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American film and theater actor. Acted in films: "Young Mr. Lincoln", "Grapes of Wrath," "The Lady Eve," "My Darling Clementine," "War and Peace", "Twelve Angry Men," "On Golden Pond" and other theatrical roles: Den Harrow ( "The farmer takes a wife"), Douglas Roberts ( "Mister Roberts"), Clarence Darrow (Clarence Darrow) and others
Henry James Fund, the eldest of three children and only son of William and Herbert Breysa Fund, was born in Grand Island, Nebraska, May 16, 1905. Henry and his sisters grew up in Omaha, where his father was a small printing press. Since childhood Fund fascinated with drawing.
In 1923, after leaving school, he enrolled at the University of Minnesota in the Department of Journalism. After some time he left the university - the fate of funds came an unexpected turn. Dorothy Brando, a close friend of the mother and an active activist amateur theater in Omaha, persuaded Henry to go for replacement in the role of youths in the play Ricky F. Barry, "You and I".
During the three seasons he played in Omaha, he worked as an assistant director, was engaged in decoration of performances, and sometimes set decoration, cleared the scene ... Fund even composed a drama sketch, which acted as Secretary Abraham Lincoln.
Finally, his friend, director Joshua Logan invited Henry in their company. For several seasons Funds partner on stage was a talented actress Margaret Sallavan, his first wife.
On Broadway, the Fund first appeared in November 1929, playing a small role in the play, Holland′s "The Game of Love and Death. But finally break out of the extras he succeeded only in March 1934, when he spoke in the revue "New Faces". Summer Fund was summoned to Hollywood to meet with producer Walter Uendzherom. Henry randomly demanded a thousand dollars a week. To his amazement, a contract for two paintings a year (which allowed him to continue to work in the theater), was immediately signed.
The role of Dan Harrow in the play M. Connelly, "Farmer takes a wife, the Foundation has brought success on Broadway. She also became his film debut in the movie Fleming. Critics praised the Fund. His performance attracted the soft lyrical intonation. The actor was organically inherent naturalness, a special spiritual sensitivity, which is given by nature.
In Hollywood, the Fund often played romantic heroes in comedies and melodramas. But there were quite a few movies where he portrayed a criminal willy-nilly, a man wrongly convicted, the victim of injustice. Among them - Eddie Taylor. Hero painting by Fritz Lang′s "You only live once" (1937), the driver, a former prisoner who wanted to put the past behind and to live honestly, but he was forced to become a criminal.
In 1939, John Ford put the film "Young Mr. Lincoln." Henry considered it a great honor to embody the image of one of the greatest men of America.
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Next Ford and Funds - "Grapes of Wrath" on the novel by John Steinbeck. The tragic fate of the family Dzhoudov from Oklahoma is typical for the fate of small farmers in years of economic crisis. "I often find myself on the fact - admitted Steinbeck Foundation - that represent you when working on any book. I remember the "Grapes of Wrath" - the best of the paintings ever to come onto the screen. Your performance left an indelible mark on me. "For the role of Tom Dzhouda actor has been among the contenders for Oscar.
During his long career of Henry Fonda starred in all existing genres in film. Great success enjoyed many westerns with his participation. In the movie "Jesse James" by G. King (1939), he created the image of Frank, brother of the protagonist. According to critics and audiences, his work was interesting and original. Fund - Frank is soft and silent, though, when necessary, and he found strength and courage.
The Program to become an actor cowboys Gil Carter′s role in the film William Uellmena "Incident The Ox-Bow" (1943) based on the novel W. Clark. This stern western talked about how the three strangers, who later found themselves innocent, lynch mob brutalized the inhabitants. Hero of the Funds after much hesitation and doubt in favor of protection of the law.
Several westerns of the Fund did with John Ford. Top of their community in this area - "My Darling Clementine" (1946). The film recreated one of the legendary episodes of the famous biography of Sheriff Irpa Wyatt (played by Fonda) - a battle with a gang Klentona.
In 1941 director Preston Sterdzhes took a brilliant, witty painting "The Lady Eve", which unexpectedly discovered that the Fund is a type of "deadpan comedian." Critics have even compared him to Buster Keaton. He played a rich but shy young bachelor, who are trying to fool the card cardsharper - father and daughter.
In August 1942 Henry Fonda enlisted in the Navy the United States, commencing with the modest rank of quartermaster third class aboard the destroyer. In October 1945 an officer of an air force reconnaissance Henry Fonda, noted for its military achievements with honorary awards - the Bronze Star and honorable mention for the personal signature of the President - had parted with uniforms and returned home, where he waited for his wife Frances Seymour Brokaw, seven-year old daughter, Jane and five year old son Peter.
In his spare time, he grew vegetables on his farm in Brentwood. Jane and Peter in childhood often seen his father in working clothes, plowing a field on a tractor. When Jane was a little girl, she was not aware of this profession his father until his mother asked why suddenly my father grew a beard. And Peter, seeing his father in one of the westerns, came to the wild enthusiasm and made a game of "Indians".
Fund keen on photography, sculpture, but especially - painting.
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In 1947, the number of thirty actors, he took part in the protest movement against the work of the Commission on Un-American Activities. During the cold war, the Fund did not work in Hollywood. One of his last works before the long break was the role in the film "Long Night" by A. Litvak - a remake of Marcel Carne′s famous painting "The day begins," where he played a role in the French version performed by Jean Gabin.
In 1948 he took a triumphant return of funds to Broadway in a heroic comedy "Mister Roberts". The author of the play Tom Hegge said: "When I wrote to Roberts, the main hero, I saw the Foundation." Actor and character have merged into one. Henry fell in love with her Lt. Douglas Roberts, this is an incorrigible idealist, bringing in a lot of personal interpretation of the image. Comedy dye attached to its ease of execution and agility. The role of Douglas Roberts was one of the top acting achievements of the Fund on the stage.
In 1955, the actor returned to Hollywood. During filming of the play "Mister Roberts" took John Ford. The image of the protagonist was too close to the Funds, own, and those amendments which would make in his interpretation of the director, were for him impossible. Matters came to a quarrel, and finished film Mervyn Le Roy.
Fund reacted enthusiastically to the proposal to play Pierre Bezukhov in the Italo-American adaptation of "War and Peace" (1956) Tolstoy. "I know that is not physically go over to Pierre - he said. - But I decided that if you wear glasses, a little wool substrate, Please comb the hair on his forehead, that′s okay ... They had a shock when they saw my makeup. Vatu removed immediately, despite my protests. There was a fierce battle between me and the producer, whether you need to wear glasses. " His Pierre Bezukhov, slender and elegant, with slow movements of a panther and low tones, was charming.
In 1957, the Fund finances staging the film "Twelve Angry Men." He carefully worked out all the subtleties of the character of his hero, an architect of Davis. Twelve jurors have a verdict: the defendant is guilty or innocent. And only the eighth juror, Davis, fully aware of its responsibility for the fate of a particular defendant ...
"I am a man, prone to introspection, introspection, - said Henry in an interview. - The most exciting, most exciting work - preparation. You are slowly moving in search of the spirit and temperament, character, yet realize that they have mastered. Very slowly parted ways with him and become a different person. " And again: "I prefer to work in the theater, because there can be constantly evolving nature of the hero. Only once did it for me really could have been done in cinema - "Twelve Angry Men."
Foundation participated in the election "show" Kennedy, and its popularity has greatly assisted the candidate.
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In the late 1960′s Henry first appeared in negative roles. In the western, "The Fiery Brook" V. Makiviti he plays the head of a gang of bandits who terrorized the entire city. In the "spaghetti westerns" of Italian director Sergio Leone Once Upon a Time in the West "- a cold-blooded assassin. But American audiences have not taken these films, and Sergio Leone accused almost in the attack on the national shrine.
Meanwhile, finally create a personal life funds, which is still taking shape is not easy. The actor was married five times, with two of his wives committed suicide (including the mother of Jane Fonda, who had learned about her husband′s infidelity). Successful one was just the latest marriage, when he was already at an advanced age, 3 December 1966, he married a young stewardess Shirley Adams.
Fund, and after sixty was as slender, smart and just as adroitly sat in the saddle, as in thirty-five. And this despite the fact that "cowboy Foundation, the American version of Robin Hood, confessed that all his life, hated and feared horses.
In the past decade and a half life of Henry Fonda was filmed very active, mostly in the commercial cinema. "No one ever invited me to work again, nobody I did not need ... It sounds ridiculous, but that′s why I agreed to the proposals on which I should refuse "- lamented the Fund. He said he was "dead tired to play a role, which he did not like, but the question of why, skipping the 70-year anniversary, continues to work so hard, explained that" can not even think about something more important than work. " And he added: "If I did not become an actor, you probably would become a branch manager of the bank loan and would not know what I could lose. It′s just like Robert Frost: "Two paths in the woods look exactly the same, you choose one of them and do not know what promises another ..."
Theater - the first and main love Funds - brought him at this time and more joy. Actor performance in the play D. Rintelsa "Clarence Darrow" He played the famous lawyer, a liberal.
Fund advocated the liberation of the theater from the U.S. government commerce. Decisive role, in his opinion, should play a theater with a permanent company. He attempted, however, not crowned with success, to organize a permanent repertory theater. "We need a strong national theater school, - emphasized the Fund - where actors, writers and directors could learn a profession without the pressure of commercial theater, where they could improve their skills." The last time the Fund has appeared on Broadway in 1979 in a play by J.
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Henry Fonda worked a lot on television. Among his TV movies - three on the works of Steinbeck: America and Americans, " Red Pony "," Travels with Charley. "
In Skvom Lake in the summer of 1980 was born last film Henry Fonda, who was for him a very expensive, largely autobiographical. "I have never had such a good role. Perhaps this is the best thing I did, "- said the Fund on the role of Norman Thayer in the movie" On Golden Pond "by Mark Riedel. On the first day of shooting his partner Katharine Hepburn presented Henry Spencer Tracy′s hat - there he was shot, and it has become for them a symbol of memory about the last of the three great American actors.
Henry Fonda actually played himself, an old man, slowly approaching death, experiencing fear of the inevitable, but still full of humor and deep humanity. And his character would be completely unable to utter words, which in real life the actor said: "I suppose everything happens as if by itself. And we must continue to live and enjoy and do not let time erode themselves. Must necessarily survive. "
"Working with the Foundation makes me cry - said Katharine Hepburn, who played his wife. - He feels so deeply, so is given as an actor! .. I have always, of course, they admired, but to work with him - just a miracle. " Come true at last, and long-standing dream of Jane - to withdraw with his father. Henry does not approve of early cinematic career as the daughter of a sex symbol in films her first husband, French director Roger Vadim, as well as excessively radical social and political activities, Jane. However, years of patience and mutual brought father and daughter to reconciliation, as it happened on the screen. And for two years before, Henry played in the film "Wanda Nevada", staged by his son, Peter Fonda.
The film "On Golden Pond" was released on U.S. screens in November 1981. For his role in this picture, the Fund finally got his first Oscar.
August 12, 1982 Henry Fonda died.
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