Henry Fonda

  • Name: Henry Fonda
  • Date of Birth: May 16, 1905
  • Place of Birth: Grand Island, Nebraska, USA
Mini-bio: Born in Grand Island, Nebraska, Henry Fonda started his acting debut with the Omaha Community Playhouse, a local amateur theater troupe directed by Dorothy Brando. He moved to the Cape Cod University ...( read more)Players and later Broadway, New York to expand his theatrical career from 1926 to 1934. His first major roles in Broadway include "New Faces of America" and "The Farmer Takes a Wife". The latter play was transfered to the screen in 1935 and became the start-up of Fonda's lifelong Hollywood career. The following year he married Frances Seymour Fonda with whom he had two children: Jane and Peter Fonda also to become screen stars. He is most remembered for his roles as Abe Lincoln in Young Mr. Lincoln (1939), Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath (1940), for which he received an Academy Award Nomination, and more recently, Norman Thayer in On Golden Pond (1981), for which he received an Academy Award for Best Actor in 1982. Henry Fonda is considered one of Hollywood's old-time legends and was friend and contemporary of James Stewart, John Ford and Joshua Logan. His movie career which spanned almost 50 years is completed by a notable presence in American theater and television.
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  • GeorgeBailey88
    GeorgeBailey88
    Henry Fonda was one of the greatest American actors who ever lived. Not many film stars could say they played heroic characters like Tom Joad (Grapes of Wrath) and a psychotic murderer in Frank (Once Upon a Time in the West).

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