Quotes
 I don`t want to just sell war bonds. I want to be a sailor. I look like my father. To this day, when I walk past a mirror and see my reflection in it, my first impression is: That`s my father. There is a strong Fonda look.
If there is something in my eyes, a kind of honesty in the face, then I guess you could say that`s the man I`d like to be, the man I want to be.
I`ve been close to Bette Davis for thirty-eight years - and I have the cigarette burns to prove it.
[on director John Ford] It has to do with the fact that Ford, for all his greatness, is an Irish egomaniac, as anyone who knows him will say.
[on Jane Fonda and Peter Fonda, 1976] "I didn`t help or discourage them or lead them by the hand. I`m not trying to set myself up as a good father, because I wasn`t a good father. But I think I knew instinctively that if they did make it, they would like to know they`d done it on their own. I recognise all the problems my children have had, and I don`t claim any credit for what they`ve become. They`ve become what they are in spite of me."
[on John Ford] He had instinctively a beautiful eye for the camera. But he was also an egomaniac.
[On War and Peace (1956) and referring to author of book Leo Tolstoy] When I first agreed to do it, the screenplay by Irwin Shaw was fine, but what happened? King Vidor used to go home nights with his wife and rewrite it. All the genius of Tolstoy went out the window.
Trivia
Fonda told his third wife Susan Blanchard to stay away from Ward Bond, whose ultra-conservative views and active support for McCarthyism he despised.
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He left a clause in his will requesting that there be no funeral or memorial service.
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Son of William Brace Fonda (of Dutch American and Scottish ancestry) and wife Herberta Jaynes.
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Contrary to popular belief, Fonda did approve of his daughter Jane`s anti-war activism during Vietnam and at The American Film Institute Salute to Henry Fonda (1978) (TV) told her critics to "shut up", because "she`s perfect".
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Divorced Margaret Sullavan after two months.
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He and his daughter Jane Fonda were the first father-daughter couple to be Oscar-nominated the same year (1982).
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He was a founding member of the Hollywood Democratic Committee during the 1930s, formed in support of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt`s New Deal agenda.
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One of his hobbies was bee keeping. This was one of many traits that his son, Peter Fonda, incorporated into his performance in Ulee`s Gold (1997), a performance Peter says he based on his father.
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At 76, he was the oldest person to win a best actor Oscar.
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During a Barbara Walters interview, Jane Fonda claimed that her father was deeply in love with Lucille Ball and that the two were "very close" during the filming of Yours, Mine and Ours (1968).
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Earned the rank of Life Scout and became a scout master as an adult.
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Father of Jane Fonda and Peter Fonda and Amy Fonda. Stepfather of Pan, from marriage to Frances Brokaw. Grandfather of Bridget Fonda, Justin Fonda, Vanessa Vadim and Troy Garity. Ex-father-in-law of Roger Vadim, Tom Hayden and Ted Turner.
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His ancestors came from Genoa, Italy, and fled to the Netherlands around 1400. Among the early Dutch settlers in America, they established a still-thriving small town in upstate New York named Fonda in the early 1600s, named after patriarch Douw Fonda, who was later killed by Indians. His paternal grandparents moved to Nebraska in the 1800s.
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Hobby was making model airplanes and kites.
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In spite of his kind, heroic, honest screen persona, he was often described as being cold, aloof and frequently angry off-screen.
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Named the #6 greatest actor on The 50 Greatest Screen Legends by the American Film Institute
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Studied acting with Dorothy Brando, mother of Marlon Brando.
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Was known as a ladies` man in Hollywood, having been involved in affairs with many actresses.
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was in the US Navy during WWII. He received the Bronze Star for Valor
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