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Henry Fonda
Age: 77 (passed away Aug. 12th, 1982)
Height: 6' 1"
Birth Place: Grand Island, Nebraska, USA
Born: May. 16th, 1905
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BIOGRAPHY: 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 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 (I) 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 (I), John Ford (I) and Joshua Logan. His movie career which spanned almost 50 years is completed by a notable presence in American theater and television.
TRIVIA:
- His last film was also 'Myrna Loy' (qv)'s.
- He was voted the 10th Greatest Movie Star of all time by Premiere Magazine.
- He and his daughter 'Jane Fonda' (qv) were the first father-daughter couple to be Oscar-nominated the same year (1982).
- He left a clause in his will requesting that there be no funeral or memorial service.
- Named Father of The Year 1963 by the Father's Day/Mother's Day Council, Inc.
- Fonda, who played the second Commander in Chief-Pacific (CINCPAC II) in _In Harm's Way (1965)_ (qv), was actually a naval veteran of World War II who served in the Pacific Theater. After making _The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)_ (qv), Fonda enlisted in the Navy to fight in World War II, saying, "I don't want to be in a fake war in a studio." He served in the Navy for three years, initially as a Quartermaster 3rd Class on the destroyer USS Satterlee; later, Fonda was commissioned as a Lieutenant Junior Grade (O-2) in Air Combat Intelligence. For his service in the Central Pacific, he won the Bronze Star, the fourth highest award for bravery or meritorious service in conflict with the enemy.
- The birth of his daughter 'Jane Fonda' (qv) was the cause of some interruptions during his filming of _Jezebel (1938)_ (qv) with 'Bette Davis' (qv).
- Contrary to popular belief, Fonda did approve of his daughter Jane's anti-war activism during Vietnam and at _The American Film Institute Salute to Henry Fonda (1978) (TV)_ (qv) told her critics to "shut up", because "she's perfect".
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