Henry Fonda filmography

Henry Fonda and daughter Jane Fonda in 1943

This is the filmography of American actor Henry Fonda (May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982), including his performances between 1935 and 1981. Fonda appeared in more than 100 films, including TV movies.

From the beginning of Fonda's career in 1935 through to his last projects in 1981, Fonda appeared in 106 films, television programs, and shorts. Through the course of his career he appeared in many critically acclaimed films, including such classics as 12 Angry Men and The Ox-Bow Incident. His roles in 1940's The Grapes of Wrath and 1981's On Golden Pond earned him Academy Award nominations he won for the latter). Fonda made his mark in Westerns, appearing as Frank James in Jesse James and The Return of Frank James, and war films such as The Longest Day and In Harm's Way, and made frequent appearances in both television and foreign productions late in his career. He was Bette Davis' leading man in the romantic period piece Jezebel and portrayed historical figures Abraham Lincoln in Young Mr. Lincoln and Wyatt Earp in My Darling Clementine. He played a buffalo hunter in the Cinerama film How the West Was Won and his narration appeared in 1942 in an American documentary and propaganda film entitled The Battle of Midway. Fonda made three movies with his close friend James Stewart; On Our Merry Way, Firecreek, and The Cheyenne Social Club. Henry Fonda made no major film appearances between 1948's Fort Apache with John Wayne and Mister Roberts with James Cagney in 1955, seven years later, concentrating instead on the stage; both films were directed by John Ford.

In 1963, he made a trip to New Zealand and Australia to launch the movie How the West was Won. His trip took him via Tahiti and Fiji, and it was on the Tahiti-Fiji sector that he flew with Air New Zealand. He was studying navigation at the time, he informed the crew, and asked if he could visit the cockpit of the aircraft to observe the navigator in action. In those days, airliner flights of more than 200 miles over water were obliged to carry a professional navigator. On this flight the navigator was an Australian, James Mair, later Captain and International Air Accident Investigator, who showed Henry how to take sun-shots with the sextant, even allowing Henry a successful try at calculating their position over the Pacific. He left the aircraft at Nadi in Fiji, to take a Qantas flight to Sydney, Australia.

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1935	The Farmer Takes a Wife	Dan Harrow
1935	Way Down East	David Bartlett
1935	I Dream Too Much	Jonathan Street
1936	Spendthrift	Townsend Middleton
1936	The Trail of the Lonesome Pine	Dave Tolliver
1936	The Moon's Our Home	Townsend Middleton
1937	You Only Live Once	Eddie Taylor
1937	Wings of the Morning	Kerry Gilfallen
1937	Slim	Slim Kincaid
1937	That Certain Woman	Jack V. Merrick, Jr.
1938	I Met My Love Again	Ives Towner
1938	Jezebel	Preston Dillard
1938	Blockade	Marco
1938	Spawn of the North	Jim Kimmerlee
1938	The Mad Miss Manton	Peter Ames
1939	Jesse James	Frank James
1939	Let Us Live	Brick Tennant
1939	The Story of Alexander Graham Bell	Thomas Watson
1939	Young Mr. Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln
1939	Drums Along the Mohawk	Gilbert Martin
1940	The Grapes of Wrath	Tom Joad
1940	Lillian Russell	Alexander Moore
1940	The Return of Frank James	Frank James
1940	Chad Hanna	Chad Hanna
1941	The Lady Eve	Charles Pike
1941	Wild Geese Calling	John Murdock
1941	You Belong to Me	Peter Kirk
1942	Rings on Her Fingers	John Wheeler
1942	The Male Animal	Prof. Tommy Turner
1942	The Magnificent Dope	Thadeus Winship Page
1942	Tales of Manhattan	George
1942	The Big Street	Augustus "Little Pinks" Pinkerton II
1942	The Battle of Midway	uncredited voice
1943	Immortal Sergeant	Cpl. Colin Spence
1943	The Ox-Bow Incident	Gil Carter
1946	My Darling Clementine	Wyatt Earp
1947	The Long Night	Joe Adams
1947	The Fugitive	A Fugitive
1947	Daisy Kenyon	Peter Lapham
1948	On Our Merry Way	Lank
1948	Fort Apache	Lt. Col. Owen Thursday
1949	Jigsaw	Nightclub Waiter
1951	Benjy	Narrator
1951	Pictura: An Adventure in Art	Narrator
1955	Mister Roberts	Lt. Douglas A. Roberts
1956	War and Peace	Pierre Bezukhov
1956	The Wrong Man	Manny Balestrero
1957	12 Angry Men	Juror no. 8 / Mr. Davis
1957	The Tin Star	Morg Hickman
1958	Stage Struck	Lewis Easton
1959	Warlock	Clay Blaisedell
1959	The Man Who Understood Women	Willie Bauche
1959	The Deputy	Marshal Simon Fry
1962	Advise & Consent	Robert A. Leffingwell
1962	The Longest Day	Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
1962	How the West Was Won	Jethro Stuart
1963	Spencer's Mountain	Clay Spencer
1964	The Best Man	William Russell
1964	Fail-Safe	The President
1964	Sex and the Single Girl	Frank Broderick
1965	The Rounders	Marion 'Howdy' Lewis
1965	In Harm's Way	Adm. Chester W. Nimitz
1965	The Dirty Game	Dimitri Koulov
1965	Battle of the Bulge	Lt. Col. Daniel Kiley
1966	A Big Hand for the Little Lady	Meredith / Ben Bailey
1967	Welcome to Hard Times	Mayor Will Blue
1967	Stranger on the Run	Ben Chamberlain
1967	Firecreek	Bob Larkin
1968	Madigan	Commissioner Anthony X. Russell
1968	Yours, Mine and Ours	Frank Beardsley
1968	The Boston Strangler	John S. Bottomly
1968	Once Upon a Time in the West	Frank
1969	An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer	Narrator
1970	Too Late the Hero	Capt. John G. Nolan
1970	The Cheyenne Social Club	Harley Sullivan
1970	There Was a Crooked Man...	Woodward Lopeman
1971	Sometimes a Great Notion	Henry Stamper
1971	The Smith Family	Det. Sgt. Chad Smith
1973	The Red Pony	Carl Tiflin
1973	Night Flight from Moscow	Allan Davies
1973	The Alpha Caper	Mark Forbes
1973	Ash Wednesday	Mark Sawyer
1973	My Name Is Nobody	Jack Beauregard
1974	Mussolini: Ultimo atto	Cardinal Schuster
1974	Clarence Darrow	Clarence Darrow
1976	Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur	Gen. Douglas MacArthur
1976	Almos' a Man	unknown
1976	Midway	Adm. Chester W. Nimitz
1976	Captains and the Kings	Sen. Enfield Bassett
1977	Tentacles	Mr. Whitehead
1977	Rollercoaster	Simon Davenport
1977	The Last of the Cowboys	Elegant John
1978	The Greatest Battle	General Foster
1978	Home to Stay	Grandpa George
1978	Fedora	President of the Academy
1978	The Swarm	Dr. Walter Krim
1978	A Special Sesame Street Christmas	Guest
1979	Roots: The Next Generations	Colonel Frederick Warner
1979	City on Fire	Chief Albert Risley
1979	Wanda Nevada	Old Prospector
1979	Meteor	The President
1980	The Jilting of Granny Weatherall	Narrator
1980	The Oldest Living Graduate	Col. J.C. Kincaid
1980	Gideon's Trumpet	Clarence Earl Gideon
1981	On Golden Pond	Norman Thayer Jr.
1981	Summer Solstice	Joshua Turner

External links

• Henry Fonda filmography at the Internet Broadway Database
• Henry Fonda filmography at the Internet Movie Database
• Henry Fonda filmography at the TCM Movie Database