Cast: Henry Fonda

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Henry Fonda. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


12 Angry Men

1957 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast Henry Fonda · Lee J. Cobb · Jack Warden · E.G. Marshall

Plot Eleven jurors are convinced that the defendant is guilty of murder. The twelfth has no doubt of his innocence. How can this one man steer the others toward the same...

8.7

67K votes

8.7

67K votes

The Grapes of Wrath

1940 · Movie · 129 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast Henry Fonda · Jane Darwell · John Carradine · Charley Grapewin

Plot When Tom Joad (Henry Fonda) returns home after being released from prison, he discovers his family has been kicked out of their farm. Seeking a better future, he leaves with...

8.3

23K votes

8.3

23K votes

Once Upon a Time in the West

1968 · Movie · 165 min. · Italy

Direction Sergio Leone

Cast Henry Fonda · Charles Bronson · Claudia Cardinale · Gabriele Ferzetti

Plot Morton (Gabriele Ferzetti), the power-hungry owner of a railroad company, hires Frank (Henry Fonda), a gunfighter without a conscience, to kill anyone who stands in the way of the completion...

8.2

25K votes

8.2

25K votes

My Darling Clementine

1946 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast Henry Fonda · Linda Darnell · Victor Mature · Walter Brennan

Plot Wyatt Earp (Henry Fonda), after cleaning up Dodge City, arrives in the outskirts of Tombstone with his brothers Morgan (Ward Bond), Virgil (Tim Holt), and James (Don Garner), planning to...

8.0

8K votes

8.0

8K votes

The Ox-Bow Incident

1942 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Henry Fonda · Dana Andrews · Mary Beth Hughes · Anthony Quinn

Plot In Nevada in 1885, two worn out cowboys, Gil (Henry Fonda) and Art (Harry Morgan), ride into Darby’s Saloon and Hotel looking for a drink. Shortly after their arrival, they...

8.0

4K votes

8.0

4K votes

Fort Apache

1948 · Movie · 127 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast Henry Fonda · John Wayne · Shirley Temple · Pedro Armendáriz

Plot In John Ford's sombre exploration mythologising of American heroes, he slowly reveals the character of Owen Thursday, who sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance...

7.7

7K votes

7.7

7K votes

Jezebel

1938 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction William Wyler

Cast Bette Davis · Henry Fonda · George Brent · Margaret Lindsay

Plot Set in antebellum New Orleans during the early 1850's, this film follows Julie Marsden through her quest for social redemption on her own terms. Julie is a beautiful and free...

7.7

4K votes

7.7

4K votes

Advise & Consent

1962 · Movie · 139 min. · United States

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Walter Pidgeon · Don Murray · Charles Laughton · Henry Fonda

Plot Robert Leffingwell is the president's candidate for Secretary of State. Prior to his approval, he must first go through a Senate investigation to determine if he's qualified. Leading the Senate...

7.7

3K votes

7.7

3K votes

Fail-Safe

1964 · Movie · 111 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast Dan O'Herlihy · Henry Fonda · Walter Matthau · Fritz Weaver

Plot A technical malfunction in the Pentagon's strategic control system causes an erroneous order to be sent to a B-58 squadron on a routine training mission instructing the bombers to fly...

7.6

2K votes

7.6

2K votes

You Only Live Once

1937 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Sylvia Sidney · Henry Fonda · Barton MacLane · Jean Dixon

Plot Archetypal depression-era stars Henry Fonda and Sylvia Sidney are felicitously teamed in Fritz Lang's You Only Live Once. Fonda plays an ex-convict who can't get a break on the "outside"....

7.6

4K votes

7.6

4K votes

The Lady Eve

1941 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Preston Sturges

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Henry Fonda · Charles Coburn · Eugene Pallette

Plot Barbara Stanwyck stars as Jean Herrington, a sly con artist aboard a transatlantic ocean liner who happens to run across Charles Pike (Henry Fonda), a snake expert returning from a...

7.5

3K votes

7.5

3K votes

There Was a Crooked Man

1970 · Movie · 123 min. · United States

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Kirk Douglas · Henry Fonda · Warren Oates · Hume Cronyn

Plot Following the tradition of 1960s and '70s Westerns in which the criminals are the heroes, THERE WAS A CROOKED MAN takes devilish pride in the antics of armed robber and...

7.5

6K votes

7.5

6K votes

Roots: The Next Generations (TV Miniseries)

1979 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Ernest Kinoy · Georg Stanford Brown · Charles S. Dubin · John Erman

Cast Georg Stanford Brown · Olivia de Havilland · Henry Fonda · Marlon Brando

Plot 14 Episodes -one hour each-. This series continues the story of Alex Haley's family line from the Post American Civil War era to Alex Haley's genealogical search to discover his...

7.4

161 votes

7.4

161 votes

The Longest Day

1962 · Movie · 180 min. · United States

Direction Ken Annakin · Andrew Marton · Bernhard Wicki

Cast John Wayne · Robert Mitchum · Henry Fonda · Richard Burton

Plot England in June 1944. Unseasonal storms. Allied troops are massed ready for the invasion of France, some already on the boats. The Normandy beaches will be their destination while paratroopers...

7.3

15K votes

7.3

15K votes

Young Mr. Lincoln

1939 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast Henry Fonda · Alice Brady · Marjorie Weaver · Arleen Whelan

Plot John Ford's film on the early career of Abraham Lincoln, which centers on an apocryphal murder trial, impressed even the great Sergei Eisenstein. This biography provides a glimpse into the...

7.3

2K votes

7.3

2K votes

Directed by John Ford

1971 · Documentary · 110 min. · United States

Direction Peter Bogdanovich

Cast John Ford · Clint Eastwood · Peter Bogdanovich · Martin Scorsese

Plot A documentary on the life and films of director John Ford.

7.3

477 votes

7.3

477 votes

The Wrong Man

1956 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Henry Fonda · Vera Miles · Anthony Quayle · Harold J. Stone

Plot Manny Ballestero (Henry Fonda) is an honest hardworking musician at New York's Stork Club. When his wife needs money for dental treatment, Manny goes to the local insurance office to...

7.3

7K votes

7.3

7K votes

War and Peace

1956 · Movie · 208 min. · United States

Direction King Vidor

Cast Audrey Hepburn · Henry Fonda · Mel Ferrer · Vittorio Gassman

Plot Set against the backdrop of Napoleon's 1812 invasion of Russia, King Vidor's adaptation of the Tolstoy sprawling classic stars Henry Fonda as Pierre Bezhukov. Despite the vast scope of the...

7.3

10K votes

7.3

10K votes

On Golden Pond

1981 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Mark Rydell

Cast Henry Fonda · Katharine Hepburn · Jane Fonda · Doug McKeon

Plot On Golden Pond was a successful Broadway play before Ernest Thompson adapted his own work into the screenplay for the film version. Norman Thayer Jr (Henry Fonda) and his devoted...

7.3

7K votes

7.3

7K votes

The Boston Strangler

1968 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Richard Fleischer

Cast Tony Curtis · Henry Fonda · George Kennedy · Mike Kellin

Plot Boston, 1962. Several elderly women are strangled, apparently by the same unknown assailant. An investigation ensues, but clues lead nowhere. Then the strangler starts to attack younger women. John Bottomly...

7.2

5K votes

7.2

5K votes