Peter Fonda Overview

When Peter Fonda said, "I was famous from birth," he wasn't describing a blessing, but a curse. "From the time I was born, I was Henry Fonda's son. I could be digging a ditch now and the guys at the other end of the ditch would be going, 'Do you know who that is?'" As the child of one of America's greatest thespians, Fonda enjoyed early success on Broadway at 22. Yet every time he made his entrance he'd hear the audience buzzing—"Oh, he walks just like his dad"—to all the directors and fellow... See All