Acting

2023		AFI Life Achievement Award: 50th Anniversary Special as Self (archive footage)
2023		The Fondas: A Cinematic Dynasty as Self - Actor (archive footage)

2020		Charles Bronson: The Spirit of Masculinity as Self (archive footage)
2020		Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth as Self (archive footage)
2020		'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War as Self (archive footage)

2019

as Self - Actor (archive footage)

2018

as Self (archive footage)

2015

as Self (archive footage)

2013

as Self (archive footage)

2008

as Self (archive footage)

2006		Jezebel: Legend of the South as Self (archive footage)
2006		Sacco and Vanzetti as Prof. Tommy Turner (archive footage)

2004

as Self (archive footage)

2003		Something to Do with Death as Self (archive footage)
2003		The Wages of Sin as Self (archive footage)
2003		An Opera of Violence as Self - Actor (archive footage)

2000

as Self (archive footage)

1997		Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line as Self (archive footage)
1997		Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero as Self (archive footage)

1993

as Hugues (archive footage)

1992

as Self (archive footage)

1991		Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991		Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire as Self (archive footage)

1990

as (archive footage)

1988

as Self (archive footage)

1984

as (archive footage)

1982

as Self

1981		Summer Solstice as Joshua
1981		On Golden Pond as Norman Thayer Jr.
1981		The Greatest Man in the World as Self - Series Host (uncredited)

1980		Gideon's Trumpet as Clarence Earl Gideon
1980		The Oldest Living Graduate as Col. J.C. Kincaid
1980		Barn Burning as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
1980		The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
1980		The Jilting of Granny Weatherall as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
1980		Paul's Case as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
1980		The Golden Honeymoon as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
1980		The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's as Self (archive footage)
1980		The Sky Is Gray as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
1980		Rappaccini's Daughter as Self - Series Host (uncredited)

1979		Meteor as The President
1979		City on Fire as Fire Chief Risley
1979		The Man Who Loved Bears as Self
1979		Wanda Nevada as Old Prospector
1979		Roots: The Next Generations (7 episodes) as Col. Frederick Warner

1978		The Kennedy Center Honors (1 episode) as Self
1978		A Special Sesame Street Christmas as Self
1978		The Swarm as Dr. Walter Krim
1978		Fedora as President of the Academy
1978		The Great Smokey Roadblock as Elegant John
1978		Home to Stay as Grandpa George
1978		The Biggest Battle as Generale Foster
1978		Inside 'the Swarm' as Self

1977		Laugh-In (1 episode) as Guest Performer
1977		Rollercoaster as Simon Davenport
1977		The Displaced Person as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
1977		I'm a Fool as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
1977		Tentacles as Mr. Whitehead
1977		Soldier's Home as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
1977		The Blue Hotel as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
1977		Underground Doctors as Self - Host

1976		Bernice Bobs Her Hair as Self - Series Host (uncredited)
1976		Captains and the Kings (8 episodes) as Sen. Enfield Bassett
1976		Midway as Adm. Chester W. Nimitz
1976		Family (1 episode) as James Lawrence
1976		Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur as Gen. Douglas MacArthur

1975

as Self

1974		Dinah! (1 episode) as Self
1974		Spécial cinéma (1 episode) as Self (archive footage)
1974		Clarence Darrow as Clarence Darrow
1974		The Last Four Days as Kardinal Schuster

1973		My Name Is Nobody as Jack Beauregard
1973		Ash Wednesday as Mark Sawyer
1973		The Alpha Caper as Mark Forbes
1973		The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts (1 episode) as Self
1973		The Serpent as Alan Davies
1973		The American Film Institute Salute to ... (4 episodes) as Self
1973		The Red Pony as Carl Tiflin

1971		Sometimes a Great Notion as Henry Stamper
1971		The American West of John Ford as Self - Narrator
1971		Cadet Rousselle (1 episode) as Self
1971		Directed by John Ford
1971		V.I.P. Schaukel (1 episode) as Self
1971		The Smith Family (39 episodes) as Chad Smith
1971		All in the Family (2 episodes) as Self

1970		There Was a Crooked Man... as Woodward W. Lopeman
1970		The Cheyenne Social Club as Harley Sullivan
1970		Too Late the Hero as Capt. John G Nolan

1969		The Bill Cosby Show (1 episode) as Joshua Richards
1969		Stiletto
1969		An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer as John Steinbeck (voice)

1968		Once Upon a Time in the West as Frank
1968		Pat Paulsen for President as Narrator (voice)
1968		The Boston Strangler as John S. Bottomly
1968		The Doris Day Show (1 episode) as Henry Fonda (uncredited)
1968		The Dick Cavett Show (3 episodes) as Self - Guest
1968		Yours, Mine and Ours as Frank Beardsley
1968		Madigan as Commissioner Anthony X. Russell
1968		Firecreek as Bob Larkin
1968		A Space to Grow as Narrator

1967		The World About Us (1 episode) as Narrator
1967		Stranger on the Run as Ben Chamberlain
1967		Welcome to Hard Times as Mayor Will Blue

1966		To Save a Soldier as Narrator (voice)
1966		Born to Buck as Narrator
1966		A Big Hand for the Little Lady as Meredith
1966		The Really Big Family as Self - Narrator

1965		Battle of the Bulge as Lt Col Kiley
1965		The Dirty Game as Dimitri Koulov
1965		In Harm's Way as CINCPAC II
1965		The Rounders as Marion 'Howdy' Lewis

1964		Sex and the Single Girl as Frank Broderick
1964		Fail Safe as The President
1964		Hollywood and the Stars as Self
1964		The Best Man as William Russell

1963		Spencer's Mountain as Clay Spencer
1963		Hollywood: The Great Stars as Self - Host

1962		Hollywood: The Fabulous Era as Narrator / Host
1962		How the West Was Won as Jethro Stuart
1962		The Merv Griffin Show (1 episode) as Self
1962		The Longest Day as Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt jr.
1962		Advise & Consent as Robert Leffingwell
1962		President Kennedy's Birthday Salute as Self

1961		Hollywood: The Selznick Years as Self - Narrator
1961		The Mike Douglas Show (1 episode) as Self

1960

as Narrator (segment "Fifties Dead Sequence") (voice)

1959		The Man Who Understood Women as Willie Bauche
1959		The Deputy (76 episodes) as Marshal Simon Fry
1959		Warlock as Clay Blaisedell
1959		The Bell Telephone Hour (116 episodes) as Self - Host

1958

as Lewis Easton

1957		The Tin Star as Morgan Hickman
1957		12 Angry Men as Juror 8

1956		The Wrong Man as Manny Balestrero
1956		War and Peace as Pierre Bezukhov
1956		The Steve Allen Show (2 episodes) as Self - Guest
1956		Tony Awards (1 episode) as Self - Co-Host/Special Award Recipient (1 episode) as Self - Host (1 episode) as Self - Nominee (1 episode) as Self (archive footage) (2 episodes) as Self - Presenter (2 episodes) as Self - Host / Presenter

1955		Mister Roberts as Lieutenant Roberts
1955		The Petrified Forest as Alan Squier
1955		The Star and the Story (38 episodes) as Self - Host

1953

(1 episode) as Emmett Kelly

1952

as Narrator (voice)

1951		Hallmark Hall of Fame (1 episode) as Clarence Earl Gideon
1951		Pictura as Narrator: Grant Wood episode (voice)
1951		Benjy as Narrator (voice)

1950

(4 episodes) as Self - Mystery Guest

1949

1948		The Ed Sullivan Show (1 episode) as Actor - Dramatic Reading (2 episodes) as Self (archive footage) (5 episodes) as Self
1948		Fort Apache as Lt. Col. Owen Thursday
1948		On Our Merry Way as Lank Solsky

1947		Daisy Kenyon as Peter Lapham
1947		The Fugitive as A Fugitive
1947		The Long Night as Joe Adams

1946

as Wyatt Earp

1943		Immortal Sergeant as Corporal Colin Spence
1943		The Ox-Bow Incident as Gil Carter

1942		The Battle of Midway as Narrator (voice)
1942		It's Everybody's War as Narrator
1942		The Big Street as Agustus 'Little Pinks' Pinkerton, II
1942		Tales of Manhattan as George
1942		The Magnificent Dope as Thadeus Winship 'Tad' Page
1942		Rings on Her Fingers as John Wheeler
1942		The Male Animal as Tommy Turner

1941		You Belong to Me as Peter Kirk
1941		Wild Geese Calling as John Murdock
1941		The Lady Eve as Charles Pike

1940		Chad Hanna as Chad Hanna
1940		The Return of Frank James as Frank James
1940		Lillian Russell as Alexander Moore
1940		The Grapes of Wrath as Tom Joad

1939		Drums Along the Mohawk as Gilbert Martin
1939		Young Mr. Lincoln as Abraham Lincoln
1939		The Story of Alexander Graham Bell as Thomas Watson
1939		Let Us Live as "Brick" Tennant
1939		Jesse James as Frank James

1938		Breakdowns of 1938 as Self (archive footage)
1938		The Mad Miss Manton as Peter Ames
1938		Spawn of the North as Jim Kimmerlee
1938		Blockade as Marco
1938		Jezebel as Preston Dillard
1938		I Met My Love Again as Ives Towner

1937		That Certain Woman as Jack V. Merrick, Jr.
1937		Slim as Slim
1937		Wings of the Morning as Kerry Gilfallen
1937		You Only Live Once as Eddie Taylor

1936		Spendthrift as Townsend Middleton
1936		The Moon's Our Home as Anthony Amberton / John Smith
1936		The Trail of the Lonesome Pine as Dave Tolliver

1935		I Dream Too Much as Johnny Street
1935		Way Down East as David Bartlett
1935		The Farmer Takes a Wife as Dan Harrow