Bob Denver

However, none of these matched the success of his earlier roles. Henry Fonda died of cancer and heart disease at his home in Los Angeles just months after his Oscar win, with wife Shirlee and daughter Jane at his side. After the show ended in 1963, Denver landed the role of Gilligan on Gilligan's Island, following which he appeared in other television shows including The Good Guys (1968–1970) and Dusty's Trail (1973). His son Peter is also an actor. His co-star Dwayne Hickman, who played Dobie Gillis, was also a graduate of Loyola Marymount University. Fonda, an Academy and Tony Award-winning film and stage actor who appeared in nearly 90 films, finally won the Oscar for his performance in On Golden Pond - in which his daughter Jane co-starred. Krebs on The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis in 1959. He was born in Grand Island, Nebraska to William Brace Fonda and Herberta Krueger Jaynes, and started his acting career at age twenty at the Omaha Community Playhouse when his mother's friend Dodie Brando needed a young man to play the lead in You and I.

Denver graduated from Loyola University, one of the predecessors to today's Loyola Marymount University, in Los Angeles, California, USA and worked as a mailman and a high school teacher before landing the role of Maynard G. Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 - August 12, 1982) was an acclaimed American film actor beloved for his roles as plain-speaking men of humane decency. Krebs on the program The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. On Golden Pond (1981), as a retired professor approaching his 80th birthday. Earlier, Denver played beatnik Maynard G. Chester Nimitz. Bob Denver (born January 9, 1935) is an actor who is best known for his role as Gilligan in the television show Gilligan's Island. Midway (1976), as Adm.

Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), in an atypical role as a brutal gunman. President facing a nuclear crisis. Fail-Safe (1964), as the U.S. Warlock (1959), as a gunman hired to calm the town of Warlock.

12 Angry Men (1957), as the calmly deliberate foreman of a combative jury in a murder trial. Mister Roberts (1955), in the title role of a battle-eager officer on a WWII supply ship. Fort Apache (1948), as a Custer-like cavalry commander. My Darling Clementine, as Wyatt Earp.

The Ox-Bow Incident (1943), as a cowboy trying to prevent a lynching. The Grapes of Wrath (1940), as migrant Tom Joad, the iconic migrant Okie. Lincoln (1939), in the title role. Young Mr.