Henry Fonda
Actor
Henry Fonda was one of America's most popular movie stars from the 1940s through the 1970s. Early in his career he was closely associated with director John Ford, starring in Ford movies including Young Mr. Lincoln (1939), The Grapes of Wrath (1940) and My Darling Clementine (1946). After serving in the Navy in World War II Fonda began three decades of work as an American icon, often playing modest, fundamentally decent heroes in movies like Mister Roberts (1955, co-starring Jack Lemmon) and Twelve Angry Men (1957). He capped his career with his first Best Actor Oscar for On Golden Pond (1981, opposite screen legend Katharine Hepburn). Fonda is the father of actors Jane Fonda and Peter Fonda and the grandfather of actress Bridget Fonda.Fonda appears with Sherlock Holmes in our loop on Celebrity Beekeepers.
Blog posts mentioning Henry Fonda:
The Forgotten Oscar Champ
ER to the Stars: Cedars-Sinai Hospital
Four Good Links
All Movie Guide: Henry Fonda
Solid Hollywood biography plus a full, lengthy filmography
Fonda Filmography
From the Internet Movie Database, it goes a ways back
The Movie Pal: Henry Fonda
A fan's fond reminiscences, with a dozen good photos
Henry Fonda
Very brief profile and related links
Vital Stats
Birth
Birthplace
Death
12 August 1982
(heart failure, age 77)
Best Known As
Tom Joad in the movie The Grapes of Wrath
