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| Name |
Henry Jaynes Fonda |
| Birth |
16 May 1905 |
Grand Island, Hall, Nebraska, United States  |
| Gender |
Male |
| FamilySearch ID |
KLJY-7XF |
| Death |
12 Aug 1982 |
Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Person ID |
I114008 |
mytree |
| Last Modified |
25 Feb 2024 |
| Father |
William Brace Fonda, b. 12 Feb 1879, Montgomery, Orange, New York, United States d. 7 Oct 1935, Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska, United States (Age 56 years) |
| Mother |
Elma Herberta Norberta Jaynes, b. 26 Jun 1879, Wisconsin, United States d. 5 Oct 1934, Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska, United States (Age 55 years) |
| Marriage |
10 Jul 1903 |
Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska, United States |
| Family ID |
F33974 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 1 |
Margaret Brooke Sullavan, b. 16 May 1909, Norfolk, Virginia, United States d. 1 Jan 1960, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States (Age 50 years) |
| Marriage |
25 Dec 1931 |
Baltimore City, Maryland, United States |
| Divorce |
Yes, date unknown |
| Divorced |
1933 |
| Children |
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| Family ID |
F33970 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
21 Nov 2024 |
| Family 2 |
Frances Ford Seymour, b. 14 Apr 1908, Brockville, Leeds, Ontario, Canada d. 14 Apr 1950, Beacon, Dutchess, New York, United States (Age 42 years) |
| Marriage |
16 Sep 1936 |
Christ Church, New York, New York, New York, United States |
| Children |
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| Family ID |
F33971 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
21 Nov 2024 |
| Family 3 |
Susan Blanchard Jacobson, b. 8 Mar 1928, New York City, New York, New York, United States d. 2018 (Age 89 years) |
| Marriage |
27 Dec 1950 |
New York City, New York, New York, United States |
| Divorce |
Yes, date unknown |
| Divorced |
May 1956 |
| Children |
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| Family ID |
F33966 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
21 Nov 2024 |
| Family 4 |
Countess Afdera Franchetti, b. 8 Jul 1931, Preganziol, Treviso, Veneto, Italia d. South Kensington, Middlesex, England |
| Marriage |
9 Mar 1957 |
New York, United States |
| Divorce |
Yes, date unknown |
| Divorced |
1961 |
| Family ID |
F33972 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
21 Nov 2024 |
| Family 5 |
Shirlee Mae Adams, b. 1 Feb 1932, New York City, New York, New York, United States d. Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Marriage |
3 Dec 1965 |
Mineola, Nassau, New York, United States |
| Family ID |
F33973 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
21 Nov 2024 |
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| Event Map |
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 | Birth - 16 May 1905 - Grand Island, Hall, Nebraska, United States |
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 | Marriage - 25 Dec 1931 - Baltimore City, Maryland, United States |
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 | Marriage - 16 Sep 1936 - Christ Church, New York, New York, New York, United States |
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 | Marriage - 27 Dec 1950 - New York City, New York, New York, United States |
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 | Marriage - 9 Mar 1957 - New York, United States |
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 | Marriage - 3 Dec 1965 - Mineola, Nassau, New York, United States |
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 | Death - 12 Aug 1982 - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States |
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| Notes |
- He was an American film and stage actor who had a career that spanned fi v e decades in Hollywood. Fonda cultivated a strong, appealing screen ima g e in several films now considered to be classics.
Fonda made his mark early as a Broadway actor and made his Hollywood fi l m debut in 1935. He rose to film stardom with performances in such fil m s as; Jezebel (1938), Jesse James (1939), and Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) . H is career further progressed with his portrayal of Tom Joad in The Gr ape s of Wrath (1940), receiving a nomination for the Academy Award for B es t Actor.
In 1941 he starred opposite Barbara Stanwyck in the screwball comedy cla s sic The Lady Eve. Book-ending his service in WWII were his starring rol e s in two highly regarded Westerns: The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) and My Da rl ing Clementine (1946), the latter directed by John Ford, and he also s tar red in Ford's Western Fort Apache (1948). After a seven-year break fr om f ilms, during which Fonda focused on stage productions, he returned w ith t he WWII war-boat ensemble Mister Roberts (1955). In 1956, at the ag e of f ifty-one, he played the title role as the thirty-eight-year-old Ma nny Bal estrero in Alfred Hitchcock's thriller The Wrong Man. In 1957, h e starre d as Juror 8, the hold-out juror, in 12 Angry Men. Fonda, who wa s also th e co-producer of this film, won the BAFTA award for Best Foreig n Actor.
Later in his career, Fonda moved into darker roles, such as the villai n i n the epic Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), a box office disappoi ntme nt at its time of release, but now regarded as one of the best Weste rns o f all time. He also played in lighter-hearted fare such as Yours, M ine an d Ours with Lucille Ball and My Name is Nobody with Terence Hill , but als o often played important military figures, such as a colonel i n Battle o f the Bulge (1965), and Admiral Nimitz in Midway (1976). He wo n the Acade my Award for Best Actor at the 54th Academy Awards for his fi nal film rol e in On Golden Pond (1981), which also starred Katharine Hep burn and hi s daughter Jane Fonda, but was too ill to attend the ceremony . He died fr om heart disease a few months later.
Fonda was the patriarch of a family of famous actors, including daught e r Jane Fonda, son Peter Fonda, granddaughter Bridget Fonda, and grands o n Troy Garity. In 1999 he was named the sixth-Greatest Male Screen Lege nd s of the Classic Hollywood Era (stars with a film debut by 1950) by th e A merican Film Institute.
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