How old was Henry Fonda in the movie The Grapes of Wrath?

Henry Fonda was 33 in The Grapes of Wrath when he played the character 'Tom Joad'.

That was over 84 years ago in 1940.

In 1982 he died aged 77, starring in 137 films in his career, 115 of those after The Grapes of Wrath was first released. If he were alive today he would be 119.

How old do you think he looks in the movie?

In The Grapes of Wrath, I think Henry Fonda looks:

Did you know?

  • Director John Ford has worked with Henry Fonda a total of 9 times in his career.
  • Henry Fonda's first movie was as 'Dan Harrow' in The Farmer Takes a Wife, released in 1935 when he was 29
  • The Grapes of Wrath scores 7.85 out of 10 on TMDB.

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