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Henry Fonda
Henry Jaynes Fonda was an American actor whose career spanned five decades on Broadway and in Hollywood. Known for his work on screen and stage, he often portrayed characters who embodied an everyman image.
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Born 16 May 1905 · Died 12 August 1982 · Q19155
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2026· 1 entry
2021· 1 entry
Released album “Henry Fonda / Burt”.
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2017· 1 entry
Released album “Front Antinational”.
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2015· 1 entry
Released album “Hardcore Is My Life, I'll Carry The Name”.
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2013· 1 entry
Released album “Deutschland, du Täter!”.
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2012· 1 entry
Released ep “Unicorns From Hell”.
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2010· 2 entries
Released album “Play Fast Drive Slow”.
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Released ep “Henry Fonda”.
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1999· 1 entry
Was named the sixth-Greatest Male Screen Legend of the Classic Hollywood Era (stars with a film debut by 1950) by the American Film Institute
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1982· 2 entries
Died 1982-08-12.
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Actor for On Golden Pond (1982).
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1981· 2 entries
Awarded Academy Honorary Award (1981).
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The film adaptation of Ernest Thompson's play, marked one final professional and personal triumph for Fonda
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1979· 3 entries
Awarded Kennedy Center Honors (1979).
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Was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame for his achievements on Broadway and received the Kennedy Center Honor
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Received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement
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1978· 1 entry
Awarded AFI Life Achievement Award (1978).
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1976· 2 entries
Fonda starred in the World War II blockbuster Midway
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Fonda appeared in several notable television productions, the first being Collision Course, the story of the volatile relationship between President Harry Truman (E
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1975· 2 entries
“It was the most horrendous sight I”
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“It was the most horrendous sight I’d ever seen. My hands were wet, there were tears in my eyes. All I could think of was that young black man dangling at the end of a rope.”
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1974· 1 entry
For the biographical drama, Clarence Darrow, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award
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1972· 1 entry
At the Huntington Hartford Theater in Los Angeles, where Fonda, Richard Dreyfuss, Gloria Grahame, Ron Thompson, Strother Martin, Jane Alexander, Lewis J
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1970· 2 entries
Fonda and Stewart co-starred in the Western The Cheyenne Social Club, in which they humorously argued politics
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Fonda appeared in three films; the most successful was The Cheyenne Social Club
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1965· 1 entry
Fonda married Shirlee Mae Adams (born in 1932) and remained with her until his death in 1982
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1960· 1 entry
Fonda appeared in a campaign commercial for presidential candidate John F
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1958· 2 entries
Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor for 12 Angry Men (1958).
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Met Lee Strasberg while visiting her father in Malibu
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1957· 3 entries
Fonda made his first foray into producing with 12 Angry Men, in which he also starred
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Fonda starred as Juror 8, the hold-out juror, in 12 Angry Men, a film he co-produced and that earned him a BAFTA award for Best Foreign Actor
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Fonda married the Italian baroness Afdera Franchetti
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1956· 2 entries
At the age of 51, Fonda played the title role of 38-year-old Manny Balestrero in Alfred Hitchcock's thriller The Wrong Man
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Playing a man falsely accused of robbery in The Wrong Man; the unusual semidocumentary work of Hitchcock was based on an actual incident and partly filmed on location
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1950· 1 entry
Fonda married Susan Blanchard, his mistress
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1948· 2 entries
Awarded Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play (1948).
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Appeared in a subsequent Argosy/Ford production, Fort Apache, as a rigid Army colonel, along with John Wayne and Shirley Temple in her first adult role
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1941· 1 entry
Fonda starred opposite Barbara Stanwyck in the screwball comedy classic The Lady Eve
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1935· 3 entries
Fonda starred in the RKO film I Dream Too Much with the opera star Lily Pons
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As Janet Gaynor's leading man in 20th Century Fox's screen adaptation of The Farmer Takes a Wife; he reprised his role from the Broadway production of the same name, which had gained him recognition
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Through his last projects in 1981, Fonda appeared in 106 films, television programs, and shorts
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1931· 1 entry
Soon ended in separation, which was finalized in a 1933 divorce
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1905· 3 entries
Henry Jaynes Fonda was the son of printer William Brace Fonda, and his wife, Herberta (Jaynes)
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Born 1905-05-16.
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Is preserved at The Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer in Grand Island, Nebraska
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1812· 1 entry
In which he played Pierre Bezukhov opposite Audrey Hepburn; it took two years to shoot
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