Born on this day – Henry Fonda:

Henry Fonda

Actor

May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982

Credits:

100 Years at the Movies (1994); 12 Angry Men (1957); 13 Stars for Channel 13 (1966); 6 Bullets to Hell (2016); 70 Jahre Berlinale (2020); A Big Hand for the Little Lady (1966); A Night at Ford's Theater (1968); A Night at the Movies: Hollywood Goes to Washington (2012); A Salute to American Imagination (1978); ABC 2000: The Millennium (1999); ABC's Nightlife (1965); Advise & Consent (1962); AFI Life Achievement Award (1973–1988); AFI's 100 Years... 100 Thrills: America's Most Heart-Pounding Movies (2001); All About People (1967); All in the Family (1974); All This and World War II (1976); All-Star Party for James Stewart (1978); Almos' a Man (1976); America Alive! (1978); America at the Movies (1976); American Masters (2008); America's Sweetheart: The Mary Pickford Story (1978); Amérique, notre histoire (2006); An All-Star Tribute to Elizabeth Taylor (1977); An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer (1969); An Opera of Violence (2003); Anyone for Tennyson? The Master Poets Collection (1976); Arena (1983); Ash Wednesday (1973); Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire (1991); Barbra: The Concert (1994); Barn Burning (1980); Battle of the Bulge (1965); Beans, Bullets, and Black Oil (1968); Benjy (1951); Bernice Bobs Her Hair (1976); Bicentennial Minutes (1974); Biography (1987–1999); Blockade (1938); Blow up: Le web magazine cinéma d'Arte (2020); Bob Dylan: Under Review 1978-1989 (2008); Bob Hope's Overseas Christmas Tours: Around the World with the Troops - 1941-1972 (1980); Born to Buck (1966); Breakdowns of 1938 (1938); Cadet Rousselle (1972); Call Me Kate (2023); Captains and the Kings (1976); Catalogue of Ships (2008); Chad Hanna (1940); Charles Bronson, Hollywood's Lone Wolf (2020); Citizen Jane, l'Amérique selon Fonda (2020); City on Fire (1979); Clarence Darrow (1974); Classic Movie Bloopers (1990); Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur (1976); Comic Relief 2009 (2009); Compression (2023); Daisy Kenyon (1947); Dateline: Hollywood (1967); Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Jimmy Stewart (1978); Denk ich an Deutschland - Das Wispern im Berg der Dinge (1997); Die VII. Internationalen Filmfestspiele (1957); Dinah! (1975–1977); Directed by John Ford (1971); Drums Along the Mohawk (1939); Elvis Mitchell in Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence (2008); Fail Safe (1964); Family (1979); Famous Nathan (2014); Fedora (1978); Film '78 (1978); Film Making Techniques: Acting (1973); Firecreek (1968); Fonda on Fonda (1992); Fort Apache (1948); Gala Adlai on Broadway (1960); Gala de l'Unicef (1969–1979); Gene Tierney, une star oubliée (2017); General Electric Theater (1955); General Electric's All-Star Anniversary (1978); Gideon's Trumpet (1980); Going Hollywood: The '30s (1984); Good Morning America (1976–1980); Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia (2013); Gunfighters of the Old West (1992); Hair, Let the Sun Shine In (2007); Happy Days (1970); Headliners & Legends with Matt Lauer (1998–2008); Henry Fonda and the Family (1962); Henry Fonda and the Making of 'Summer Solstice' (1981); Henry Fonda for President (2024); Henry Fonda oder Die Qualität der Prärie (1980); Henry Fonda: The Man and His Movies (1982); Hitchcock Confidential (2019); Hollywood and the Stars (1964); Hollywood contra Franco (2008); Hollywood Greats (1984); Hollywood Insider (2022); Hollywood: The Fabulous Era (1962); Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter (1982); Hollywood: The Great Stars (1963); Hollywood: The Selznick Years (1969); Home to Stay (1978); How the West Was Lost (2008); How the West Was Won (1962); Howdy (1970); I Dream Too Much (1935); I Met My Love Again (1938); I'm a Fool (1977); Immortal Sergeant (1943); In Harm's Way (1965); Inside Edition (2015); Inside the Jury Room (2008); Inside the Movie Kingdom – 1964 (1964); Inside 'the Swarm' (1978); It's Everybody's War (1942); James Cagney: That Yankee Doodle Dandy (1981); Jay Sebring.... Cutting to the Truth (2020); Jeanne Wolf with... (1974–1979); Jerry Visits (1972); Jesse James (1939); Jezebel (1938); Jigsaw (1949); John Ford (1992); John Ford et Monument Valley (2013); John Ford Goes to War (2002); John Ford: The Man Who Invented America (2019); John Wayne: Behind the Scenes (2007); La classe américaine (1993); La Marató 2005 (2005); Land of Liberty (1939); Laugh-In (1977–1978); Leaders of the Twentieth Century (1978–1979); Les Fonda, une dynastie de cinéma (2023); Leslie Caron: The Reluctant Star (2016); Let Poland Be Poland (1982); Let Us Live (1939); Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still (1972); Life Goes to the Movies (1976); Lillian Russell (1940); L'ultimo esploratore - Vita e avventure del barone Franchetti (2013); Madigan (1968); Main Street to Broadway (1953); Margret Dünser, auf der Suche nach den Besonderen (1981); Maude (1976); Medallion Theatre (1953); Meet the Stars #5: Hollywood Meets the Navy (1941); Meteor (1979); Midway (1976); Mister Roberts (1955); Moonlighting (1987); Movie Bloopers (1988); My Darling Clementine (1946); My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock (2022); My Name Is Nobody (1973); Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home to (1990); NBC White Paper (1966); Norman Lear: A Life on Television (2023); Omnibus (1992); On Golden Pond (1981); On location with There Was a Crooked Man (1970); On Our Merry Way (1948); On Stage! (1949); Once Upon a Time in the West (1968); Parker Adderson, Philosopher (1974); Parkinson (1975); Password (1971); Pat Paulsen for President (1968); Pat Paulsen's Half a Comedy Hour (1970); Paul's Case (1980); Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1956); Personne (2016); Pictura (1951); Playing Pappy (2012); Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker (1991); President Hollywood (2008); President Kennedy's Birthday Salute (1962); Producers' Showcase (1955); Rangers of Yellowstone (1958); Rappaccini's Daughter (1980); Reframed: Marilyn Monroe (2022); Rings on Her Fingers (1942); Robert Klein Still Can't Stop His Leg (2016); Rollercoaster (1977); Roma (2004); Roots: The Next Generations (1979); Sacco and Vanzetti (2006); SAG Foundation Conversations (1979); Salute to Oscar Hammerstein II (1972); San Francisco Fire (1962); Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's (1980); Sex and the Single Girl (1964); Sharks: The Death Machine (1978); Showtime, U.S.A. (1950); Slim (1937); Soldier's Home (1977); Sometimes a Great Notion / aka Never Give a Inch (1971); Southern Soul (2016); Spanish Western (2014); Spawn of the North (1938); Spencer's Mountain (1963); Spendthrift (1936); Sport en fête (1973); Sports Illustrated Greatest Highlights of the Super Bowl (1991); Stage Struck (1958); Stand Up and Cheer (1971); Starring Katharine Hepburn (1981); Stars of the Silver Screen (2011); Stranger on the Run (1967); Strictly Courtroom (2008); Summer Solstice (1981); Sunday Showcase (1959); Survival (1970); Tales of Manhattan (1942); Talking Film (1978–1979); Tentacles (1977); That Certain Woman (1937); That Regis Philbin Show (1965); The 15th Annual Tony Awards (1961); The 1976 Annual Entertainment Hall of Fame Awards (1976); The 20th Annual Tony Awards (1966); The 24th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1967); The 26th Annual Tony Awards (1972); The 28th Annual Tony Awards (1974); The 29th Annual Tony Awards (1975); The 2nd Annual People's Choice Awards (1976); The 30th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1973); The 33rd Annual Tony Awards (1979); The 37th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1980); The 50th Annual Tony Awards (1996); The 53rd Annual Academy Awards (1981); The 6th People's Choice Awards (1980); The 80th Annual Academy Awards (2008); The Alpha Caper (1973); The American Film Institute's 10th Anniversary Special (1977); The American Parade (1975); The American West of John Ford (1971); The Battle of Midway (1942); The Bell Telephone Hour (1964); The Best Man (1964); The Best of Hollywood (1998); The Big Street (1942); The Biggest Battle (1978); The Blue Hotel (1977); The Boston Strangler (1968); The Brass Are Comin' (1969); The Cheyenne Social Club (1970); The Cowboy (2016); The David Frost Show (1969–1971); The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Lucille Ball (1975); The Dean Martin Show (1973); The Deputy (1959–1961); The Dick Cavett Show (1969–1972); The Dick Powell Theatre (1963); The Displaced Person (1977); The Doris Day Show (1971); The Dream Team (1989); The Ed Sullivan Show (1952–1970); The Fabulous Fifties / Fifties Dead Sequence (1960); The Farmer Takes a Wife (1935); The Filming of the Battle of the Bulge (1965); The Fugitive (1947); The George Gobel Show (1956–1959); The Glory Road West (1976); The Golden Honeymoon (1980); The Good Years (1962); The Grapes of Wrath (1940); The Great Smokey Roadblock (1977); The Greatest Man in the World (1980); The Irv Kupcinet Show (1975); The Jilting of Granny Weatherall (1980); The Joey Bishop Show (1967–1969); The Jolly Corner (1975); The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (1979); The Kraft Music Hall (1969); The Lady Eve (1941); The Last 4 Days (1974); The Long Night (1947); The Longest Day (1962); The Mad Miss Manton (1938); The Magnificent Dope (1942); The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind (1988); The Making of 'Midway' (2001); The Male Animal (1942); The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (1980); The Man Who Loved Bears (1979); The Man Who Understood Women (1959); The Merv Griffin Show (1966–1976); The Mike Douglas Show (1972–1976); The Moon's Our Home (1936); The Movie Game (1971); The Moviemakers (1984); The Movies (2019); The Music for UNICEF Concert: A Gift of Song (1979); The Music School (1974); The New Bike (2009); The New Steve Allen Show (1964); The Oldest Living Graduate (1980); The Ox-Bow Incident (1942); The Paul Ryan Show (1977–1992); The Poetry Hall of Fame (1993); The Real Miss America (1952); The Really Big Family (1967); The Red Pony (1973); The Return of Frank James (1940); The Rounders (1965); The Secret Agents (1965); The Serpent (1973); The Siskel & Ebert 500th Anniversary Special (1989); The Sky Is Gray (1980); The Smith Family (1971–1972); The Star and the Story (1955–1956); The Stars Salute America's Greatest Movies (1977); The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1958–1960); The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939); The Swarm (1978); The Tin Star (1957); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1967–1992); The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936); The Underground Doctors (1977); The Western (1959); The Wild West (1979); The Wrong Man (1956); There Was a Crooked Man... (1970); This Is Your Life (1977); Time-Life Specials: The March of Time (1965); To Save a Soldier (1969); Today (1964–1980); Tomorrow Coast to Coast (1980); Tonight on Broadway (1948); Too Late the Hero (1970); Troubled Waters (1965); Unauthorized Biography: Jane Fonda (1988); V.I.P.-Schaukel (1972 / 1979); Wanda Nevada (1979); War and Peace (1956); War Stories with Oliver North (2006); Warlock (1959); Way Down East (1935); Welcome to Hard Times (1967); Welcome to the Basement (2016); Western Union (1941); What's My Line? (1961–1966); Whistleblowers: The Untold Stories (2012); Wild Geese Calling (1941); Wings of the Morning (1937); You Belong to Me (1941); You Only Live Once (1937); Young Mr. Lincoln (1939); Yours, Mine and Ours (1968).