American actor
Born: February 23, 1940
Died: August 16, 2019
Peter Henry Fonda was born in New York City, to legendary screen star Henry Fonda and Ontario, Canada-born New York socialite Frances Brokaw (born Frances Ford Seymour). He was the younger brother of actress and activist Jane Fonda and the father of actress Bridget Fonda.
Fonda made his professional stage debut on Broadway in 1961 in Blood, Sweat and Stanley Poole, for which he received rave reviews from the New York Critics, and won the Daniel Blum Theater World Award and the New York Critics Circle Award for Best New Actor. He began his feature film career in 1963, playing the romantic lead in Tammy and the Doctor and joined the ensemble cast of the World War II saga, The Victors.
Shortly thereafter, Fonda began what would become a famous association with Roger Corman, starring in Wild Angels, as the ultra-cool, iron-fisted leader of a violent biker gang, opposite Nancy Sinatra, Bruce Dern, and Diane Ladd. Fonda starred in Corman’s 1967 psychedelic film The Trip, also starring Dern and Susan Strasberg. His next project was the seminal 1969 anti-establishment film Easy Rider, which he produced and co-scripted, receiving an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay.
His acting credits included the feature films Outlaw Blues, an expose of the country music business; Dirty Mary; Crazy Larry; Race with the Devil; Robert Rossen’s Lilith; Split Image; Robert Wise’s Two People; and the cult films Love and a.45 and Nadja. He appeared in Grace of My Heart (directed by Alison Anders), and John Carpenter’s Escape from L.A., starring Kurt Russell. He made a cameo appearance in Bodies, Heat, and Motion, which starred his daughter Bridget Fonda.
Peter Fonda’s 5 most popular quotes
- Regular chiropractic adjustments go hand in hand with good health.
- I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.
- I truly miss the genius of the music of John Lennon, as I’m sure everybody does.
- People ask me from time to time what it was like growing up with Henry Fonda as my father. I say, Ever see Fort Apache? He was like Colonel Thursday.
- I wasn’t really aware that my father was working for quite a while. I thought it was my mother who had all the money!
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