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]
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]
Wild Geese Calling (1941) [a]
Rings on Her Fingers (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 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 Tin Star (1957) [a]
Stage Struck (1958) [a]
The Man Who Understood Women (1959) [a]
Warlock (1959) [a]
The Fabulous Fifties (1960) [a]
How the West Was Won (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]
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]
Continental Films, quality cinema under the Nazi Occupation
The best French Films of the 1920s
The best of American cinema
