Henry Fonda

Acting · Born 1905-05-16 in 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…

Filmography

• The Ox-Bow Incident as Gil Carter
• Fail Safe as The President
• The Grapes of Wrath as Tom Joad
• The Lady Eve as Charles Pike
• My Darling Clementine as Wyatt Earp
• Jezebel as Preston Dillard
• The Wrong Man as Manny Balestrero
• On Golden Pond as Norman Thayer Jr.
• How the West Was Won as Jethro Stuart
• My Name Is Nobody as Jack Beauregard

TV

• All in the Family as Self
• The Bill Cosby Show as Joshua Richards
• The Merv Griffin Show as Self
• The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
• General Electric Theater as Emmett Kelly
• Hallmark Hall of Fame as Clarence Earl Gideon
• The Deputy as Marshal Simon Fry
• The American Film Institute Salute to ... as Self
• The Steve Allen Show as Self
• Captains and the Kings as Sen. Enfield Bassett