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.

Known For	Acting
Most Rating	10.34
Birthday	1905-05-16
Place of Birth	Grand Island, Nebraska, USA
Also Known As	Hank Fonda, Henry Jaynes Fonda, One-Take Fonda, Генри Фонда,

Fail Safe

The Grapes of Wrath

The Ox-Bow Incident

My Darling Clementine

The Tin Star

The Wrong Man

Battle of the Bulge

The Great Smokey Roadblock

A Big Hand for the Little Lady

The Best Man

The Fugitive

The Return of Frank James

Young Mr. Lincoln

Mister Roberts

The Long Night

Spencer's Mountain

Gideon's Trumpet

Advise & Consent

The Male Animal

The Battle of Midway

Immortal Sergeant

Rings on Her Fingers

The Big Street

Stranger on the Run

Stage Struck

Chad Hanna

Welcome to Hard Times

The Dirty Game

An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer

The Alpha Caper

Wild Geese Calling

The Oldest Living Graduate

Fonda on Fonda

Jezebel

The Lady Eve

Madigan

Firecreek

Midway

War and Peace

On Golden Pond

The Rounders

My Name Is Nobody

The Boston Strangler

There Was a Crooked Man...

Yours, Mine and Ours

Sometimes a Great Notion

The Cheyenne Social Club

Fort Apache

Warlock

Jesse James

The Mad Miss Manton

The Serpent

Let Us Live

You Only Live Once

Drums Along the Mohawk

That Certain Woman

Spawn of the North

You Belong to Me

The Moon's Our Home

Blockade

Slim

The Farmer Takes a Wife

I Dream Too Much

The Man Who Understood Women

Way Down East

Spendthrift

The Red Pony

Clarence Darrow

Pictura

The Magnificent Dope

I Met My Love Again

Wings of the Morning

It's Everybody's War

To Save a Soldier

Summer Solstice

Parkinson: Meet Henry Fonda

Home to Stay

A Space to Grow

Once Upon a Time in the West

AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Henry Fonda