

Acting
Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982) was an American 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, earning one Academy Award for Best Actor on two nominations. Fonda made his mark early as a Broadway actor and made his Hollywood film debut in 1935. His film career began to gain momentum with roles such as Bette Davis's fiancee in her Academy Award-winning performance in Jezebel (1938), brother Frank in Jesse James (1939), and the future President in Young Mr....
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Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Making '12 Angry Men'
as Self (archive footage)

Jezebel: Legend of the South
as Self (archive footage)

Sacco and Vanzetti
as Prof. Tommy Turner (archive footage)

Guilt Trip: Hitchcock and 'The Wrong Man'
as Self (archive footage)

The Wages of Sin
as Self (archive footage)

Something to Do with Death
as Self (archive footage)

An Opera of Violence
as Self - Actor (archive footage)

The Making of Midway
as Self

Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults
as (archive footage)

Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
as Self (archive footage)

Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero
as Self (archive footage)

La Classe américaine
as Hugues (archive footage)

Fonda on Fonda
as Self (archive footage)

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
as Self (archive footage)

Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
as (archive footage)

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
as Self (archive footage)

Going Hollywood: The '30s
as (archive footage)

Let Poland Be Poland
as Self

Summer Solstice
as Joshua

On Golden Pond
as Norman Thayer Jr.

The Greatest Man in the World
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)

Gideon's Trumpet
as Clarence Earl Gideon

The Oldest Living Graduate
as Col. J.C. Kincaid

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)

Barn Burning
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)

The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)

Paul's Case
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)

The Golden Honeymoon
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)

The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's
as Self (archive footage)

Rappaccini's Daughter
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)

The Sky Is Gray
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)

Meteor
as The President

City on Fire
as Fire Chief Risley
The Man Who Loved Bears
as Self

Wanda Nevada
as Old Prospector

A Special Sesame Street Christmas
as Self

Fedora
as President of the Academy

The Swarm
as Dr. Krim

The Great Smokey Roadblock
as Elegant John

Home to Stay
as Grandpa George

The Biggest Battle
as Generale Foster

Inside 'the Swarm'
as Self

Rollercoaster
as Simon Davenport

Soldier's Home
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)

The Blue Hotel
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)

The Displaced Person
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)

I'm a Fool
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)

Tentacles
as Mr. Whitehead

Underground Doctors
as Self - Host

Bernice Bobs Her Hair
as Self - Series Host (uncredited)

Midway
as Adm. Chester W. Nimitz

Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur
as Gen. Douglas MacArthur

Parkinson: Meet Henry Fonda
as Self

Henry James' The Jolly Corner
as Narrator

Clarence Darrow
as Clarence Darrow

Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Last Four Days
as Kardinal Schuster

Parker Adderson, Philosopher
as Narrator (Voice)

The Music School
as Narrator (voice)

My Name Is Nobody
as Jack Beauregard

Ash Wednesday
as Mark Sawyer

The Alpha Caper
as Mark Forbes

The Serpent
as Alan Davies

The Red Pony
as Carl Tiflin

Sometimes a Great Notion
as Henry Stamper

The American West of John Ford
as Self - Narrator

Directed by John Ford

There Was a Crooked Man...
as Woodward W. Lopeman

The Cheyenne Social Club
as Harley Sullivan

Too Late the Hero
as Capt. John G Nolan

An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer
as John Steinbeck (voice)

Once Upon a Time in the West
as Frank

Pat Paulsen for President
as Narrator (voice)

The Boston Strangler
as John S. Bottomly

Yours, Mine and Ours
as Frank Beardsley

Madigan
as Commissioner Anthony X. Russell

Firecreek
as Bob Larkin

A Space to Grow
as Narrator

Stranger on the Run
as Ben Chamberlain

Welcome to Hard Times
as Mayor Will Blue
To Save a Soldier
as Narrator (voice)
Born to Buck
as Narrator

A Big Hand for the Little Lady
as Meredith

The Really Big Family
as Self - Narrator

Battle of the Bulge
as Lt Col Kiley

The Dirty Game
as Dimitri Koulov

In Harm's Way
as CINCPAC II

The Rounders
as Marion 'Howdy' Lewis

Sex and the Single Girl
as Frank Broderick

Fail Safe
as The President

The Best Man
as William Russell

Spencer's Mountain
as Clay Spencer

Hollywood: The Great Stars
as Self - Host

Hollywood: The Fabulous Era
as Narrator / Host

How the West Was Won
as Jethro Stuart

The Longest Day
as Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr.

Advise & Consent
as Robert Leffingwell

President Kennedy's Birthday Salute
as Self

Hollywood: The Selznick Years
as Self - Narrator

The Fabulous Fifties
as Narrator (segment "Fifties Dead Sequence") (voice)

The Man Who Understood Women
as Willie Bauche

Warlock
as Clay Blaisedell

Stage Struck
as Lewis Easton

The Tin Star
as Morgan Hickman

12 Angry Men
as Juror 8

The Wrong Man
as Manny Balestrero

War and Peace
as Pierre Bezukhov

Mister Roberts
as Lieutenant Roberts

The Petrified Forest
as Alan Squier
The Real Miss America
as Narrator (voice)

Pictura
as Narrator (segment "Grant Wood") (voice)

Benjy
as Narrator (voice)

Jigsaw
as Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)

Fort Apache
as Lt. Col. Owen Thursday

On Our Merry Way
as Lank Solsky

Daisy Kenyon
as Peter Lapham

The Fugitive
as A Fugitive

The Long Night
as Joe Adams

My Darling Clementine
as Wyatt Earp

Immortal Sergeant
as Corporal Colin Spence

The Ox-Bow Incident
as Gil Carter

The Battle of Midway
as Narrator (voice)

It's Everybody's War
as Narrator

The Big Street
as Little Pinks

Tales of Manhattan
as George

The Magnificent Dope
as Thadeus Winship 'Tad' Page

Rings on Her Fingers
as John Wheeler

The Male Animal
as Tommy Turner

You Belong to Me
as Peter Kirk

Wild Geese Calling
as John Murdock

The Lady Eve
as Charles Pike

Chad Hanna
as Chad Hanna

The Return of Frank James
as Frank James

Lillian Russell
as Alexander Moore

The Grapes of Wrath
as Tom Joad

Drums Along the Mohawk
as Gilbert Martin

Young Mr. Lincoln
as Abraham Lincoln

The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
as Thomas Watson

Let Us Live
as "Brick" Tennant

Jesse James
as Frank James

Breakdowns of 1938
as Self (archive footage)

The Mad Miss Manton
as Peter Ames

Spawn of the North
as Jim Kimmerlee

Blockade
as Marco

Jezebel
as Preston Dillard

I Met My Love Again
as Ives Towner

That Certain Woman
as Jack V. Merrick, Jr.

Slim
as Slim Kincaid

Wings of the Morning
as Kerry Gilfallen

You Only Live Once
as Eddie Taylor

Spendthrift
as Townsend Middleton

The Moon's Our Home
as Anthony Amberton / John Smith

The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
as Dave Tolliver

I Dream Too Much
as Johnny Street

Way Down East
as David Bartlett

The Farmer Takes a Wife
as Dan Harrow