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Henry Fonda

American actor (1905–1982)

• Born May 16, 1905
• 20 movies

Henry Fonda was an American actor whose career spanned five decades on Broadway and in Hollywood, often playing everyman characters. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for playing Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath (1940). Later work included Mister Roberts (1955), Alfred Hitchcock's The Wrong Man (1956) and 12 Angry Men (1957), in which he played Juror 8.

Henry Fonda appears in 20 films in The Rerun, from 1940 to 1981. Most of that work is in drama, western and history. Frequent collaborators in The Rerun: John Ford (6), Mae Marsh (4), John Wayne (3), Sergio Leone (2), Charles Bronson (2).