# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/henry-fonda
# Generated: 2026-09-01T00:28:37.369Z

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name: "Henry Fonda"
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description: "He made decency compelling. For five decades, Henry Fonda turned ordinary integrity into screen magnetism — the hold-out juror, the dust-bowl drifter, the wrongly accused everyman — and proved that quiet moral weight could carry a close-up."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in Nebraska in 1905, Fonda came up through Broadway before his 1935 Hollywood debut. He hit his stride fast: Jesse James and Young Mr. Lincoln in 1939, then an Oscar nomination for Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath (1940). After World War II service, he anchored Westerns for John Ford — My Darling Clementine, Fort Apache — and took a seven-year film break to work on stage. He returned in 1955 with Mister Roberts, then co-produced 12 Angry Men (1957) as the lone dissenting juror, earning a BAFTA. Late career brought range: a rare villain turn in Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), military men in Battle of the Bulge and Midway. At 76, too ill to attend the ceremony, he won his only Oscar for On Golden Pond (1981), acting opposite Katharine Hepburn and his daughter Jane. He died five months later, in August 1982.