TopTenREVIEWS presents the film career and movie reviews of Peter Fonda.
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Birthdate: February 23, 1940
Peter Fonda
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1960s
2.4622
7
1970s
1.7982
15
1980s
1.1711
7
1990s
2.4174
17
2000s
2.1744
14
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
2.5702
2.5702
Peter Fonda Movie Rankings
1
3.3410After scoring cocaine in Mexico, then re-selling it in California, two free spirited bikers set off on a trek from Los Angeles to New Orleans for Mardi Gras then on to Florida to retire. ...more about Easy Rider
DVD from $3.95
(15 sellers)
2
3.1201A small-time rancher agrees to hold a captured outlaw who's awaiting a train to go to court in Yuma. A battle of wills ensues as the outlaw tries to psych out the rancher. ...more about 3:10 to Yuma
DVD from $7.95
(15 sellers)
3
3.0732Ulee is called one day by his incarcerated son Jimmy asking for a favor. Jimmy will repay his debts if they save his wife, Helen, from hoodlums. Ulee must now risk the lives of he and his family to save Helen. ...more about Ulee's Gold
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
- Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actor
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
- New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor
- Online Film Critics Society Awards - Best Actor
- Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
- Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actor
DVD from $6.39
(9 sellers)
4
2.9590
An ex-con (Terence Stamp), fresh out of prison, goes to L.A. to try to learn who murdered his daughter. However, he quickly finds that he is completely out of place with no understanding of the culture he finds. ...more about Limey
DVD from $6.39
(12 sellers)
7
2.7747
The year is 2013 and Snake Plissken is back from Escape From New York. An earthquake has separated Los Angeles from the mainland. ...more about Escape from L.A.
DVD from $3.90
(12 sellers)
8
2.7581
Riveting tale about an aspiring singer, Edna Buxton (Denise Waverly) wonderfully played by Illeana Douglas, who sacrifices her own singing career to write hit songs that launch the careers of other singers. ...more about Grace of My Heart
DVD from $3.92
(10 sellers)
9
2.7048
'Moisés Kaufman' (qv) and members of New York's Tectonic Theater Project went to Laramie, Wyoming after the murder of 'Matthew Shepard (I)' (qv). This is a film version of the play they wrote based on more than 200 interviews they conducted in Laramie. ...more about Laramie Project
DVD from $9.48
(10 sellers)
10
2.6173
This ultra-hip, post-modern vampire tale is set in contemporary New York City. Members of a dysfunctional family of vampires are trying to come to terms with each other, in the wake of their father's death. Meanwhile, they are being hunted by Dr. ...more about Nadja
- Not Available on DVD
11
2.5471
Harry Collings returns home to his farm after drifting with his friend, Arch. His wife, who had given up on him, reluctantly allows him to stay, and soon believes that all will be well again. ...more about Hired Hand
- Not Available on DVD
12
2.5329
Nick is a feckless television salesman who gets fired and impulsively decides that he and his girlfriend, Beth, will move to Butte, MT, which he's read is "the city of the future. ...more about Bodies
DVD from $3.29
(10 sellers)
13
2.3640
"The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things" is based on JT Leroy's critically acclaimed novel of the same name. ...more about Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
- Not Available on DVD
14
2.3411
A wild, illegal, and popular cross-country car is organized, and the eccentric entrants will do anything to win, including low-down, dirty tricks. ...more about Cannonball Run
DVD from $5.57
(11 sellers)
15
2.1984
Mary and Larry are two lovers who, with Larry's ace mechanic, kidnap the daughter of a grocery story owner, and make off with the ransom. ...more about Dirty Mary Crazy Larry
DVD from $6.06
(9 sellers)
16
2.1425
Mr. Conductor's supply of magic gold dust, which allows him to travel between Shining Time and Thomas's island, is critically low. Unfortunately, he doesn't know how to get more. Meanwhile, Thomas is fending off attacks by the nasty diesel engines. ...more about Thomas and the Magic Railroad
DVD from $3.92
(12 sellers)
17
2.1064
Watty has made a living out of robbing convenience stores, but after one of these job turned into murder by his partner, the psychopath Billy Mack, he is on the run with his fiancé Starlene and with both Billy Mack, the police and some loansharks on his ...more about Love and a .45
DVD from $9.99
(11 sellers)
18
2.0948
A film shoot in Peru goes badly wrong when an actor is killed in a stunt, and the unit wrangler, Kansas, decides to give up film-making and stay on in the village, shacking up with local prostitute Maria. ...more about Last Movie
- Not Available on DVD
19
2.0695
Stunt performer Johnny Blaze agrees to sell his soul to the underworld to save the man who was like a father to him. In exchange he is forced to walk the night as Ghost Rider, an agent of vengeance and justice. ...more about Ghost Rider
DVD from $21.99
(13 sellers)
20
2.0316
Lilith is a about a mysterious young woman in an elite sanitarium in New England, who seems to weave a magical spell all around her. A restless, but sincere young man with an equally obscure past is seemingly drawn into her web. ...more about Lilith
DVD from $10.23
(8 sellers)
21
1.9794
A film director (Adam Rifkin) decides to chart the course of a young actor (Tony Markes) as he tries to make it in Hollywood. Attempts to get him noticed and placed in roles meet with failure. ...more about Welcome to Hollywood
DVD from $5.77
(4 sellers)
22
1.9190
Peter Fonda is a commercial director going through a bitter divorce, so he decides to take an LSD trip to get in better touch with himself and his feelings. ...more about Trip
- Not Available on DVD
23
1.8165
Based on JT Leroy's novel of the same name, this is the story of Jeremiah, a child who is pulled from his foster home and thrown into a troubled life on the road with his teenage mother Sarah. ...more about Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
DVD from $15.85
(8 sellers)
24
1.7121
Valentine Casey is a Marshal in the desolate Tucson territory of the early 1900's. On Christmas Eve, his outlaw family pays him a disturbing visit. He must confront the sins of his past. He and his partner, U.S. ...more about South of Heaven
DVD from $9.99
(4 sellers)
25
1.7030
During a shooting in court young prostitute Scarlet manages to flee. In a state of confusion, the black Tracy, who was arrested for a minor delict, follows her. When she decides to leave Scarlett, an accident makes it impossible. ...more about Certain Fury
- Not Available on DVD
26
1.7009
Frank and Roger and their wives take off for Colorado in a recreational vehicle, looking forward to some skiing and dirt biking. ...more about Race with the Devil
DVD from $6.06
(8 sellers)
27
1.6666
After he accidentally kills his father, Mike, during a sting, Joe tries to carry out Mike's dying wish by recovering valuables that Mike's twin brother Lou stole from him years earlier. ...more about Deadfall
DVD from $5.75
(10 sellers)
29
1.5852
Three Vietnam vets have become so conditioned to violence that they have developed psychotic tendencies. They kidnap people, brutalize them, then turn them loose and hunt them like animals. ...more about Open Season
- Not Available on DVD
31
1.5581
A tough guy named Tommy Gunn, with "kaos" tattooed on his neck, a beautiful blond named Crystal Ball who's struck by a car and can't remember her past, a sadistic scalpel-wielding mobster in Cleveland, a balding schmuck gambling in Las Vegas, a reclusive ...more about Second Skin
DVD from $9.59
(5 sellers)
32
1.4079
In a small, dying town, the residents' faith is tested when a statue of Jesus seems to be shedding real tears of blood. ...more about Maldonado Miracle
DVD from $9.59
(6 sellers)
33
1.3893
'Blues' is the leader of a gang of Hell's Angels. His friend, 'The Loser', has lost his 'cycle but when he takes one from the police he is shot. 'Blues' and the gang spring 'The Loser' from hospital but he dies. ...more about Wild Angels
DVD from $9.59
(9 sellers)
34
1.3377
A gigantic serpent is captured on a remote island and shipped to an American college for experimentation. ...more about Spasms
- Not Available on DVD
36
1.1522
The philosopher and novelist Ayn Rand engaged in an affair with a psychologist 25 years her junior by the name of Nathaniel Branden. Branden built up an institute to spread Rand's ideas, but the two eventually had a falling out. ...more about Passion of Ayn Rand
Actor Awards
- Emmy Awards - Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV
- Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
DVD from $7.12
(4 sellers)
37
1.0191
Two reporters, Tracz and Chuck, get a message from a third one who discovered something about "Futureworld" and becomes killed before he could tell anyone about it. They visit Futureworld to find out what he knew. ...more about Futureworld
- Not Available on DVD
38
0.1789
Head of company security, Harry Webb, fears that a diamond theft is about to take place at their major mining complex deep in the desert. ...more about Killer Force
- Not Available on DVD
44
An orphaned boy who lives near a freeway rest stop in Milan tries to steal from a tourist bus, hides under a seat and inadvertently travels to Switzerland. There he helps a suicidal American magician and his girlfriend escape a gang of mobsters. ...more about Family Express
- Not Available on DVD
45
A CIA agent posing as a journalist assassinates a North Vietnamese official, then escapes into the jungle, where he comes across a beautiful female spy. ...more about Fatal Mission
- Not Available on DVD
48
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Peter Fonda host an examination of the history of decency standards for movies, starting in 1922 with the hiring of Will Hays. ...more about Hollywood Uncensored
- Not Available on DVD
49
The president of an African country wants to boost his economy with a new dam. He ignores the protests of the tribes in the flooded region, so they declare rebellion. ...more about Mercenary Fighters
- Not Available on DVD
50
Molly is the former secretary of a murdered private detective. Gina, a budding actress, witnessed the shooting which also killed her boyfriend. Together, they set out to bring the culprits to justice. ...more about Molly & Gina
- Not Available on DVD
55
Young man is sucked into an unnamed religious cult by beautiful girl and gets increasingly under the mind control of the cult leader. After his parents fail in their efforts to talk him out of it, they hire a guy who kidnaps and then de-programs him. ...more about Split Image
- Not Available on DVD
57
Romantic drama following the fortunes of a drifter named Beaudray Demerille (Peter Fonda) who wins a young orphan named Wanda (14 year old Brooke Shields) in a poker game and takes her gold prospecting in the Grand Canyon. ...more about Wanda Nevada
- Not Available on DVD
59
The young art student Eddie wants to live a life without troubles or responsibilities. He meets Pam and they fall in love. But happy-go-lucky Eddie declares that he won't marry her. Soon Pam is pregnant, and Eddie must face the problem... ...more about Young Lovers
- Not Available on DVD
60
Code name "Japan" is a contract killer on a job. Accustom to staying in hotels Japan find himself jet-lagged in the middle of the night and forced to eat in the hotel restaurant, room service is closed. There, he meets a man, Alfred. ...more about Japan
- Not Available on DVD
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