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How tall was Henry Fonda

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Mia Cox

Updated on March 17, 2026

American actor, best remembered for roles in films such as 12 Angry Men, Once Upon a Time in the West, On Golden Pond, The Grapes of Wrath, Jezebel, Young Mr. Lincoln, The Ox-Bow Incident, My Darling Clementine, Fort Apache and The Lady Eve. In a 1939 description it gave his height as 6ft 1 and weight as 170 pounds. In 1998, when talking about being a starving actor in Greenwich Village, he mentioned "I weighed 10 pounds and I was 6 feet, 1 inch tall, so I was the skinniest actor of the bunch"Henry Fonda - USN
How tall is Henry FondaHenry's Navy Measurements, 6ft 1 and 6ft 1/2 inch
Look. The only thing I had over him was my height. He was six foot one. I was six foot two.
-- Peter Fonda in 1966