Henry Fonda Filmography

Poetry Hall of Fame, Vol. Two

Synopsis: Produced by Monterey Home Video, Poetry Hall of Fame 2 is the second volume of a four-part video series hosted by actress Valerie Harper. Verse written by some of the world's most famous poets are recited by well-known performers who eloquently bring alive the poets' words of wisdom, joy, hope and Read More

Poetry Hall of Fame, Vol. Four

Synopsis: This video is volume four of a four-part series presented by PBS, featuring some of the greatest poets in the English language. In this final volume, selections are read from the pens of Shakespeare, Dryden, Hardy, Lawrence, Eliot, Parker, and Blake. Readings are presented by film celebrities Read More

Lucy, Queen of Comedy

Synopsis: Lucille Ball is honored in this program which features many of her television and film appearances. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Heritage Collection: America in Portrait

Synopsis: This teaching film, aimed at students in grades four through 12, presents an overview of some of America's best-known poets and their works. The film examines influential forces and events that shaped the writers' lives and how they in turn have shaped America's literary heritage. The artists Read More

Henry Fonda: The Man and His Movies

Synopsis: Henry Fonda's career is profiled in this video as his stage, screen and television years are captured. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Great Figures in History: Franklin D. Roosevelt

Synopsis: This video is part of a series that profiles some of the most important people in world history. This volume takes a look at Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who became President of the United States in 1933. The Great Depression had the country in its grips. The video examines the New Deal policies of Read More

Summer Solstice

Actors: Henry Fonda, Myrna Loy, Lindsay Crouse, Stephen Collins

Synopsis: Hollywood veterans Henry Fonda and Myrna Loy co-starred for the first and only time in the 60-minute TV drama Summer Solstice. Fonda and Loy portray Joshua and Margaret Turner, who during their fiftieth year of marriage pay a visit to the Cape Cod beach where they first fell in love. In flashback Read More

On Golden Pond

Actors: Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Jane Fonda, Doug McKeon, Dabney Coleman

Synopsis: There's little that happens in On Golden Pond that isn't thoroughly predictable from the start, but the film is blessed with so much star power, charm and honest sentiment that everyone in the audience is willing to ignore the cliches and go the distance. In his last film, Henry Fonda plays Norman Read More

The Golden Honeymoon

Synopsis: First telecast February 4, 1980, Golden Honeymoon is an easygoing adaptation of the Ring Lardner short story. James Whitmore and Teresa Wright play a New Jersey couple who celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary with a second honeymoon. Their Florida idyll is disrupted when the couple's old Read More

Gideon's Trumpet

Actors: Henry Fonda, John Houseman, José Ferrer, Fay Wray

Synopsis: In the tradition of his earlier work in Grapes of Wrath and Twelve Angry Men, Henry Fonda played another social-protest role in the Hallmark Hall of Fame TV presentation Gideon's Trumpet. Clarence Earl Gideon (Fonda) is a poor, ill-tempered Florida handyman who is arrested for petty larceny in Read More

The Jilting of Granny Weatherall

Synopsis: Based on Katherine Anne Porter's short story, the touching saga of a elderly matriarch who still mourns over her lost love when she was jilted many years ago. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

Actors: Robert Preston

Synopsis: Filmed in Vermont, The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg is based on one of Mark Twain's more mysoginistic works. Mysterious stranger Robert Preston shows up in Hadleyburg, a town that prides itself upon the honesty and integrity of its leaders. Preston offers $40,000 in gold to the anonymous Read More

The Oldest Living Graduate

Actors: Henry Fonda

Synopsis: Originally telecast live from Dallas' Southern Methodist University on April 7, 1980, The Oldest Living Graduate was adapted from Preston Jones's 1974 play. Henry Fonda stars as Col. J. C. Kincaid, crusty patriarch of a Texas family. Kincaid's weak-willed son Floyd (George Grizzard) wants to get Read More

Rappaccini's Daughter

Synopsis: Based on a story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, this made-for-television drama tells the tale of a college student, a mysterious young woman and a strangely beautiful garden. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Barn Burning

Synopsis: This 40-minute TV dramatization of William Faulkner's Barn Burning stars Tommy Lee Jones as the truculent head of the Snopes family. Jones has a tendency to burn down the barns of local landowners who've incurred his displeasure. His son Shawn Willington wants no part of this vengeful practice Read More

AFI Lifetime Achievement Awards: Jimmy Stewart

Synopsis: Hosted by the American Film Institute, this video is a tribute to career of James Stewart. Included are excerpts from: It's a Wonderful Life, Harvey, Vertigo and others. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Meteor

Actors: Sean Connery, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Martin Landau

Synopsis: The Soviets and Americans combine forces to save the world from a meteor in this science fiction disaster adventure. Bradley (Sean Connery) is an American scientist who teams up with Dubov (Brian Keith), and his translator-assistant Tatiana (Natalie Wood) later falls in love with Bradley. Hong Read More

Wanda Nevada

Actors: Peter Fonda, Brooke Shields, Fiona Lewis, Luke Askew, Ted Markland, Henry Fonda

Synopsis: When tough gambler Beaudray Demerille (Peter Fonda) wins young Wanda Nevada (Brooke Shields) in a poker game, he discovers that his new possession might be more of a hindrance than a help. Setting off to search for gold in the Grand Canyon, Beaudray and Wanda must work together to avoid falling Read More

Roots: The Next Generations

Actors: Georg Stanford Brown, Olivia de Havilland, Henry Fonda, Paul Koslo

Synopsis: The phenomenal success of the 1977 ABC miniseries Roots all but demanded a sequel to writer Alex Haley's epic story of his African and African-American forebears. Debuting February 18, 1979, Roots: The Next Generations picked up where its predecessor left off, with Haley's slave ancestors winning Read More

Il Grande Attaco

Actors: Helmut Berger, Samantha Eggar, Henry Fonda

Synopsis: The American prints of Battle Force credit the direction to one Humphrey Longan, but in fact the man behind the megaphone of this European war flick was Umberto Lenzi. Orson Welles narrates this crazy-quilt of stock battle footage and hapharzardly staged new scenes. A lot of potent acting Read More

The Swarm

Actors: Michael Caine, Katharine Ross, Richard Widmark, Richard Chamberlain, Olivia de Havilland

Synopsis: Killer bees migrate to the United States from Africa via South America in this disaster film produced and directed by the genre's chief architect, Irwin Allen, and written by Stirling Silliphant, scribe of The Poseidon Adventure. Haughty entomologist Brad Crane (Michael Caine) shows up at a secret Read More

Home to Stay

Actors: Henry Fonda

Synopsis: Set in Illinois (and filmed in Canada), Home to Stay stars Henry Fonda as an aging farmer who resists the notion of moving into a nursing home. Fonda's son Michael McGuire would like to honor his father's wishes, but realizes that the old man is becoming increasingly unable to care for himself. Read More

Fedora

Actors: William Holden, Hildegarde Neff, José Ferrer, Marthe Keller, Frances Sternhagen

Synopsis: In Fedora, Billy Wilder approaches Hollywood stardom in the same fashion as he did in Sunset Boulevard--with cynicism, regret, understanding, and awe. Fedora (Marthe Keller) is film's most intriguing movie queen. Rumored to be well into her sixties, the actress has remained a starlet for over four Read More

Clarence Darrow

Synopsis: Henry Fonda stars in this one-man play based on the writings of famed defense attorney Clarence Darrow. The play, constructed in the form of a monologue, traces Darrow's progress from a greenhorn lawyer to a giant in the field of civil libertarianism. Darrow (Fonda) muses on experiences ranging Read More

City on Fire

Actors: Barry Newman, Susan Clark, Shelley Winters, Leslie Nielsen, James Franciscus

Synopsis: City on Fire, a disaster thriller filmed in Canada with dialogue in both French and English, tells the story of an oil-refinery explosion in a small town. Dr. Frank Whitman (Barry Newman) and his co-workers, including Nurse Harper (Shelley Winters) and Dr. Matwick (Donald Pilon), fight bravely to Read More

I Tentacoli

Actors: John Huston, Shelley Winters, Bo Hopkins, Henry Fonda, Delia Boccardo

Synopsis: Italian filmmaker Ovidio Assonitis, who had ripped off The Exorcist with his successful Chi Sei? (1974) here turns his attentions to the post-Jaws ecokill film with silly results. The titular beast kills swimmers and divers before attacking a sailing regatta (an idea which, paradoxically, was Read More

Rollercoaster

Actors: George Segal, Richard Widmark, Timothy Bottoms, Henry Fonda, Harry Guardino

Synopsis: Rollercoaster was a by-product of the brief "Sensurround" craze of the 1970s. Nutsoid Timothy Bottoms sabotages an amusement-park roller coaster, killing several innocent revelers. After several other acts of terrorism, Bottoms (whose character is credited as Young Man) presents his demands to the Read More

Almos' a Man

Actors: LeVar Burton, Henry Fonda, Garry Goodrow, Madge Sinclair, Christopher Brooks, Robert DoQui

Synopsis: Based on the story by Richard Wright, Almos' a Man stars LeVar Burton as a black teenager in the South of the 1930s. Working as a field hand, Burton is frustrated at being considered inferior to the local whites. Perhaps if he purchases a gun, he can prove his manhood. This is the decision he Read More

Unknown Powers

Synopsis: In this special feature, a group of people examine a variety of unexplained powers, including ESP, astrology, and magic. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

The Blue Hotel

Synopsis: Part of the "American Short Story" collection, this is an adaptation of a story by Stephen Crane. In this film, a traveller takes refuge in a hotel. However, he becomes concerned his life is in danger from others who are staying at the same hotel. The concept of fate is introduced as a guiding Read More

Soldier's Home

Synopsis: The 44-minute Soldier's Home is based on a story by Ernest Hemingway. Richard Backus stars as a returning World War I veteran who can't adapt to the changes in his home town. Nancy Marchand, Mark LaMura and Lane Binkley costar. Though released separately on videocassette, Soldier's Home was Read More

Midway

Actors: Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn, Glenn Ford, Hal Holbrook

Synopsis: An expensive war epic, Midway emulates The Longest Day and Tora! Tora! Tora! in attempting to re-create a famous World War II battle from both the American and Japanese viewpoints. The 1942 battle of Midway was the turning point of the War in the Pacific; the Japanese invasion fleet was destroyed Read More

Bernice Bobs Her Hair

Actors: Shelley Duvall, Henry Fonda, Polly Holliday, Veronica Cartwright, Dennis Christopher, Gary Springer, Bud Cort, Lane Binkley, Patrick Reynolds

Synopsis: Many observers consider the 60-minute Bernice Bobs Her Hair to be the best-ever filmed adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Bernice (Shelley Duvall), a shy retiring girl of the Roaring 20s, yearns to be popular. On the advice of her flapper cousin Marjorie (Veronica Cartwright), Bernice cuts her Read More

The Displaced Person

Synopsis: Introduced by Henry Fonda, this unrated but good family movie is an adaptation of Flannery O'Connor's short story. Taking place in Georgia in the 1940s, Irene Worth plays a widow who allows a Polish WWII refugee family to live on and work her land, but she is soon infected with the same prejudice Read More

Captains and the Kings

Synopsis: One of four dramatic miniseries carried by NBC under the blanket title Best Sellers, Captains and the Kings was adapted from a novel by Taylor Caldwell. Covering a time span from 1857 to 1912, this was the saga of the Irish-immigrant Armagh clan, with emphasis on the rags-to-riches career of Read More

Collision Course

Actors: Henry Fonda, E.G. Marshall, John Randolph, Lloyd Bochner, Andrew Duggan

Synopsis: Collision Course was adapted from Merle Miller's Plain Speaking, a biography of former President Harry Truman. E.G. Marshall plays Truman, while Henry Fonda costars as General Douglas MacArthur This made-for-TV movie recounts the events leading up to the 1951 firing of General MacArthur during the Read More

The Great Smokey Roadblock

Actors: Henry Fonda, Eileen Brennan, Robert Englund, John Byner, Austin Pendleton

Synopsis: Not everything Henry Fonda did was Grapes of Wrath or Mister Roberts. In the enjoyable low-budget "road" flick The Great Smokey Roadblock, Fonda plays a worn-out trucker named Elegant John. Anxious to make one last, big haul before retiring, Fonda loses his 18-wheeler to the repo men. He steals Read More

Mussolini: Ultimo Atto

Actors: Henry Fonda, Lisa Gastoni, Franco Nero, Rod Steiger

Synopsis: Rod Steiger portrays Italian dictator Benito Mussolini in this internationally produced "how the mighty have fallen" biopic. In the waning days of the war, the once-strutting Il Duce hides from his pursuers like a common thief. He's hoping to fall into the hands of his former Axis comrades or the Read More

Parker Adderson, Philosopher

Synopsis: Produced for public television, Parker Adderson, Philosopher was based on a short story by Ambrose Bierce. Harris Yulin plays Parker Addison, a Yankee spy who falls into the hands of the Rebel troops. Doomed to die at sunrise, the silver-tongued Adderson puts up a brave front for his raggedy Read More

All in the Family: The Best of All in the Family

Actors: Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton, Rob Reiner, Sally Struthers, Henry Fonda

Synopsis: Henry Fonda serves as host for the 100th episode of All in the Family, which is devoted to highlights from the past 99 installments. Included are a montage of Archie's bigoted diatribes, a compendium of Archie's tiltings with "meathead" Mike, Gloria's matriculation from dizzy-headed bride to Read More

My Name Is Nobody

Actors: Henry Fonda

Synopsis: Spaghetti-Western star Terence Hill achieved international fame with 1974's My Name Is Nobody. A soldier of fortune, Nobody (Hill) is hired to gun down veteran outlaw Jack Beauregard (Henry Fonda). Before long, however, Nobody and Beauregard are bosom companions. When Beauregard announces his Read More

Night Flight from Moscow

Actors: Yul Brynner, Henry Fonda, Dirk Bogarde, Philippe Noiret

Synopsis: In this convoluted spy thriller, a Russian ambassador places his life on the line when he steals classified documents and defects to the U.S. The papers he carries could rock the free world. Unfortunately, the C.I.A. must first prove that they are real. The film is also known as The Serpent. Read More

The Great American West

Actors: John Ford, Henry Fonda, James Stewart, John Wayne

Synopsis: After several feature-length documentaries (Elvis: That's The Way It Is, Soul to Soul), filmmaker Denis Sanders returned to the short-length form with The Great American West. This 55-minute film was initially a TV special, titled The Great American West of John Ford. The life story of the fabled Read More

The Alpha Caper

Actors: Henry Fonda, Leonard Nimoy, Larry Hagman, James McEachin, Elena Verdugo

Synopsis: Henry Fonda stars in this TV movie as a worn-out probation officer who decides to heist a $30,000,000 gold shipment, using three ex-convicts as his "mob". Fonda's cohorts include Leonard Nimoy, James McEachin and Larry Hagman. The plan is meticulous (due in part to Fonda's inside knowledge), the Read More

Ash Wednesday

Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Henry Fonda, Helmut Berger, Keith Baxter, Maurice Teynac

Synopsis: A woman undergoes a surgeon's scalpel in a last-ditch attempt to win back her husband in this drama. Barbara Sawyer (Elizabeth Taylor) has been married to her husband, Mark (Henry Fonda), for 30 years, and she's afraid the spark has gone out of their relationship. Barbara is convinced the problem Read More

The Red Pony

Actors: Henry Fonda, Clint Howard, Maureen O'Hara

Synopsis: The Red Pony is a 1973 TV-movie adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel, previously filmed for theatrical release in 1949. Henry Fonda and Maureen O'Hara star as a turn-of-century farming couple. Clint Howard plays their 10-year-old son, a rebellious lad constantly at odds with his taciturn father. Read More

Directed by John Ford

Actors: Henry Fonda, John Ford, John Wayne

Synopsis: This documentary profiles the great American filmmaker John Ford (1895-1973). Among the films he directed were The Young Lincoln, Stagecoach, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and The Grapes of Wrath. Ford's work was distinguished by its great emotional clarity, which some see as sentimentality Read More

Sometimes a Great Notion

Actors: Paul Newman, Henry Fonda, Lee Remick, Michael Sarrazin, Richard Jaeckel

Synopsis: Also known as Never Give an Inch, this film was based on a novel by Ken Kesey. Paul Newman (who also directed) stars as Hank Stamper, the oldest son of an Oregon logging family headed by Henry (Henry Fonda). Hank's half-brother, Leeland (Michael Sarrazin), embittered over Henry's treatment of his Read More

The Smith Family: Season 02

Actors: Henry Fonda, Janet Blair, Darlene Carr, Ronny Howard, Michael-James Wixted, Charles McGraw, John Carter

Born to Buck

Synopsis: Rodeo champion Casey Tibbs follows a trail of heartbreak and dreams coming true. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Smith Family: Season 01

Actors: Henry Fonda, Janet Blair, Darlene Carr, Ronny Howard, Michael-James Wixted, Charles McGraw, John Carter

The Cheyenne Social Club

Actors: James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Shirley Jones, Sue Ane Langdon, Elaine Devry

Synopsis: James Stewart and Henry Fonda star in this light-hearted western comedy, directed by Gene Kelly. In 1870 Texas, John O' Hanlan (James Stewart), an itinerant cowboy, receives a letter notifying him that he has inherited a business establishment called the Cheyenne Social Club in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Read More

Too Late the Hero

Actors: Michael Caine, Cliff Robertson, Henry Fonda, Ian Bannen, Harry Andrews

Synopsis: Filmed on location in the Philippines, Suicide Run is the alternate title of the British war thriller Too Late the Hero. Cliff Robertson stars as an opportunistic, mildly cowardly US navy lieutenant who is reluctantly recruited for a suicide mission. When his CO is killed, Robertson is forced into Read More

There Was a Crooked Man

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda, Hume Cronyn, Warren Oates, Burgess Meredith

Synopsis: An offbeat 1970s black-comic Western with an all-star cast, this Joseph L. Mankiewicz film is set in 1883 in Arizona. Paris Pitman, Jr. (Kirk Douglas) is the leader of a band of outlaws that steals $500,000 from a wealthy businessman named Lomax (Arthur O'Connell). The other gang members die in a Read More

An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer

Once Upon a Time in the West

Actors: Charles Bronson, Claudia Cardinale, Henry Fonda, Jason Robards, Jr., Gabriele Ferzetti

Synopsis: In Sergio Leone's epic Western, shot partly in Monument Valley, a revenge story becomes an epic contemplation of the Western past. To get his hands on prime railroad land in Sweetwater, crippled railroad baron Morton (Gabriele Ferzetti) hires killers, led by blue-eyed sadist Frank (Henry Fonda) Read More

Madigan

Actors: Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Inger Stevens, Harry Guardino, James Whitmore

Synopsis: It's a seemingly peaceful spring morning in New York City -- graduation day at the Police Academy -- and Police Commissioner Anthony X. Russell (Henry Fonda) is looking forward to giving a speech to the new officers. But all isn't well: Russell's been given apparently incontrovertible evidence Read More

The Boston Strangler

Actors: Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, George Kennedy, Mike Kellin, Hurd Hatfield

Synopsis: The Boston Strangler adopts the split-screen technique then in vogue (see also The Thomas Crown Affair) to relate the true story of self-confessed mass murderer Albert DeSalvo. Adapted by Edward Anhalt from the book by Gerold Frank, the film covers the years 1962 to 1964, during which time a dozen Read More

Firecreek

Actors: James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Ed Begley, Sr., James Best, Brooke Bundy, Harry "Slim" Duncan, Jack Elam, Gary Lockwood

Synopsis: Jimmy Stewart and Henry Fonda headline this western in which an old lawman (Stewart) attempts to keep his town safe from a band of recent returnees from the Missouri range wars and their villainous leader (Fonda), who threaten to destroy it with their drunken revelry. The old sheriff usually Read More

Yours, Mine and Ours

Actors: Lucille Ball, Henry Fonda, Van Johnson, Tom Bosley, Louise Troy

Synopsis: This story is taken from the real-life marriage of two people in the early 1960s. Helen North (Lucille Ball) is a widow with eight children who falls in love with Naval officer Frank Beardsley (Henry Fonda), a widower with ten children of his own. The two marry as comedy ensues from the sheer Read More

Welcome to Hard Times

Actors: Henry Fonda, Janice Rule, Keenan Wynn, Janis Paige, John Anderson, Warren Oates

Synopsis: Long before he scored with the epic Ragtime, novelist E.L. Doctorow wrote a minor novel upon which this stark 1967 film i