Henry Fonda American Actor Born 1905 in Grand Island

Henry Fonda was an American actor born on 16 May 1905 in Grand Island. He died on 12 August 1982, aged 77. The recorded cause of death is heart disease. His best-known titles on this site are Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) and The Longest Day (1962).

Early life

Henry Fonda was educated at Omaha Central High School and University of Minnesota.

Career

The earliest credit on record for Henry Fonda is I Dream Too Much (1935). During the 1940s, he worked on The Grapes of Wrath (1940) and My Darling Clementine (1946, as Wyatt Earp). Work from the 1950s includes War and Peace (1956, as Pierre Bezukhov) and 12 Angry Men (1957, as Juror #8). How the West Was Won (1962, as Jethro Stuart) and Battle of the Bulge (1965) are among his 1960s credits. In the 1980s, he appeared in On Golden Pond (1982) and Let Poland Be Poland (1982).

His filmography here covers 100 films and 3 TV series from 1935 to 2006. Drama is the most frequent genre among his listed titles (8), followed by action (4) and war (4). Of his two titles with worldwide box-office figures on record, The Longest Day (1962) has the highest, at $50 million.

John Wayne appears in four of his listed titles, including Fort Apache (1948) and In Harm's Way (1965). Other co-stars who recur in his credits are James Stewart (four titles) and Kirk Douglas (three titles). John Ford directed two of his titles on record. Otto Preminger is credited as director on two of them, including Advise & Consent (1962). In genre terms, the records list western film and spaghetti western.

Recognition

In 1981, he won an Academy Honorary Award. He also won the Academy Award for Best Actor (1982) for On Golden Pond and the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play (1948). Henry Fonda also earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1941 for The Grapes of Wrath. Awards come to 11 wins and 4 nominations in total.

Personal life

He married Shirley Maye Adams in 1965. Earlier marriages on record are to Margaret Sullavan (1931 to 1933), Frances Ford Seymour (1936 to 1950, widowed), Susan Blanchard (1950 to 1956) and Afdera Franchetti (1957 to 1961). He was the father of Peter Fonda and Jane Fonda.