Henry Fonda

Acting

Born 1905-05-16 Died 1982-08-12 Grand Island, Nebraska, USA 199 credits Academy Awards 1 BAFTA Awards 1 Grammy Awards 1 Tony Awards 1 Bronze Star Medal 1 star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 Eagle Scout 1 David di Donatello Award for Lifetime Achievement 1

Awards

Won 1 Academy Award

Academy Awards 1 won · 2 nominated

1982 Best Actor Won On Golden Pond
1958 Best Picture Nominated 12 Angry Men
1941 Best Actor Nominated The Grapes of Wrath

BAFTA Awards 1 won

1958 Best Foreign Actor Won 12 Angry Men

Grammy Awards 1 won

— Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording Won

Tony Awards 1 won · 1 nominated

1975 Best Actor in a Play Nominated
1948 Best Actor in a Play Won

Bronze Star Medal 1 won

— Bronze Star Medal Won

star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 won

— star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Won

Eagle Scout 1 won

— Eagle Scout Won

David di Donatello Award for Lifetime Achievement 1 won

— Lifetime Achievement Won

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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.