American actor (1905–1982)
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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.
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…
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She was not an easy woman to categorize or to explain. If I´ve ever known anyone in my life, man or woman, who was unique, it was she. There was nobody like her before or since.
I've been close to Bette Davis for thirty-eight years - and I have the cigarette burns to prove it.
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