Henry Fonda

1905–1982 · American actor

Henry Jaynes Fonda was an American actor whose career spanned five decades on Broadway and in Hollywood. Known for his work on screen and stage, he often portrayed characters who embodied an everyman image.

Henry Fonda, in order

1. 1935 I Dream Too Much: acted · directed by John Cromwell
2. 1935 The Farmer Takes a Wife: acted · directed by Victor Fleming
3. 1935 Way Down East: acted · directed by Henry King
4. 1936 Spendthrift: acted · directed by Raoul Walsh
5. 1936 The Moon's Our Home: acted · directed by William A. Seiter
6. 1936 The Trail of the Lonesome Pine: acted · directed by Henry Hathaway
7. 1937 Slim: acted · directed by Ray Enright
8. 1937 That Certain Woman: acted · directed by Edmund Goulding
9. 1937 Wings of the Morning: acted · directed by Harold D. Schuster
10. 1937 You Only Live Once: acted · directed by Fritz Lang
11. 1938 Blockade: acted · directed by William Dieterle
12. 1938 I Met My Love Again: acted · directed by Arthur Ripley and George Cukor
13. 1938 Jezebel: acted · directed by William Wyler
14. 1938 Spawn of the North: acted · directed by Henry Hathaway
15. 1938 The Mad Miss Manton: acted · directed by Leigh Jason
16. 1939 Drums Along the Mohawk: acted · directed by John Ford · critics 82%, audiences 60%
17. 1939 Jesse James: acted · directed by Henry King and Irving Cummings · audiences 66%
18. 1939 Land of Liberty: acted · directed by Cecil B. DeMille
19. 1939 Let Us Live: acted · directed by John Brahm
20. 1939 The Story of Alexander Graham Bell: acted · directed by Irving Cummings
21. 1939 Young Mr. Lincoln: acted · directed by John Ford · critics 100%, audiences 81% · streaming on Roku Channel, Plex, Fawesome
22. 1940 Chad Hanna: acted · directed by Henry King · audiences 33%
23. 1940 Lillian Russell: acted · directed by Irving Cummings
24. 1940 The Grapes of Wrath: acted · directed by John Ford · critics 100%, audiences 88% · streaming on Hoopla, Fawesome
25. 1940 The Return of Frank James: acted · directed by Fritz Lang
26. 1941 The Lady Eve: acted · directed by Preston Sturges
27. 1941 Wild Geese Calling: acted · directed by John Brahm
28. 1941 You Belong to Me: produced, acted · directed by Wesley Ruggles
29. 1942 Rings on Her Fingers: acted · directed by Rouben Mamoulian
30. 1942 Tales of Manhattan: acted · directed by Julien Duvivier · audiences 75%
31. 1942 The Battle of Midway (short film): acted · directed by John Ford · audiences 63% · streaming on Hoopla, Prime Video (free), Fawesome
32. 1942 The Big Street: acted · directed by Irving Reis
33. 1942 The Magnificent Dope: acted · directed by Walter Lang
34. 1942 The Male Animal: acted · directed by Elliott Nugent
35. 1943 Immortal Sergeant: acted · directed by John M. Stahl
36. 1943 The Ox-Bow Incident: acted · directed by James Tinling and William A. Wellman
37. 1946 My Darling Clementine: acted · directed by John Ford · critics 100%, audiences 85%
38. 1947 Daisy Kenyon: acted · directed by Otto Preminger
39. 1947 The Fugitive: acted · directed by Emilio Fernández and John Ford
40. 1947 The Long Night: acted · directed by Anatole Litvak
41. 1948 Fort Apache: acted · directed by John Ford · critics 100%, audiences 83% · streaming on Fawesome
42. 1948 On Our Merry Way: acted · directed by King Vidor and Leslie Fenton
43. 1950 Jigsaw: acted · directed by Fletcher Markle
44. 1951 Benjy (short film): acted · directed by Fred Zinnemann
45. 1951 Pictura: An Adventure in Art: acted · directed by Alain Resnais and Enrico Gras
46. 1955 Mister Roberts: acted · directed by John Ford and Joshua Logan · critics 100%, audiences 84% · streaming on YouTube (free)
47. 1956 The Wrong Man: acted · directed by Alfred Hitchcock · critics 92%, audiences 75% · streaming on HBO Max
48. 1956 War and Peace: acted · directed by King Vidor
49. 1957 12 Angry Men: produced, acted · directed by Sidney Lumet · critics 100%, audiences 97% · streaming on fuboTV, MGM+, Philo
50. 1957 The Tin Star: acted · directed by Anthony Mann · critics 89%, audiences 75% · streaming on Paramount+, MGM+, Kanopy
51. 1958 Stage Struck: acted · directed by Sidney Lumet
52. 1959 The Deputy (TV series): acted
53. 1959 The Man Who Understood Women: acted · directed by Nunnally Johnson
54. 1959 Warlock: acted · directed by Edward Dmytryk · audiences 75% · streaming on Roku Channel, Kanopy, Pluto TV
55. 1962 Advise & Consent: acted · directed by Otto Preminger · critics 77%, audiences 88%
56. 1962 How the West Was Won: acted · directed by George Marshall and Henry Hathaway · critics 88%, audiences 74%
57. 1962 The Longest Day: acted · directed by Bernhard Wicki and Darryl F. Zanuck
58. 1963 Spencer's Mountain: acted · directed by Delmer Daves
59. 1964 Fail-Safe: acted · directed by Sidney Lumet · critics 93%, audiences 91% · streaming on YouTube (free), Fawesome, Tubi
60. 1964 Sex and the Single Girl: acted · directed by Richard Quine
61. 1964 The Best Man: acted · directed by Franklin J. Schaffner
62. 1965 Battle of the Bulge: acted · directed by Ken Annakin
63. 1965 In Harm's Way: acted · directed by Otto Preminger
64. 1965 The Dirty Game: acted · directed by Carlo Lizzani and Christian-Jaque
65. 1965 The Rounders: acted · directed by Burt Kennedy
66. 1966 A Big Hand for the Little Lady: acted · directed by Fielder Cook · audiences 85% · streaming on HBO Max
67. 1967 Stranger on the Run (TV movie): acted · directed by Don Siegel
68. 1967 Welcome to Hard Times: acted · directed by Burt Kennedy
69. 1968 Firecreek: acted · directed by Vincent McEveety
70. 1968 Madigan: acted · directed by Don Siegel
71. 1968 Once Upon a Time in the West: acted · directed by Sergio Leone · critics 96%, audiences 94% · streaming on fuboTV, MGM+, Philo
72. 1968 The Boston Strangler: acted · directed by Richard Fleischer
73. 1968 Yours, Mine and Ours: acted · directed by Melville Shavelson
74. 1970 The Cheyenne Social Club: acted · directed by Gene Kelly and Paul Helmick
75. 1970 There Was a Crooked Man...: acted · directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
76. 1970 Too Late the Hero: acted · directed by Robert Aldrich
77. 1971 Sometimes a Great Notion: acted · directed by Paul Newman
78. 1971 The Smith Family (TV series): acted · directed by Herschel Daugherty
79. 1973 Ash Wednesday: acted · directed by Larry Peerce
80. 1973 My Name is Nobody: acted · directed by Tonino Valerii
81. 1973 Night Flight from Moscow: acted · directed by Henri Verneuil
82. 1973 The Alpha Caper: acted · directed by Robert Michael Lewis
83. 1973 The Red Pony: acted · directed by Robert Totten
84. 1974 Clarence Darrow: acted · directed by John Rich
85. 1974 Last Days of Mussolini: acted · directed by Carlo Lizzani
86. 1976 Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur: acted · directed by Anthony Page
87. 1976 Midway: acted · directed by Jack Smight · critics 39%, audiences 71% · streaming on Netflix, Philo, AMC+
88. 1977 Rollercoaster: acted · directed by James Goldstone · critics 53%, audiences 49%
89. 1977 Tentacles: acted · directed by Ovidio G. Assonitis
90. 1977 The Great Smokey Roadblock: acted · directed by John Leone
91. 1978 Fedora: acted · directed by Billy Wilder · critics 69%, audiences 63%
92. 1978 Home to Stay: acted · directed by Delbert Mann
93. 1978 The Greatest Battle: acted · directed by Umberto Lenzi · streaming on Fawesome, Tubi
94. 1978 The Swarm: acted · directed by Irwin Allen
95. 1979 City on Fire: acted · directed by Alvin Rakoff
96. 1979 Meteor: acted · directed by Ronald Neame · critics 5%, audiences 14% · streaming on Hoopla, YouTube (free), Fawesome
97. 1979 Wanda Nevada: acted · directed by Peter Fonda
98. 1980 Gideon's Trumpet (TV movie): acted · directed by Robert L. Collins
99. 1981 Summer Solstice (TV movie): acted · directed by Ralph Rosenblum
100. 1982 Let Poland Be Poland: acted
101. 1982 On Golden Pond: acted · directed by Mark Rydell
102. 1988 The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind: acted · directed by David Hinton · audiences 93%
103. 2006 Sacco and Vanzetti: acted · directed by Peter Miller