Henry Fonda
American actor (1905-1982) · United States · Actors · Died at 77
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Something wrong?He made decency compelling. For five decades, Henry Fonda turned ordinary integrity into screen magnetism - the hold-out juror, the dust-bowl drifter, the wrongly accused everyman - and proved that quiet moral weight could carry a close-up.
A life in dates
MeteorFilm, 1979The President1978AFI Life Achievement AwardAward
The Kennedy Center HonorsSeries, 19781977“She was not an easy woman to categorize or to explain. If I´ve ever known anyone in my life, man or woman, who was unique, it was she. There was nobody like her before or since.”In their wordsAbout first wife Margaret Sullavan. Haywire (1977) by Brooke Hayward. Jonathan Cape Ltd., pp. 162-63. .
RollercoasterFilm, 1977Simon Davenport1975
People's Choice AwardsSeries1974
Dinah!Series1973
My Name Is NobodyFilm, Jack Beauregard1971
All in the FamilySeries1970
There Was a Crooked Man...Film, Woodward W. Lopeman1968
The Dick Cavett ShowSeries1966
A Big Hand for the Little LadyFilm, Meredith1964
Fail SafeFilm, The President1962
Advise & ConsentFilm, Robert Leffingwell1961
The Mike Douglas ShowSeries1959
The Bell Telephone HourSeries1958BAFTA Award for Best Foreign ActorAward1957
12 Angry MenFilm, Producer1955
Mister RobertsFilm, Lieutenant Roberts1950
What's My Line?Series1948Tony Award for Best Actor in a PlayAward1946
My Darling ClementineFilm, Wyatt Earp1944
Golden Globe AwardsSeries1941
The Lady EveFilm, Charles Pike1939
Drums Along the MohawkFilm, Gilbert Martin1937
You Only Live OnceFilm, Eddie Taylor1905Born16 May 1905Also in Deutsch
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In their own words 2
, She was not an easy woman to categorize or to explain. If I´ve ever known anyone in my life, man or woman, who was unique, it was she. There was nobody like her before or since.
I've been close to Bette Davis for thirty-eight years - and I have the cigarette burns to prove it.
Filmography 40
LALa Classe américaine
OPOn Golden PondMEMeteor
TSThe Swarm
FEFedora
TETentaclesRORollercoaster
MIMidwayMNMy Name Is Nobody
SNSometimes a Great NotionTMThere Was a Crooked Man...
OWOnce Upon a Time in the West
TSThe Boston Strangler
YOYours, Mine and Ours
MAMadiganALA Big Hand for the Little Lady
BBBattle of the Bulge
IWIn Harm's Way
SGSex and the Single GirlFSFail Safe
TDThe Longest Day
HWHow the West Was WonACAdvise & Consent
WAWarlockAM12 Angry Men
TSThe Tin Star
TMThe Wrong Man
WPWar and PeaceMRMister Roberts
FAFort ApacheMCMy Darling Clementine
TIThe Ox-Bow IncidentTEThe Lady Eve
TWThe Grapes of Wrath
TJThe Return of Frank James
YLYoung Mr. Lincoln
JJJesse JamesDMDrums Along the Mohawk
JEJezebelYOYou Only Live Once209 credits on file
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PAParkinson
RGRoots: The Next GenerationsTHThe Kennedy Center Honors
FAFamilyPAPeople's Choice Awards
SCSpécial cinémaDIDinah!
TRThe Dean Martin Celebrity RoastsAFAll in the Family
TSThe Bill Cosby ShowTSThe Dick Cavett Show
TSThe Doris Day Show
TCThe Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TSThe Merv Griffin ShowTSThe Mike Douglas Show
TDThe DeputyTHThe Bell Telephone Hour
TATony Awards
TSThe Steve Allen ShowWLWhat's My Line?
TSThe Ed Sullivan ShowGAGolden Globe AwardsAwards
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Born in Nebraska in 1905, Fonda came up through Broadway before his 1935 Hollywood debut. He hit his stride fast: Jesse James and Young Mr. Lincoln in 1939, then an Oscar nomination for Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath (1940). After World War II service, he anchored Westerns for John Ford - My Darling Clementine, Fort Apache - and took a seven-year film break to work on stage. He returned in 1955 with Mister Roberts, then co-produced 12 Angry Men (1957) as the lone dissenting juror, earning a BAFTA. Late career brought range: a rare villain turn in Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), military men in Battle of the Bulge and Midway. At 76, too ill to attend the ceremony, he won his only Oscar for On Golden Pond (1981), acting opposite Katharine Hepburn and his daughter Jane. He died five months later, in August 1982.
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