TopTenREVIEWS presents the film career and movie reviews of Henry Fonda.
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Birthdate: May 16, 1905
Death date: August 12, 1982
Henry Fonda
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1930s
3.2590
20
1940s
3.0956
20
1950s
2.6720
9
1960s
2.7423
19
1970s
2.1230
17
1980s
1.9383
1
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
3.1043
3.1043
Henry Fonda Movie Rankings
1
3.9683The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. ...more about 12 Angry Men
Actor Awards
- BAFTA Awards - Best Foreign Actor
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama
- Jussi Awards - Foreign Actor
DVD from $10.20
(5 sellers)
2
3.6805Based on the John Steinbeck novel, Tom Joad (Henry Fonda) is a man just released from prison, but when he returns home to his family farm, he finds it deserted. It seems the depression and the drought has forced the farmers to find greener pastures. ...more about Grapes of Wrath
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
DVD from $6.34
(14 sellers)
3
3.2509Manny Ballestero 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 borrow on her policy. ...more about Wrong Man
DVD from $8.63
(14 sellers)
4
3.1919
A mysterious stranger with a harmonica joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad in this long frontier epic. ...more about Once Upon A Time In The West
DVD from $2.10
(16 sellers)
5
3.0315
Returning from a year up the Amazon studying snakes, the rich but unsophisticated Charles Pike meets con-artist Jean Harrington on a ship. They fall in love, but a misunderstanding causes them to split on bad terms. ...more about Lady Eve
DVD from $23.99
(15 sellers)
6
3.0260
Tells the story of the D-Day invasion of Normandy in WWII. There are dozens of characters, some seen only briefly, who together weave the story of five separate invasion points that made up the operation. ...more about Longest Day
DVD from $7.26
(13 sellers)
7
3.0181
A local farmer has been killed and his cattle stolen. The towns people ban together to catch the murdering thief. A couple of traveling cowboys get wrapped up in the comotion and join the mob hoping to serve justice. ...more about Ox-Bow Incident
DVD from $4.86
(11 sellers)
8
2.9938
Mister Roberts is aboard a US cargo ship, working in the Pacific during the Second World War. He'd do anything to leave the quiet of the ship to join in the "action". ...more about Mister Roberts
DVD from $10.89
(13 sellers)
9
2.9742
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. ...more about Jezebel
DVD from $12.71
(12 sellers)
10
2.9519
Policemen Bennaro and Madigan lose their guns to fugitive Barney Benesch. As compensation, the two NYC detectives are given a weekend to bring Benesch to justice. ...more about Madigan
DVD from $3.92
(11 sellers)
11
2.9463
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 to claim the military honour which he believes is rightfully his. ...more about Fort Apache
DVD from $11.52
(2 sellers)
12
2.9249
Ten years in the life of Abraham Lincoln, before he became known to his nation and the world. He moves from a Kentucky cabin to Springfield, Illinois, to begin his law practice. ...more about Young Mr. Lincoln
DVD from $24.99
(8 sellers)
13
2.9207
Before the Revolutionary War farmer Martin brings bride Magdelana the Mohawk Valley where they are burned out by Indians. Neighbors take them in and Martin joins the militia to fight the Indians. ...more about Drums Along the Mohawk
DVD from $6.88
(12 sellers)
14
2.9206
Wyatt Earp and his brothers move to Tombstone to live the lives of quiet farmers, but when a band of outlaws kills their youngest brother, Earp and his siblings acquire the sheriff's badge and promise to hold them accountable for their actions. All this leads up to the famous shootout at the O.K. ...more about My Darling Clementine
DVD from $4.86
(11 sellers)
15
2.8636
In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent this occurrence, Hitler orders an all out offensive to re-take French territory and capture the major port city of Antwerp. ...more about Battle of the Bulge
DVD from $4.60
(14 sellers)
16
2.8579
Killer bees from South America have been breeding with the gentler bees of more northern climes, slowly extending their territory northward decade after decade. ...more about Swarm
DVD from $5.98
(9 sellers)
17
2.8469
An actor, Paul Orman, is accidentally told that his new, custom made tail coat has been cursed and it will bring misfortune to all who wear it. As the 4 succeeding wearers of the coat discover, misfortune can often lead to truth. ...more about Tales of Manhattan
- Not Available on DVD
18
2.8439
The loons are back again on Golden Pond and so are Norman Thayer, a retired professor, and Ethel who have had a summer cottage there since early in their marriage. ...more about On Golden Pond
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
- American Movie Awards - Best Actor
- BAFTA Awards - Best Actor
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama
- National Board of Review, USA - Best Actor
DVD from $7.14
(15 sellers)
19
2.8409
The summer of 1942 brought Naval stalemate to the Pacific as the American and Japanese fleets stood at even numbers each waiting for the other to begin a renewed offensive. ...more about Midway
DVD from $5.95
(11 sellers)
20
2.8268
Boston is being terrorized by a series of seemingly random murders of women. Based on the true story, the film follows the investigators path through several leads before introducing the Strangler as a character. ...more about Boston Strangler
DVD from $4.11
(12 sellers)
21
2.7650
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 beyond their fail safe distance. ...more about Fail-Safe
DVD from $13.34
(12 sellers)
22
2.7213
Little Pinks is in love with a nightclub singer named Gloria. But it is a unrequited love as she does not know that he exists. Pinks is a shy busboy and Gloria only goes out with men who are loaded. ...more about Big Street
- Not Available on DVD
23
2.7126
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. ...more about Advise & Consent
DVD from $8.00
(12 sellers)
24
2.6574
The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists. ...more about Male Animal
- Not Available on DVD
25
2.6556
Madcap debutante Melsa Manton finds a body in a deserted house. Of course, the police don't believe her. Stung by Peter Ames's front page editorial decrying her "prank," Melsa enlists seven fellow debs to help her investigate. ...more about Mad Miss Manton
- Not Available on DVD
26
2.6442
Veteran bounty-hunter Morg Hickman rides into a town in danger. The sheriff has been killed, and young inexperienced Ben Owens named a temporary replacement until a permanent can be found. ...more about Tin Star
DVD from $9.99
(3 sellers)
27
2.6164
When a widower with 10 children marries a widow with 8, can the 20 of them ever come together as one big happy family? From finding a house big enough for all of them and learning to make 18 school lunches, to coping with a son going off to war and an ...more about Yours
DVD from $5.91
(13 sellers)
28
2.6026
Dwight Dawson, who runs an unsuccessful success school, stages a contest to find the biggest failure in the USA, for publicity value when the "dope" takes his course. ...more about Magnificent Dope
- Not Available on DVD
29
2.5478
Joan is the secretary to the public defender in a large city. She is in love with a career criminal named Eddie, and she believes that he is a basically good person who just had some tough breaks. ...more about You Only Live Once
DVD from $14.06
(8 sellers)
30
2.5423
Based of the Graham Greene novel about a revolutionary priest in Central America. A priest who is The Fugitive is trying to getaway from the authorities who have denounced Christianity and want anyone linked to it dead. ...more about Fugitive
- Not Available on DVD
31
2.5204
Jonathan Street is a struggling composer when he meets and marries Annette. The problem is that Jonathan was drunk and does not want to be married. Annette does go with him to Paris and does the cooking and cleaning. ...more about I Dream Too Much
- Not Available on DVD
32
2.4748
Farmer slim joins a group of workers who are building power lines. Foreman Red teaches him all he needs and soon they become friends. ...more about Slim
- Not Available on DVD
33
2.4565
Two Alaskan salmon fishermen, Tyler Dawson (skipper of the "Who Cares") and Jim Kimmerlee of the "Old Reliable," are lifelong pals. Their romantic rivalry over young Dian ends amicably. ...more about Spawn of the North
- Not Available on DVD
34
2.4565
Mary Donnell was married at sixteen to a gangster and soon widowed. She works for unhappily married lawyer Lloyd Rogers. A client's son Jack elopes with her, but his father tracks them down and has the marriage annulled. Mary has a son. ...more about That Certain Woman
- Not Available on DVD
35
2.4563
Several people disappear from and at the sea. Their bodies are found gnawed to the skeleton, even the marrow is missing. The scientists have no idea which animal could do such things. Dr. ...more about Tentacles
DVD from $9.59
(6 sellers)
36
2.4519
Commercial artist Daisy Kenyon is involved with married lawyer Dan O'Mara, and hopes someday to marry him, if he ever divorces his wife Lucille. ...more about Daisy Kenyon
- Not Available on DVD
37
2.3260
Captain Rockwell Torrey and Commander Paul Eddington are part of the Navy's effort to recuperate from, and retaliate for, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. ...more about In Harm's Way
DVD from $3.90
(11 sellers)
38
2.2784
The railroads are squeezing farmers off their land. When a railroad agent kills their mother, Frank and Jesse James take up robbing banks and trains. The public regard them as heroes. ...more about Jesse James
DVD from $9.59
(12 sellers)
39
2.2533
The credits fade onto a blind man tapping his way down the sidewalk,he enters a dingy boarding house and hears a shot fired in one of the upstairs bedrooms. A door opens from audience POV. ...more about Long Night
DVD from $16.33
(9 sellers)
40
2.1450
The other party is in disarray. Five men vie for the party nomination for president. No one has a majority as the first ballot closes and the front-runners begin to decide how badly they want the job. ...more about Best Man
- Not Available on DVD
41
2.1393
John is working as a cow poke for very little money with his friend Harley when he gets word his brother, DJ, has left him The Cheyenne Social Club. ...more about Cheyenne Social Club
DVD from $12.71
(14 sellers)
42
2.1245
The history of Western expansion in the United States as told by the story of one pioneer family's history. Zebulon Prescott takes his family from New York, heading West in the early 1800s. ...more about How the West Was Won
DVD from $9.58
(5 sellers)
43
2.1095
Country boy (Fonda) joins a circus in the 1840s and falls in love with the bare-back rider (Lamour). Later he falls in love with another circus runaway (Darnell). ...more about Chad Hanna
- Not Available on DVD
44
2.0583
Fedora, an aging and reclusive film star, dies in Paris, struck by a train. At her funeral, a film producer thinks back over the past two weeks and the part he might have played in her death. ...more about Fedora
- Not Available on DVD
45
2.0547
Frank James sets out to find the men who killed his brother. When the killers are pardoned, he takes matters into his own hands. The reporter who hopes to tell his story winds up in love with him. ...more about Return of Frank James
DVD from $5.99
(12 sellers)
46
2.0099
Hank Stamper (Paul Newman) and his father, Henry Stamper (Henry Fonda) own and operate the family business by cutting and shipping logs in Oregon. ...more about Sometimes a Great Notion
- Not Available on DVD
47
1.9711
The town of Warlock is plagued by a gang of thugs, leading the inhabitants to hire Clay Blaisdell, a famous gunman, to act as marshal. ...more about Warlock
DVD from $6.88
(12 sellers)
49
1.9117
Charm, intelligence and succes in criminal career doesn't prevent Paris Pitman Jr. to start doing ten years in territory prison. However, those years should pass quickly because of an enormous loot previously stashed away. ...more about There Was a Crooked Man...
DVD from $8.68
(11 sellers)
50
1.9068
The folk of small western town Firecreek stand up for their rights after gunmen abuse them, leading to an extravagant final battle between good-guy Jimmy Stewart and bad-guy Henry Fonda. ...more about Firecreek
DVD from $12.71
(14 sellers)
51
1.9053
Using Helen Gurley Brown's book as a jump off point, we follow the adventures of a supermarket tabloid editor as he tries to parlay an interview with the author of the book into headlines and sales. Of course, a romantic entanglement ensues. ...more about Sex and the Single Girl
- Not Available on DVD
53
1.8884
A WWII film set on a Pacific island. Japanese and allied forces occupy different parts of the island. When a group of British soldiers are sent on a mission behind enemy lines, things don't go exactly to plan. ...more about Too Late the Hero
DVD from $5.31
(10 sellers)
54
1.7533
Out on patrol in the war-time desert a Canadian corporal reminisces about the woman he has left behind in London and ponders whether she will fall for the charms of his rival in love. ...more about Immortal Sergeant
DVD from $6.88
(11 sellers)
56
1.6332
The movie tells the story of Eva, a girl who comes to New York in order to become a great actress. With hard work she succeeds in working at a theatre and finally gets her chance on stage after a lot of changes and difficulties. ...more about Stage Struck
- Not Available on DVD
57
1.5798
A simple peasant is forced to take up arms to defend his farm during the Spanish Civil War. Along the way he falls in love with Russian whose father is involved in espionage. ...more about Blockade
DVD from $9.27
(8 sellers)
58
1.5441
William Dudley (Leslie Nielson) is a corrupt mayor of a nameless Midwestern U.S. city who has allowed a chemical refinery to be built right in the center of town, far from any river, lake or reservoir. ...more about City on Fire
- Not Available on DVD
59
1.5355
In the town of Hard Times, a stranger rides in and terrorizes the small settlement. He kills a number of townsfolk, including Fee, the town's founder. Mayor Will Blue fails to stand up to the man, who rapes saloon whore Molly and burns down the town. ...more about Welcome to Hard Times
- Not Available on DVD
60
1.5172
A naive couple and a child arrive to the town on the way to California to buy there a farm. There is a poker play between the richest men in the region. ...more about Big Hand for the Little Lady
- Not Available on DVD
61
1.2748
The plot is about a guile young terrorist who is able to blackmail a series of companies by placing home-made radio controlled bombs within the central attraction of amusement parks; roller coasters. ...more about Rollercoaster
DVD from $5.79
(11 sellers)
62
1.2519
Barbara gets secret plastic surgery in Switzerland in an attempt to save her marriage to Mark, but he doesn't seem interested in meeting her. She checks in to a ski resort to wait for Mark, and begins getting attention from young men. ...more about Ash Wednesday
- Not Available on DVD
63
0.8197
After a collision with a comet, a nearly 8km wide piece of the asteroid "Orpheus" is heading towards Earth. If it will hit it will cause a incredible catastrophe which will probably extinguish mankind. ...more about Meteor
DVD from $6.62
(12 sellers)
64
0.6379
Spruced up adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's epic novel about the life of a Russian family during the War of 1812. The historical and personal events are seen mostly through the eyes of Natasha, who is 16 years old at the start of the movie. ...more about War and Peace
DVD from $3.90
(11 sellers)
67
Charming love story set on the Erie Canal in the mid-19th Century. A farmer (Henry Fonda in his film debut) works on the canal to earn money to buy a farm. ...more about Farmer Takes a Wife
- Not Available on DVD
68
College sweethearts Julie and Ives have planned to marry as soon as school is over. Their plans go amiss when Julie meets a weak writer and runs off to marry him. After her husband dies, she's left in Paris, penniless and with a daughter to support. ...more about I Met My Love Again
- Not Available on DVD
70
Two innocent men are wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to death. The fiance of one of them convinces a police detective of their innocence, and together they try to find the real killer before the men's execution date. ...more about Let Us Live!
- Not Available on DVD
71
Life story of the musical star from her discovery in 1890 by bandleader Tony Pastor till her retirement in 1912 when she married newspaperman Alexander Moore. ...more about Lillian Russell
DVD from $7.45
(14 sellers)
75
Oliver Pease gets a dose of courage from his wife Martha and tricks the editor of the paper (where he writes lost pet notices) into assigning him the day's roving question. ...more about On Our Merry Way
DVD from $19.17
(10 sellers)
76
Susan Miller (Gene Tierney) works behind the girdle counter in a department store and dreams about the beautiful clothes and glamour she can never hope to have. ...more about Rings on Her Fingers
- Not Available on DVD
77
Ben and Howdy are a couple of aging cowboys who bust broncos out of Sedona for Jim Ed Love, a slick operator if ever there was one. Sisters, Meg and Agatha, have their eyes on Ben and Howdy, but the boys aren't ready to settle down yet. ...more about Rounders
- Not Available on DVD
78
Vlassov (Yul Brynner) is a Soviet spy. In France, Vlassov defects. He is whisked to the U.S.A., where Allan Davies (Henry Fonda) takes over the case. ...more about Night Flight from Moscow
DVD from $9.65
(7 sellers)
80
Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice. She urges him to put off thoughts of marriage until his experiments are complete. ...more about Story of Alexander Graham Bell
- Not Available on DVD
82
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
84
In the 1890s lumberjack John leaves Seattle for Alaska to look for gold. After he marries dancehall girl Sally, he finds she used to be in love with his best friend Blackie. ...more about Wild Geese Calling
- Not Available on DVD
85
1889. An Irish lord marries a beautiful gypsy but falls off his horse and dies. His family, who hates the gypsy, chase her out of home and she takes refuge in Spain. 1937. ...more about Wings of the Morning
DVD from $19.17
(7 sellers)
86
On a ski trip, rich, idle Peter Kirk pursues and falls (literally) for Helen Hunt, M.D. After a courtship of hypochondria, she agrees to marry him on the condition that she continue to practice medicine. ...more about You Belong to Me
- Not Available on DVD
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