Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 - August 12, 1982) was an acclaimed American film actor and stage actor beloved for his roles as plain-speaking men of humane decency.

He was born in Grand Island, Nebraska to William Brace Fonda and Herberta Krueger Jaynes, and started his acting career at age twenty at the Omaha Community Playhouse when his mother's friend Dodie Brando needed a young man to play the lead in You and I .

In 1957, he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor for his performance in 12 Angry Men. Among his many awards, Fonda won a Tony Award and the Oscar for his performance in On Golden Pond - in which his daughter Jane co-starred. His son Peter is also an actor, as is his grand-daughter Bridget.

Henry Fonda died of cancer and heart disease at his home in Los Angeles just months after his Oscar win, with wife Shirlee and daughter Jane at his side.

Marriages

• 1965-1982 Shirlee Mae Adams
• 1957-1961 Countess Afdera Franchetti
• 1950-1956 Susan Blanchard
• 1936-1950 Frances Ford Seymour Brokaw, committed suicide in 1950
• 1931-1932 Margaret Brooke Sullavan - committed suicide by drug overdose in 1960

Filmography

• The Farmer Takes a Wife (1935)
• Way Down East (1935)
• I Dream Too Much (1935)
• Spendthrift (1936)
• The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936)
• The Moon's Our Home (1936)
• You Only Live Once (1937)
• Wings of the Morning (1937)
• Slim (1937)
• That Certain Woman (1937)
• I Met My Love Again (1938)
• Jezebel (1938)
• Blockade (1938)
• Spawn of the North (1938)
• The Mad Miss Manton (1938)
• Jesse James (1939)
• Let Us Live! (1939)
• The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)
• Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
• Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)
• The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
• Lillian Russell (1940)
• The Return of Frank James (1940)
• Chad Hanna (1940)
• The Lady Eve (1941)
• (1941) (short subject)
• Wild Geese Calling (1941)
• You Belong to Me (1941)
• Rings on Her Fingers (1942)
• The Male Animal (1942)
• The Magnificent Dope (1942)
• Tales of Manhattan (1942)
• The Big Street (1942)
• The Battle of Midway (1942) (short subject) (narrator)
• It's Everybody's War (1942) (short subject) (narrator)
• Immortal Sergeant (1943)
• The Ox-Box Incident (1943)
• My Darling Clementine (1946)
• The Long Night (1947)
• The Fugitive (1947)
• Daisy Kenyon (1947)
• On Our Merry Way (1948)
• Fort Apache (1948)
• On Stage! (1949) (short subject)
• Jigsaw (1949) (cameo)
• Benjy (1951) (short subject)
• (1951) (documentary)
• Main Street to Broadway (1953)
• Mister Roberts (1955)
• War and Peace (1956)
• The Wrong Man (1956)
• Eight Steps to Peace (1957) (documentary) (narrator)
• 12 Angry Men (1957)
• The Tin Star (1957)
• Stage Struck (1958)
• Warlock (1959)
• The Man Who Understood Women (1959)
• San Francisco Fire (1962) (short subject)
• Advise and Consent (1962)
• The Longest Day (1962)
• How the West Was Won (1962)
• Spencer's Mountain (1963)
• The Best Man (1964)
• Fail-Safe (1964)
• Sex and the Single Girl (1964)
• The Rounders (1965)
• In Harm's Way (1965)
• The Dirty Game (1965)
• Battle of the Bulge (1965)
• The Really Big Family (1966) (short subject) (narrator)
• A Big Hand for the Little Lady (1966)
• Born to Buck (1966) (documentary) (narrator)
• All About People (1967) (short subject) (narrator)
• Welcome to Hard Times (1967)
• Beans, Bullets, and Black Oil (1968) (short subject) (narrator)
• Firecreek (1968)
• Madigan (1968)
• Yours, Mine and Ours (1968)
• The Boston Strangler (1968)
• Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
• (1969) (short subject)
• To Save a Soldier (1969) (documentary) (narrator)
• Too Late the Hero (1970)
• The Cheyenne Social Club (1970)
• There Was a Crooked Man... (1970)
• Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)
• Directed by John Ford (1971) (documentary)
• The Serpent (1973)
• Ash Wednesday (1973)
• My Name Is Nobody (1973)
• Celebrity Art (1973) (short subject)
• (1974)
• Midway (1976)
• Tentacles (1977)
• Rollercoaster (1977)
• The Last of the Cowboys (1977)
• (1978) (documentary) (narrator)
• The Biggest Battle (1978)
• Fedora (1978)
• The Swarm (1978)
• Wanda Nevada (1979)
• Meteor (1979)
• On Golden Pond (1981)

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