Henry Fonda: podcast appearances and interviews

Henry Jaynes Fonda was an American actor whose career spanned five decades on Broadway and in Hollywood. Known for portraying characters with an everyman image, Fonda made his mark early as a Broadway actor before making his Hollywood film debut in 1935. He gained fame through performances in films such as Jezebel, Jesse James, and Young Mr. Lincoln, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath. Fonda starred opposite Barbara Stanwyck in the 1941 screwball comedy The Lady Eve and served in World War II before taking prominent roles in Westerns like The Ox-Bow Incident, My Darling Clementine, and Fort Apache. During a seven-year hiatus from films, he returned to the stage and later starred in the war-boat ensemble Mister Roberts. In 1956, Fonda portrayed Manny Balestrero in Alfred Hitchcock's The Wrong Man, and in 1957 he played Juror 8 in 12 Angry Men, a film he co-produced that earned him a BAFTA award. Throughout his later years, he played diverse roles ranging from villains in Once Upon a Time in the West to military figures in Battle of the Bulge and Midway. Fonda received the Academy Award for Best Actor for his final film, On Golden Pond, in 1981. He was the father of notable actors including Jane Fonda and Peter Fonda, and was recognized by the American Film Institute as the sixth-Greatest Male Screen Legend of the Classic Hollywood Era. Fonda passed away from heart disease in 1982, five months after winning his Oscar.