Henry Fonda
1905-05-16 ( 119 years old ) in Grand Island, Nebraska, USA

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.

Movies

Henry Fonda for President 2025-01-30
The Fondas: A Cinematic Dynasty 2023-08-13
Charles Bronson: The Spirit of Masculinity 2020-11-29
Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth 2020-03-06
'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War 2020-01-28
John Ford: The Man Who Invented America 2019-02-03
Jane Fonda in Five Acts 2018-01-21
Spanish Western 2015-05-04
John Ford & Monument Valley 2013-03-05
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Making '12 Angry Men' 2008-03-04
Jezebel: Legend of the South 2006-05-30
Sacco and Vanzetti 2006-04-06
Guilt Trip: Hitchcock and 'The Wrong Man' 2004-09-07
The Wages of Sin 2003-11-18
Something to Do with Death 2003-11-18
An Opera of Violence 2003-11-18
Revisiting 'Fail-Safe' 2000-10-31
Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults 1999-07-20
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line 1997-05-12
Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero 1997-03-18
La Classe américaine 1993-12-31
Fonda on Fonda 1992-01-13
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker 1991-10-28
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire 1991-07-15
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To 1990-06-04
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind 1988-10-01
Going Hollywood: The '30s 1984-01-01
Let Poland Be Poland 1982-01-31
Summer Solstice 1981-12-30
On Golden Pond 1981-12-04
The Greatest Man in the World 1981-06-09
Gideon's Trumpet 1980-04-30
The Oldest Living Graduate 1980-04-07
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg 1980-03-17
Barn Burning 1980-03-17
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall 1980-03-03
Paul's Case 1980-02-11
The Golden Honeymoon 1980-02-04
The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's 1980-01-04
Rappaccini's Daughter 1980-01-01
The Sky Is Gray 1980-01-01
Meteor 1979-10-19
City on Fire 1979-07-11
The Man Who Loved Bears 1979-06-17
Wanda Nevada 1979-06-01
A Special Sesame Street Christmas 1978-12-08
The Swarm 1978-07-14
Fedora 1978-06-29
The Great Smokey Roadblock 1978-06-21
Home to Stay 1978-05-02
The Biggest Battle 1978-02-07
Inside 'the Swarm' 1978-01-01
Rollercoaster 1977-06-10
The Displaced Person 1977-04-12
I'm a Fool 1977-04-05
Tentacles 1977-02-25
The Blue Hotel 1977-01-01
Soldier's Home 1977-01-01
Underground Doctors 1977-01-01
Bernice Bobs Her Hair 1976-10-06
Midway 1976-06-18
Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur 1976-01-04
Parkinson: Meet Henry Fonda 1975-11-01
Henry James' The Jolly Corner 1975-01-01
Clarence Darrow 1974-09-04
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still 1974-04-11
The Last Four Days 1974-03-27
My Name Is Nobody 1973-12-13
Ash Wednesday 1973-11-01
The Alpha Caper 1973-10-06
The Serpent 1973-04-07
The Red Pony 1973-03-17
Sometimes a Great Notion 1971-12-17
The American West of John Ford 1971-12-05
Directed by John Ford 1971-09-06
There Was a Crooked Man... 1970-09-18
The Cheyenne Social Club 1970-06-12
Too Late the Hero 1970-05-20
Stiletto 1969-07-30
An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer 1969-01-01
Once Upon a Time in the West 1968-12-21
Pat Paulsen for President 1968-10-20
The Boston Strangler 1968-10-08
Yours, Mine and Ours 1968-04-24
Madigan 1968-03-29
Firecreek 1968-01-24
A Space to Grow 1968-01-01
Stranger on the Run 1967-10-31
Welcome to Hard Times 1967-04-30
To Save a Soldier 1966-10-23
Born to Buck 1966-09-01
A Big Hand for the Little Lady 1966-06-08
The Really Big Family 1966-01-01
Battle of the Bulge 1965-12-16
The Dirty Game 1965-06-23
In Harm's Way 1965-04-06
The Rounders 1965-01-08
Sex and the Single Girl 1964-12-25
Fail Safe 1964-10-07
Hollywood and the Stars 1964-05-04
The Best Man 1964-04-05
Spencer's Mountain 1963-05-16
Hollywood: The Great Stars 1963-02-20
Hollywood: The Fabulous Era 1962-11-28
How the West Was Won 1962-11-02
The Longest Day 1962-09-25
Advise & Consent 1962-06-06
President Kennedy's Birthday Salute 1962-05-19
Hollywood: The Selznick Years 1961-12-31
The Fabulous Fifties 1960-01-22
The Man Who Understood Women 1959-10-02
Warlock 1959-05-15
Stage Struck 1958-04-22
The Tin Star 1957-10-23
12 Angry Men 1957-04-10
The Wrong Man 1956-12-22
War and Peace 1956-08-21
Mister Roberts 1955-07-10
The Petrified Forest 1955-05-30
The Real Miss America 1952-02-02
Pictura 1951-06-01
Benjy 1951-01-01
Jigsaw 1949-03-11
Fort Apache 1948-05-21
On Our Merry Way 1948-02-03
Daisy Kenyon 1947-12-25
The Fugitive 1947-11-11
The Long Night 1947-05-28
My Darling Clementine 1946-10-17
Immortal Sergeant 1943-04-29
The Ox-Bow Incident 1943-03-11
The Battle of Midway 1942-09-14
It's Everybody's War 1942-09-06
The Big Street 1942-08-13
Tales of Manhattan 1942-08-05
The Magnificent Dope 1942-07-01
Rings on Her Fingers 1942-03-20
The Male Animal 1942-03-12
You Belong to Me 1941-10-22
Wild Geese Calling 1941-08-15
The Lady Eve 1941-02-25
Chad Hanna 1940-12-25
The Return of Frank James 1940-08-10
Lillian Russell 1940-05-24
The Grapes of Wrath 1940-03-15
Drums Along the Mohawk 1939-11-10
Young Mr. Lincoln 1939-06-09
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell 1939-04-04
Let Us Live 1939-03-29
Jesse James 1939-01-14
Breakdowns of 1938 1938-12-31
The Mad Miss Manton 1938-10-21
Spawn of the North 1938-08-26
Blockade 1938-06-17
Jezebel 1938-03-26
I Met My Love Again 1938-01-14
That Certain Woman 1937-08-30
Slim 1937-06-24
Wings of the Morning 1937-02-19
You Only Live Once 1937-01-23
Spendthrift 1936-07-22
The Moon's Our Home 1936-04-10
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine 1936-03-13
I Dream Too Much 1935-11-29
Way Down East 1935-10-25
The Farmer Takes a Wife 1935-07-05

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