Turner Classic Movies is showing the films of Henry Fonda every Tuesday in February.
Fonda is TCM’s Star of the Month for February, 2022. Over four consecutive Tuesdays, TCM will 32 of Fonda’s films, including Mister Roberts, 12 Angry Men, and On Golden Pond.
“Henry Fonda, TCM Star of the Month for February, was a quintessentially American actor who captured the most endearing traits of the national character with his performances in such vehicles as Young Mr. Lincoln (1939), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), Mister Roberts (1955), and On Golden Pond (1981),” TCM said in their announcement.
“Film critic Isabel Quigley once commented that, “When a good man was wanted, a man of obvious integrity, a ‘non-actor’ in appearance who could act everyone else off the screen, they used to say, ‘Fetch Fonda.’”
“Fonda also was a versatile performer who had great successes on the stage as well as on film. His range encompassed comedy and villainy in addition to that capacity for playing earnest, plain-spoken and idealistic heroes.”
The schedule for the Fonda tribute is below; all times are Eastern Time. For more details visit:
TCM Star of the Month: Henry Fonda
Tuesday, February 1
8:00 PM Young Mr. Lincoln (‘39)
10:00 PM Jezebel (‘38)
12:00 AM Drums Along the Mohawk (‘39)
2:00 AM Fort Apache (‘48)
4:15 AM The Fugitive (‘47)
6:00 AM The Wrong Man (‘56)
8:00 AM The Long Night (‘47)
Tuesday, February 8
8:00 PM Mister Roberts (‘55)
10:15 PM 12 Angry Men (‘57)
12:00 AM The Best Man (‘64)
2:00 AM Fail-Safe (‘64)
4:00 AM The Longest Day (‘62)
7:15 AM Battle of the Bulge (‘65)
Tuesday, February 15
8:00 PM The Mad Miss Manton (‘38)
9:15 PM The Lady Eve (‘41)
11:00 PM Yours, Mine, and Ours (‘68)
1:00 AM Spencer’s Mountain (‘63)
3:15 AM The Big Street (‘42)
5:00 AM I Dream Too Much (‘35)
Tuesday, February 22
8:00 PM How the West Was Won (‘62)
10:45 PM On Golden Pond (‘81)
12:45 AM The Cheyenne Social Club (‘70)
2:45 AM There Was a Crooked Man (‘70)
5:00 AM The Rounders (‘65)
6:30 AM A Big Hand for the Little Lady (‘66)
8:15 AM Welcome to Hard Times (‘67)
Fonda died in1982 at age 77. In 1981, one year before his death, Fonda published an autobiography, Fonda: My Life, available on Amazon.
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Henry Fonda Bio
Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982) was an American film and stage actor who had a career that spanned five decades in Hollywood. Fonda cultivated a strong, appealing screen image in several films now considered to be classics.
Fonda made his mark early as a Broadway actor and made his Hollywood film debut in 1935. He rose to film stardom with performances in such films as; Jezebel (1938), Jesse James (1939), and Young Mr. Lincoln (1939). His career further progressed with his portrayal of Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath (1940), receiving a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
In 1941 he starred opposite Barbara Stanwyck in the screwball comedy classic The Lady Eve. Book-ending his service in WWII were his starring roles in two highly regarded Westerns: The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) and My Darling Clementine (1946), the latter directed by John Ford, and he also starred in Ford’s Western Fort Apache (1948). After a seven-year break from films, during which Fonda focused on stage productions, he returned with the WWII war-boat ensemble Mister Roberts (1955). In 1956, at the age of fifty-one, he played the title role as the thirty-eight-year-old Manny Balestrero in Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller The Wrong Man. In 1957, he starred as Juror #8, the hold-out juror, in 12 Angry Men. Fonda, who was also the co-producer of this film, won the BAFTA award for Best Foreign Actor.
Later in his career, Fonda moved into darker roles, such as the villain in the epic Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), a box office disappointment at its time of release, but now regarded as one of the best Westerns of all time. He also played in lighter-hearted fare such as Yours, Mine and Ours with Lucille Ball and My Name is Nobody with Terence Hill, but also often played important military figures, such as a colonel in Battle of the Bulge (1965), and Admiral Nimitz in Midway (1976). He won the Academy Award for Best Actor at the 54th Academy Awards for his final film role in On Golden Pond (1981), which also starred Katharine Hepburn and his daughter Jane Fonda, but was too ill to attend the ceremony. He died from heart disease a few months later.
Fonda was the patriarch of a family of famous actors, including daughter Jane Fonda, son Peter Fonda, granddaughter Bridget Fonda, and grandson Troy Garity. In 1999 he was named the sixth-Greatest Male Screen Legends of the Classic Hollywood Era (stars with a film debut by 1950) by the American Film Institute.
For more details visit: Henry Fonda on Wikipedia