Henry Fonda

1905-1982

Biography: life and films

Henry Fonda was an American actor. He was born in Grand Island, Nebraska, USA on 16th May 1905 and died in Los Angeles, California, USA on 12th August 1982, aged 77.

His best films as an actor include Henry King's Jesse James (1939), John Ford's The Grapes of Wrath (1940), My Darling Clementine (1946), Alfred Hitchcock's crime-thriller The Wrong Man (1956) and John Edwards's America's Sweetheart: The Mary Pickford Story (1978).

Henry Fonda appeared in 92 films.

He has most frequently worked with the following directors: John Ford (8 films), Sidney Lumet (3), Henry King (3), Otto Preminger (2), Ken Annakin (2), John Brahm (2), Irving Cummings (2), Henry Hathaway (2), Fritz Lang (2) and Burt Kennedy (2).

His most frequent genres include: drama (51 films), Western (18), comedy (16), romance (15), War (12), Thriller (11), comedy-romance (7), comedy-drama (6), Documentary (6), history (5), Biography (5), crime-thriller (4) and Horror (2).

Our average rating for Henry Fonda over all films is: 3.2

Filmography

Key: a = actor

I Dream Too Much (1935) [a]

The Farmer Takes a Wife (1935) [a]

Way Down East (1935) [a]

Spendthrift (1936) [a]

The Moon's Our Home (1936) [a]

The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936) [a]

Slim (1937) [a]

That Certain Woman (1937) [a]

Wings of the Morning (1937) [a]

You Only Live Once (1937) [a]

Blockade (1938) [a]

I Met My Love Again (1938) [a]

Jezebel (1938) [a]

Spawn of the North (1938) [a]

The Mad Miss Manton (1938) [a]

Drums Along the Mohawk (1939) [a]

Jesse James (1939) [a]

Let Us Live (1939) [a]

The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939) [a]

Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) [a]

Chad Hanna (1940) [a]

Lillian Russell (1940) [a]

The Grapes of Wrath (1940) [a]

The Return of Frank James (1940) [a]

The Lady Eve (1941) [a]

Wild Geese Calling (1941) [a]

You Belong to Me (1941) [a]

Rings on Her Fingers (1942) [a]

Tales of Manhattan (1942) [a]

The Big Street (1942) [a]

The Magnificent Dope (1942) [a]

The Male Animal (1942) [a]

Immortal Sergeant (1943) [a]

The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) [a]

My Darling Clementine (1946) [a]

Daisy Kenyon (1947) [a]

The Fugitive (1947) [a]

The Long Night (1947) [a]

Fort Apache (1948) [a]

On Our Merry Way (1948) [a]

Jigsaw (1949) [a]

Pictura (1951) [a]

Mister Roberts (1955) [a]

The Wrong Man (1956) [a]

War and Peace (1956) [a]

12 Angry Men (1957) [a]

The Tin Star (1957) [a]

Stage Struck (1958) [a]

The Man Who Understood Women (1959) [a]

Warlock (1959) [a]

The Fabulous Fifties (1960) [a]

Advise and Consent (1962) [a]

How the West Was Won (1962) [a]

The Longest Day (1962) [a]

Spencer's Mountain (1963) [a]

Fail-Safe (1964) [a]

Sex and the Single Girl (1964) [a]

The Best Man (1964) [a]

Battle of the Bulge (1965) [a]

The Dirty Game (1965) [a]

The Rounders (1965) [a]

A Big Hand for the Little Lady (1966) [a]

Welcome to Hard Times (1967) [a]

C'era una volta il West (1968) [a]

Firecreek (1968) [a]

Madigan (1968) [a]

The Boston Strangler (1968) [a]

Yours, Mine and Ours (1968) [a]

The Cheyenne Social Club (1970) [a]

There Was a Crooked Man... (1970) [a]

Too Late the Hero (1970) [a]

Directed by John Ford (1971) [a]

Sometimes a Great Notion (1971) [a]

Ash Wednesday (1973) [a]

Il Mio nome è Nessuno (1973) [a]

Le Serpent (1973) [a]

Mussolini: Ultimo atto (1974) [a]

All This and World War II (1976) [a]

Midway (1976) [a]

Rollercoaster (1977) [a]

Tentacoli (1977) [a]

The Last of the Cowboys (1977) [a]

America's Sweetheart: The Mary Pickford Story (1978) [a]

Fedora (1978) [a]

Il Grande attacco (1978) [a]

The Swarm (1978) [a]

City on Fire (1979) [a]

Meteor (1979) [a]

Wanda Nevada (1979) [a]

On Golden Pond (1981) [a]



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