Henry Fonda

🎂 Data nașterii: 1905-05-16 (Grand Island, Nebraska, USA)

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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Henry Fonda

Filme în care a jucat

Incidentul Aplecarea-boului

Fail Safe

Fructele mâniei

The Lady Eve

Draga mea Clementine

Jezebel: Legend of the South

Jezebel

Rollercoaster

Daisy Kenyon

Madigan

Firecreek

The Tin Star

Midway

Război și pace

Omul greșit

Pe lacul auriu

Something to Do with Death

'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War

The Wages of Sin

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Making '12 Angry Men'

The Rounders

Cum a fost câștigat Vestul

Numele meu este Nimeni

Ziua cea mai lungă

There Was a Crooked Man...

The Boston Strangler

Sex and the Single Girl

Tales of Manhattan

Al tău, al meu și al nostru

Battle of the Bulge

Sometimes a Great Notion

Meteor

The Cheyenne Social Club

The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's

The Great Smokey Roadblock

A Big Hand for the Little Lady

The Best Man

Fort Apache

The Fugitive

Warlock

The Return of Frank James

Jesse James

Young Mr. Lincoln

The Mad Miss Manton

Le Serpent

The Long Night

Mister Roberts

Gideon's Trumpet

Spencer's Mountain

Război pe mare

La Classe américaine

Directed by John Ford

Jigsaw

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

Breakdowns of 1938

Wanda Nevada

Advise & Consent

Sacco and Vanzetti

Roiul

Hollywood: The Great Stars

Hollywood: The Selznick Years

Hollywood: The Fabulous Era

Tentacoli

The Story of Alexander Graham Bell

Let Us Live

Il grande attacco

The Greatest Man in the World

You Only Live Once

Drums Along the Mohawk

On Our Merry Way

The Male Animal

Fedora

The Battle of Midway

The Trail of the Lonesome Pine

Immortal Sergeant

Spawn of the North

That Certain Woman

Rings on Her Fingers