Henry Fonda
Birthday: 1905-05-16
Deathday: 1982-04-27
Birthplace: Grand Island, Nebraska, USA
Gender: Male
Drafted: 0
Drafted By: Unowned
Owned By: Unowned
Owned Wins: 0
Owned Noms: 0
Win Bonus: 5
Nom Bonus: 0
Total Points: 0
Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982) was an American actor who had a career that spanned five decades in Hollywood. Fonda cultivated a strong, appealing screen image in several films now considered to be classics, earning one Academy Award for Best Actor on two nominations.
Fonda made his mark early as a Broadway actor and made his Hollywood film debut in 1935. His film career began to gain momentum with roles such as Bette Davis's fiancee in her Academy Award-winning performance in Jezebel (1938), brother Frank in Jesse James (1939), and the future President in Young Mr. Lincoln (1939), directed by John Ford. His early career peaked with his Academy Award-nominated performance as Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath, about an Oklahoma family who moved to California during the Dust Bowl 1930s. This film is widely considered to be among the greatest American films.
In 1941 he starred opposite Barbara Stanwyck in the screwball comedy classic The Lady Eve. Book-ending his service in WWII were his starring roles in two highly regarded westerns: The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) and My Darling Clementine (1946), the latter directed by John Ford, and he also starred in Ford's western Fort Apache (1948). After a seven-year break from films, during which Fonda focused on stage productions, he returned with the WWII war-boat ensemble Mister Roberts (1955). In 1957 he starred as Juror No.8, the hold-out juror, in 12 Angry Men. Fonda, who was also co-producer, won the BAFTA for Best Foreign Actor.
Later in his career, Fonda moved into darker roles, such as the villain in the epic Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), underrated and a box office disappointment at its time of release, but now regarded as one of the best westerns of all time. He also played in lighter-hearted fare such as Yours, Mine and Ours with Lucille Ball, but also often played important military figures, such as a Colonel in Battle of the Bulge (1965), and Admiral Nimitz in Midway (1976). He finally won the Academy Award for Best Actor at the 54th Academy Awards for his final film role in On Golden Pond (1981), which also starred Katharine Hepburn and his daughter Jane Fonda, but was too ill to attend the ceremony. He died from heart disease a few months later.
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Career Statisics
| Season | Age | Movie | Role | Result | Points | |
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| 1941 | 36 | The Grapes of Wrath (1940) | Leading Actor | Nom | 0 | |
| 1982 | 77 | On Golden Pond (1981) | Leading Actor | Win | 0 | |
| Career | 0 |
Transaction History
| Date | Location | Team | Receives | Team | Receives | Team | Receives |
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Credits
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1991-10-28 | Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker | |
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1981-12-30 | Summer Solstice | Joshua |
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1981-12-04 | On Golden Pond | Norman Thayer Jr. |
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1980-04-30 | Gideon's Trumpet | Clarence Earl Gideon |
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1980-04-07 | The Oldest Living Graduate | Col. J.C. Kincaid |
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1979-10-19 | Meteor | The President |
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1979-07-11 | City on Fire | Fire Chief Risley |
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1979-06-01 | Wanda Nevada | Old Prospector |
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1978-07-14 | The Swarm | Dr. Walter Krim |
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1978-06-29 | Fedora | President of the Academy |
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1978-06-21 | The Great Smokey Roadblock | Elegant John |
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1978-05-02 | Home to Stay | Grandpa George |
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1978-02-07 | The Biggest Battle | Generale Foster |
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1977-06-10 | Rollercoaster | Simon Davenport |
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1977-02-25 | Tentacles | Mr. Whitehead |
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1976-06-18 | Midway | Adm. Chester W. Nimitz |
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1976-01-04 | Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur | Gen. Douglas MacArthur |
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1974-09-04 | Clarence Darrow | Clarence Darrow |
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1974-03-27 | The Last Four Days | Kardinal Schuster |
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1973-12-13 | My Name Is Nobody | Jack Beauregard |
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1973-11-01 | Ash Wednesday | Mark Sawyer |
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1973-10-06 | The Alpha Caper | Mark Forbes |
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1973-04-07 | The Serpent | Alan Davies |
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1973-03-17 | The Red Pony | Carl Tiflin |
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1971-12-17 | Sometimes a Great Notion | Henry Stamper |
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1971-09-06 | Directed by John Ford | |
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1970-09-18 | There Was a Crooked Man... | Woodward W. Lopeman |
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1970-06-12 | The Cheyenne Social Club | Harley Sullivan |
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1970-05-20 | Too Late the Hero | Capt. John G Nolan |
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1969-07-30 | Stiletto | |
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1969-01-01 | An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer | John Steinbeck (voice) |
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1968-12-21 | Once Upon a Time in the West | Frank |
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1968-10-08 | The Boston Strangler | John S. Bottomly |
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1968-04-24 | Yours, Mine and Ours | Frank Beardsley |
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1968-03-29 | Madigan | Commissioner Anthony X. Russell |
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1968-01-24 | Firecreek | Bob Larkin |
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1967-10-31 | Stranger on the Run | Ben Chamberlain |
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1967-04-30 | Welcome to Hard Times | Mayor Will Blue |
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1966-06-08 | A Big Hand for the Little Lady | Meredith |
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1965-12-16 | Battle of the Bulge | Lt Col Kiley |
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1965-06-23 | The Dirty Game | Dimitri Koulov |
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1965-04-06 | In Harm's Way | CINCPAC II |
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1965-01-08 | The Rounders | Marion 'Howdy' Lewis |
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1964-12-25 | Sex and the Single Girl | Frank Broderick |
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1964-10-07 | Fail Safe | The President |
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1964-04-05 | The Best Man | William Russell |
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1963-05-16 | Spencer's Mountain | Clay Spencer |
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1962-11-02 | How the West Was Won | Jethro Stuart |
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1962-09-25 | The Longest Day | Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. |
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1962-06-06 | Advise & Consent | Robert Leffingwell |
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1959-10-02 | The Man Who Understood Women | Willie Bauche |
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1959-05-15 | Warlock | Clay Blaisedell |
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1958-04-22 | Stage Struck | Lewis Easton |
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1957-10-23 | The Tin Star | Morgan Hickman |
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1957-04-10 | 12 Angry Men | Juror 8 |
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1956-12-22 | The Wrong Man | Manny Balestrero |
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1956-08-21 | War and Peace | Pierre Bezukhov |
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1955-07-10 | Mister Roberts | Lieutenant Roberts |
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1955-05-30 | The Petrified Forest | Alan Squier |
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1949-03-11 | Jigsaw | Nightclub Waiter (uncredited) |
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1948-06-14 | Fort Apache | Lt. Col. Owen Thursday |
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1948-02-03 | On Our Merry Way | Lank Solsky |
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1947-12-25 | Daisy Kenyon | Peter Lapham |
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1947-11-11 | The Fugitive | A Fugitive |
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1947-05-28 | The Long Night | Joe Adams |
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1946-10-17 | My Darling Clementine | Wyatt Earp |
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1943-04-29 | Immortal Sergeant | Corporal Colin Spence |
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1943-03-11 | The Ox-Bow Incident | Gil Carter |
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1942-08-13 | The Big Street | Agustus 'Little Pinks' Pinkerton, II |
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1942-08-05 | Tales of Manhattan | George |
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1942-07-01 | The Magnificent Dope | Thadeus Winship 'Tad' Page |
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1942-03-20 | Rings on Her Fingers | John Wheeler |
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1942-03-12 | The Male Animal | Tommy Turner |
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1941-10-22 | You Belong to Me | Peter Kirk |
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1941-08-15 | Wild Geese Calling | John Murdock |
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1941-02-25 | The Lady Eve | Charles Pike |
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1940-12-25 | Chad Hanna | Chad Hanna |
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1940-08-10 | The Return of Frank James | Frank James |
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1940-05-24 | Lillian Russell | Alexander Moore |
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1940-03-15 | The Grapes of Wrath | Tom Joad |
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1939-11-10 | Drums Along the Mohawk | Gilbert Martin |
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1939-06-09 | Young Mr. Lincoln | Abraham Lincoln |
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1939-04-04 | The Story of Alexander Graham Bell | Thomas Watson |
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1939-03-29 | Let Us Live | "Brick" Tennant |
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1939-01-14 | Jesse James | Frank James |
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1938-10-21 | The Mad Miss Manton | Peter Ames |
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1938-08-26 | Spawn of the North | Jim Kimmerlee |
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1938-06-17 | Blockade | Marco |
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1938-03-26 | Jezebel | Preston Dillard |
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1938-01-14 | I Met My Love Again | Ives Towner |
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1937-08-30 | That Certain Woman | Jack V. Merrick, Jr. |
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1937-06-24 | Slim | Slim |
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1937-02-19 | Wings of the Morning | Kerry Gilfallen |
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1937-01-23 | You Only Live Once | Eddie Taylor |
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1936-07-22 | Spendthrift | Townsend Middleton |
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1936-04-10 | The Moon's Our Home | Anthony Amberton / John Smith |
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1936-03-13 | The Trail of the Lonesome Pine | Dave Tolliver |
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1935-11-29 | I Dream Too Much | Johnny Street |
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1935-10-25 | Way Down East | David Bartlett |
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1935-07-05 | The Farmer Takes a Wife | Dan Harrow |