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Henry Fonda in Mister Roberts Barbara Stanwyck stands beside Henry Fonda, who is seated on the floor in a white tuxedo, as two men assist him in a formal dining room scene from The Lady Eve. Henry Fonda as Abraham Lincoln, wearing a top hat and suit, rides a horse down a dirt street in a 19th-century town in the film Young Mr. Lincoln. Henry Fonda stands in the center wearing a cap and jacket, with Darryl Hickman and Shirley Mills looking up at him in a scene from The Grapes of Wrath (1940). Henry Fonda, Victor Mature, Alan Mowbray, and Tim Holt in a saloon scene from the film My Darling Clementine, with men in cowboy hats gathered around a bar. Dana Andrews, a bearded man holding rope, and Henry Fonda in cowboy attire stand together in front of a wooden wall in a scene from The Ox-Bow Incident (1943). Henry Fonda as Juror 8 in 12 Angry Men stands in a courtroom wearing a light suit and dark tie, holding a switchblade knife upright. Scene from Once Upon a Time in the West with Charles Bronson as Harmonica, rear left, aiming a gun at Henry Fonda as Frank, who stands in the foreground in a desert landscape. Henry Fonda as the U.S. President sits at a desk, reaching toward a device, in a scene from the 1964 film Fail Safe directed by Sidney Lumet. Henry Fonda and Lee J. Cobb as jurors in a tense scene from the film 12 Angry Men, with Cobb raising his fist as other jurors watch in a crowded jury room.
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Tony Thomas, The Films of Henry Fonda (1990); Kevin Sweeney, Henry Fonda: A Bio-Bibliography (1992).

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Invalidated site: Golden Globes - Henry Fonda. Oct 12, 2026
Anniversary information added. Aug 08, 2026
Anniversary information added. May 12, 2026
Add new Web site: NPR - One Hundred Years of Henry Fonda. Jul 31, 2025
Add new Web site: BBC Sounds - Meridian - Tribute to Henry Fonda. Mar 24, 2025
Add new Web site: American Film Institute - Henry Fonda. Dec 20, 2024
Add new Web site: New Netherland Institute - Henry Jaynes Fonda [1905-1982]. Jul 23, 2024
First paragraph modernization. Mar 04, 2024
Add new Web site: AllMovie - Henry Fonda. Jul 07, 2023
Added a cross-reference to Peter Fonda. May 12, 2023
Add new Web site: The National WWII Museum - Actors in Uniform: From Lieutenant Henry Fonda to Mister Roberts. Apr 07, 2023
Add new Web site: Hollywood Walk of Fame - Biography of Henry Fonda. Apr 18, 2022
Add new Web site: Golden Globes - Henry Fonda. Apr 18, 2022
Corrected information regarding his second Oscar nomination. Mar 13, 2020
Article revised and updated. Nov 02, 2017
Add new Web site: The New York Times - Henry Fonda Dies on Coast at 77; Played 100 Stage and Screen Roles. Jan 05, 2017
Add new Web site: The Kennedy Center - Biography of Henry Fonda. Feb 14, 2014
Add new Web site: Turner Classic Movies - Star of the Month: Henry Fonda. Apr 01, 2013
Add new Web site: Matinee Classics - Biography of Henry Fonda. Apr 01, 2013
Media added. Dec 21, 2006
Added new Web site: Reel Classics - Henry Fonda. Aug 29, 2006
Article revised. Nov 02, 2001
Article revised. Feb 10, 2000
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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