Henry Fonda

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. They live in Beverly Hills. His son Peter is also an actor. In 1991, Hackman married Betsy Arakawa. 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. They had 3 children, but divorced in 1986, after 30 years of marriage. 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. Hackman's first wife was Fay Maltese.

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. In over 40 years he has convincingly played a wide variety of characters, not only in cinema, but also in TV films and on stage. On Golden Pond (1981), as a retired professor approaching his 80th birthday. Hackman is one of the most acclaimed actors of our time. Chester Nimitz. After so many years of acting, Hackman wanted to try another field of creativity and wrote his first novel, which was published in 1999, a year in which he exceptionally did not appear in any film. Midway (1976), as Adm. In 1992 he played the sadistic sheriff in Unforgiven, for which role he earned a second Oscar, this time for Best Supporting Actor.

Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), in an atypical role as a brutal gunman. At the end of the 80s, when Hackman had become a deeply respected actor, he alternated roles between leads and minor appearances, earning another Best Actor nomination for Mississippi Burning. In 1990 he underwent surgery because of heart malfunction, from which he recovered satisfactorily, although this kept him away from work for a while. President facing a nuclear crisis. In 1971 he was again nominated for the same award, this time for I Never Sang for My Father. The next year he won the Best Actor award for his memorable performance as Popeye Doyle in The French Connection. Fail-Safe (1964), as the U.S. Another secondary role in a 1967 Warren Beatty movie, Bonnie and Clyde, earned him an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor. Warlock (1959), as a gunman hired to calm the town of Warlock. His first role was in Lilith, with Warren Beatty in the leading role.

12 Angry Men (1957), as the calmly deliberate foreman of a combative jury in a murder trial. Finally, in 1964, he had the offer to play on Broadway, which opened the doors to the movies. Mister Roberts (1955), in the title role of a battle-eager officer on a WWII supply ship. Some times later, he moved back to New York, where he started to perform in several off-Broadway plays. Fort Apache (1948), as a Custer-like cavalry commander. Already over 30 years old, Hackman decided to become an actor and joined the Pasadena Playhouse in California. My Darling Clementine, as Wyatt Earp. Bill".

The Ox-Bow Incident (1943), as a cowboy trying to prevent a lynching. He then studied television production and journalism at the University of Illinois, taking advantage of the "G.I. The Grapes of Wrath (1940), as migrant Tom Joad, the iconic migrant Okie. Having finished his service, he moved to New York, where he worked in several minor jobs. Lincoln (1939), in the title role. At 16 he left home to join the Marines, where he served 3 years as a radio operator. Young Mr. His parents divorced while he was a child and he therefore moved from one place to another until he settled finally in Illinois, where he lived with his grandmother.