Henry fonda is regarded as an old Hollywood legend, along with james stewart and Joshua Logan. His films of the past 50 years are almost household names in America. He is descended from Dutch immigrants. His father owns a paint shop. He was determined to be a writer when he was a teenager. During his college years, he was fascinated by drama and often participated in amateur drama performances. Henry fonda was born in May 1905 on Grand Island, Nebraska. He made his debut at Omaha Community Theatre, an amateur troupe, and studied at Cape Cod University. 1926 came to Broadway to seek development and began his acting career for nine years. The original Broadway plays included The New Face of America and Farmers Married. The latter was put on the big screen on 1935, still starring henry fonda, thus starting the Hollywood acting career. The following year, he married Francis Seymour Fonda and had a pair of children-movie stars jane fonda and Peter Fonda.

Henry fonda's main screen images are Lincoln in Young Mr Lincoln and Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath, which won him an Oscar nomination.

With Norman Thayer's wonderful performance in the film Golden Pond, henry fonda won the Oscar for Best Actor with 1982. At the age of 76, he became the oldest actor in Oscar history. He died in Los Angeles in August of the same year.

Because they live in the northeast of Omaha, the Fonda family and another movie star, Marlon Brando family, have a long history, but they have never heard of each other before, because Fonda is older. In fact, when Brando was a teenager, Henry was already the most famous actor in Omaha.