Henry Fonda
Henry Jaynes "Hank" Fonda (16 Mey 1905 – 12 August 1982) wis an American film an stage actor[2] wi a career spannin mair nor five decades.
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Fonda as Mister Roberts, 1948 | |
Born | Henry Jaynes Fonda 16 Mey 1905 Grand Island, Nebraska, U.S. |
Died | 12 August 1982 Los Angeles, Californie, U.S. | (aged 77)
Cause o daith | Hert disease |
Restin place | Cremation |
Alma mater | Varsity o Minnesota |
Thrift | Actor |
Years active | 1928–1982 |
Poleetical pairty | Democratic |
Hauf-marrae(s) | Margaret Sullavan (1931-1933, divorced) Frances Seymour Brokaw (1936-1950, her daith) Susan Blanchard (1950-1956, divorced) Afdera Franchetti (1957-1961, divorced) Shirlee Fonda (1965-1982, his death) |
Childer | 3; includin Jane an Peter |
Relatives | Bridget Fonda (granddauchter) Vanessa Vadim (granddauchter) Troy Garity (grandson) |
Militar career | |
Allegiance | ![]() |
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Years o service | 1942-1946[1] |
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Battles/wars | Warld War II |
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Fonda made his merk early as a Broadway actor. He an aw appeared in 1938 in plays performed in White Plains, New York, wi Joan Tompkins. He made his Hollywood debut in 1935, an his career gained momentum efter his Academy Awaird-nominatit performance as Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath, a 1940 adaptation o John Steinbeck's novelle aboot an Oklahoma faimily that muived wast in the Dust Bowl.
Ootthrou five decades in Hollywood, Fonda cultivatit a strang, appealin screen image in sic clessics as The Ox-Bow Incident, Mister Roberts, an 12 Angry Men. Later, Fonda muived taewart daurker epics sic as Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West an lichter roles in faimily comedies sic as Yours, Mine and Ours wi Lucille Ball, winnin the Academy Awaird for Best Actor at the 54t Academy Awards for the movie On Golden Pond, his feenal film role.
Fonda wis the patriarch o a faimily o famous actors, includin dochter Jane Fonda, son Peter Fonda, granddochter Bridget Fonda, an grandson Troy Garity. His faimily an close friends cried him "Hank". In 1999, he wis named the saxt-Greatest Male Star o Aw Time bi the American Film Institute.
ReferencesEedit
- ↑ "LTJG Henry Jaynes Fonda". TogetherWeServed. 2015. Retrieved 22 Mey 2015.
- ↑ Obituary Variety, August 18, 1982.