Peter Henry Fonda (February 23, 1940 – August 16, 2019) was an American actor.
He became one of the symbols the counterculture of the 1960s with his role as Wyatt in Easy Rider (1969), which he also co-wrote and for which he earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay. He was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for Ulee's Gold (1997).
He was the son of Henry Fonda, the younger brother of Jane Fonda, and the father of Bridget Fonda. He passed away from respiratory failure stemming from lung cancer, one month after the 50th anniversary of the release of Easy Rider.
Films with pages on TV Tropes:
- The Victors (1963)
- The Wild Angels (1966)
- The Trip (1967)
- Spirits of the Dead (1968)
- Easy Rider (1969)
- The Hired Hand (1971)
- The Last Movie (1971)
- Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry (1974)
- Open Season (1974)
- Race with the Devil (1975)
- Futureworld (1976)
- Fighting Mad (1976)
- Wanda Nevada (1979)
- The Cannonball Run (1981)
- Deadfall (1993)
- Nadja (1994)
- Escape from L.A. (1996)
- Grace of My Heart (1996)
- The Limey (1999)
- Thomas and the Magic Railroad (2000)
- Wooly Boys (2001)
- The Laramie Project (2002)
- The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (2004)
- Ghost Rider (2007)
- Wild Hogs (2007)
- 3:10 to Yuma (2007)
- Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)
- The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day (2009)
TV Shows with pages on TV Tropes:
- ER (2007)
- Californication (2009)
- CSI: NY (2011)
- Hawaii Five-0 (2011)
- The Blacklist (2014)
- Documentary Now! (2016)
- Milo Murphy's Law (2017-2018)
Tropes applying to his roles:
- Actor Allusion:
- In Ghost Rider (2007), Mephistopheles comments on Johnny Blaze's chopper, which is a Panhead that was custom built for the movie to resemble the "Captain America" chopper used by Fonda in Easy Rider.
- He's Damian Blade, a (benevolent) old biker gang leader, in Wild Hogs.
- Cool Old Guy: His coolness didn't disappear with age at all, onscreen or in real life.
- Cool Shades: In many of his roles. In his later years, he was almost never seen without them.
