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Also Known As	Henry Jaynes Fonda
Born	May 16, 1905 • Grand Island • Nebraska
Died	August 12, 1982 (aged 77) • Los Angeles • California
Awards And Honors	Tony Awards • Academy Award (1982) • Academy Award (1981) • Kennedy Center Honors (1979) • Grammy Award (1976) • Academy Award (1982): Actor in a Leading Role • Honorary Award of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (1981) • Cecil B. DeMille Award (1980) • Golden Globe Award (1982): Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama • Grammy Award (1977): Best Spoken Word Recording • Tony Award (1948): Best Actor in a Play
Notable Family Members	daughter Jane Fonda • son Peter Fonda
Married To	Susan Blanchard (1950–1956) • Shirlee Fonda (married 1965) • Margaret Sullavan (1931–1933) • Frances Ford Seymour (1936–1950 [her death]) • Leonarda Franchetti (1957–1961)
Movies/Tv Shows (Acted In)	"The Bill Cosby Show" (1970) • "The Boston Strangler" (1968) • "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine" (1936) • "The Ox-Bow Incident" (1942) • "I Met My Love Again" (1938) • "City on Fire" (1979) • "Way Down East" (1935) • "Stage Struck" (1958) • "Spencer's Mountain" (1963) • "Jezebel" (1938) • "Sex and the Single Girl" (1964) • "Immortal Sergeant" (1943) • "The Cheyenne Social Club" (1970) • "On Our Merry Way" (1948) • "Warlock" (1959) • "Il grande attacco" (1978) • "Rings on Her Fingers" (1942) • "Battle of the Bulge" (1965) • "On Golden Pond" (1981) • "Chad Hanna" (1940) • "Blockade" (1938) • "The Lady Eve" (1941) • "A Big Hand for the Little Lady" (1966) • "Fort Apache" (1948) • "The Dirty Game" (1965) • "C'era una volta il West" (1968) • "Medallion Theatre" (1953) • "General Electric Theater" (1955) • "Jesse James" (1939) • "The Best Man" (1964) • "Rollercoaster" (1977) • "Family" (1979) • "How the West Was Won" (1962) • "There Was a Crooked Man..." (1970) • "The Swarm" (1978) • "The American Parade" (1975) • "Showtime, U.S.A." (1950) • "The Grapes of Wrath" (1940) • "The Big Street" (1942) • "The Rounders" (1965) • "Too Late the Hero" (1970) • "The Story of Alexander Graham Bell" (1939) • "12 Angry Men" (1957) • "You Belong to Me" (1941) • "Main Street to Broadway" (1953) • "The Deputy" (1959–1961) • "Let Us Live" (1939) • "The Wrong Man" (1956) • "Fedora" (1978) • "The Dick Powell Show" (1963) • "My Darling Clementine" (1946) • "The Longest Day" (1962) • "Wanda Nevada" (1979) • "Drums Along the Mohawk" (1939) • "Fail-Safe" (1964) • "The Return of Frank James" (1940) • "The Tin Star" (1957) • "Tentacoli" (1977) • "Lillian Russell" (1940) • "Madigan" (1968) • "The Farmer Takes a Wife" (1935) • "The Fugitive" (1947) • "Captains and the Kings" (1976) • "Il mio nome è Nessuno" (1973) • "Laugh-In" (1977–1978) • "The Mad Miss Manton" (1938) • "Advise & Consent" (1962) • "You Only Live Once" (1937) • "Daisy Kenyon" (1947) • "In Harm's Way" (1965) • "Spawn of the North" (1938) • "Sometimes a Great Notion" (1971) • "Ash Wednesday" (1973) • "Le serpent" (1973) • "The Moon's Our Home" (1936) • "Firecreek" (1968) • "I Dream Too Much" (1935) • "Slim" (1937) • "Wild Geese Calling" (1941) • "Producers' Showcase" (1955) • "Meteor" (1979) • "Young Mr. Lincoln" (1939) • "The Last of the Cowboys" (1977) • "The Man Who Understood Women" (1959) • "War and Peace" (1956) • "The Smith Family" (1971–1972) • "Yours, Mine and Ours" (1968) • "The Long Night" (1947) • "Welcome to Hard Times" (1967) • "Spendthrift" (1936) • "Pat Paulsen's Half a Comedy Hour" (1970) • "That Certain Woman" (1937) • "The Magnificent Dope" (1942) • "Mussolini ultimo atto" (1974) • "The Male Animal" (1942) • "Mister Roberts" (1955) • "Wings of the Morning" (1937) • "Midway" (1976) • "Tales of Manhattan" (1942) • "Roots: The Next Generations" (1979)