ID: ind01563
Name: Henry Jaynes FONDA
Given Name: Henry Jaynes
Surname: Fonda
Sex: M
Birth: 16 MAY 1905
Death: 12 AUG 1982
Age: 77y 2m 27d
Note: b. Grand Island, Hall Co., NE; 1910, 1920 & 1930 US Federal Census, Omaha, Douglas Co., NE; 1940 US Federal Census, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., CA (Henry Fonda, b. 1905, NE, Head); SSDI Los Angeles, CA; [National World War II Memorial - Henry Fonda Hollywood, CA U.S. Navy Patrick B. Miano]; [National World War II Memorial - Henry Fonda Grand Island, NE U.S. Navy Joe Arsena]; [When Henry was still an infant, the family moved to Omaha, Nebraska, where his father William opened a print shop. As a child, Fonda liked to write, winning a short story contest when he was ten years old. Two years later he began working in his father's shop after school. After graduating from Omaha Central High School in 1923, Fonda entered the University of Minnesota to study journalism. William Fonda insisted that his son hold a job while in college, and Fonda held two. He worked as a physical education instructor at a settlement house and for the telephone company. The strain of maintaining two jobs may have contributed to Fonda's dropping out of school after about two years. In 1925, Fonda returned to Omaha, to look for a job in journalism. He made his acting debut with the Omaha Community Playhouse, a local amateur theater troupe directed by Dorothy Brando. He moved to the Cape Cod University Players and later Broadway, NY to expand his theatrical career from 1926 to 1934. His first major roles in Broadway include "New Faces of America" and "The Farmer Takes a Wife". The latter play was transferred to the screen in 1935 and became the start-up of Fonda's lifelong Hollywood career. The following year he married Frances Seymour Fonda with whom he had two children: Jane and Peter Fonda also to become screen stars. He is most remembered for his roles as Abe Lincoln in Young Mr. Lincoln (1939), Tom Joad in Grapes of Wrath, The (1940), for which he received an Academy Award Nomination, and more recently, Norman Thayer in On Golden Pond (1981), for which he received an Academy Award for Best Actor in 1982. Henry Fonda is considered one of Hollywood's old-time legends and was friend and contemporary of James Stewart, John Ford and Joshua Logan. His movie career which spanned almost 50 years is completed by a notable presence in American theater and television. On January 22, 1981, the same year that On Golden Pond came out, Henry Fonda signed his last will. It was only three pages long, but it expressed in a simple and direct way a thoughtful consideration for his family. A year later, Henry Fonda died, leaving a legacy of great film roles. On the silver screen, he was always at his best when he played a humble man faced with big problems. When you read his will in Appendix A, you can see how much he was a simple man in real life, too. For example, he provides modest instructions concerning his funeral and cremation: "It is my wish that there be no funeral or memorial service at the time of my death, and that my remains be promptly cremated and disposed of without ceremony of any kind." Cause of death: Heart Failure. Henry's body was cremated at Westwood Village Mortuary and his ashes were reportedly in the possession of his last wife Shirlee (Adams) Fonda]; [After famous film star Henry Fonda died of a heart attack, his actor children, Jane and Peter, were stunned to find that they'd been left out of his will, because he felt they were financially independent. He left over $100,000 to his adopted daughter, Amy, and everything else to his fifth wife Shirlee.]; o. Actor; WWII US Navy LT JG; [U.S. World War II Navy Muster Rolls, 1938-1949: Henry J Fonda - Ship, Station or Activity: Satterlee; Ship Number or Designation: DD 626; Muster Date: 1 Jul 1943]; [Henry Fonda - cremated, eyes donated to Manhattan Eye Institute]; [UK Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960 - Name: Henry Fonda, Arrival Date: 12/8/1932, Estimated Birth Year: abt 1904 , Gender: , Port of Departure: New York, New York, United States , Ethnicity/Nationality: , Ship Name: Plymouth, England ]; [UK Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960 - Name: Henry Fonda, Arrival Date: 6/22/1936, Estimated Birth Year: abt 1905 , Gender: , Port of Departure: New York, New York, United States , Ethnicity/Nationality: , Ship Name: Southampton, England ]; [New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 - Name: Henry J Fonda, Arrival Date: 21-Mar-1955, Estimated Birth Year: , Gender: , Port of Departure: Paris, France, Ethnicity/Nationality: , Ship Name: ]; [New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 - Name: Henry J Fonda, Arrival Date: 11-Jun-1956, Estimated Birth Year: , Gender: , Port of Departure: Gander, Newfoundland, Ethnicity/Nationality: , Ship Name: ]; [New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 - Name: Henry Jaynes Fonda, Arrival Date: 7-Jun-1957, Estimated Birth Year: , Gender: , Port of Departure: Rome, Italy, Ethnicity/Nationality: , Ship Name: ] >> www.fonda.org <<
Father: William Brace FONDA b: 12 FEB 1879
Mother: Herberta Lamphear JAYNES b: 26 JUN 1879
Marriage 1
Margaret Brooke SULLAVAN b: 16 MAY 1911
- Married:
25 DEC 1931
- Married:
- Divorced:
- Note: m. Kernan Hotel, Baltimore, MD; div. Winter 1932
Marriage 2
Frances Ford SEYMOUR b: 14 APR 1908
- Married:
16 SEP 1936
- Married:
- Event:
Widowed
- Note: m. Christ Church, New York City, NY; m. Sep 17, 1936, Manhattan, New York City, NY (Henry J Fonda) - New York City Groom Index 1909-1936 (no bride's name given)
Children
 Living FONDA- Living FONDA
Marriage 3
Susan Jacobson BLANCHARD b: 06 DEC 1928
- Married:
27 DEC 1950
- Married:
- Divorced:
- Note: m. Manhattan, New York City, NY; div. May 1956; she later married Michael Wager.
Children
 Living FONDA
Marriage 4
Living FRANCHETTI
Marriage 5
Living ADAMS | |
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