Henry Fonda Picks His Favourite Henry Fonda Movies | The Dick Cavett Show

Dick Cavett interviews Oscar winner Henry Fonda about which of his own movies he would pick if he could only save four as well as the recent Oscar success of his daughter, Jane Fonda.

Date aired - April 19th 1972 - Henry Fonda


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[TheDickCavettShow]

What's your favourite Henry Fonda movie?

[bluevictory]

Once Upon a Time in The West is one of Fonda's best, very convincing as the villain! 👍🙌

[hellcat]

Once Upon A Time in the West and 12 Angry Men are classics!

[gauravj]

His performance in The Grapes Of Wrath, 12 Angry Men and The Golden Pond are always my favorites.

[joepalooka]

"Once Upon A Time In The West" and "There Was A Crooked Man" are without doubt two of the greatest performances Henry Fonda ever did.

[JSB]

I don't think Henry Fonda ever did a bad acting job in anything. Him and Spencer Tracy were the best for me.

[buckroo]

I actually liked him in John Ford’s “My Darling Clementine” . It might not be historically correct, but one of the best westerns in my opinion!

[thunderstruck]

Once upon a time in the west
One of my favorites because he played such a great bad guy so well

[margeshilling]

His Tom Joad in "The Grapes of Wrath" is my favorite performance. The final scene he has with Jane Darwell just tears my heart out. Actors today aren't fit to shine his shoes.

[thomasw]

He got a rare chance to be hilarious in The Lady Eve and he delivered wonderfully. Also loved him in Darling Clementine.

[abcdef]

I'm so glad you're uploading all these old interviews.

[davidallen]

From youth to old age, Henry Fonda was an amazingly good looking man.

[GoreVidalComicbooks]

If you watch "Advice and Consent, " "The Best Man, " and "Fail-Safe" back to back, and imagine that Fonda is playing the same character on the road to the Presidency, it's a fascinating trilogy and be careful what you wish for, as President "Fonda" discovered in "Fail-Safe."

[newgmodo]

What an effortlessly debonair man! They don’t make ‘em like him anymore!!

[douglasolsen]

Though Fonda panned Mr. Roberts, that has always been a favorite of mine for a number of reasons. Though it starred Fonda, the rest of the cast was tremendous in it. I have shown it to several younger friends who were totally unfamiliar with it, but who had served in the Navy aboard ships. They all told me it was one of the few films that very accurately captured the essence of Navy shipboard life. That aspect of the film was something I was not aware of.

[Carbonara]

I first became aware of Henry Fonda when he starred in a one-year and off TV show called "The Smith Family" which co-starred Ron Howard. 1971 I think. Loved it.

[HawklordLI]

'The Oxbow Incident' my favorite Fonda movie by far.

[Vanguardsman]

Cavett never uses 4 words when 10 will do.

[Vingul]

Thought the title was going to read «Henry Fonda Picks Blueberries». Disappointed. Who wouldn’t like to watch Henry Fonda pick blueberries?

[gohithsrivatsa]

This generation needs actors like him.