From the beginning of Henry Fonda's career in 1935 through 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 and war films, and made frequent appearances in both television and foreign productions late in his career. Henry Fonda's narration appeared in 1942 an American documentary and propaganda film The Battle of Midway.
| Year | Film | Role | Other cast members | Filmed in |
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| 1935 | The Farmer Takes a Wife | Dan Harrow | Janet Gaynor | black and white |
| Way Down East | David Bartlett | |||
| I Dream Too Much | Jonathan Street | Lily Pons Eric Blore |
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| 1936 | Spendthrift | Townsend Middleton | ||
| The Trail of the Lonesome Pine | Dave Tolliver | |||
| The Moon's Our Home | Townsend Middleton | |||
| 1937 | You Only Live Once | Kerry Gilfallen | ||
| Wings of the Morning | Eddie Taylor | |||
| Slim | Slim Kincaid | |||
| That Certain Woman | Jack V. Merrick, Jr. | Bette Davis Anita Louise |
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| 1938 | I Met My Love Again | Ives Towner | ||
| Jezebel | Preston Dillard | Bette Davis George Brent |
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| Blockade | Marco | |||
| Spawn of the North | Jim Kimmerlee | |||
| The Mad Miss Manton | Peter Ames | |||
| 1939 | Jesse James | Frank James | Tyrone Power Randolph Scott |
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| Let Us Live! | Brick Tennant | |||
| The Story of Alexander Graham Bell | Thomas Watson | Don Ameche | ||
| Young Mr. Lincoln | Abraham Lincoln | |||
| Drums Along the Mohawk | Gilbert Martin | |||
| 1940 | The Grapes of Wrath | Tom Joad | ||
| Lillian Russell | Alexander Moore | |||
| The Return of Frank James | Frank James | Gene Tierney | Technicolor | |
| Chad Hanna | Chad Hanna | |||
| 1941 | The Lady Eve | Charles Pike | Barbara Stanwyck | B&W |
| Wild Geese Calling | John Murdock | |||
| You Belong to Me | Peter Kirk | |||
| 1942 | Rings on Her Fingers | John Wheeler | Gene Tierney | black and white |
| The Male Animal | Prof. Tommy Turner | Olivia DeHavilland | ||
| The Magnificent Dope | Thadeus Winship Page | |||
| Tales of Manhattan | George | |||
| The Big Street | Augustus "Little Pinks" Pinkerton II | Lucille Ball | ||
| 1943 | Immortal Sergeant | Cpl. Colin Spence | ||
| The Ox-Bow Incident | Gil Carter | Dana Andrews | black and white | |
| 1946 | My Darling Clementine | Wyatt Earp | ||
| 1947 | The Long Night | Joe Adams | ||
| The Fugitive | A Fugitive | |||
| Daisy Kenyon | Peter Lapham | Dana Andrews | ||
| 1948 | On Our Merry Way | Lank | James Stewart | |
| Fort Apache | Lt. Col. Owen Thursday | John Wayne | ||
| 1949 | Jigsaw | Nightclub Waiter | ||
| 1951 | Benjy | Narrator | ||
| 1955 | Mister Roberts | Lt. Douglas A. Roberts | ||
| 1956 | War and Peace | Pierre Bezukhov | ||
| The Wrong Man | Manny Balestrero | |||
| 1957 | 12 Angry Men | Juror #8 / Mr. Davis | Jack Klugman | |
| The Tin Star | Morg Hickman | |||
| 1958 | Stage Struck | Lewis Easton | ||
| 1959 | Warlock | Clay Blaisedell | ||
| The Man Who Understood Women | Willie Bauche | |||
| The Deputy | Marshal Simon Fry | |||
| 1962 | Advise & Consent | Robert A. Leffingwell | Charles Laughton Don Murray Gene Tierney Walter Pidgeon |
black and white |
| The Longest Day | Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. | John Wayne Robert Mitchum Richard Burton |
black and white | |
| How the West Was Won | Jethro Stuart | |||
| 1963 | Spencer's Mountain | Clay Spencer | ||
| 1964 | The Best Man | William Russell | Cliff Robertson | black and white |
| Fail-Safe | The President | Larry Hagman | ||
| Sex and the Single Girl | Frank Broderick | |||
| 1965 | The Rounders | Marion 'Howdy' Lewis | ||
| In Harm's Way | Adm. Chester W. Nimitz | |||
| The Dirty Game | Dimitri Koulov | |||
| 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 | ||
| Stranger on the Run | Ben Chamberlain | |||
| Firecreek | Bob Larkin | |||
| 1968 | Madigan | Commissioner Anthony X. Russell | ||
| 1968 | Yours, Mine and Ours | Frank Beardsley | Lucille Ball | |
| The Boston Strangler | John S. Bottomly | |||
| Once Upon a Time in the West | Frank | Charles Bronson Claudia Cardinale Jason Robards |
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| 1969 | An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer | Narrator | ||
| 1970 | Too Late the Hero | Capt. John G. Nolan | ||
| The Cheyenne Social Club | Harley Sullivan | |||
| There Was a Crooked Man... | Woodward Lopeman | |||
| 1971 | Sometimes a Great Notion | Henry Stamper | ||
| The Smith Family | Det. Sgt. Chad Smith | |||
| 1973 | The Red Pony | Carl Tiflin | ||
| Night Flight from Moscow | Allan Davies | |||
| The Alpha Caper | Mark Forbes | |||
| Ash Wednesday | Mark Sawyer | |||
| My Name Is Nobody | Jack Beauregard | Terence Hill | ||
| 1974 | Mussolini: Ultimo atto | Cardinal Schuster | ||
| Clarence Darrow | Clarence Darrow | |||
| 1976 | Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur | Gen. Douglas MacArthur | ||
| Almos' a Man | unknown | |||
| Midway | Adm. Chester W. Nimitz | Robert Mitchum Charlton Heston |
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| Captains and the Kings | Sen. Enfield Bassett | |||
| 1977 | Tentacles | Mr. Whitehead | ||
| Rollercoaster | Simon Davenport | |||
| The Last of the Cowboys | Elegant John | |||
| 1978 | Battle Force | General Foster | ||
| Home to Stay | Grandpa George | |||
| Fedora | President of the Academy | |||
| The Swarm | Dr. Walter Krim | |||
| A Special Sesame Street Christmas | Guest | |||
| 1979 | Roots: The Next Generations | Colonel Frederick Warner | ||
| City on Fire | Chief Albert Risley | |||
| Wanda Nevada | Old Prospector | |||
| Meteor | The President | |||
| 1980 | The Jilting of Granny Weatherall | Narrator | ||
| The Oldest Living Graduate | Col. J.C. Kincaid | |||
| Gideon's Trumpet | Clarence Earl Gideon | |||
| 1981 | On Golden Pond | Norman Thayer Jr. | Katharine Hepburn Jane Fonda |
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| Summer Solstice | Joshua Turner |