Who played Juror No. 8 in the 1957 film 12 Angry Men?

Henry Fonda is the juror that was the lynchpin for the Reginald Rose story of director Sidney Lumet's powerful film "12 Angry Men". The 96-minute film, except for three minutes, is filmed entirely in the jury room as deliberations begin on the fate of an 18-year-old accused of killing his father in the slums of New York.

Fonda plays a juror with a conscience who refuses to take the easy way out of the exercise and just convict the defendant after a quick vote. Number 8 wants the rest of jury to take its time and look at everything to see if there is a reasonable doubt for a not guilty verdict. The other jurors just want to get back to their lives. One has tickets to the Yankees game and just wants to leave.

The cast includes E.G. Marshall, Jack Klugman, Ed Begley and Martin Balsam as the jury foreman.

No names are used in the film. The jury members are identified by number until two of them exchange names at the very end. The defendant is referred to as "the boy" and the witnesses as "the old man" and "the lady across the street".

The film received three Oscar nominations.

In 2007, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The film was selected as the second-best courtroom drama ever by the American Film Institute during their AFI's 10 Top 10 list and is the highest courtroom drama on Rotten Tomatoes' Top 100 Movies of All Time.