The couple returned to Los Angeles and quickly became part of a social group that included some of the most successful young people in the film industry, including Steve McQueen, Warren Beatty, Mia Farrow, Peter Sellers, Jacqueline Bisset, Leslie Caron, Joan Collins, Joanna Pettet, Laurence Harvey, Peter Fonda and Jane Fonda, older film stars like Henry Fonda, Kirk Douglas, Yul Brynner and Danny Kaye, musicians such as Jim Morrison and the Mamas & the Papas, and record producer Terry Melcher and his girlfriend Candice Bergen.

Refusing another long-term studio contract, Fonda returned to Broadway, wearing his own officer's cap to originate the title role in Mister Roberts, a comedy about the Navy, where Fonda, a junior officer, wages a private war against the captain.

After acting in the western movies The Tin Star ( 1957 ) and Warlock ( 1959 ), Fonda returned to the production seat for the NBC western television series The Deputy ( 1959 – 1961 ), in which he starred as Marshal Simon Fry.

Fonda returned to the play in 1975.

In 2009, Fonda returned to theater with her first Broadway performance since 1963, playing Katherine Brandt in Moisés Kaufman's 33 Variations.

Fonda made a stately exit, and Sullavan, composed and unconcerned, returned to her table and ate heartily.

In 1966 Jordan returned to Broadway, appearing in Generation with Henry Fonda.

Three months before the film's release, Bogart as Queeg appeared on the cover of TIME magazine, while on Broadway Henry Fonda was starring in the stage version ( in a different role ), both of which generated strong publicity for the film.

Yojimbo was also the origin of the " Man with No Name " trend which included Sergio Leone's For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly both also starring Clint Eastwood, and arguably continued through his 1968 opus Once Upon a Time in the West, starring Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Claudia Cardinale, and Jason Robards.

Later, Fonda moved both toward darker epics as Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West and lighter roles in family comedies like Yours, Mine and Ours with Lucille Ball.

Fonda made his mark in Westerns ( which included his most villainous role as Frank in Once Upon a Time in the West ), war films, and made frequent appearances in both television and foreign productions late in his career.

He called Dennis Hopper, and the two decided to turn that into a movie, The Loners, with Hopper directing, Fonda producing, and both starring and writing.

In 1979, he both produced and starred in The China Syndrome, a dramatic film co-starring Jane Fonda and Jack Lemmon about a nuclear power plant accident ( the Three Mile Island accident took place 12 days after the film's release ).

After the success of Easy Rider, both Hopper and Fonda were in a position to make any film project they wanted.

She married Henry Fonda on December 25, 1931 in Baltimore, while both were performing with the University Players in its 18-week winter season there.

Starring Jane Fonda and Jon Voight, both in Academy Award-winning performances, it was for this film that Ashby earned his only Best Director nomination from the Academy for his work.

When the gender of the character was changed, both Ann-Margret and Jane Fonda were under consideration.

The movie, set in the American West of the 1940s, tells the story of two ranchers ( Caan and Fonda ) whose small operation is threatened both by economic hardship and the expansionist dreams of a local land baron ( Robards ).

The movie version featured Henry Fonda and remains practically the only film of the period in which both the protagonists are atheists.

ET on four TCI cable systems ( both it and Liberty Media were controlled by John Malone ); the channel debuted with an introduction by founder John Sie, who served as the president of the network from its launch until 1999 and CEO until his retirement in 2004, which was then followed by Encore's first film telecast, the 1980 film 9 to 5, starring Jane Fonda, Dolly Parton and Lily Tomlin.

His technique of cocking " in the holster " as he drew revolutionized the western and was shown in detail both by Henry Fonda in the western film The Tin Star and by John Payne in his series The Restless Gun.

Fonda made his mark in westerns and war films, and made frequent appearances in both television and foreign productions late in his career.

His films include the film noir classic The Asphalt Jungle ( 1950 ), the 1960 Hitchcock thriller Psycho and the 1960 drama Elmer Gantry, but some of his more memorable roles were in westerns such as the acclaimed Winchester ' 73 ( 1950 ) and The Far Country ( 1955 ), both with James Stewart, and The Tin Star, with Henry Fonda ( 1957 ).

In May 2011, during a press conference at the Cannes Film Festival to promote The Big Fix, a documentary produced by Fonda and Tim Robbins which examined the role of BP in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and its impact on the Gulf of Mexico, Fonda stated that he had eviscerated President Barack Obama in a letter over the spill, calling him a " fucking traitor " for allowing " foreign boots on our soil telling our military — in this case the Coast Guard — what they can and could not do, and telling us, the citizens of the United States, what we could or could not do .’"

They give three reasons for this: Maj. Major " always followed the rules, yet no-one liked him or trusted him "; his swift promotion to the rank of Major where he then remains is " a clear foreshadowing of the Peter Principle "; and the anathema to Maj. Major of being identified with Fonda, a symbol of competence, causes Maj. Major to retreat from everyone around him, making efforts to hide and to become, in the novel's words, a recluse "&# 91 ; i &# 93 ; n the midst of a few foreign acres teeming with more than two hundred people ".

The film, a musical parody of old-time westerns, enjoys a near-iconic status in the Czech Republic, and Henry Fonda was reportedly among its foreign admirers.

The studios, however, were already under a lot of pressure, not just from free-lancing actors like Bogart, James Stewart, Henry Fonda and others ( who also saved taxes as independents ), but also from the eroding impact of television and from anti-trust laws which were breaking up theater chains.

Despite approaching his seventies, Fonda continued to work in theater, television and film through the 1970s.

In 1976, Fonda appeared in several notable television productions, the first being Collision Course, the story of the volatile relationship between President Harry Truman ( E. G. Marshall ) and General MacArthur ( Fonda ), produced by ABC.

Fonda continued to act into the early 1980s, though all but one of the productions he was featured in before his death were for television.

From the beginning of his career in 1935 through his last projects in 1981, Fonda appeared in 106 films, television programs, and shorts.

In the film, obsessed roommate Leigh ties Fonda to a chair but leaves her with the television remote control.

It included two audio commentaries, one featuring actor-director-writer Dennis Hopper, the other Hopper, actor-writer Peter Fonda, and production manager Paul Lewis, Born to Be Wild ( 1995 ) and “ Easy Rider ”: Shaking the Cage ( 1999 ), documentaries about the making and history of the film, television excerpts showing Hopper and Fonda at the Cannes Film Festival, and a new video interview with BBS cofounder Steve Blauner.

The film features Jack Lemmon as a supervisor at a nuclear plant who uncovers evidence of a potential nuclear catastrophe and Jane Fonda as a television news reporter at a California television station.

While visiting the Ventana nuclear power plant outside Los Angeles, television news reporter Kimberly Wells ( Fonda ), her maverick camerman Richard Adams ( Douglas ) and their soundman Hector Salas witness the plant going through an emergency shutdown ( SCRAM ).

In 1959, Lear created his first television series starring Henry Fonda, a half-hour western for Revue Studios called The Deputy.

The novel was then developed as a television miniseries with Tommy Lee Jones in the Wayne role, Robert Duvall in the Stewart part, and Robert Urich filling in for Fonda.

Notable attendees who did not graduate from Vassar include First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, president of the Ford Foundation Susan Berresford, actresses Jane Fonda and Anne Hathaway, actor Justin Long, member of the Beastie Boys Mike D and professional chef and television personality Anthony Bourdain.

Bridget Jane Fonda ( born January 27, 1964 ) is an American film and television actress.

Fonda was also offered the lead role in the television series Ally McBeal ( later accepted by Calista Flockhart ), but turned it down to focus on her film career.

She was a guest star on many television series, including The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse ( The Sisters, with Grace Kelly, 1951 ), I Love Lucy ( 1954 ), Producers ' Showcase ( The Petrified Forest, with Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart, and Henry Fonda, 1955 ), The Beverly Hillbillies ( 1964 ), Mayberry RFD ( 1970 ), The Brady Bunch ( 1974 ), and Phyllis ( 1976 ).

Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart, and Henry Fonda in the 1955 live televised versionIn 1955, a live television version was performed as an installment of Producer's Showcase, a weekly dramatic anthology, featuring Bogart ( now top-billed ) as Mantee, Henry Fonda as Alan, and Bogart's wife Lauren Bacall as Gabrielle.

Klugman says his greatest thrill was appearing with Humphrey Bogart and Henry Fonda in a 1955 live television broadcast of The Petrified Forest.

Peter Fonda stars as a young television commercial director, Paul Groves.