Henry Fonda

Born: 1905-05-16

Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982) was an American actor who had a career that spanned five decades in Hollywood. Fonda cultivated a strong, appealing screen image in several films now considered to be classics, earning one Academy Award for Best Actor on two nominations. Fonda made his mark early as a Broadway actor and made his Hollywood film debut in 1935. His film career began to gain momentum with roles such as Bette Davis's fiancee in her Academy Award-winning performance in Jezebel (1938), brother Frank in Jesse James (1939), and the future President in Young Mr. Lincoln (1939), directed by John Ford. His early career peaked with his Academy Award-nominated performance as Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath, about an Oklahoma family who moved to California during the Dust Bowl 1930s. This film is widely considered to be among the greatest American films. In 1941 he starred opposite Barbara Stanwyck in the screwball comedy classic The Lady Eve. Book-ending his service in WWII were his starring roles in two highly regarded westerns: The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) and My Darling Clementine (1946), the latter directed by John Ford, and he also starred in Ford's western Fort Apache (1948). After a seven-year break from films, during which Fonda focused on stage productions, he returned with the WWII war-boat ensemble Mister Roberts (1955). In 1957 he starred as Juror No.8, the hold-out juror, in 12 Angry Men. Fonda, who was also co-producer, won the BAFTA for Best Foreign Actor. Later in his career, Fonda moved into darker roles, such as the villain in the epic Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), underrated and a box office disappointment at its time of release, but now regarded as one of the best westerns of all time. He also played in lighter-hearted fare such as Yours, Mine and Ours with Lucille Ball, but also often played important military figures, such as a Colonel in Battle of the Bulge (1965), and Admiral Nimitz in Midway (1976). He finally won the Academy Award for Best Actor at the 54th Academy Awards for his final film role in On Golden Pond (1981), which also starred Katharine Hepburn and his daughter Jane Fonda, but was too ill to attend the ceremony. He died from heart disease a few months later. Description above from the Wikipedia article Henry Fonda, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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Once Upon a Time in the West

as Frank
Released: 1968-12-21

As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea,...

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as Juror 8
Released: 1957-04-10

The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide...

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Midway

as Adm. Chester W. Nimitz
Released: 1976-06-18

This war drama depicts the U.S. and Japanese forces in the naval Battle of Midway, which became...

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How the West Was Won

as Jethro Stuart
Released: 1962-11-02

The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to...

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as Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
Released: 1962-09-25

The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and...

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War and Peace

as Pierre Bezukhov
Released: 1956-08-21

Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia including his disastrous 1812 invasion serve as the...

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My Name Is Nobody

as Jack Beauregard
Released: 1973-12-13

Jack Beauregard, an ageing gunman of the Old West, only wants to retire in peace and move to...

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Yours, Mine and Ours

as Frank Beardsley
Released: 1968-04-24

When a widower with ten children marries a widow with eight, can the twenty of them ever come...

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The Grapes of Wrath

as Tom Joad
Released: 1940-03-15

Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm...

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Warlock

as Clay Blaisedell
Released: 1959-05-15

A band of murderous cowboys has imposed a reign of terror on the town of Warlock. With the...

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Rollercoaster

as Simon Davenport
Released: 1977-06-10

A young terrorist kills and injures patrons of a Norfolk amusement park by placing homemade...

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Battle of the Bulge

as Lt Col Kiley
Released: 1965-12-16

In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New...

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In Harm's Way

as CINCPAC II
Released: 1965-04-06

A naval officer reprimanded after Pearl Harbor is later promoted to rear admiral and gets a...

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On Golden Pond

as Norman Thayer Jr.
Released: 1981-12-04

For Norman and Ethel Thayer, this summer on golden pond is filled with conflict and resolution....

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Fail Safe

as The President
Released: 1964-10-07

Because of a technical defect an American bomber team mistakenly orders the destruction of...

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Meteor

as The President
Released: 1979-10-19

After a collision with a comet, a nearly 8km wide piece of the asteroid "Orpheus" is heading...

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There Was a Crooked Man...

as Woodward W. Lopeman
Released: 1970-09-18

Arizona Territorial Prison inmate Paris Pitman, Jr. is a schemer, a charmer, and quite popular...

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Jezebel

as Preston Dillard
Released: 1938-03-26

In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who...

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Too Late the Hero

as Capt. John G Nolan
Released: 1970-05-20

A WWII film set on a Pacific island. Japanese and allied forces occupy different parts of the...

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The Tin Star

as Morgan Hickman
Released: 1957-10-23

An experienced bounty hunter helps a young sheriff learn the meaning of his badge.

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Fort Apache

as Lt. Col. Owen Thursday
Released: 1948-06-14

Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military...

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The Wrong Man

as Manny Balestrero
Released: 1956-12-22

In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emmanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being...

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La Classe américaine

as Hugues (archive footage)
Released: 1993-12-31

George Abitbol, the classiest man in the world, dies tragically during a cruise. The director of...

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The Ox-Bow Incident

as Gil Carter
Released: 1943-03-11

A posse discovers a trio of men they suspect of murder and cow theft and are split between...

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My Darling Clementine

as Wyatt Earp
Released: 1946-10-17

Three brothers stop off for a night in the town of Tombstone. The next morning they find one of...

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You Only Live Once

as Eddie Taylor
Released: 1937-01-23

Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a...

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The Return of Frank James

as Frank James
Released: 1940-08-10

Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords.

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The Swarm

as Dr. Walter Krim
Released: 1978-07-14

Scientist Dr. Bradford Crane and army general Thalius Slater join forces to fight an almost...

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Jesse James

as Frank James
Released: 1939-01-14

After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank...

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Jane Fonda in Five Acts

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2018-01-21

Girl next door, activist, so-called traitor, fitness tycoon, Oscar winner: Jane Fonda has lived...

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Drums Along the Mohawk

as Gilbert Martin
Released: 1939-11-10

Albany, New York, 1776. After marrying, Gil and Lana travel north to settle on a small farm in...

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Sex and the Single Girl

as Frank Broderick
Released: 1964-12-25

A womanizing reporter for a sleazy tabloid magazine impersonates his hen-pecked neighbor in...

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The Boston Strangler

as John S. Bottomly
Released: 1968-10-08

Boston is being terrorized by a series of seemingly random murders of women. Based on the true...

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Advise & Consent

as Robert Leffingwell
Released: 1962-06-06

Proposed by the President of the United States to fill the post of Secretary of State, Robert...

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Sometimes a Great Notion

as Henry Stamper
Released: 1971-12-17

Hank Stamper and his father, Henry, own and operate the family business by cutting and shipping...

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Tentacles

as Mr. Whitehead
Released: 1977-02-25

Several people disappear from and at the sea. Their bodies are found gnawed to the skeleton,...

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Young Mr. Lincoln

as Abraham Lincoln
Released: 1939-06-09

In this dramatized account of his early law career in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln is born into a...

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Fedora

as President of the Academy
Released: 1978-06-29

An ambitious Hollywood hustler becomes involved with a reclusive female star, whom he tries to...

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Charles Bronson: The Spirit of Masculinity

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2020-11-29

With his grizzled moustache and chiselled features, Charles Bronson is the embodiment of a...

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The Lady Eve

as Charles Pike
Released: 1941-02-25

It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set...

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The Rounders

as Marion 'Howdy' Lewis
Released: 1965-01-08

Ben (Glenn Ford) and Marion (Henry Fonda) are two cowboys who make a meager living breaking wild...

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Mister Roberts

as Lieutenant Roberts
Released: 1955-07-10

Mr. Roberts is a Navy officer who's yearning for battle but is stuck in the backwaters of World...

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Daisy Kenyon

as Peter Lapham
Released: 1947-12-25

Daisy Kenyon is a Manhattan commercial artist having an affair with an arrogant and overbearing...

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Wanda Nevada

as Old Prospector
Released: 1979-06-01

In the American Southwest of the 1950s, middle-aged vagabond Beaudray Demerille survives as a...

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Spencer's Mountain

as Clay Spencer
Released: 1963-05-16

Clay Spencer and his wife, Olivia, live in a small town deep in the mountains. When Clay isn't...

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Bernice Bobs Her Hair

as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
Released: 1976-10-06

Bernice, a shy young woman, leaves her safe home to go visit her flapper cousin. When her cousin...

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A Big Hand for the Little Lady

as Meredith
Released: 1966-06-08

A naive traveler in Laredo gets involved in a poker game between the richest men in the area,...

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Madigan

as Commissioner Anthony X. Russell
Released: 1968-03-29

NYPD detectives Bonaro and Madigan lose their guns to fugitive Barney Benesch. As compensation,...

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The Cheyenne Social Club

as Harley Sullivan
Released: 1970-06-12

Two cowboys inherit a "social club" specializing in satisfying men.

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Firecreek

as Bob Larkin
Released: 1968-01-24

A peace-loving, part-time sheriff in the small town of Firecreek must take a stand when a gang...

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Directed by John Ford

as uncredited
Released: 1971-09-06

A documentary about the life and films of director John Ford.

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City on Fire

as Fire Chief Risley
Released: 1979-07-11

An ex-employee of a city oil refinery creates an explosion at the facility which starts a...

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The Big Street

as Agustus 'Little Pinks' Pinkerton, II
Released: 1942-08-13

Meek busboy Little Pinks is in love with an extremely selfish nightclub singer who despises and...

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The Last Four Days

as Kardinal Schuster
Released: 1974-03-27

In 1945, the dictator of fascist Italy and Hitler's close ally Benito Mussolini faces defeat. In...

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Jigsaw

as Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
Released: 1949-03-11

New York Assistant District Attorney Howard Malloy is working hard on investigation about a...

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The Biggest Battle

as Generale Foster
Released: 1978-02-07

A story of how World War II affected the lives of a German family and an American family, both...

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The Battle of Midway

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 1942-09-14

The Japanese attack on Midway in June 1942, filmed as it happened. Preserved by the Academy...

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The Trail of the Lonesome Pine

as Dave Tolliver
Released: 1936-03-13

A well-established tale of a long-running feud between two mountain clans.

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The Fugitive

as A Fugitive
Released: 1947-11-11

Anti-Catholic and anti-cleric policies in the Mexican state of Tabasco lead the revolutionary...

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The Story of Alexander Graham Bell

as Thomas Watson
Released: 1939-04-04

Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and...

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Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur

as Gen. Douglas MacArthur
Released: 1976-01-04

U.S. President Harry S Truman and his commander in the Korean War, General Douglas MacArthur,...

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The Best Man

as William Russell
Released: 1964-04-05

The other party is in disarray. Five men vie for the party nomination for president. No one has...

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You Belong to Me

as Peter Kirk
Released: 1941-10-22

A playboy marries a woman doctor then grows jealous of her male patients.

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Welcome to Hard Times

as Mayor Will Blue
Released: 1967-04-30

A sociopathic stranger all but destroys a small hardscrabble town but the 'mayor' convinces its...

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Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

as uncredited
Released: 1991-10-28

This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie...

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Tales of Manhattan

as George
Released: 1942-08-05

Ten screenwriters collaborated on this series of tales concerning the effect a tailcoat cursed...

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John Ford: The Man Who Invented America

as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Released: 2019-02-03

Over a 50-year career and more than a hundred movies, filmmaker John Ford (1894-1973) forged the...

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The Long Night

as Joe Adams
Released: 1947-05-28

City police surround a building, attempting to capture a suspected murderer. The suspect knows...

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Henry Fonda for President

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2025-01-30

A personal essay about the United States, viewed through the life and work of a movie actor....

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The Mad Miss Manton

as Peter Ames
Released: 1938-10-21

When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears,...

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The Dirty Game

as Dimitri Koulov
Released: 1965-06-23

A U.S. intelligence general recalls three Cold War cases of Soviet, French and Italian spies.

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The Great Smokey Roadblock

as Elegant John
Released: 1978-06-21

An old trucker steals his truck for one last cross-country run, with a madam and her crew on board.

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The Serpent

as Alan Davies
Released: 1973-04-07

Vlassov is a Soviet spy who defects in France. He is whisked to the U.S, where Allan Davies...

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Gideon's Trumpet

as Clarence Earl Gideon
Released: 1980-04-30

True story of Clarence Gideon's fight to be appointed counsel at the expense of the state. This...

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Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1997-05-12

Born Ruby Stevens, she was orphaned when she was four. A chance audition led to a chorus job. By...

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The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
Released: 1980-03-17

A mysterious stranger descends on the small town of Hadleyburg to teach its deceitful residents...

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The Alpha Caper

as Mark Forbes
Released: 1973-10-06

A parole officer forced into retirement gets together three ex-convicts to pull off a...

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Sacco and Vanzetti

as Prof. Tommy Turner (archive footage)
Released: 2006-04-06

SACCO AND VANZETTI is an 80-minute-long documentary that tells the story of Nicola Sacco and...

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The Oldest Living Graduate

as Col. J.C. Kincaid
Released: 1980-04-07

Henry Fonda stars as Col. J. C. Kincaid, crusty patriarch of a Texas family. Kincaid's...

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The Man Who Understood Women

as Willie Bauche
Released: 1959-10-02

A film director turns his actress wife into a star, leading to marital problems.

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The Male Animal

as Tommy Turner
Released: 1942-03-12

The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being...

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Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2020-03-06

An illuminating portrait of Jay Sebring — the long-forgotten artist, designer, and entrepreneur...

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The Jilting of Granny Weatherall

as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
Released: 1980-03-03

Granny Weatherall (Geraldine Fitzgerald) is a spunky old lady of eighty who bosses around her...

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Let Us Live

as "Brick" Tennant
Released: 1939-03-29

When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is...

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I Met My Love Again

as Ives Towner
Released: 1938-01-14

In Vermont, college student Ives Towner refuses to marry his longtime girlfriend, Julie Weir,...

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That Certain Woman

as Jack V. Merrick, Jr.
Released: 1937-08-30

A gangster's widow fights for love despite society's disapproval.

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An Opera of Violence

as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Released: 2003-11-18

First part of a three-part documentary series on the making of Once Upon a Time in the West,...

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On Our Merry Way

as Lank Solsky
Released: 1948-02-03

Oliver Pease gets a dose of courage from his wife Martha and tricks the editor of the paper...

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Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: 1974-04-11

The film's subject is a photograph of Jane Fonda visiting Hanoi during the Vietnam War. It asks...

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Stranger on the Run

as Ben Chamberlain
Released: 1967-10-31

A drifter finds himself wrongly accused of murder by a power-crazed sheriff. The sheriff gives...

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The Farmer Takes a Wife

as Dan Harrow
Released: 1935-07-05

A farmer tries to convince a girl to leave her life on a canal boat to live with him on his farm.

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Blockade

as Marco
Released: 1938-06-17

A simple peasant is forced to take up arms to defend his farm during the Spanish Civil War....

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Ash Wednesday

as Mark Sawyer
Released: 1973-11-01

Barbara gets secret plastic surgery in Switzerland in an attempt to save her marriage to Mark,...

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A Special Sesame Street Christmas

as Self
Released: 1978-12-08

Leslie Uggams hosts this take on A Christmas Carol, where she and fellow guest stars, Anne...

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Chad Hanna

as Chad Hanna
Released: 1940-12-25

Country boy joins a circus in the 1840s and falls in love with the bare-back rider. Later he...

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The Fondas: A Cinematic Dynasty

as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Released: 2023-08-13

The story of legendary actor Henry Fonda (1905-1982), and his children, Jane (1937) and Peter...

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The Fabulous Fifties

as Narrator (segment "Fifties Dead Sequence") (voice)
Released: 1960-01-22

The Fabulous Fifties, CBS, combines style, humor, and imagination. It was rich in touches of...

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Stiletto

as uncredited
Released: 1969-07-30

A rich, jet-setting playboy has a secret life: he's also a professional Mafia hitman. When he...

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The American West of John Ford

as Self - Narrator
Released: 1971-12-05

A documentary encapsulating the career and Western films of director 'John Ford' , including...

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I Dream Too Much

as Johnny Street
Released: 1935-11-29

Opera student Annette Monard meets composer Jonathan Street, and in a buoyant, alcohol-fueled...

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Slim

as Slim
Released: 1937-06-24

Expert lineman Red takes Farm-boy Slim under his wing and teaches him the dangerous, migratory...

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Rings on Her Fingers

as John Wheeler
Released: 1942-03-20

Susan Miller works behind the girdle counter in a department store and dreams about the...

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The Displaced Person

as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
Released: 1977-04-12

A conscientious but driven Polish refugee disrupts the hierarchy of power on a Georgia farm in...

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The Moon's Our Home

as Anthony Amberton / John Smith
Released: 1936-04-10

A writer and an actress meet and marry without really knowing each other--they are even unaware...

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The Magnificent Dope

as Thadeus Winship 'Tad' Page
Released: 1942-07-01

Dwight Dawson, who runs an unsuccessful success school, stages a contest to find the biggest...

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Hollywood: The Selznick Years

as Self - Narrator
Released: 1961-12-31

Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O....

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Let Poland Be Poland

as Self
Released: 1982-01-31

Broadcast live via satellite around the world on January 31, 1982, this special produced by the...

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The Red Pony

as Carl Tiflin
Released: 1973-03-17

A young farmboy who can't seem to communicate with his father develops an attachment to a young...

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Spanish Western

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2015-05-04

A vindication of the role of the technicians and artists who made spaghetti western genre...

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Breakdowns of 1938

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1938-12-31

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.

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John Ford & Monument Valley

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2013-03-05

John Wayne, Henry Fonda and James Stewart discuss working with John Ford

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Wings of the Morning

as Kerry Gilfallen
Released: 1937-02-19

A beautiful Gypsy girl falls in love with a horse trainer.

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Barn Burning

as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
Released: 1980-03-17

Ab Snopes (Tommy Lee Jones) is a Southern tenant farmer whose unrelenting and violent nature...

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Revisiting 'Fail-Safe'

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2000-10-31

Documentary featuring interviews with director Sidney Lumet, "Fail-Safe" (2000) producer George...

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The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1980-01-04

A look back at the people, events, music, and trends of the 1970s.

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The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1988-10-01

This documentary revisits the making of Gone with the Wind via archival footage, screen tests,...

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Spendthrift

as Townsend Middleton
Released: 1936-07-22

A profligate, polo-playing playboy (Henry Fonda) is married to a beautiful but superficial...

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The Sky Is Gray

as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
Released: 1980-01-01

From Ernest J. Gaines, author of "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman," comes a deceptively...

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Stage Struck

as Lewis Easton
Released: 1958-04-22

A young woman arrives in New York City determined to become a great theatrical star, but...

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I'm a Fool

as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
Released: 1977-04-05

Traveling from town to town during the summer of 1919, young Andy (Ron Howard) has left his Ohio...

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A Space to Grow

as Narrator
Released: 1968-01-01

A Space to Grow is a 1968 American short documentary film produced by Thomas P. Kelly Jr.. It...

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Way Down East

as David Bartlett
Released: 1935-10-25

A family living on a farm in Maine takes in a young woman to stay with them, not knowing that...

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Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To

as (archive footage)
Released: 1990-06-04

This tribute to Myrna Loy is organized chronologically with a few photographs, many film clips,...

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Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1991-07-15

Actress Sally Field looks at the dramatic life and successful career of the superb actress...

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It's Everybody's War

as Narrator
Released: 1942-09-06

Wartime documentary propagandizing for greater participation in the U.S. war effort during the...

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Going Hollywood: The '30s

as (archive footage)
Released: 1984-01-01

Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they...

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Home to Stay

as Grandpa George
Released: 1978-05-02

A teenage girl sets off on an odyssey from her Illinois farming community with her free-spirited...

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Hollywood and the Stars

as Self
Released: 1964-05-04

NBC's pioneering documentary series, produced by the David L. Wolper Production Company, in...

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Spawn of the North

as Jim Kimmerlee
Released: 1938-08-26

Two Alaskan salmon fisherman find their friendship at risk when one aligns with Russian fish...

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Wild Geese Calling

as John Murdock
Released: 1941-08-15

In the 1890s lumberjack John leaves Seattle for Alaska to look for gold. After he marries...

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Rappaccini's Daughter

as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
Released: 1980-01-01

Set in 18th Century Italy, RAPPACCINI'S DAUGHTER is the tale of a young scholar named Giovanni...

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The Blue Hotel

as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
Released: 1977-01-01

Nebraska in the 1880's: bleak, lonely, and far from what you'd expect The Wild West to be. But...

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Summer Solstice

as Joshua
Released: 1981-12-30

An old man lives out the final years of his half-century marriage by living and remembering.

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Benjy

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 1951-01-01

Benjy is a 1951 American short documentary film directed by Fred Zinnemann. It won an Oscar in...

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Guilt Trip: Hitchcock and 'The Wrong Man'

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2004-09-07

Documentary on the making of Alfred Hitchcock’s "The Wrong Man."

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The Petrified Forest

as Alan Squier
Released: 1955-05-30

Gabrielle Maple works in a dusty desert gas station-café, but yearns for the life of an artist...

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The Wages of Sin

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2003-11-18

Second part of a three-part documentary series on the making of Once Upon a Time in the West,...

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Soldier's Home

as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
Released: 1977-01-01

Harold Krebs went off to fight in World War I, "the war to end all wars." But when he comes...

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Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Making '12 Angry Men'

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2008-03-04

A making of featurette of 12 Angry Men made exclusively for the Collector's Edition DVD.

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Immortal Sergeant

as Corporal Colin Spence
Released: 1943-04-29

During WWII, a corporal in the desert reminisces about the love he left behind and faces...

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Pat Paulsen for President

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 1968-10-20

Before there were mockumentaries, there was this "Documentary/TV Movie" on the satirical 1968...

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Something to Do with Death

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2003-11-18

Third part of a three-part documentary series on the making of Once Upon a Time in the West,...

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Underground Doctors

as Self - Host
Released: 1977-01-01

Not that long ago, crippling diseases were blamed on evil demons. What's more, nowadays, healing...

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Paul's Case

as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
Released: 1980-02-11

Captures the essence of Willa Cather's haunting story of Pittsburgh circa 1900. Lost in a world...

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An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer

as John Steinbeck (voice)
Released: 1969-01-01

Oscar nominated documentary short from 1969

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'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2020-01-28

Film critic J. Hoberman discusses the best-selling 1962 novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey...

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The Greatest Man in the World

as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
Released: 1981-06-09

This version of James Thurber's tale tells the story of a young amateur pilot who beats Charles...

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Inside 'the Swarm'

as Self
Released: 1978-01-01

A behind-the-scenes/Making of documentary short focused on Irwin Allen's all-star disaster flick...

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The Golden Honeymoon

as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
Released: 1980-02-04

Charley Tate is an old windbag, often a braggart, but somehow always lovable. Married over fifty...

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Jezebel: Legend of the South

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2006-05-30

Short documentary about the making of the 1938 film "Jezebel."

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Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1997-03-18

Profiling the life and career of actor Henry Fonda, who starred in such film classics as "The...

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The Really Big Family

as Self - Narrator
Released: 1966-01-01

The Really Big Family is a 1966 American documentary film directed by Alexander Grasshoff about...

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President Kennedy's Birthday Salute

as Self
Released: 1962-05-19

President Kennedy's birthday celebration was held at the third Madison Square Garden on May 19,...

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Lillian Russell

as Alexander Moore
Released: 1940-05-24

Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.

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Hollywood: The Great Stars

as Self - Host
Released: 1963-02-20

Host Henry Fonda follows the creation of the star system with Mary Pickford in the Silent Era...

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Pictura

as Narrator: Grant Wood episode (voice)
Released: 1951-06-01

Pictura is a documentary film directed by seven famous directors, and narrated by several famous...

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Parkinson: Meet Henry Fonda

as Self
Released: 1975-11-01

Episode of the BBC television program with host Michael Parkinson interviewing American actor...

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Clarence Darrow

as Clarence Darrow
Released: 1974-09-04

The taped performance of Henry Fonda's one-man show was aired as "IBM Presents Clarence Darrow"...

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Hollywood: The Fabulous Era

as Narrator / Host
Released: 1962-11-28

Henry Fonda reminisces about the stars and pictures of the glory days of Tinseltown.

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The Mike Douglas Show

as Self
First aired: 1961-12-11

The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that...

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Tony Awards

as Self (archive footage)
First aired: 1956-04-01

The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award,...

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Tony Awards

as Self - Nominee
First aired: 1956-04-01

The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award,...

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Tony Awards

as Self - Host
First aired: 1956-04-01

The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award,...

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Tony Awards

as Self - Co-Host/Special Award Recipient
First aired: 1956-04-01

The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award,...

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Tony Awards

as Self - Presenter
First aired: 1956-04-01

The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award,...

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Tony Awards

as Self - Host / Presenter
First aired: 1956-04-01

The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award,...

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Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Cecil B. DeMille Award Recipient
First aired: 1944-01-20

An annual awards ceremony recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and...

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The Steve Allen Show

as Self - Guest
First aired: 1956-06-24

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The Merv Griffin Show

as Self
First aired: 1962-10-01

The Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran...

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The Doris Day Show

as Henry Fonda (uncredited)
First aired: 1968-09-24

The Doris Day Show is an American sitcom that was originally broadcast on the CBS network from...

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Family

as James Lawrence
First aired: 1976-03-09

The lives of the middle-class Lawrence family in Pasadena, California.

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What's My Line?

as Self - Mystery Guest
First aired: 1950-02-02

Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while...

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Spécial cinéma

as Self (archive footage)
First aired: 1974-09-25

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The Dick Cavett Show

as Self - Guest
First aired: 1968-06-06

The Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various...

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All in the Family

as Self
First aired: 1971-01-12

Archie Bunker, a working class bigot, constantly squabbles with his family over the important...

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The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self
First aired: 1948-06-20

The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June...

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Dinah!

as Self
First aired: 1974-10-21

Dinah's show premiered 9 September 1974 and continued through to 4 September 1981. She started...

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The Kennedy Center Honors

as Self
First aired: 1978-12-28

The Kennedy Center Honors is an annual honor given to those in the performing arts for their...

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The Deputy

as Marshal Simon Fry
First aired: 1959-09-12

The Deputy is an American western series that aired on NBC from September 1959, to July 1961....

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Roots: The Next Generations

as Col. Frederick Warner
First aired: 1979-02-18

Roots: The Next Generations is a television miniseries, introduced in 1979, continuing, from...

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The Bill Cosby Show

as Joshua Richards
First aired: 1969-09-14

The Bill Cosby Show is an American situation comedy that aired for two seasons on NBC's Sunday...

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The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts

as Self
First aired: 1973-09-14

The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts is a NBC television special show hosted by entertainer Dean...

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The American Film Institute Salute to ...

as Self
First aired: 1973-04-02

In 1973 the American Film Institute initiated its Life Achievement Award, to be presented to a...

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Captains and the Kings

as Sen. Enfield Bassett
First aired: 1976-09-30

Rags-to-riches tale of an Irish immigrant in late 1800s based on the novel by Taylor Caldwell.

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Cadet Rousselle

as Self
First aired: 1971-11-04

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Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Clarence Earl Gideon
First aired: 1951-12-24

Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark...

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The Smith Family

as Chad Smith
First aired: 1971-01-20

The Smith Family is an American comedy-drama television series produced by Don Fedderson...

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The Star and the Story

as Self - Host
First aired: 1955-01-08

Each show features a different star or stars in this dramatic anthology produced by the...

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General Electric Theater

as Emmett Kelly
First aired: 1953-02-01

General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was...

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The World About Us

as Narrator
First aired: 1967-12-03

A series of films from all over the world about our astonishing planet and the creatures that...

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