Henry Fonda Net Worth
Henry Fonda Net Worth is
$12 Million
Henry Fonda Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Henry Jaynes Fonda was born in Grand Island, Nebraska, to Elma Herberta (Jaynes) and William Brace Fonda, who worked in advertising and printing. His recent ancestry included Dutch, English, and Scottish. Fonda started his acting debut with the Omaha Community Playhouse, a local amateur theater troupe directed by Dorothy Brando. He moved to the ... | Full Name | Henry Fonda |
| Date Of Birth | May 16, 1905, Grand Island, Nebraska, United States |
| Died | August 12, 1982, Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Place Of Birth | Grand Island, Nebraska, USA |
| Height | 6' 1½" (1.87 m) |
| Profession | Actor, Producer, Soundtrack |
| Education | University of Minnesota, Omaha Central High School |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse | Shirlee Mae Adams (m. 1965–1982) |
| Children | Jane Fonda, Peter Fonda, Amy Fishman |
| Parents | Elma Herberta Fonda, William Brace Fonda |
| Awards | Academy Award for Best Actor, Academy Honorary Award, AFI Life Achievement Award, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture – Drama, Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, Kennedy Center Honors, Tony Award for Best Lead Actor in a Play, BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor, National Board o... |
| Nominations | Academy Award for Best Picture, BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or a Movie, National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor, People's Choice Award for Favorit... |
| Movies | 12 Angry Men, Once Upon a Time in the West, My Darling Clementine, The Grapes of Wrath, On Golden Pond, Young Mr. Lincoln, Fort Apache, Mister Roberts, The Ox-Bow Incident, The Lady Eve, My Name Is Nobody, Fail Safe, How the West Was Won, The Wrong Man, Drums Along the Mohawk, The Return of Frank Ja... |
| TV Shows | Captains and the Kings, The Smith Family, The Bell Telephone Hour, The Deputy, The Star and the Story, Poetry Hall of Fame Collection |
| Star Sign | Taurus |
| # | Trademark |
|---|---|
| 1 | Often worked with his best friend 'James Stewart' |
| 2 | Often played strong, defensive, heroic characters that were always seeking peace and justice. |
| 3 | Bright blue eyes |
| 4 | Noticeable for his "cat-like" walk, especially in westerns: moving at a slow but clock- like tempo, throwing forward one foot at time, while letting the arms dangle loosely at his sides. |
| Title | Salary |
|---|---|
| Roots: The Next Generations (1979) | $250,000 |
| Sex and the Single Girl (1964) | $100,000 |
| The Longest Day (1962) | $30,000 |
| Fort Apache (1948) | $110,000 |
| The Mad Miss Manton (1938) | $25,000 |
| # | Quote |
|---|---|
| 1 | The beat actors do not let the wheels show. |
| 2 | At a roast for Bette Davis, after many references to her chain smoking, Fonda said we really didn't mean to burn down the sets on Jezebel, but there was Bette and those damned cigarettes, which resulted in uproarious laughter. |
| 3 | [on Marlon Brando] I don't think there's anybody better when he wants to be good. |
| 4 | [on the producers of "War and Peace"] Their idea of Pierre was that he look as much like Rock Hudson as possible. |
| 5 | [on stage acting] Anyone who gives the same performance he gave on opening night is not doing a good job. Unless a performance is growing constantly, unless the actor is finding new insights into the character, he must grow stale. |
| 6 | I don't really like myself. Never did. People mix me up with the characters I play. I'm not a great guy like Doug Roberts [in 'Mister Roberts']. I'd like to be but I'm not. |
| 7 | Money must be, I guess, what first took me to Hollywood. When I first came out, I certainly had NO ambition to make pictures. |
| 8 | [on War and Peace (1956) and referring to author of book Leo Tolstoy] When I first agreed to do it, the screenplay by Irwin Shaw was fine, but what happened? King Vidor used to go home nights with his wife and rewrite it. All the genius of Tolstoy went out the window. |
| 9 | [on John Ford] He was so egomaniacal. He would never rehearse, didn't want to talk about a part. If an actor started to ask questions he'd either take those pages and tear them out of the script or insult him in an awful way. He loved getting his shot on the first take, which for him meant it was fresh. He would print the first take -- even if it wasn't any good. |
| 10 | [on John Ford] He had instinctively a beautiful eye for the camera. But he was also an egomaniac. |
| 11 | I don't want to be in a fake war in a studio. |
| 12 | [on director John Ford] It has to do with the fact that Ford, for all his greatness, is an Irish egomaniac, as anyone who knows him will say. |
| 13 | I've been close to Bette Davis for thirty-eight years - and I have the cigarette burns to prove it. |
| 14 | I can't articulate about the Method because I never studied it. I don't mean to suggest that I have any feelings one way or the other about it. I don't know what the Method is and I don't care what the Method is. Everybody's got a method. Everybody can't articulate about their method, and I can't, if I have a method - and Jane sometimes says that I use the Method, that is, the capital letter Method, without being aware of it. Maybe I do, it doesn't matter. |
| 15 | [on Jane Fonda and Peter Fonda, 1976] "I didn't help or discourage them or lead them by the hand. I'm not trying to set myself up as a good father, because I wasn't a good father. But I think I knew instinctively that if they did make it, they would like to know they'd done it on their own. I recognise all the problems my children have had, and I don't claim any credit for what they've become. They've become what they are in spite of me." |
| 16 | I look like my father. To this day, when I walk past a mirror and see my reflection in it, my first impression is: That's my father. There is a strong Fonda look. |
| 17 | If there is something in my eyes, a kind of honesty in the face, then I guess you could say that's the man I'd like to be, the man I want to be. |
| 18 | [speaking in 1978] I guess I go overboard to avoid taking credit for the image I have. That's why it's easier to live with myself. I don't feel I'm totally a man of integrity. |
| 19 | [about director Sergio Leone] Next to Clint Eastwood's father, he personally had done more for 'Clint Eastwood' than anyone else." |
| 20 | Baby it out. That's an old marble shooter's expression for approaching your target cautiosly instead of trying to take it out with one shot. |
| 21 | I'm not that pristine pure, I guess I've broken as many rules as the next feller. But I reckon my face looks honest enough and if people buy it, Hallelujah. |
| 22 | I hope you won't be disappointed. You see I am not a very interesting person. I haven't ever done anything except be other people. I ain't really Henry Fonda! Nobody could be. Nobody could have that much integrity. |
| 23 | I don't want to just sell war bonds. I want to be a sailor. |
| # | Fact |
|---|---|
| 1 | He appeared in three films directed by Sidney Lumet: 12 Angry Men (1957), Stage Struck (1958) and Fail-Safe (1964). |
| 2 | His daughter Jane claims that she only saw him cry once, when Franklin D. Roosevelt died. |
| 3 | In a 1981 interview in "Playboy", Fonda claimed that Sex and the Single Girl (1964) was the worst film that he had ever made. |
| 4 | Unlike a lot of film stars that started their careers on Broadway, Fonda returned regularly to the New York stage throughout his career. |
| 5 | He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1601 Vine Street in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960. |
| 6 | Fonda turned down the Charles Bronson role in "Death Wish" because he termed its theme 'repulsive.'. |
| 7 | After being television spokesperson for GAF Film for seven years, Fonda was happy to do a Lifesavers commercial in Omaha on the same block on which he had lived when he was eight years old. |
| 8 | Although Fonda confesses he would have liked to play George in Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf," his agent turned the script down without consulting him. |
| 9 | Although he was against the Vietnam War, Fonda was ultimately persuaded to go on a twenty-three day tour, taking Polaroids with the servicemen and autographing them. |
| 10 | According to author Michael Buckley, Fonda's most cherished childhood memory was being awakened by his mother to see Halley's Comet in 1910. |
| 11 | He played unnamed US Presidents in two films: Fail-Safe (1964) and Meteor (1979). |
| 12 | Fonda was considered the most talented of all the Hollywood celebrities who painted in oils, mostly still lifes. He was offered considerable sums on many occasions for his paintings but preferred to give them away to friends. |
| 13 | Fonda was a member of the University Players, a group of young actors located in Falmouth near Provincetown. Other members included Joshua Logan, Kent Smith, Myron McCormick, Bretaigne Windust, Charles Arnt, Mildred Natwick, James Stewart, Barbara O'Neill, and future wife Magaret Sullavan. They stayed together for four years. |
| 14 | Fonda's first Broadway role was a small one in "A Game of Love and Death" with Alice Brady, Claude Rains, and Otto Kruger. |
| 15 | Although he received great acclaim for both his acting and producing "Twelve Angry Men," Fonda, who was working on a percentage of the profits for his compensation as both actor and producer, ultimately received nothing for acting or producing, because the film just broke even. |
| 16 | Fonda did preliminary work on a picture to be called "Clown" about the life of Emmet Kelly, but script problems caused it to fall through. |
| 17 | Fonda admits he was initially attracted to acting because it helped him "to get behind a mask.". |
| 18 | He was a big fan of All in the Family (1971) and had the privilege of hosting "The Best of All in the Family, which looked back at the best moments from the first 100 episodes of the show. |
| 19 | Played a man wrongly accused of a crime four times: You Only Live Once (1937), Let Us Live (1939), The Wrong Man (1956), and Gideon's Trumpet (1980). |
| 20 | Won a 1979 Special Tony Award. |
| 21 | Was a first-hand witness to the Omaha race riots of 1919 and lynching of Will Brown. |
| 22 | He left a clause in his will requesting that there be no funeral or memorial service. |
| 23 | He was a close friend of actor Ross Alexander from the time they first worked together on Broadway. |
| 24 | With the exception of a $200,000 bequest to daughter Amy, he left his entire estate to his 5th wife Shirlee Adams. |
| 25 | Appeared in three movies based exclusively on World War II battles, The Longest Day (1962), Battle of the Bulge (1965) and Midway (1976), and also appeared in a more fictional representation of the Pearl Harbor attack and early South Pacific campaign, In Harm's Way (1965), in the same role he would portray in "Midway," Admiral Chester Nimitz (referred to as CINCPAC II in "In Harm's Way"). |
| 26 | He returned to Broadway in 1974 for the biographical drama Clarence Darrow for which he was nominated for a Tony Award. Fonda's health had been deteriorating for years, but his first outward symptoms occurred after an April 1974 performance when he collapsed from exhaustion. After the appearance of a heart arrhythmia brought on by prostate cancer, a pacemaker was installed and Fonda returned to the play in the following year. After the run of the 1978 play First Monday of October, he took the advice of his doctors and quit the rigors of live stage, though he continued to star in films and on television. |
| 27 | Fonda told his third wife Susan Blanchard to stay away from Ward Bond, whose ultra-conservative views and active support for McCarthyism he despised. |
| 28 | He was a founding member of the Hollywood Democratic Committee during the 1930s, formed in support of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal agenda. |
| 29 | Considered for the leading role of "Ladri di biciclette" (1948). |
| 30 | Son of William Brace Fonda and Herberta Jaynes Fonda. |
| 31 | Ranked #6 as AFI's top male screen legends. |
| 32 | Contrary to popular belief, Fonda did approve of his daughter Jane's anti-war activism during Vietnam and at AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Henry Fonda (1978) told her critics to "shut up", because "she's perfect". |
| 33 | He was one of the most active, and most vocal, liberal Democrats in Hollywood along with Robert Ryan and Gregory Peck. He once said that President Ronald Reagan made him "physically ill", and that he "couldn't stomach any of the Republicans, most of all Richard Nixon.". |
| 34 | 1982: Was unable to be present at the 1982 Academy Awards ceremony to accept his best actor Oscar for On Golden Pond (1981). His award was accepted on his behalf by his daughter Jane Fonda. |
| 35 | Was good friends with John Wayne from the time they were part of the director John Ford's stock company. Henry's son, Peter Fonda, in his autobiography, said that Henry had some trouble with the Duke and fellow Ford film co-star Ward Bond over politics, as the two were definitely to his father's right. Peter said that the Duke and Bond were wonderful with him and very warm, in contrast to his father, who was rather cold. Henry would drift away from the Ford stock company, and his relationship with the great director would end on the set of Mister Roberts (1955) when he objected to Ford's direction of the film. Ford punched Fonda and had to be replaced. |
| 36 | Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume One, 1981-1985, pages 284-287. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1998. |
| 37 | Nearly fell out with his close friend James Stewart in an argument over blacklisting in the spring of 1947. It happened shortly after Fonda joined Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall and John Huston in signing an open letter to the House Unamerican Activities Committee, suggesting it end its investigations of Communism involvement in the film industry. According to Stewart, the argument was "long and pretty heated" and ended only when the two men realized they were jeopardizing so many years of friendship. Soon afterward, Fonda moved to New York, not returning to Hollywood until 1955. Although part of the reason for his extended stay in the East was his starring role in Mister Roberts on Broadway, he also confided to friends that he couldn't tolerate the political climate in Southern California during those years. Jane Fonda admits she never got her father to say exactly what was said during the argument with Stewart. "I know it was definitely about the House Unamerican Activities Committee and what became known as McCarthyism later on," she recalled. "And it's true that their friendship really almost ended over that. That was why, after they had cooled down, they decided they would never again talk politics when they were together. But since they were agreeing to be so close-mouthed with one another, they were hardly going to start opening up to other people.". |
| 38 | Separated from third wife Margaret Sullavan after only two months of marriage, however the formal divorce proceedings took longer than the time they were living together as husband and wife, with the final divorce decree not being finalized until an additional thirteen months after separation. |
| 39 | The birth of his daughter Jane Fonda was the cause of some interruptions during his filming of Jezebel (1938) with Bette Davis. |
| 40 | Formed a partnership with actors Robert Ryan and Martha Scott in 1968, co-founding the theatrical production company Plumstead Playhouse in New York. Later called the Plumstead Theatre Society, it co-produced the Broadway production of First Monday in October, starring Fonda and Jane Alexander. |
| 41 | Three films of his are on the American Film Institute's 100 Most Inspiring Movies of All Time. They are: On Golden Pond (1981) at #45, 12 Angry Men (1957) at #42, and The Grapes of Wrath (1940) at #7. |
| 42 | On April 12, 1967, he visited the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Kitty Hawk for an overnight stay in preparation for his role in Yours, Mine and Ours (1968). |
| 43 | Fonda, who played the second Commander in Chief-Pacific (CINCPAC II) in In Harm's Way (1965), was actually a naval veteran of World War II who served in the Pacific Theater. After making The Ox-Bow Incident (1943), Fonda enlisted in the Navy to fight in World War II, saying, "I don't want to be in a fake war in a studio." He served in the Navy for three years, initially as a Quartermaster 3rd Class on the destroyer USS Satterlee; later, Fonda was commissioned as a Lieutenant Junior Grade (O-2) in Air Combat Intelligence. For his service in the Central Pacific, he won the Bronze Star, the fourth highest award for bravery or meritorious service in conflict with the enemy. |
| 44 | His performance as Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath (1940) is ranked #51 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006). |
| 45 | Named Father of The Year 1963 by the Father's Day/Mother's Day Council, Inc. |
| 46 | Of the Oscar-winning father-daughter couples, he and daughter Jane are the one of two pairs where the daughter won an Academy award before the father did. The other pair is Hayley Mills and John Mills. Hayley's 1960 honorary Oscar was given to her for the best juvenile performance in Pollyanna (1960). Her father John became very popular with the denizens of Hollywood when the Mills family resided there while Hayley made films for Walt Disney. He won a supporting actor Oscar in 1971 for his role as the village idiot in David Lean's Ryan's Daughter (1970). |
| 47 | He and his daughter Jane Fonda were the first father-daughter couple to be Oscar-nominated the same year (1982). |
| 48 | One of his hobbies was bee keeping. This was one of many traits that his son, Peter Fonda, incorporated into his performance in Ulee's Gold (1997), a performance Peter says he based on his father. |
| 49 | Pictured on a 37¢ USA commemorative postage stamp in the Legends of Hollywood series, issued in his honor on 20 May 2005. |
| 50 | Named the #6 greatest actor on The 50 Greatest Screen Legends by the American Film Institute |
| 51 | He was voted the 10th Greatest Movie Star of all time by Premiere Magazine. |
| 52 | Won Broadway's 1948 Tony Award as best dramatic actor for the title role in "Mister Roberts" and award shared with Paul Kelly for "Command Decision: and Basil Rathbone for "The Heiress." He also won a second special Tony in 1979, and was additionally nominated for Broadway's 1975 Tony Award as best dramatic actor for "Clarence Darrow". |
| 53 | Though a Democrat for most of his life, Fonda was once a registered Republican, according to his son Peter Fonda in his autobiography Don't Tell Dad: A Memoir (1999). Peter believes that Henry's liberalism caused him to be gray-listed during the early 1950s, when he experienced a six-year layoff from films. |
| 54 | He was voted the 29th Greatest Movie Star of all time by Entertainment Weekly. |
| 55 | Was twice a roommate and a very close friend of James Stewart. They met and shared a room when the two were both struggling young actors in the early 1930s. Fonda went to Hollywood shortly before Stewart. When Stewart arrived he shared Fonda's home, where they both gained reputations as ladies' men. After both married and had kids, the more mellow buddies still hung out, usually spending time building model airplanes. |
| 56 | The Fonda family was acquainted with Marlon Brando's family, as they both lived in Omaha, Nebraska and Henry appeared with Marlon's mother Dorothy in community theater. In fact, the Brando family, on a trip to Southern California in the late 1930s, visited Henry on a movie set. The two very different actors never knew each other socially because Fonda was much older. In fact, when the teen-aged Brando started out as an actor, he did so in the shadow of Fonda, who was the most famous person from Omaha at that point. Brando did tell a story about how he had to fire a housekeeper after he found out that she was allowing tourists to come into his home to look around the digs of a star, for a fee. Soon after, Henry called him to check up on the credentials of a woman applying for the job of housekeeper at his home. It was the same woman that Brando had fired. He enthusiastically recommended her to his mother's former acting protégé, without telling him of her unauthorized tours. |
| 57 | A friendship and collaboration of nearly 20 years was ended when director John Ford sucker-punched him while making Mister Roberts (1955). |
| 58 | In spite of his kind, heroic, honest screen persona, he was often described as being cold, aloof and frequently angry off-screen. |
| 59 | Was known as a ladies' man in Hollywood, having been involved in affairs with many actresses. |
| 60 | He periodically returned to the legitimate stage throughout his career (Mister Roberts, Critic's Choice and First Monday in October), but missed out on the chance to create the role of George in the original Broadway production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. His agent rejected the script out of hand, without consulting him. The agent gave as his reason the assertion that, "You don't want to be in a play about four people yelling at each other all the time." Fonda, who was an admirer of playwright Edward Albee's talents, was furious. It didn't help matters when old friends like James Stewart and his wife Gloria Stewart, or even his own daughter Jane, told him that they saw the play in New York and couldn't picture anyone but Fonda in the lead. Finally seeing the show himself, Fonda was duly impressed by Arthur Hill's performance in the role, and conceded that he couldn't have played the part any better. |
| 61 | At 76, he was the oldest person to win a best actor Oscar. |
| 62 | His distant ancestors came from Genoa, Italy, and fled to the Netherlands around 1400. Among the early Dutch settlers in America, they established a still-thriving small town in upstate New York named Fonda in the early 1600s, named after patriarch Douw Fonda, who was later killed by Indians. He also had English, Scottish, and more distant Norwegian, ancestry. His paternal grandparents moved to Nebraska in the 1800s. |
| 63 | Hobby was making model airplanes and kites. |
| 64 | During a Barbara Walters interview, Jane Fonda claimed that her father was deeply in love with Lucille Ball and that the two were "very close" during the filming of Yours, Mine and Ours (1968). |
| 65 | Father of Jane Fonda and Peter Fonda from his marriage to Frances Brokaw. Adoptive father of Frances de Villers Brokaw (born 1931) and Amy Fishman (born 1953) from his marriage to Susan Blanchard. Grandfather of Bridget Fonda, Justin Fonda, Vanessa Vadim and Troy Garity. Ex-father-in-law of Roger Vadim and Tom Hayden. |
| 66 | Earned the rank of Life Scout and became a scout master as an adult. |
| 67 | Studied acting with Dorothy Brando, mother of Marlon Brando. |
| 68 | Ranked #95 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997] |
Actor
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Summer Solstice | 1981 | TV Movie | Joshua |
| On Golden Pond | 1981 | Norman Thayer Jr. | |
| The Jilting of Granny Weatherall | 1980 | TV Movie | Narrator |
| Gideon's Trumpet | 1980 | TV Movie | Clarence Earl Gideon |
| The Oldest Living Graduate | 1980 | TV Movie | Colonel J.C. Kincaid |
| Family | 1979 | TV Series | James Lawrence |
| Meteor | 1979 | The President | |
| Wanda Nevada | 1979 | Old Prospector | |
| City on Fire | 1979 | Fire Chief Albert Risley | |
| Roots: The Next Generations | 1979 | TV Mini-Series | Colonel Frederick Warner |
| The Swarm | 1978 | Dr. Walter Krim | |
| Fedora | 1978 | President of the Academy | |
| Home to Stay | 1978 | TV Movie | Grandpa George |
| The Biggest Battle | 1978 | General Foster | |
| Soldier's Home | 1977 | TV Short | Host |
| Rollercoaster | 1977 | Simon Davenport | |
| The Last of the Cowboys | 1977 | Elegant John Howard | |
| Tentacles | 1977 | Mr. Whitehead, President of Trojan Construction | |
| Captains and the Kings | 1976 | TV Mini-Series | Sen. Enfield Bassett |
| Midway | 1976 | Adm. Chester W. Nimitz | |
| Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur | 1976 | TV Movie | Gen. Douglas MacArthur |
| The American Parade | 1975 | TV Mini-Series | Narrator |
| Clarence Darrow | 1974 | TV Movie | Clarence Darrow |
| The Last 4 Days | 1974 | Cardinale Schuster | |
| My Name Is Nobody | 1973 | Jack Beauregard | |
| Ash Wednesday | 1973 | Mark Sawyer | |
| The Alpha Caper | 1973 | TV Movie | Mark Forbes |
| The Serpent | 1973 | Allan Davies | |
| The Red Pony | 1973 | TV Movie | Carl Tiflin |
| The Smith Family | 1971-1972 | TV Series | Det. Sgt. Chad Smith |
| The Doris Day Show | 1971 | TV Series | Henry Fonda |
| Sometimes a Great Notion | 1970 | Henry Stamper | |
| Howdy | 1970 | TV Movie | |
| There Was a Crooked Man... | 1970 | Woodward W. Lopeman | |
| The Cheyenne Social Club | 1970 | Harley Sullivan | |
| Too Late the Hero | 1970 | Capt. John G. Nolan | |
| Pat Paulsen's Half a Comedy Hour | 1970 | TV Series | Surgeon |
| The Bill Cosby Show | 1970 | TV Series | Joshua Richards |
| Once Upon a Time in the West | 1968 | Frank | |
| Pat Paulsen for President | 1968 | TV Movie | Narrator (voice) |
| The Boston Strangler | 1968 | John S. Bottomly | |
| Yours, Mine and Ours | 1968 | Frank Beardsley | |
| Madigan | 1968 | Commissioner Anthony X. Russell | |
| Firecreek | 1968 | Larkin | |
| Stranger on the Run | 1967 | TV Movie | Ben Chamberlain |
| Welcome to Hard Times | 1967 | Mayor Will Blue | |
| A Big Hand for the Little Lady | 1966 | Meredith | |
| Battle of the Bulge | 1965 | Lt. Col. Dan Kiley | |
| The Secret Agents | 1965 | Dimitri Koulov | |
| In Harm's Way | 1965 | CINCPAC II | |
| The Rounders | 1965 | Marion 'Howdy' Lewis | |
| Sex and the Single Girl | 1964 | Frank | |
| Fail-Safe | 1964 | The President | |
| The Best Man | 1964 | William Russell | |
| Spencer's Mountain | 1963 | Clay Spencer | |
| The Dick Powell Theatre | 1963 | TV Series | Dr. Victor Fallon |
| How the West Was Won | 1962 | Jethro Stuart | |
| The Longest Day | 1962 | Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. | |
| Advise & Consent | 1962 | Robert Leffingwell | |
| San Francisco Fire | 1962 | Short | Narrator (voice) |
| The Deputy | 1959-1961 | TV Series | Chief Marshal Simon Fry Marshal Simon Fry |
| The Man Who Understood Women | 1959 | Willie Bauche | |
| Warlock | 1959 | Clay Blaisedell | |
| Stage Struck | 1958 | Lewis Easton | |
| Rangers of Yellowstone | 1958 | Short | Narrator |
| The Tin Star | 1957 | Morgan 'Morg' Hickman | |
| 12 Angry Men | 1957 | Juror 8 | |
| The Wrong Man | 1956 | Manny Balestrero | |
| War and Peace | 1956 | Pierre Bezukhov | |
| Mister Roberts | 1955 | Lt. JG Douglas A. 'Doug' Roberts | |
| Producers' Showcase | 1955 | TV Series | Alan Squier |
| General Electric Theater | 1955 | TV Series | Emmett Kelly |
| Main Street to Broadway | 1953 | Henry Fonda (scenes deleted) | |
| Medallion Theatre | 1953 | TV Series | |
| Benjy | 1951 | Short | Narrator (voice) |
| Jigsaw | 1949 | Nightclub Waiter (cameo appearance) (uncredited) | |
| Fort Apache | 1948 | Lt. Col. Owen Thursday | |
| On Our Merry Way | 1948 | Lank Solsky | |
| Daisy Kenyon | 1947 | Peter Lapham | |
| The Fugitive | 1947 | A Fugitive | |
| The Long Night | 1947 | Joe Adams | |
| My Darling Clementine | 1946 | Wyatt Earp | |
| The Ox-Bow Incident | 1943 | Gil Carter | |
| Immortal Sergeant | 1943 | Cpl. Colin Spence | |
| It's Everybody's War | 1942 | Short | Narrator |
| The Big Street | 1942 | Little Pinks | |
| Tales of Manhattan | 1942 | George | |
| The Magnificent Dope | 1942 | Thadeus Winship 'Tad' Page | |
| Rings on Her Fingers | 1942 | John Wheeler | |
| The Male Animal | 1942 | Tommy Turner | |
| You Belong to Me | 1941 | Peter Kirk | |
| Wild Geese Calling | 1941 | John Murdock | |
| The Lady Eve | 1941 | Charles | |
| Chad Hanna | 1940 | Chad Hanna | |
| The Return of Frank James | 1940 | Frank James | |
| Lillian Russell | 1940 | Alexander Moore | |
| The Grapes of Wrath | 1940 | Tom Joad | |
| Drums Along the Mohawk | 1939 | Gilbert Martin | |
| Young Mr. Lincoln | 1939 | Abraham Lincoln | |
| The Story of Alexander Graham Bell | 1939 | Thomas Watson | |
| Let Us Live | 1939 | 'Brick' Tennant | |
| Jesse James | 1939 | Frank James | |
| The Mad Miss Manton | 1938 | Peter Ames | |
| Spawn of the North | 1938 | Jim Kimmerlee | |
| Blockade | 1938 | Marco | |
| Jezebel | 1938 | Preston Dillard | |
| I Met My Love Again | 1938 | Ives Towner | |
| That Certain Woman | 1937 | Jack Merrick | |
| Slim | 1937 | Slim | |
| You Only Live Once | 1937 | Eddie Taylor | |
| Wings of the Morning | 1937 | Kerry Gilfallen | |
| Spendthrift | 1936 | Townsend Middleton | |
| The Moon's Our Home | 1936 | Anthony Amberton / John Smith | |
| The Trail of the Lonesome Pine | 1936 | Dave Tolliver | |
| I Dream Too Much | 1935 | 'Johnny' Street | |
| Way Down East | 1935 | David Bartlett | |
| The Farmer Takes a Wife | 1935 | Dan Harrow |
Producer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Deputy | 1959-1961 | TV Series executive producer - 76 episodes | |
| 12 Angry Men | 1957 | producer | |
| General Electric Theater | 1955 | TV Series producer - 1 episode |
Soundtrack
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fonda on Fonda | 1992 | TV Movie documentary performer: "Red River Valley" - uncredited | |
| The Cheyenne Social Club | 1970 | performer: "Rolling Stone" | |
| Warlock | 1959 | performer: "Rock of Ages" - uncredited | |
| My Darling Clementine | 1946 | " Oh My Darlin' Clementine" 1884, uncredited | |
| Rings on Her Fingers | 1942 | performer: "Put On Your Old Grey Bonnet" - uncredited | |
| The Male Animal | 1942 | performer: "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?" 1933 - uncredited | |
| The Lady Eve | 1941 | "Blaydon Races" 1862, uncredited | |
| The Grapes of Wrath | 1940 | performer: "Red River Valley" - uncredited | |
| Young Mr. Lincoln | 1939 | performer: "Turkey in the Straw" - uncredited | |
| Jezebel | 1938 | performer: "Waltz" - uncredited | |
| The Trail of the Lonesome Pine | 1936 | performer: "A Melody from the Sky" |
Miscellaneous
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Western Union | 1941 | technical advisor - uncredited |
Thanks
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 Bullets to Hell | 2014 | grateful acknowledgment | |
| The New Bike | 2009 | Short acknowledgment | |
| Directed by John Ford | 1971 | Documentary thanks |
Self
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| The American West of John Ford | 1971 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Narrator |
| Directed by John Ford | 1971 | Documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
| The Movie Game | 1971 | TV Series | Himself |
| The David Frost Show | 1969-1971 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| Happy Days | 1970 | TV Series | Himself |
| An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer | 1969 | Documentary short | John Steinbeck (voice) |
| Hollywood: The Selznick Years | 1969 | TV Movie documentary | Himself, Narrator |
| To Save a Soldier | 1969 | Documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| The Brass Are Comin' | 1969 | TV Special | Himself |
| The Kraft Music Hall | 1969 | TV Series | Himself - Host |
| The Joey Bishop Show | 1967-1969 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| Beans, Bullets, and Black Oil | 1968 | Documentary short | Narrator |
| All About People | 1967 | Documentary short | Narrator (voice) |
| The Really Big Family | 1966 | Documentary | Himself and Narrator |
| Born to Buck | 1966 | Documentary | Narrator |
| The 20th Annual Tony Awards | 1966 | TV Special | Himself - Presenter |
| What's My Line? | 1961-1966 | TV Series | Himself - Mystery Guest |
| NBC White Paper | 1966 | TV Series documentary | John F. Kennedy |
| The Filming of the Battle of the Bulge | 1965 | Documentary short | |
| Time-Life Specials: The March of Time | 1965 | TV Series documentary | Narrator |
| That Regis Philbin Show | 1965 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| Troubled Waters | 1965 | Documentary short | Narrator (voice) |
| The Bell Telephone Hour | 1964 | TV Series | Himself - Host |
| Hollywood and the Stars | 1964 | TV Series | Himself |
| Hollywood: The Great Stars | 1963 | TV Movie documentary | Host |
| President Kennedy's Birthday Salute | 1962 | TV Movie | Himself |
| Hollywood: The Fabulous Era | 1962 | TV Movie documentary | Host |
| The Ed Sullivan Show | 1952-1962 | TV Series | Himself / Charles Christian Wertenbaker / Actor - Dramatic Reading |
| Henry Fonda and the Family | 1962 | TV Special | Himself |
| The Good Years | 1962 | Himself - Host | |
| The 15th Annual Tony Awards | 1961 | TV Special | Himself - Greeter |
| Gala Adlai on Broadway | 1960 | TV Movie | Himself - Performer |
| The Steve Allen Plymouth Show | 1958-1960 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| The Fabulous Fifties | 1960 | Documentary | Narrator (segment "Fifties Dead Sequence") (voice) |
| The Western | 1959 | TV Movie | Himself |
| Sunday Showcase | 1959 | TV Series | Himself |
| The George Gobel Show | 1956-1959 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| Eight Steps to Peace: A Permanent U.N. Police Force | 1957 | Documentary short | Narrator |
| Eight Steps to Peace: The Answer Now | 1957 | Documentary | Narrator |
| Die VII. Internationalen Filmfestspiele | 1957 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself |
| The Star and the Story | 1955-1956 | TV Series | Himself - Host |
| Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall | 1956 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| The Real Miss America | 1952 | Documentary short | Narrator (voice) |
| Pictura | 1951 | Documentary | Narrator: Grant Wood episode |
| Showtime, U.S.A. | 1950 | TV Series | Himself |
| On Stage! | 1949 | Documentary short | Himself |
| Tonight on Broadway | 1948 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Battle of Midway | 1942 | Short documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| Meet the Stars #5: Hollywood Meets the Navy | 1941 | Documentary short | Himself |
| Breakdowns of 1938 | 1938 | Documentary short | Jack Merrick / Preston Dillard (That Certain Woman / Jezebel outtakes) (uncredited) |
| Great Hollywood Memories, Vol. II | Video documentary | Himself - Host | |
| Great Hollywood Memories, Vol. III | Video documentary | Himself - Host | |
| Let Poland Be Poland | 1982 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Henry Fonda: The Man and His Movies | 1982 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The 53rd Annual Academy Awards | 1981 | TV Special | Himself - Honorary Award Recipient |
| Starring Katharine Hepburn | 1981 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Henry Fonda and the Making of 'Summer Solstice' | 1981 | TV Short documentary | Himself |
| Sharks: The Death Machine | 1980 | TV Movie documentary | Narrator |
| The Greatest Man in the World | 1980 | TV Movie | Himself (Introduction) |
| The Sky Is Gray | 1980 | TV Movie | Himself - Introduction (uncredited) |
| Good Morning America | 1976-1980 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| Today | 1964-1980 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| Henry Fonda oder Die Qualität der Prärie | 1980 | TV Movie | Himself |
| The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | 1967-1980 | TV Series | Himself - Guest / Himself |
| The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg | 1980 | TV Short | Himself (uncredited) |
| AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to James Stewart | 1980 | TV Special documentary | Himself - Host (uncredited) |
| Paul's Case | 1980 | TV Movie | Himself (uncredited) |
| The Golden Honeymoon | 1980 | TV Movie | Himself (introduction) |
| The 37th Annual Golden Globe Awards | 1980 | TV Special | Himself - Winner: Cecil B. DeMille Award |
| The 6th People's Choice Awards | 1980 | TV Special | Himself - Presenter: Favourite Actress in Motion Picture |
| The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts | 1979 | TV Special | Himself - Honoree |
| The World About Us | 1979 | TV Series documentary | Himself -- Narrator |
| The Man Who Loved Bears | 1979 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Host |
| The 33rd Annual Tony Awards | 1979 | TV Special | Himself - Co-Host & Special Award Recipient |
| AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Alfred Hitchcock | 1979 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The 36th Annual Golden Globes Awards | 1979 | TV Special | Himself - Presenter |
| Gala de l'Unicef | 1969-1979 | TV Series | Himself |
| Leaders of the Twentieth Century | 1978-1979 | TV Series documentary | Himself - Narrator |
| America's Sweetheart: The Mary Pickford Story | 1978 | Documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| A Special Sesame Street Christmas | 1978 | TV Movie | Himself |
| A Salute to American Imagination | 1978 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| General Electric's All-Star Anniversary | 1978 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Jimmy Stewart | 1978 | TV Special | Himself |
| AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Henry Fonda | 1978 | TV Special documentary | Himself - Honoree |
| Inside 'The Swarm' | 1978 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The Paul Ryan Show | 1977 | TV Series | Himself |
| An All-Star Tribute to Elizabeth Taylor | 1977 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The American Film Institute's 10th Anniversary Special | 1977 | TV Movie | Himself |
| The Stars Salute America's Greatest Movies | 1977 | TV Special | Himself - Presenter |
| AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Bette Davis | 1977 | TV Special documentary | Himself |
| Life Goes to the Movies | 1976 | TV Movie documentary | Himself / Host |
| The 1976 Annual Entertainment Hall of Fame Awards | 1976 | TV Special | Himself |
| The Merv Griffin Show | 1975-1976 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| Dinah! | 1975-1976 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| Almos' a Man | 1976 | TV Short | Himself - Host (uncredited) |
| AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to William Wyler | 1976 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The 2nd Annual People's Choice Awards | 1976 | TV Special | Himself - Presenter |
| The Mike Douglas Show | 1972-1976 | TV Series | Himself - Actor / Himself - Guest |
| Maude | 1976 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Glory Road West | 1976 | TV Movie documentary | Narrator |
| Parkinson | 1975 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| The Irv Kupcinet Show | 1975 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| The 29th Annual Tony Awards | 1975 | TV Special | Himself |
| The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Lucille Ball | 1975 | TV Special | Himself |
| All in the Family | 1974 | TV Series | Himself |
| The 28th Annual Tony Awards | 1974 | TV Special | Himself - Presenter |
| The Dean Martin Show | 1973 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to John Ford | 1973 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| V.I.P.-Schaukel | 1972 | TV Series documentary | Himself - Guest |
| The 26th Annual Tony Awards | 1972 | TV Special | Himself - Co-Host |
| The Dick Cavett Show | 1970-1972 | TV Series | Himself - Actor |
| Jerry Visits | 1972 | TV Series | Himself |
Archive Footage
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sebring | 2018 | post-production | Himself |
| Personne | 2016 | Short | |
| Inside Edition | 2015 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Spanish Western | 2014 | Documentary | Himself |
| John Ford et Monument Valley | 2013 | Documentary | Himself |
| L' ultimo esploratore - vita e avventure del barone Franchetti | 2013 | Himself | |
| A Night at the Movies: Hollywood Goes to Washington | 2012 | TV Movie documentary | Wlliam Russell / The President |
| Whistleblowers: The Untold Stories | 2012 | TV Series | Himself - Award Winning Actor |
| Stars of the Silver Screen | 2011 | TV Series | Preston Dillard |
| Comic Relief 2009 | 2009 | TV Special | |
| Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence | 2008 | TV Series | Tom Joad |
| President Hollywood | 2008 | TV Movie documentary | Abraham Lincoln (uncredited) |
| Hollywood contra Franco | 2008 | Documentary | Marco |
| Strictly Courtroom | 2008 | TV Movie documentary | Abraham Lincoln / Himself / Juror #8 (uncredited) |
| How the West Was Lost | 2008 | TV Movie documentary | Wyatt Earp (uncredited) |
| American Masters | 2008 | TV Series documentary | Preston Dillard |
| Spisok korabley | 2008 | Documentary | |
| Inside the Jury Room | 2008 | Video documentary short | Juror #8 |
| The 80th Annual Academy Awards | 2008 | TV Special | Himself (uncredited) |
| Hair, Let the Sun Shine In | 2007 | TV Movie documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
| Amérique, notre histoire | 2006 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Sacco and Vanzetti | 2006 | Documentary | Prof. Tommy Turner |
| War Stories with Oliver North | 2006 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| La Marató 2005 | 2005 | TV Special | Norman Thayer Jr. |
| Roma | 2004 | Tom Joad | |
| An Opera of Violence | 2003 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| The Making of 'Midway' | 2001 | Video documentary short | Admiral Chester Nimitz |
| AFI's 100 Years... 100 Thrills: America's Most Heart-Pounding Movies | 2001 | TV Special documentary | Himself |
| ABC 2000: The Millennium | 1999 | TV Special documentary | |
| Biography | 1994-1999 | TV Series documentary | Himself Thomas Watson Tom Joad |
| The Best of Hollywood | 1998 | TV Movie documentary | Interview |
| Denk ich an Deutschland - Das Wispern im Berg der Dinge | 1997 | TV Movie documentary | Juror #8 (uncredited) |
| The 50th Annual Tony Awards | 1996 | TV Special | Himself |
| Barbra: The Concert | 1995 | TV Special documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
| 100 Years at the Movies | 1994 | TV Short documentary | Himself |
| La classe américaine | 1993 | TV Movie | Hugues |
| The Poetry Hall of Fame | 1993 | TV Movie | |
| John Ford | 1993 | TV Movie documentary | Abraham Lincoln Tom Joad Wyatt Earp ... (uncredited) |
| Gunfighters of the Old West | 1992 | Video documentary | Wyatt Earp (uncredited) |
| Omnibus | 1992 | TV Series documentary | Himself - Actor |
| The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | 1992 | TV Series | Himself |
| Fonda on Fonda | 1992 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker | 1991 | Documentary | actor 'Advise and 'Consent' (uncredited) |
| Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home to | 1991 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire | 1991 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The Siskel & Ebert 500th Anniversary Special | 1989 | TV Movie | Himself - 'Young Mr. Lincoln' |
| The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind | 1988 | TV Movie documentary | Actor in a film clip |
| AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Jack Lemmon | 1988 | TV Special documentary | Himself |
| Moonlighting | 1987 | TV Series | Charles |
| Going Hollywood: The '30s | 1984 | Documentary | |
| Arena | 1983 | TV Series documentary | |
| Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter | 1982 | TV Movie documentary | Actor - 'The Lady Eve' (uncredited) |
| James Cagney: That Yankee Doodle Dandy | 1981 | TV Movie documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
| Margret Dünser, auf der Suche nach den Besonderen | 1981 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Bob Hope's Overseas Christmas Tours: Around the World with the Troops - 1941-1972 | 1980 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| All This and World War II | 1976 | Documentary | Himself |
| America at the Movies | 1976 | Documentary | Tom Joad Wyatt Earp |
| Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still | 1972 | Documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
| Happy Days | 1970 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Ed Sullivan Show | 1952-1970 | TV Series | Himself / Himself - Singer / Lt. Roberts |
| Hollywood and the Stars | 1964 | TV Series | Himself |
| Land of Liberty | 1939 | Preston Dillard (edited from 'Jezebel') |
Won Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Actor in a Leading Role | On Golden Pond (1981) |
| 1982 | Golden Globe | Golden Globes, USA | Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama | On Golden Pond (1981) |
| 1982 | Marquee | American Movie Awards | Best Actor | On Golden Pond (1981) |
| 1982 | Best Actor | Karlovy Vary International Film Festival | On Golden Pond (1981) | |
| 1981 | Honorary Award | Academy Awards, USA | The consummate actor, in recognition of his brilliant accomplishments and enduring contribution to ... More | |
| 1981 | Golden Apple | Golden Apple Awards | Male Star of the Year | |
| 1981 | NBR Award | National Board of Review, USA | Best Actor | On Golden Pond (1981) |
| 1980 | Cecil B. DeMille Award | Golden Globes, USA | ||
| 1978 | Life Achievement Award | American Film Institute, USA | ||
| 1978 | Bronze Wrangler | Western Heritage Awards | Factual Television Program | The Glory Road West (1976) |
| 1973 | Career David | David di Donatello Awards | ||
| 1960 | Star on the Walk of Fame | Walk of Fame | Motion Picture | On 8 February 1960. At 1601 Vine Street. |
| 1958 | BAFTA Film Award | BAFTA Awards | Best Foreign Actor | 12 Angry Men (1957) |
| 1958 | Diploma of Merit | Jussi Awards | Foreign Actor | 12 Angry Men (1957) |
Nominated Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | BAFTA Film Award | BAFTA Awards | Best Actor | On Golden Pond (1981) |
| 1975 | Primetime Emmy | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Lead Actor in a Special Program - Drama or Comedy | Clarence Darrow (1974) |
| 1973 | Primetime Emmy | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Single Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role | The Red Pony (1973) |
| 1965 | Golden Laurel | Laurel Awards | Dramatic Performance, Male | Fail-Safe (1964) |
| 1963 | Golden Laurel | Laurel Awards | Top Male Star | 11th place. |
| 1958 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Picture | 12 Angry Men (1957) |
| 1958 | Golden Globe | Golden Globes, USA | Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama | 12 Angry Men (1957) |
| 1941 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Actor in a Leading Role | The Grapes of Wrath (1940) |
2nd Place Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | LAFCA Award | Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards | Best Actor | On Golden Pond (1981) |
| 1981 | NYFCC Award | New York Film Critics Circle Awards | Best Actor | On Golden Pond (1981) |
| 1939 | NYFCC Award | New York Film Critics Circle Awards | Best Actor | Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) |
3rd Place Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | NSFC Award | National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA | Best Actor | On Golden Pond (1981) |
| 1968 | Golden Laurel | Laurel Awards | Male Comedy Performance | Yours, Mine and Ours (1968) |
Known for movies
12 Angry Men (1957)
as Juror 8
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
as Frank
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
as Tom Joad
The Deputy (1959-1961)
as Chief Marshal Simon Fry / Marshal Simon Fry