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Henry Fonda Acting Filmography (167)

Henry Fonda for President

2025·Self (archive footage)

The Fondas: A Cinematic Dynasty

2023·Self - Actor (archive footage)

'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War

2020·Self (archive footage)

Citizen Jane Fonda

Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth

2020·Self(archive footage)

John Ford: The Man Who Invented America

2019·Self - Actor (archive footage)

Spanish Western

2015·Self (archive footage)

John Ford & Monument Valley

2013·Self (archive footage)

Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia

2013·Self (archive footage)

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Making '12 Angry Men'

2008·Self (archive footage)

Jezebel: Legend of the South

2006·Self (archive footage)

Sacco and Vanzetti

2006·Prof. Tommy Turner (archive footage)

Guilt Trip: Hitchcock and 'The Wrong Man'

2004·Self (archive footage)

Something to Do with Death

2003·Self (archive footage)

The Wages of Sin

2003·Self (archive footage)

An Opera of Violence

2003·Self - Actor (archive footage)

The Making of Midway

Revisiting 'Fail-Safe'

2000·Self (archive footage)

Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults

1999·(archive footage)

Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line

1997·Self (archive footage)

Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero

1997·Self (archive footage)

La Classe américaine

1993·Hugues (archive footage)

1992·Self (archive footage)

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire

1991·Self (archive footage)

Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To

1990·(archive footage)

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

1988·Self (archive footage)

Going Hollywood: The '30s

1984·(archive footage)

Let Poland Be Poland

1981·Norman Thayer Jr.

The Greatest Man in the World

1981·Self - Series Host (uncredited)

Summer Solstice

The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's

1980·Self (archive footage)

Gideon's Trumpet

1980·Clarence Earl Gideon

Rappaccini's Daughter

1980·Self - Series Host (uncredited)

The Sky Is Gray

1980·Self - Series Host (uncredited)

The Golden Honeymoon

1980·Self - Series Host (uncredited)

1980·Self - Series Host (uncredited)

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

1980·Self - Series Host (uncredited)

1980·Self - Series Host (uncredited)

The Oldest Living Graduate

1980·Col. J.C. Kincaid

The Jilting of Granny Weatherall

1980·Self - Series Host (uncredited)

1979·The President

1979·Old Prospector

The Man Who Loved Bears

1979·Fire Chief Risley

The Great Smokey Roadblock

1978·Elegant John

1978·Dr. Walter Krim

The Biggest Battle

1978·Generale Foster

1978·President of the Academy

Inside 'the Swarm'

A Special Sesame Street Christmas

1978·Grandpa George

1977·Simon Davenport

1977·Mr. Whitehead

1977·Self - Series Host (uncredited)

The Displaced Person

1977·Self - Series Host (uncredited)

1977·Self - Series Host (uncredited)

1977·Self - Series Host (uncredited)

Underground Doctors

1977·Self - Host

1976·Adm. Chester W. Nimitz

Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur

1976·Gen. Douglas MacArthur

Bernice Bobs Her Hair

1976·Self - Series Host (uncredited)

Parkinson: Meet Henry Fonda

Henry James' The Jolly Corner

Clarence Darrow

1974·Clarence Darrow

The Last Four Days

1974·Kardinal Schuster

Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still

1974·Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Music School

1974·Narrator (voice)

Parker Adderson, Philosopher

1974·Narrator (Voice)

My Name Is Nobody

1973·Jack Beauregard

1973·Alan Davies

The Alpha Caper

1973·Mark Forbes

1973·Carl Tiflin

1973·Mark Sawyer

Sometimes a Great Notion

1971·Henry Stamper

Directed by John Ford

The American West of John Ford

1971·Self - Narrator

There Was a Crooked Man...

1970·Woodward W. Lopeman

The Cheyenne Social Club

1970·Harley Sullivan

Too Late the Hero

1970·Capt. John G Nolan

An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer

1969·John Steinbeck (voice)

1968·Commissioner Anthony X. Russell

1968·Bob Larkin

The Boston Strangler

1968·John S. Bottomly

Yours, Mine and Ours

1968·Frank Beardsley

Pat Paulsen for President

1968·Narrator (voice)

A Space to Grow

Once Upon a Time in the West

Stranger on the Run

1967·Ben Chamberlain

Welcome to Hard Times

1967·Mayor Will Blue

A Big Hand for the Little Lady

The Really Big Family

1966·Self - Narrator

To Save a Soldier

1966·Narrator (voice)

1965·Marion 'Howdy' Lewis

Battle of the Bulge

1965·Lt Col Kiley

1965·CINCPAC II

1965·Dimitri Koulov

1964·The President

Sex and the Single Girl

1964·Frank Broderick

1964·William Russell

Spencer's Mountain

1963·Clay Spencer

Hollywood: The Great Stars

1963·Self - Host

How the West Was Won

1962·Jethro Stuart

The Longest Day

1962·Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr.

Advise & Consent

1962·Robert Leffingwell

Hollywood: The Fabulous Era

1962·Narrator / Host

President Kennedy's Birthday Salute

Hollywood: The Selznick Years

1961·Self - Narrator

The Fabulous Fifties

1960·Narrator (segment "Fifties Dead Sequence") (voice)

1959·Clay Blaisedell

The Man Who Understood Women

1959·Willie Bauche

1958·Lewis Easton

1957·Morgan Hickman

1956·Pierre Bezukhov

1956·Manny Balestrero

1955·Lieutenant Roberts

The Petrified Forest

1955·Alan Squier

The Real Miss America

1952·Narrator (voice)

1951·Narrator (voice)

1951·Narrator (segment "Grant Wood") (voice)

1949·Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)

1948·Lt. Col. Owen Thursday

On Our Merry Way

1948·Lank Solsky

1947·Peter Lapham

1947·A Fugitive

1947·Joe Adams

My Darling Clementine

1946·Wyatt Earp

The Ox-Bow Incident

1943·Gil Carter

Immortal Sergeant

1943·Corporal Colin Spence

Tales of Manhattan

The Male Animal

1942·Tommy Turner

The Battle of Midway

1942·Narrator (voice)

Rings on Her Fingers

1942·John Wheeler

1942·Agustus 'Little Pinks' Pinkerton, II

The Magnificent Dope

1942·Thadeus Winship 'Tad' Page

It's Everybody's War

1941·Charles Pike

You Belong to Me

1941·Peter Kirk

Wild Geese Calling

1941·John Murdock

The Grapes of Wrath

The Return of Frank James

1940·Frank James

1940·Chad Hanna

Lillian Russell

1940·Alexander Moore

1939·Frank James

Young Mr. Lincoln

1939·Abraham Lincoln

The Story of Alexander Graham Bell

1939·Thomas Watson

1939·"Brick" Tennant

Drums Along the Mohawk

1939·Gilbert Martin

1938·Preston Dillard

The Mad Miss Manton

1938·Peter Ames

Breakdowns of 1938

1938·Self (archive footage)

Spawn of the North

1938·Jim Kimmerlee

I Met My Love Again

1938·Ives Towner

You Only Live Once

1937·Eddie Taylor

That Certain Woman

1937·Jack V. Merrick, Jr.

Wings of the Morning

1937·Kerry Gilfallen

1937·Slim Kincaid

The Trail of the Lonesome Pine

1936·Dave Tolliver

The Moon's Our Home

1936·Anthony Amberton / John Smith

1936·Townsend Middleton

The Farmer Takes a Wife

1935·Dan Harrow

I Dream Too Much

1935·Johnny Street

1935·David Bartlett