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Henry Fonda is a Actor, Scriptwriter and Producer American born on 16 may 1905 at Grand Island (USA)
Henry Jaynes "Hank" Fonda (May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982) was an American film and stage actor with a career spanning more than five decades.
Fonda made his mark early as a Broadway actor. He also appeared in 1938 in plays performed in White Plains, New York, with Joan Tompkins. He made his Hollywood debut in 1935, and his career gained momentum after his Academy Award-nominated performance as Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath, a 1940 adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel about an Oklahoma family who moved west during the Dust Bowl. Throughout six decades in Hollywood, Fonda cultivated a strong, appealing screen image in such classics as The Ox-Bow Incident, Mister Roberts and 12 Angry Men. Later, Fonda moved both toward darker epics such as Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West and lighter roles in family comedies such as Yours, Mine and Ours with Lucille Ball, winning the Academy Award for Best Actor at the 54th Academy Awards for the movie On Golden Pond, his final film role.
Fonda was the patriarch of a family of famous actors, including daughter Jane Fonda, son Peter Fonda, granddaughter Bridget Fonda, and grandson Troy Garity. His family and close friends called him "Hank". In 1999, he was named the sixth-Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute.
Fonda was married five times and had three children, one of them adopted. His marriage to Margaret Sullavan in 1931 soon ended in separation, which was finalized in a 1933 divorce.
In 1936, he married Frances Ford Seymour Brokaw, widow of a wealthy industrialist, George Tuttle Brokaw. The Brokaws had a daughter, Frances de Villers, nicknamed "Pan", who had been born soon after the Brokaws marriage in 1931.
Fonda met his future wife Frances at Denham Studios in England on the set of Wings of the Morning, the first British picture to be filmed in Technicolor. They had two children, Jane (born December 21, 1937) and Peter (born February 23, 1940), both of whom became successful actors. They have each had Oscar nominations.
In August 1949, Fonda announced to Frances that he wanted a divorce so he could remarry; their 13 years of marriage had not been happy ones for him. Devastated by Fonda's confession, and plagued by emotional problems for many years, Frances went into the Austen Riggs Psychiatric Hospital in January 1950 for treatment. She committed suicide there on April 14. Before her death, she had written six notes to various individuals, but left no final message for her husband. Fonda quickly arranged a private funeral with only himself and his mother-in-law, Sophie Seymour, in attendance. Years later, Dr. Margaret Gibson, the psychiatrist who had treated Frances at Austen Riggs, described Henry Fonda: "He was a cold, self-absorbed person, a complete narcissist."
Later in 1950, Fonda married Susan Blanchard, with whom he had been having an affair since sometime in 1948. She was 21 years old, the daughter of Australian-born interior designer Dorothy Hammerstein, and the step-daughter of Oscar Hammerstein II. Together, they adopted a daughter, Amy Fishman (born 1953). They divorced three years later. Blanchard was in awe of Fonda, and she described her role in the marriage as "a geisha", doing everything she could to please him, dealing with and solving problems he would not acknowledge.
In 1957, Fonda married the Italian baroness Afdera Franchetti They divorced in 1961. Soon after, in 1965, Fonda married Shirlee Mae Adams, and remained with her until his death in 1982.
Fonda's relationship with his children has been described as "emotionally distant". Fonda loathed displays of feeling in himself or others, and this was a consistent part of his character. Whenever he felt that his emotional wall was being breached, he had outbursts of anger, exhibiting a furious temper that terrified his family. In Peter Fonda's 1998 autobiography Don't Tell Dad (1998), he described how he was never sure how his father felt about him. He never volunteered to his father that he loved him until he was elderly, and Peter finally heard, "I love you, son." His daughter Jane rejected her father's friendships with Republican actors such as John Wayne and James Stewart. Their relationship became extremely strained as Jane Fonda became a left-wing activist.
Jane Fonda reported feeling detached from her father, especially during her early acting days. In 1958, she met Lee Strasberg while visiting her father at Malibu. The Fonda and Strasberg families were neighbors, and she had developed a friendship with Strasberg's daughter, Susan. Jane Fonda began studying acting with Strasberg, learning the techniques of "The Method" of which Strasberg was a renowned proponent. This proved to be a pivotal point in her career. As Jane Fonda developed her skill as an actress, she became frustrated with her father's talent that, to her, appeared a demonstration of effortless ability.
Politics
Fonda was an ardent supporter of the Democratic Party and "an admirer" of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1960, Fonda appeared in a campaign commercial for presidential candidate John F. Kennedy. The ad focused on Kennedy's naval service during World War II, specifically the famous PT-109 incident.
On acting
In the late 1950s, when Jane Fonda asked her father how he prepared before going on stage, she was baffled by his answer, "I don't know, I stand there, I think about my wife, Afdera, I don't know."
The writer Al Aronowitz, while working on a profile of Jane Fonda for The Saturday Evening Post in the 1960s, asked Henry Fonda about method acting: "I can't articulate about the Method", he told me, "because I never studied it. I don't mean to suggest that I have any feelings one way or the other about it...I don't know what the Method is and I don't care what the Method is. Everybody's got a method. Everybody can't articulate about their method, and I can't, if I have a method—and Jane sometimes says that I use the Method, that is, the capital letter Method, without being aware of it. Maybe I do; it doesn't matter."
Aronowitz reported Jane saying, "My father can't articulate the way he works. He just can't do it. He's not even conscious of what he does, and it made him nervous for me to try to articulate what I was trying to do. And I sensed that immediately, so we did very little talking about it...he said, 'Shut up, I don't want to hear about it.' He didn't want me to tell him about it, you know. He wanted to make fun of it.
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Henry Fonda
Birth name Henry Jaynes Fonda
Nationality USA
Birth 16 may 1905 at Grand Island (USA)
Death 12 august 1982 (at 77 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Awards Academy Award for Best Actor, Bronze Star Medal
Nationality USA
Birth 16 may 1905 at Grand Island (USA)
Death 12 august 1982 (at 77 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Awards Academy Award for Best Actor, Bronze Star Medal
Henry Jaynes "Hank" Fonda (May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982) was an American film and stage actor with a career spanning more than five decades.
Fonda made his mark early as a Broadway actor. He also appeared in 1938 in plays performed in White Plains, New York, with Joan Tompkins. He made his Hollywood debut in 1935, and his career gained momentum after his Academy Award-nominated performance as Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath, a 1940 adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel about an Oklahoma family who moved west during the Dust Bowl. Throughout six decades in Hollywood, Fonda cultivated a strong, appealing screen image in such classics as The Ox-Bow Incident, Mister Roberts and 12 Angry Men. Later, Fonda moved both toward darker epics such as Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West and lighter roles in family comedies such as Yours, Mine and Ours with Lucille Ball, winning the Academy Award for Best Actor at the 54th Academy Awards for the movie On Golden Pond, his final film role.
Fonda was the patriarch of a family of famous actors, including daughter Jane Fonda, son Peter Fonda, granddaughter Bridget Fonda, and grandson Troy Garity. His family and close friends called him "Hank". In 1999, he was named the sixth-Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute.
Biography
Marriages and childrenFonda was married five times and had three children, one of them adopted. His marriage to Margaret Sullavan in 1931 soon ended in separation, which was finalized in a 1933 divorce.
In 1936, he married Frances Ford Seymour Brokaw, widow of a wealthy industrialist, George Tuttle Brokaw. The Brokaws had a daughter, Frances de Villers, nicknamed "Pan", who had been born soon after the Brokaws marriage in 1931.
Fonda met his future wife Frances at Denham Studios in England on the set of Wings of the Morning, the first British picture to be filmed in Technicolor. They had two children, Jane (born December 21, 1937) and Peter (born February 23, 1940), both of whom became successful actors. They have each had Oscar nominations.
In August 1949, Fonda announced to Frances that he wanted a divorce so he could remarry; their 13 years of marriage had not been happy ones for him. Devastated by Fonda's confession, and plagued by emotional problems for many years, Frances went into the Austen Riggs Psychiatric Hospital in January 1950 for treatment. She committed suicide there on April 14. Before her death, she had written six notes to various individuals, but left no final message for her husband. Fonda quickly arranged a private funeral with only himself and his mother-in-law, Sophie Seymour, in attendance. Years later, Dr. Margaret Gibson, the psychiatrist who had treated Frances at Austen Riggs, described Henry Fonda: "He was a cold, self-absorbed person, a complete narcissist."
Later in 1950, Fonda married Susan Blanchard, with whom he had been having an affair since sometime in 1948. She was 21 years old, the daughter of Australian-born interior designer Dorothy Hammerstein, and the step-daughter of Oscar Hammerstein II. Together, they adopted a daughter, Amy Fishman (born 1953). They divorced three years later. Blanchard was in awe of Fonda, and she described her role in the marriage as "a geisha", doing everything she could to please him, dealing with and solving problems he would not acknowledge.
In 1957, Fonda married the Italian baroness Afdera Franchetti They divorced in 1961. Soon after, in 1965, Fonda married Shirlee Mae Adams, and remained with her until his death in 1982.
Fonda's relationship with his children has been described as "emotionally distant". Fonda loathed displays of feeling in himself or others, and this was a consistent part of his character. Whenever he felt that his emotional wall was being breached, he had outbursts of anger, exhibiting a furious temper that terrified his family. In Peter Fonda's 1998 autobiography Don't Tell Dad (1998), he described how he was never sure how his father felt about him. He never volunteered to his father that he loved him until he was elderly, and Peter finally heard, "I love you, son." His daughter Jane rejected her father's friendships with Republican actors such as John Wayne and James Stewart. Their relationship became extremely strained as Jane Fonda became a left-wing activist.
Jane Fonda reported feeling detached from her father, especially during her early acting days. In 1958, she met Lee Strasberg while visiting her father at Malibu. The Fonda and Strasberg families were neighbors, and she had developed a friendship with Strasberg's daughter, Susan. Jane Fonda began studying acting with Strasberg, learning the techniques of "The Method" of which Strasberg was a renowned proponent. This proved to be a pivotal point in her career. As Jane Fonda developed her skill as an actress, she became frustrated with her father's talent that, to her, appeared a demonstration of effortless ability.
Politics
Fonda was an ardent supporter of the Democratic Party and "an admirer" of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1960, Fonda appeared in a campaign commercial for presidential candidate John F. Kennedy. The ad focused on Kennedy's naval service during World War II, specifically the famous PT-109 incident.
On acting
In the late 1950s, when Jane Fonda asked her father how he prepared before going on stage, she was baffled by his answer, "I don't know, I stand there, I think about my wife, Afdera, I don't know."
The writer Al Aronowitz, while working on a profile of Jane Fonda for The Saturday Evening Post in the 1960s, asked Henry Fonda about method acting: "I can't articulate about the Method", he told me, "because I never studied it. I don't mean to suggest that I have any feelings one way or the other about it...I don't know what the Method is and I don't care what the Method is. Everybody's got a method. Everybody can't articulate about their method, and I can't, if I have a method—and Jane sometimes says that I use the Method, that is, the capital letter Method, without being aware of it. Maybe I do; it doesn't matter."
Aronowitz reported Jane saying, "My father can't articulate the way he works. He just can't do it. He's not even conscious of what he does, and it made him nervous for me to try to articulate what I was trying to do. And I sensed that immediately, so we did very little talking about it...he said, 'Shut up, I don't want to hear about it.' He didn't want me to tell him about it, you know. He wanted to make fun of it.
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Filmography of Henry Fonda (112 films)
| Year | Name | Job | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Sacco and Vanzetti | Actor | Prof. Tommy Turner (archive footage) |
| 2004 | Roma | Actor | Tom Joad (archive footage) |
| 1993 | La Classe américaine | Actor | Hugues (archive footage) |
| 1992 | La Classe américaine | Actor | Hugues (archive footage) |
| 1992 | La Classe américaine | Actor | Hugues (archive footage) |
| 1988 | The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind | Actor | Self (archive footage) |
| 1982 | On Golden Pond | Actor | Norman Thayer Jr. |
| 1980 | Summer Solstice | Actor | Joshua |
| 1979 | City on Fire | Actor | Fire Chief Risley |
| 1979 | Meteor | Actor | The President |
| 1979 | Wanda Nevada | Actor | Old Prospector |
| 1978 | Fedora | Actor | President of the Academy |
| 1978 | The Swarm | Actor | Dr. Walter Krim |
| 1978 | The Great Smokey Roadblock | Actor | Elegant John |
| 1978 | The Biggest Battle | Actor | Generale Foster |
| 1978 | Home to Stay | Actor | Grandpa George |
| 1977 | Tentacles | Actor | Mr. Whitehead |
| 1977 | Rollercoaster | Actor | Simon Davenport |
| 1977 | Soldier's Home | Actor | Self - Series Host (uncredited) |
| 1976 | Midway | Actor | Adm. Chester W. Nimitz |
| 1974 | The Last Four Days | Actor | Kardinal Schuster |
| 1973 | My Name Is Nobody | Actor | Jack Beauregard |
| 1973 | Ash Wednesday | Actor | Mark Sawyer |
| 1973 | The Serpent | Actor | Alan Davies |
| 1973 | The Alpha Caper | Actor | Mark Forbes |
| 1973 | The Red Pony | Actor | Carl Tiflin |
| 1973 | The Red Pony | Actor | Carl Tiflin |
| 1972 | Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still | Actor | Himself (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1971 | Sometimes a Great Notion | Actor | Henry Stamper |
| 1971 | Directed by John Ford | Actor | Self (uncredited) |
| 1970 | The Cheyenne Social Club | Actor | Harley Sullivan |
| 1970 | Too Late the Hero | Actor | Capt. John G Nolan |
| 1970 | There Was a Crooked Man... | Actor | Woodward W. Lopeman |
| 1969 | An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer | Actor | John Steinbeck (voice) |
| 1969 | Stiletto | Actor | Man at the Premiere (uncredited) |
| 1968 | The Boston Strangler | Actor | John S. Bottomly |
| 1968 | Once Upon a Time in the West | Actor | Frank |
| 1968 | Firecreek | Actor | Bob Larkin |
| 1968 | Madigan | Actor | Commissioner Anthony X. Russell |
| 1968 | A Space to Grow | Actor | Narrator |
| 1968 | Yours, Mine and Ours | Actor | Frank Beardsley |
| 1967 | Stranger on the Run | Actor | Ben Chamberlain |
| 1967 | Welcome to Hard Times | Actor | Mayor Will Blue |
| 1966 | A Big Hand for the Little Lady | Actor | Meredith |
| 1966 | The Really Big Family | Actor | Self - Narrator |
| 1965 | Battle of the Bulge | Actor | Lt Col Kiley |
| 1965 | The Dirty Game | Actor | Dimitri Koulov |
| 1965 | In Harm's Way | Actor | CINCPAC II |
| 1965 | The Rounders | Actor | Marion 'Howdy' Lewis |
| 1964 | The Best Man | Actor | William Russell |
| 1964 | Fail Safe | Actor | The President |
| 1964 | Sex and the Single Girl | Actor | Frank Broderick |
| 1963 | Spencer's Mountain | Actor | Clay Spencer |
| 1962 | The Longest Day | Actor | Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt jr. |
| 1962 | How the West Was Won | Actor | Jethro Stuart |
| 1962 | Advise & Consent | Actor | Robert Leffingwell |
| 1962 | Hollywood: The Fabulous Era | Actor | Narrator / Host |
| 1959 | The Man Who Understood Women | Actor | Willie Bauche |
| 1959 | Warlock | Actor | Clay Blaisedell |
| 1958 | Stage Struck | Actor | Lewis Easton |
| 1957 | The Wrong Man | Actor | Manny Balestrero |
| 1957 | 12 Angry Men | Actor, Producer | Juror 8 |
| 1957 | The Tin Star | Actor | Morgan Hickman |
| 1956 | War and Peace | Actor | Pierre Bezukhov |
| 1955 | Mister Roberts | Actor | Lieutenant Roberts |
| 1951 | Benjy | Actor | Narrator (voice) |
| 1951 | Pictura | Actor | Narrator: Grant Wood episode (voice) |
| 1949 | Jigsaw | Actor | Nightclub Waiter (uncredited) |
| 1948 | On Our Merry Way | Actor | Lank Solsky |
| 1948 | Fort Apache | Actor | Lt. Col. Owen Thursday |
| 1947 | Daisy Kenyon | Actor | Peter Lapham |
| 1947 | The Long Night | Actor | Joe Adams |
| 1947 | The Fugitive | Actor | A Fugitive |
| 1946 | My Darling Clementine | Actor | Wyatt Earp |
| 1943 | Immortal Sergeant | Actor | Corporal Colin Spence |
| 1943 | The Ox-Bow Incident | Actor | Gil Carter |
| 1942 | The Battle of Midway | Actor | Narrator (voice) |
| 1942 | The Male Animal | Actor | Tommy Turner |
| 1942 | Rings on Her Fingers | Actor | John Wheeler |
| 1942 | Tales of Manhattan | Actor | George |
| 1942 | The Big Street | Actor | Agustus 'Little Pinks' Pinkerton, II |
| 1942 | It's Everybody's War | Actor | Narrator |
| 1942 | The Magnificent Dope | Actor | Thadeus Winship 'Tad' Page |
| 1941 | You Belong to Me | Actor, Scriptwriter | Peter Kirk |
| 1941 | The Lady Eve | Actor | Charles Pike |
| 1941 | Wild Geese Calling | Actor | John Murdock |
| 1940 | The Grapes of Wrath | Actor | Tom Joad |
| 1940 | The Return of Frank James | Actor | Frank James |
| 1940 | Chad Hanna | Actor | Chad Hanna |
| 1940 | Lillian Russell | Actor | Alexander Moore |
| 1939 | Jesse James | Actor | Frank James |
| 1939 | Drums Along the Mohawk | Actor | Gilbert Martin |
| 1939 | Let Us Live | Actor | "Brick" Tennant |
| 1939 | The Story of Alexander Graham Bell | Actor | Thomas Watson |
| 1939 | Young Mr. Lincoln | Actor | Abraham Lincoln |
| 1938 | Blockade | Actor | Marco |
| 1938 | The Mad Miss Manton | Actor | Peter Ames |
| 1938 | Jezebel | Actor | Preston Dillard |
| 1938 | I Met My Love Again | Actor | Ives Towner |
| 1938 | Spawn of the North | Actor | Jim Kimmerlee |
| 1938 | I Met My Love Again | Actor | Ives Towner |
| 1937 | Wings of the Morning | Actor | Kerry Gilfallen |
| 1937 | You Only Live Once | Actor | Eddie Taylor |
| 1937 | Slim | Actor | Slim |
| 1937 | That Certain Woman | Actor | Jack V. Merrick, Jr. |
| 1936 | The Trail of the Lonesome Pine | Actor | Dave Tolliver |
| 1936 | The Moon's Our Home | Actor | Anthony Amberton / John Smith |
| 1936 | Spendthrift | Actor | Townsend Middleton |
| 1935 | The Farmer Takes a Wife | Actor | Dan Harrow |
| 1935 | I Dream Too Much | Actor | Johnny Street |
| 1935 | Way Down East | Actor | David Bartlett |
| 1935 | The Farmer Takes a Wife | Actor | Dan Harrow |