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Henry Fonda 1905-83, American actor, b. Grand Island, Nebr. He had considerable stage experience, appearing in such plays as Mr. Roberts (1948), The Caine Mutiny Court Martial (1958), and Two for the Seesaw (1959). Fonda played honest, homespun young men in such films as The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936) and The Grapes of Wrath (1940). His comedic talents were revealed in such films as The Lady Eve (1941) and Rings on Her Fingers (1942). Later in his career he often portrayed heroic figures. His other films include The Wrong Man (1956), Twelve Angry Men (1957), Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), and On Golden Pond (1982), for which he won the Academy Award. He was the father of Jane Fonda and Peter Fonda .

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Fonda, Henry

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Fonda, Henry (1905–82) US actor. Cast as a model of American decency and homespun wisdom, Fonda appeared in a series of John Ford films, such as Young Mr Lincoln (1939), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), and Twelve Angry Men (1957). He won his first and only Academy Award for his performance opposite his daughter, Jane Fonda, in On Golden Pond (1981). Other films include The Lady Eve (1941), My Darling Clementine (1946), and Mister Roberts (1955).

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Fonda, Henry (Jaynes)

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Fonda, Henry [Jaynes] (1905–82), actor. The lanky, slightly twangy‐voiced leading man was born in Grand Island, Nebraska, and raised in Omaha, where he first appeared on stage in 1925 as Ricky in You and I with the Omaha Community Playhouse. After performing with various stock groups for several years, he made his Broadway debut as a walk‐on in The Game of Love and Death (1929). Shortly thereafter, he joined the University Players and remained with them until 1932. Fonda next appeared on Broadway in I Love You Wednesday (1932), Forsaking All Others (1933), and New Faces (1934), before winning acclaim as canal man Dan Harrow in The Farmer Takes a Wife (1934). Apart from a brief run in Blow Ye Winds (1937), he devoted himself to films until he returned to play Mister Roberts (1948). John Mason Brown wrote of his performance, “He is to the full the unheroic hero; the shy, modest, everyday young man whose decencies and hidden strength have somehow made a leader of him. His is a quiet performance . . . Its power is its understatement, its reticence, its utter and communicated honesty.” Thereafter, Fonda became one of the few major stars to shuttle regularly between Hollywood and Broadway. Among his memorable stage performances were businessman Charles Gray in Point of No Return (1951); the reluctant prosecuting attorney Lt. Greenwald in The Caine Mutiny Court‐Martial (1954); staid Irish lawyer Jerry Ryan in Two for the Seesaw (1958); John, who finds an evening of love in a New England inn, in Silent Night, Lonely Night (1959); the drama critic Parker Ballantine in Critic's Choice (1960); the conservative executive Jim Bolton in Generation (1965); the one‐man show Clarence Darrow (1974); and liberal Supreme Court Justice Daniel Snow in First Monday in October (1978). Autobiography: Fonda: My Story, with Howard Teichman, 1981; biography: Henry Fonda: His Life and Work, Norm Goldstein, 1982.

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