Henry Fonda Biography

Birthday: 1905-05-16
Place of Birth: Grand Island, Nebraska
Height: 6' 1½" (1.87 m)
Wiki Biography: Born in Grand Island, Nebraska, Henry Fonda started his acting debut with the Omaha Community Playhouse, a local amateur theater troupe directed by Dorothy Brando. He moved to the Cape Cod University Players and later Broadway, New York to expand his theatrical career from 1926 to 1934. His first major roles in Broadway include "New Faces of America" and "The Farmer Takes a Wife". The latter play was transfered to the screen in 1935 and became the start-up of Fonda's lifelong Hollywood career. The following year he married Frances Seymour Fonda with whom he had two children: Jane and Peter Fonda also to become screen stars. He is most remembered for his roles as Abe Lincoln in Young Mr. Lincoln (1939), Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath (1940), for which he received an Academy Award Nomination, and more recently, Norman Thayer in On Golden Pond (1981), for which he received an Academy Award for Best Actor in 1982. Henry Fonda is considered one of Hollywood's old-time legends and was friend and contemporary of James Stewart, John Ford and Joshua Logan. His movie career which spanned almost 50 years is completed by a notable presence in American theater and television.
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Filmography
TV Title | Appeared As | Year | Genre |
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Mister Roberts | Lt. JG Douglas A. 'Doug' Roberts | 1955 | Comedy |
War and Peace | Pierre Bezukhov | 1956 | Drama |
The Deputy | Marshal Simon Fry | 1959 - 1961 | |
Captains and the Kings | Sen. Enfield Bassett | 1976 | Drama |
Home to Stay | Grandpa George | 1976 | |
How the West Was Won | Jethro Stuart | 1979 | Fantasy |
Roots: The Next Generations | 1979 | Drama | |
Meteor | The President | 2009 | Action |
Movies Title | Appeared As | Year | Genre |
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On Our Merry Way | 0000 | ||
The Farmer Takes a Wife | 1935 | 0 | |
The Moon's Our Home | John Smith/"Anthony Amberton" | 1936 | |
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine | 1936 | Drama, Romance | |
That Certain Woman | 1937 | 0 | |
You Only Live Once | 1937 | Crime, Drama | |
Jezebel | Preston Dillard | 1938 | |
Spawn of the North | 1938 | Action, Romance | |
The Mad Miss Manton | 1938 | Comedy, Crime, Mystery | |
Young Mr. Lincoln | Abraham Lincoln | 1939 | 0 |
Jesse James | Frank James | 1939 | 0, Fantasy, Comedy |
Drums Along the Mohawk | 1939 | Drama, Romance | |
The Grapes of Wrath | Tom Joad | 1940 | Drama |
Lillian Russell | 1940 | Drama, Musical | |
The Return of Frank James | Frank James | 1940 | |
The Lady Eve | 1941 | 0 | |
Tales of Manhattan | 1942 | 0, 0 | |
The Male Animal | 1942 | Comedy, Romance | |
Immortal Sergeant | 1943 | Romance | |
The Ox-Bow Incident | Gil Carter | 1943 | Crime, Drama |
My Darling Clementine | Wyatt Earp | 1946 | 0 |
The Long Night | 1947 | Crime, Drama | |
Daisy Kenyon | 1947 | Drama, Romance | |
Fort Apache | Lt. Col. Owen Thursday | 1948 | |
Mister Roberts | Lt. JG Douglas A. 'Doug' Roberts | 1955 | 0, 0, 0 |
War and Peace | Pierre Bezukhov | 1956 | Drama, Romance |
The Wrong Man | Christopher Emmanuel Balestrero (Manny) | 1956 | |
12 Angry Men | Juror #8 | 1957 | 0 |
Advise and Consent | Robert Leffingwell | 1962 | |
How the West Was Won | Jethro Stuart | 1962 | 0, Fantasy |
Battle of the Bulge | 1965 | 0, 0, Romance | |
Fail-Safe | The President | 1965 | Adventure, Drama, Thriller |
A Big Hand for the Little Lady | 1966 | ||
Firecreek | 1968 | ||
Madigan | Commissioner Anthony X. Russell | 1968 | |
There Was a Crooked Man... | 1970 | ||
The Cheyenne Social Club | 1970 | Comedy | |
Sometimes a Great Notion | 1970 | Drama, Action, Adventure | |
Night Flight from Moscow | Davies | 1973 | |
The Red Pony | 1973 | Drama | |
Midway | Admiral Chester W. Nimitz | 1976 | 0, 0, 0 |
All This and World War II | 1976 | Documentary, History, Music | |
Rollercoaster | 1977 | Thriller | |
Fedora | 1978 | Drama, Romance | |
Wanda Nevada | 1979 | ||
Meteor | 1979 | Action, Drama, Sci Fi | |
On Golden Pond | Norman Thayer Jr. | 1981 | |
Displaced Person | Narrator | 1985 |