 / 10
The Fabulous Fifties1960
As Narrator (segment "Fifties Dead Sequence") (voice)
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line1997
As Self (archive footage)
TMDb 7.7 / 10
Rings on Her Fingers1942
As John Wheeler
TMDb 6.8 / 10
The Mad Miss Manton1938
As Peter Ames
TMDb 6.4 / 10
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine1936
As Dave Tolliver
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Chad Hanna1940
As Chad Hanna
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Let Us Live1939
As "Brick" Tennant
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Stranger on the Run1967
As Ben Chamberlain
TMDb 5.7 / 10
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell1939
As Thomas Watson
TMDb 6.3 / 10
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind1988
As Self (archive footage)
TMDb 8.2 / 10
The Male Animal1942
As Tommy Turner
TMDb 4.5 / 10
Henry Fonda for President2025
As Self (archive footage)
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Benjy1951
As Narrator (voice)
TMDb 6.2 / 10
The Biggest Battle1978
As Generale Foster
TMDb 4.7 / 10
The Battle of Midway1942
As Narrator (voice)
TMDb 5.9 / 10
Hollywood: The Selznick Years1961
As Self - Narrator
TMDb 4.4 / 10
The Great Smokey Roadblock1978
As Elegant John
TMDb 5.7 / 10
The Man Who Understood Women1959
As Willie Bauche
TMDb 3.9 / 10
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire1991
As Self (archive footage)
TMDb 6.5 / 10
The Last Four Days1974
As Kardinal Schuster
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Citizen Jane Fonda2020
TMDb 7.2 / 10
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia2013
As Self (archive footage)
TMDb 7.6 / 10
I Dream Too Much1935
As Johnny Street
TMDb 5.4 / 10
A Special Sesame Street Christmas1978
As Self
TMDb 6.7 / 10
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall1980
As Self - Series Host (uncredited)
TMDb 4.0 / 10
The Displaced Person1977
As Self - Series Host (uncredited)
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still1974
As Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
TMDb 7.2 / 10
Lillian Russell1940
As Alexander Moore
TMDb 6.6 / 10
'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War2020
As Self (archive footage)
Wild Geese Calling1941
As John Murdock
TMDb 6.5 / 10
The Alpha Caper1973
As Mark Forbes
TMDb 6.0 / 10
The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's1980
As Self (archive footage)
TMDb 4.0 / 10
An Opera of Violence2003
As Self - Actor (archive footage)
TMDb 6.8 / 10
The Farmer Takes a Wife1935
As Dan Harrow
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Blockade1938
As Marco
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Spawn of the North1938
As Jim Kimmerlee
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth2020
As Self(archive footage)
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Way Down East1935
As David Bartlett
TMDb 4.5 / 10
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg1980
As Self - Series Host (uncredited)
TMDb 6.0 / 10
You Belong to Me1941
As Peter Kirk
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Bernice Bobs Her Hair1976
As Self - Series Host (uncredited)
TMDb 5.3 / 10
The Red Pony1973
As Carl Tiflin
TMDb 10.0 / 10
Pictura1951
As Narrator (segment "Grant Wood") (voice)
TMDb 10.0 / 10
The Golden Honeymoon1980
As Self - Series Host (uncredited)
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Let Poland Be Poland1982
As Self
That Certain Woman1937
As Jack V. Merrick, Jr.
TMDb 5.6 / 10
The Sky Is Gray1980
As Self - Series Host (uncredited)
TMDb 7.0 / 10
The Oldest Living Graduate1980
As Col. J.C. Kincaid
TMDb 4.0 / 10
Going Hollywood: The '30s1984
As (archive footage)
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Inside 'the Swarm'1978
As Self
TMDb 8.0 / 10
I'm a Fool1977
As Self - Series Host (uncredited)
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Paul's Case1980
As Self - Series Host (uncredited)
TMDb 4.0 / 10
Home to Stay1978
As Grandpa George
TMDb 5.3 / 10
The Moon's Our Home1936
As Anthony Amberton / John Smith
TMDb 6.9 / 10
An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer1969
As John Steinbeck (voice)
TMDb 5.7 / 10
I Met My Love Again1938
As Ives Towner
TMDb 6.0 / 10
The American West of John Ford1971
As Self - Narrator
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero1997
As Self (archive footage)
TMDb 7.0 / 10
The Magnificent Dope1942
As Thadeus Winship 'Tad' Page
TMDb 7.3 / 10
The Blue Hotel1977
As Self - Series Host (uncredited)
TMDb 5.3 / 10
Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur1976
As Gen. Douglas MacArthur
TMDb 4.0 / 10
Ash Wednesday1973
As Mark Sawyer
TMDb 5.5 / 10
Henry James' The Jolly Corner1975
As Narrator
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To1990
As (archive footage)
TMDb 8.5 / 10
Summer Solstice1981
As Joshua
TMDb 5.0 / 10
The Greatest Man in the World1981
As Self - Series Host (uncredited)
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Sacco and Vanzetti2006
As Prof. Tommy Turner (archive footage)
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Parker Adderson, Philosopher1974
As Narrator (Voice)
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Immortal Sergeant1943
As Corporal Colin Spence
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Clarence Darrow1974
As Clarence Darrow
TMDb 9.5 / 10
Wings of the Morning1937
As Kerry Gilfallen
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Spanish Western2015
As Self (archive footage)
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Making '12 Angry Men'2008
As Self (archive footage)
The Petrified Forest1955
As Alan Squier
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Soldier's Home1977
As Self - Series Host (uncredited)
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Rappaccini's Daughter1980
As Self - Series Host (uncredited)
TMDb 7.3 / 10
Breakdowns of 19381938
As Self (archive footage)
TMDb 5.8 / 10
The Man Who Loved Bears
The Man Who Loved Bears1979
As Self
TMDb 4.0 / 10
Jezebel: Legend of the South2006
As Self (archive footage)
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults1999
As (archive footage)
TMDb 9.0 / 10
The Making of Midway2001
As Self
TMDb 9.0 / 10
John Ford & Monument Valley2013
As Self (archive footage)
TMDb 1.0 / 10
Barn Burning1980
As Self - Series Host (uncredited)
TMDb 5.4 / 10
The Wages of Sin2003
As Self (archive footage)
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Something to Do with Death2003
As Self (archive footage)
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Spendthrift1936
As Townsend Middleton
TMDb 6.0 / 10
The Fondas: A Cinematic Dynasty2023
As Self - Actor (archive footage)
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Loving Against Time: the Making of On Golden Pond
Loving Against Time: the Making of On Golden PondRelease date TBA
As archive footage
Fonda on Fonda1992
As Self (archive footage)
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Jigsaw1949
As Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
TMDb 5.0 / 10
President Kennedy's Birthday Salute1962
As Self
TMDb 7.8 / 10
Parkinson: Meet Henry Fonda1975
As Self
TMDb 4.0 / 10
Guilt Trip: Hitchcock and 'The Wrong Man'2004
As Self (archive footage)
TMDb 7.3 / 10
Underground Doctors1977
As Self - Host
TMDb 6.0 / 10
The Music School1974
As Narrator (voice)
TMDb 7.0 / 10
The Really Big Family1966
As Self - Narrator
TMDb 6.5 / 10
To Save a Soldier
To Save a Soldier1966
As Narrator (voice)
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Born to Buck
Born to Buck1966
As Narrator
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Pat Paulsen for President1968
As Narrator (voice)
TMDb 4.0 / 10
Hollywood: The Fabulous Era1962
As Narrator / Host
A Space to Grow1968
As Narrator
TMDb 6.2 / 10
It's Everybody's War1942
As Narrator
TMDb 5.9 / 10
Hollywood: The Great Stars1963
As Self - Host
TMDb 4.0 / 10
The Real Miss America
The Real Miss America1952
As Narrator (voice)
Filmography and biography: TMDb