American actor and filmmaker (1940–2019)
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He co-wrote and starred in Easy Rider, the 1969 counterculture touchstone that made him an Oscar nominee before he'd turned thirty. Son of Henry, brother of Jane, father of Bridget — but the chopper film was his alone.
Peter Henry Fonda was born February 23, 1940, into Hollywood's first family and started on stage, winning a New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Blood, Sweat and Stanley Poole. Easy Rider in 1969 brought him an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay and made him the face of a generation's restlessness. He directed himself in the revisionist Western The Hired Hand in 1971, then spent the next decade as an action lead in films like Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry and Futureworld. Nearly three decades later he landed the role that reframed his career: Ulee's Gold in 1997 earned him a s…
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I lead a very interesting life. Every day there is something very different, enticing, and exciting that happens to me or around me.
I believe that one is only truly free when learning, and one can only learn when one is free.
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