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Director: Luc Besson Edit Storyline The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young man is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open-and-shut case of murder soon becomes a detective story that presents a succession of clues creating doubt, and a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other. Based on the play, all of the action takes place on the stage of the jury room. Written by pjk <PETESID@VNET.IBM.COM> They have twelve scraps of paper... Twelve chances to kill! See more » Genres: April 1957 (USA) See more » Also Known As: Twelve Angry Men See more » Filming Locations: Did You Know? Trivia Juror #7 looks at his watch a total of 28 times throughout the whole movie. See more » Goofs When Juror #8 is imitating the old man going to the door, as he is completing the first leg of his walk the shadow of the camera following him is clearly visible on the floor by his feet.

See more » Quotes [first lines] Man in corridor: You did a wonderful job, wonderful job! Judge : To continue, you've listened to a long and complex case, murder in the first degree. Premeditated murder is the most serious charge tried in our criminal courts. You've listened to the testimony, you've had the law read to you and interpreted as it applies in this case, it's now your duty to sit down and try to separate the facts from the fancy. One man is dead, another man's life is at stake, if there's a reasonable doubt in your minds as to... See more » Crazy Credits At the end of the film, the actors are billed in order of their juror numbers; thus Henry Fonda, although the star of the film, appears 8th. See more » Connections (Melbourne, Australia) – See all my reviews ........Films rarely get this uplifting and brilliant. I cannot think of the last time I was so intrigued by the flawless plot, dialogue and acting since 12 Angry Men.

For such a simplistic story set in one jury room, it is surprising that Sidney Lumet can drain you of all your emotions and leave you on the edge of your seat with suspense, mystery, and some of the best acting your bound to ever see grace the silver screen! When a boy is on last day of trial for killing his father in the heat of domestic arguments, 12 jury men are forced to present a verdict in which if guilty, is the one way ticket to the electric chair for the boy. When the jury men decide to quickly end the discussion and raise their hands to find out who thinks the boy is guilty, only one jury man (Henry Fonda) doesn't put his hand up. Trial and Character revelations, doubts, and possibilities follow. So masterfully crafted is this film, that every time I watch it, only gets better. It includes some of the best character development I've ever seen. Sidney Lumet is an expert in this field and this is by far his greatest contribution to Hollywood history - one of the most important contributions to world cinema. However it was Henry Fonda and Lee J. Cobb who really made this film legendary, with their incredibly realistic performances. Casting was genius.

And the dialogue was astoundingly riveting up until the brilliant finale. What really impressed me personally also was the camera angles and movements that made the film so suspenseful. Black and White made the film all the more powerful. And the music was minimal, which gave the film a more atmospheric experience, like you were their in the jury room with them and you just feel that tension really built up as the movie proceeds. This inexpensive film, with such a simple setting had the world talking, the academy awards nominations rolling and Henry Fonda at his complete best form. I have rarely been so hypnotized by a film - 'Lawrence Of Arabia' and 'It's A Wonderful Life' are other ones that come to mind. This is a definitive viewing for anyone who loves film. It sums up everything I love about film. Everything from a technical point of view to superb acting and a simple yet complex character driven story, it's platinum and is most definitely one of the greatest cinematic achievements of all time - bar none! A statue should be erected in Sydney Lumet's honor...... "Is it possible?" - Juror #8/Henry Fonda 324 of 375 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you?

Yes ’12 Angry Men’ | All Saints Church All Saints Church Summer Stock Comes to All Saints’ July 2016! 12 Angry Men by Reginald Rose Performance Dates and Times Sorry, tickets no longer available. Sunday, July 17 at 5:00 pm Closing Night SOLD OUT! The History of 12 Angry Men by Reginald Rose Originally staged as a CBSTV live production in September 1954 under the title Twelve Angry Men, it was rewritten the following year for the stage by its author, Reginald Rose and again for a feature film, 12 Angry Men in 1957. The iconic movie, directed by Sidney Lumet, starred Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley, E.G. Marshall and Jack Warden and is probably what most people think of when they hear the name of the drama. However, 12 Angry Men is ideally suited to the stage.

The twelve jurors’ deliberations take place almost exclusively in the jury room – unusual for a film, perfect for a play and a wonderful distraction-free opportunity for the audience to observe the fascinating interactions of the widely different personalities of the jurors and the intense conflict of the consensus-building process. 12 Angry Men at All Saints’ Here at All Saints’ we tend to look at culture through the lens of our Christian faith. We believe that Sunday’s not the only day to be challenged to think. We invite you to come and experience an iconic, provocative play about bias, justice and reconciliation performed by professional actors from our community. In fact, cast members have appeared in many movies including the Coen Bros’ Hail Caesar!, The American President, Battle of the Sexes, Don’t Kill It, TV shows including Californication, Blackbeard, Arliss, All My Children and AMC’s Fear the Walking Dead and stage productions including Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins, Kevin Murphy’s Reefer Madness, Waltz of the Toreadors, Guys and Dolls, and Harold Pinter’s Betrayal.

When parishioner James Chalke suggested the idea of a summer stock production of 12 Angry Men to benefit the Monday Meal, Steve Huber loved the idea, but felt it could actually benefit all our Social Justice Ministries . So whether you purchase a ticket, advertise in the program or become a sponsor, you will be helping several wonderful causes. The Monday Meal We feed 130 to 150 homeless and food-insecure guests every week, at All Saints’ – just a block from Rodeo Drive. Honduras Medical Mission Every year, we deliver medical care to 1,200 villagers in rural Honduras, the only care that the villagers receive until our All Saints’ volunteers return the following year. Get on the Bus We reunite a busload of children with their parents, all of whom are incarcerated in the California Prison System; our trips take place twice a year. Los Angeles LGBT Youth Center All Saints’ volunteers cook and serve a monthly Saturday brunch for our community’s homeless and runaway LGBT youth; the brunch is served at the LA LGBT Center in Hollywood. In 2015, All Saints’ Beverly Hills was voted Best Group Volunteer by the Center.

Navajoland Summer Mission Trip Our teenage parishioners spend a week on the Navajo reservation near Bluff, Utah, organizing and providing Vacation Bible School and summer camp activities; serving community dinners to our Navajo partners; and helping out on the mission, wherever they can. Imagine LA We work with two recently homeless families, helping them to develop the life-skills necessary to maintain stable housing arrangements and to thrive in the community. 12 Angry Men is All Saints’ first foray into Summer Stock and is the brainchild of actor-parishioner, James Chalke. James directs, produces and plays Juror #8. ‘It’s such a change of pace for me,” he says ‘action adventure films are great, but 12 Angry Men is an amazing study in personalities and how they interact with each other. I think the intensity of emotions stretched all of us.’ Cast There will be faces in both cast and crew that are familiar to All Saints’ parishioners.

Juror 1 Don Monroe Juror 2 Ernie James Paris Juror 3 Clement von Franckenstein Juror 4 Joshua Christian Juror 12 Michael Jay Copeland Bios Don Monroe (Juror 1) Don has a Drama Degree from Kansas Wesleyan University and a long career in TV, movies, commercials, music videos, short Films, YouTube and Funny Or Die comedy shorts. His latest work includes All The Way with Brian Cranston, Battle Of The Sexes with Emma Stone, Hail Caesar! with George Clooney and a starring role in The Outside. Don has two adult children, two grandchildren, lives in Westwood and has been an active member of All Saints’ for many years. Ernie James Paris (Juror 2) A native of San Jose, California, Ernie is an actor, producer and musician, with credits in music, television, film and theater. He was Associate Producer on Dolph Lundgren’s Shark Lake in 2015, worked on the production of the 51st and 52nd Grammys and the Grammy MusiCares charity events, honoring the likes of Paul McCartney, Barbara Strisand and other featured artists.

He toured with music groups and recorded many music-related projects. He is currently a producer for Paris5000 Music & Film Production Company in Los Angeles. Ernie is the proud father of two sons, Quentin and Michael. Clement von Franckenstein (Juror 3) Clement attended Eton College in England and served as a Lieutenant in the Royal Scots Greys. Clement’s stage experience includes originating the role of Gen. Chuck Gurgidson in the hit musical satire The Madness of George ‘W’-Strangelove Revisited that ran for eight months in London’s West End. He has appeared in over seventy films including the Coen Bros’ Hail Caesar!, The American President (French President). Clement’s many television credits include Californication, Blackbeard, Arliss, and All My Children. He is a parishioner at All Saints’, an usher and a lector. Josh Christian (Juror 4) Josh is from Lowell, Massachusetts. He graduated from Oberlin College with a B.A. in Politics, lived for two years in New York, and then attended Georgetown University Law Center in Washington DC, earning his J.D. in 2015.

He was heavily involved with Oberlin’s Theater and Dance department as an actor, most notably performing as John Wilkes Booth in Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins, the Lecturer in Kevin Murphy’s Reefer Madness, and Jerry in Harold Pinter’s Betrayal. He has also done a bit of acting since arriving in California, appearing with the Defiance Theatre Company in North Hollywood and in several short films, including Spiral Pictures’ Drifter, directed by Teal Greyhavens. Josh has been a parishioner and a member of the All Saints’ Choir since the summer of 2015. Peter Ciarcia (Juror 5) Peter was born in Connecticut. He was bitten by the stage bug early in life, and appeared in every school production that would have him. He got his first laugh in a middle school production. “It was the greatest feeling of absolute power I ever felt. And I was hooked for life!” He graduated from the University of Hartford with a degree in Theater Arts and was accepted to the conservatory program of The National Shakespeare Company in New York. There he studied under the late Mario Seletti and Robert Perillo both from Stella Adler. Among his credits are General St.

Pé in Waltz of the Toreadors, and both Nathan Detroit and Big Jule in productions of Guys and Dolls. Marc Soper Regen Wilson (Juror 7) Regen is an actor in television, film, commercials, voiceover and theatre. He spent many years in the Washington, DC – Baltimore market before working in New York City and eventually making the move to Los Angeles. He was on AMC’S Fear the Walking Dead earlier this season and will also appear in the suspense feature The Suffering in theatres June, 2016. He would like to thank James for cutting his best lines. James Chalke (Juror 8) James was born in India, raised in England, and spent time in the Middle East with the British military before heeding the call of the entertainment industry. He soon moved to Los Angeles, where he has landed many film roles – frequently as the sinister guy. He just wrapped shooting Dead Trigger in Mexico, in which he played a priest! Strangely, in his previous film, Don’t Kill It, which he co-produced, he also played a man of the cloth. He has co-produced other films and is branching out into producing as well as acting and directing.

He has also produced and directed music videos. 12 Angry Men is James’ theatrical debut as a director. He has produced and acted in other theatrical productions such as John Patrick Shanley’s Four Dogs and A Bone and more recently co-starred with Sal Landi in Sam Shepard’s Simpatico and Blue Room. Bill Givens (Juror 9) Bill is an entertainment journalist and author of seven movie-related books, primarily the Film FlubsTM series. He has appeared on a number of national television shows, including The Today Show, Dateline NBC, and 20/20. He also was writer of the Discovery Channel’s Hollywood Stuntmakers series starring James Coburn, and was editor of Animation Magazine. He was profiled in Biography Magazine. As an actor, he appeared in several community theatre productions in Memphis, TN, and in professional productions of Jesus Christ Superstar and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at Playhouse on the Square. He also was a member of the Opera Memphis chorus and served as its president. He was chair of the Communications Program Board of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, and recently retired from the All Saints’ choir after 30 years.

An aviation buff, he is a licensed pilot and author of Flying with Loran-C. Morry Schorr (Juror 10) After a quarter century managing law firms, Morry Schorr returned to acting in 2005. Since then he has appeared on stage, most recently at SkyPilot Theater in The Mermaid Wars, on the internet, most recently in the web series Ghost Ghirls, in film, most recently in the docudrama The Wandering Day and on TV, notably in Nip/Tuck and, most recently, the new series Friend Me. Morry received degrees in Theater Arts from SUNY Binghamton and the University of Illinois and an MBA from Cal State Northridge. Emilio Baldioli (Juror 11) Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Emilio has a degree in Sociology from the University of Buenos Aires. He was a teacher, a university professor, worked in marketing and advertising and at “Presidencia de la Nación,” where he was an analyst of government’s plans for the then President of the country.

He has been living in Los Angeles since 1982 and soon after he has was back in advertising writing, producing and doing voice over for many radio and tv spots, mainly for the US Hispanic market. He also became and still is real estate agent. Years later he was invited to join the roster of a talent agency and since then Emilio has been in films, worldwide commercials and prints campaigns for Mini Cooper, the US Pavilion, Kate Spade and Dolce & Gabbana among others. Twelve Angry Men is his on stage debut. Michael Jay Copeland (Juror 12) Michael was born in Newark, New Jersey. His family moved to Florida, and Michael spent his teenage, and early adult years on the beaches of Miami as an ocean lifeguard,sportsman, and all-round adventurer. Having an artistic calling at mid-life, he then moved to Los Angeles in 2013, and has studied with many renowned acting teachers. This production of 12 Angry Men will be his stage debut.

12 Angry Men 12 Angry Men Emma Collison Publicity Emma Collison Publicist t 61 2 9326 5554 m 0418 584 795 emma@emmacollison.com Subscribe Arts Projects Australia and Adrian Bohm present 12 Angry Men, written by Reginald Rose and directed by Guy Masterson. The cast reads like a who’s who of Australian theatre and television and includes Aaron Blabey, Shane Bourne, Russell Fletcher, Peter Flett, Marcus Graham, George Kapiniaris, Rob Meldrum, Alex Menglet, Nicholas Papademetriou, Peter Phelps, Richard Piper and Henri Szeps. Masterson’s original international production was a smash hit at the Perth International Arts Festival, Adelaide Bank 2004 Festival of the Arts and New Zealand International Festival of Arts, paying homage to the 1957 film version, which starred Henry Fonda and Lee J. Cobb. Set in New York in 1957, a delinquent awaits sentencing for the manslaughter of his aggressive father.

One juror feels that there is a ‘reasonable doubt’ – to the frustration of his eleven colleagues – thus preventing a quick verdict. During the heated deliberations, the hidden preconceptions and assumptions of the jurors are revealed. In a work of brilliantly balanced tension, when faced with playing the hangman, each juror is forced to face himself. Reginald Rose first penned The Twelve Angry Men, a beautifully crafted award winning masterpiece, after his own real-life experience as a juror in 1954, for CBS Television. This version was broadcast live and won three Emmys. The production attracted the attention of Henry Fonda, who together with Rose produced the film version, directed by Sidney Lumet and boasting a cast of now well-known faces, including Lee J. Cobb, Jack Klugman, Robert Webber, E.G. Marshall, and Jack Warden, as well as Fonda himself. The film was nominated for three Oscars, and Fonda later recalled it as one of his personal favorites. Rose then adapted his screenplay for the stage, and the play was first presented in London in 1964.

Guy Masterson is a performer, producer, director and writer well known to international audiences having presented or performed in over 50 shows in 10 years which have won variously 8 Fringe First Awards and 3 Stage Best Actor Awards (including one for Masterson himself in 2001) and 20 Stage Best Actor, Actress or Ensemble award nominations. In 2003, he was awarded the prestigious Jack Tinker Memorial Spirit of the Fringe Award by the Daily Mail for his outstanding contribution to the Edinburgh Festival. Tour Dates 12 angry men | The 20 best courtroom films - Film Film Previous slide Next slide 3 of 21 View All Skip Ad 12 Angry Men (1957) A teenage boy is on trial for killing his father. Henry Fonda, one of the jurors, begs his 11 colleagues to look closely at the facts of the trial. What results is a study in humanity as each of the jurors faces his own prejudices and emotions. In 2007, 12 Angry Men was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

The film was written and produced by Reginald Rose and directed by Sidney Lumet. Sidney Lumet: New York-based movie director behind '12 Angry Men', 'Dog Day Afternoon', 'Network' and 'Serpico' | The Independent Sidney Lumet: New York-based movie director behind '12 Angry Men', 'Dog Day Afternoon', 'Network' and 'Serpico' Sunday 10 April 2011 23:00 BST Click to follow The Independent Online Sidney Lumet was a director of over 50 films, noted for the quick cutting and inventive set-ups he brought to his many adaptations of stage hits, while his gritty presentation of New York in several socially conscious films brought him comparisons with the masters of neo-realism. Players produced much of their best work under his guidance – 17 received Oscar nominations for their work in his films – and he was drawn to tales of moral complexity, with characters who face difficult choices or solitary battles.

His first film, Twelve Angry Men (1957), depicted a lone juror trying to convince the other 11 they should change their verdicts; Fail Safe (1964) showed a US President confronted with nuclear war; Serpico (1973) was the true story of a cop exposing corruption among his colleagues; in Dog Day Afternoon (1975) a homosexual loser robs a bank to pay for his lover's sex-change operation; and Network (1976) examined the delusions of a television prophet who proclaims to his audience, "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this any more." The son of Yiddish performers, Lumet was born in Philadelphia in 1924. His father, Baruch Lumet, was an actor, writer and director who later played small roles in several of his son's films, and his mother was a dancer who died when he was a child. Lumet made his professional debut on radio aged four, and the following year acted at the Yiddish Art Theatre. When not acting, he studied at the Professional Children's School of New York and Columbia University.

In 1935, he played one of the youngsters in Sidney Kingsley's hit play, Dead End, which revealed the effect of the slums on New York youths, and in 1939 he had his only film role, in One Third of a Nation, as the crippled young brother of a poor girl (Sylvia Sidney) determined to escape her tenement environment – the title came from Roosevelt's statement that one third of the country's population was not adequately housed. These roles foreshadowed several films Lumet was to direct set in the grubbier areas of New York and dealing with social issues. After serving in the Army Signal Corps in the Second World War, he resumed acting, taking over from Marlon Brando in Ben Hecht's Broadway play A Flag is Born (1946), then formed an off-Broadway theatre group. In 1949 he married the actress Rita Gam, and the following year he joined CBS as an assistant to Yul Brynner, a prolific TV director in his pre-film days.

After shooting the first episodes of a thriller anthology, Danger (1950), Brynner recommended that Lumet direct some episodes, and he displayed a flair for fast shooting and fluid camerawork, establishing himself as a pioneer of the golden age of live TV drama. He directed many episodes of the notable series You Were There, hosted by Walter Cronkite, in which major events in history were re-enacted, and became one of the most sought-after drama directors on such anthology shows as Studio One, Omnibus and Playhouse 90. He married the socialite and heiress Gloria Vanderbilt in 1956. When Reginald Rose's teleplay 12 Angry Men was performed on television in 1954 it was directed by Franklin Schaffner, but when Henry Fonda bought the rights he chose Lumet to direct. Filmed in an actual New York jury room, with Lumet using myriad camera angles to heighten the drama, it began a long association with cameraman Boris Kaufman and it had a superb cast that Lumet rehearsed for two weeks before the 20-day shoot, resulting in fine performances and a critical hit. He was to employ the same method many times.

He worked with Fonda again on Stage Struck (1958), which starred Susan Strasberg as an aspiring actress. That Kind of Woman (1959), in which Sophia Loren had to choose between her love for a GI (Tab Hunter) or a life of luxury with a millionaire (George Sanders) was a troubled production – Lumet had disagreements with Loren's husband, Carlo Ponti, who produced the film, a box-office failure. The Fugitive Kind (1960) was based on one of Tennessee Williams's lesser plays, Orpheus Descending, in which a charismatic drifter disrupts a small town, a turgid tale despite a high-powered cast (Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani and Joanne Woodward). Lumet had more success with a live television version of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh starring Jason Robards, a screen adaptation of Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge (1961) and a beautifully realised version of O'Neill's masterwork, Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962). In 1963, Lumet married Gail Jones, the daughter of Lena Horne.

Fail Safe (1964) was another noteworthy pairing with Fonda, who played the president in a chilling account of a nuclear attack mistakenly launched against Russia. A fine film, it was overshadowed by Dr Strangelove. The Pawnbroker (1965), which starred Rod Steiger as a Jewish pawnbroker haunted by memories of concentration camps, won critical acclaim and an Oscar for Steiger, and The Hill (1965) was a grimly effective tale of life in a military prison, but Lumet had difficulty juggling storylines in an over-heated adaptation of Mary McCarthy's best-seller about the lives of a generation of Vassar graduates, The Group (1966). The Deadly Affair (1967), based on a John Le Carré spy thriller, was too late in the cycle of such dour thrillers to have the success it deserved, and the same leading players – James Mason and Simone Signoret – starred in an over-reverential version of The Sea Gull (1968).

His firing from Funny Girl (1968), after disagreements with producer Ray Stark and Barbra Streisand, began an arid period that ended with the popular heist thriller, The Anderson Tapes (1972) and Serpico, with Al Pacino as the cop who faces ostracism when he reveals corruption in the NYPD. Murder on the Orient Express (1974) followed, its sedate style in contrast to his next New York-shot film starring Pacino, Dog Day Afternoon, which brought Lumet an Oscar nomination. He said of his liking for New York: "In LA there's no streets, no sense of a neighborhood. I'm a New Yorker. I always like to be in Woody Allen's world." He was Oscar-nominated a third time for Network, a black satire on television played to the hilt by Peter Finch (who was awarded the first posthumous Oscar), Faye Dunaway and William Holden.

Lumet then had two flops, an over-studied transcription of Peter Schaffer's play, Equus (1977), and an equally misguided version of the stage musical, The Wiz (1978), based on The Wizard of Oz, with Diana Ross and Michael Jackson; even Lumet could not draw the necessary sparkle from Ross as Dorothy. He returned to political and police corruption in the bleak Prince of the City (1981) and gave Paul Newman one of his finest vehicles in The Verdict (1982), as a drunken, washed-up lawyer who finds the means to regain his self-esteem when offered a case of medical negligence. Newman expressed his admiration for Lumet: "He likes to shoot a scene in one take, two at the most. I call him Speedy Gonzales." Lumet was Oscar-nominated a fourth time. Daniel (1983), adapted from E L Doctorow's novel The Book of Daniel, was the true story of two young people whose parents, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, were executed for alleged espionage during the McCarthy era.

"Despite its critical and financial failure," Lumet said, "I think it is one of the best pictures I've ever done." Garbo Talks (1984) was an underrated comedy and another valentine to New York City. One of his finest later works was Running on Empty (1988), a wistful tale of a young boy (River Phoenix) whose parents, former Sixties activists, are constantly changing addresses to keep ahead of the FBI, who want them for an attack on a napalm plant that killed a watchman. After a mild gangster comedy, Family Business (1989) starring Sean Connery, Lumet returned to favourite themes dealing with corruption and racism in Q & A (1990) and Night Falls on Manhattan (1996). In his 1995 memoirs, Making Movies, he said of his directorial style, "Good style to me is unseen style. It is style that is felt." Lumet was presented with an honorary Academy Award for lifetime achievement in 2005. His last film, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007), a bleak tale of two venal brothers, enjoyed considerable acclaim.

Sidney Lumet, film director: born Philadelphia 25 June 1924; married 1949 Rita Gam, (divorced 1954), 1956 Gloria Vanderbilt (divorced 1963), 1963 Gail Jones (divorced 1978; two daughters), 1980 Mary Gimbel; died Manhattan 9 April 2011. More about: Henry Fonda Henry Fonda Henry Fonda in the classic 1957 film 12 Angry Men. Birth name Abraham Lincoln in Young Mr. Lincoln Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath Wyatt Earp in My Darling Clementine Lt. Col. Owen Thursday in Fort Apache Emmanuel Balestrero in The Wrong Man Juror #8 in 12 Angry Men Frank in Once Upon a Time in the West Norman in On Golden Pond Henry Jaynes Fonda ( May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982) was a highly acclaimed Academy Award-winning American film actor , best known for his roles as plain-speaking idealists.

Fonda's subtle, naturalistic acting style preceded by many years the popularization of method acting. Fonda made his mark early as a Broadway actor, and made his Hollywood debut in 1935. Fonda's career gained momentum after his Academy Award-nominated performance in 1940's The Grapes of Wrath, an adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel about an Oklahoma family who moved west during the Dust Bowl. Throughout six decades in Hollywood, Fonda cultivated a strong, appealing screen image in such classics as The Ox-Bow Incident, Mister Roberts, and 12 Angry Men. Later, Fonda moved toward both more challenging and lighter roles in such epics as Once Upon a Time in the West and family comedies like Yours, Mine and Ours (with Lucille Ball). He was the patriarch of a family of famous actors, including daughter Jane Fonda , son Peter Fonda, granddaughter Bridget Fonda, and grandson Troy Garity. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Fonda among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time, ranking at No. 6.

Life and career Family history and early life He was born in Grand Island, Nebraska to William Brace Fonda and Herberta Krueger Jaynes, observant Christian Scientists. The Fonda family had emigrated westward from New York in the 1800s, and can trace its ancestry from Genoa, Italy to The Netherlands in the 1500s, and then to the United States of America in the 1600s (see ). In Henry Fonda's autobiography, he wrote: "Early records show the family ensconced in northern Italy in the sixteenth century where they fought on the side of the Reformation, fled to Holland , intermarried with Dutch burghers' daughters, picked up the first names of the Low Countries, but retained the Italianate "Fonda". Before Pieter Stuyvesant surrendered Nieuw Amsterdam to the English the Fondas, instead of settling in Manhattan, canoed up the Hudson River to the Indian village of Caughawaga. Within a few generations, the Mohawks and the Iroquois were butchered or fled and the town became known to mapmakers as Fonda, New York" (see ).

As a youth in Nebraska, Fonda was active in the Boy Scouts of America as a youth and was a Scoutmaster, but was not an Eagle Scout as some report.Fonda relayed the story in the Parkinson show (UK) in the mid 1970s that his father had taken him to see the aftermath of a lynching. This so enraged the young Fonda that a keen social awareness of prejudice was present within him for his entire adult life.He then attended the University of Minnesota, majoring in journalism (see ), although he did not graduate. At age twenty, he started his acting career at the Omaha Community Playhouse when his mother's friend Dodie Brando (mother of Marlon Brando) needed a young man to play the lead in You and I. He went east to perform with the Provincetown Players and Joshua Logan's University Players, an intercollegiate summer stock company, where he worked with Margaret Sullavan, his future wife, and began a lifelong friendship with Jimmy Stewart. Early career Fonda and Stewart headed for New York City , where the two were roommates and honed their skills on Broadway.

Fonda appeared in theatrical productions from 1926 to 1934, and made his first film appearance (1935) as the leading man in 20th Century Fox's screen adaptation of The Farmer Takes a Wife, reprising his role from the Broadway production of the same name. In 1935 Fonda starred in the RKO film "I Dream Too Much" with the famous opera star Lily Pons. Pons was a coloratura soprano who could sing a high "F" note. She was credited with saving the MET during the great depression. Fonda's film career blossomed as he costarred with Sylvia Sidney and Fred MacMurray in The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936), the first Technicolor movie filmed outdoors. Fonda also got the nod for the lead role in You Only Live Once (1937), also costarring Sidney, and directed by Fritz Lang. A critical success opposite Bette Davis in the film Jezebel (1938) was followed by the title role in Young Mr. Lincoln and his first collaboration with director John Ford.

Fonda's successes led Ford to recruit him to play "Tom Joad" in the film version of John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath (1940), but a reluctant Darryl Zanuck, who preferred Tyrone Power, insisted on Fonda's signing a seven-year contract with the studio, Twentieth Century-Fox ( ). Fonda agreed, and was ultimately nominated for an Academy Award for his work in the 1940 film, which many consider to be his finest role, but he was "pipped at the post" (edged out) by Stewart, who won the award for his role in The Philadelphia Story. World War II service Fonda played opposite Barbara Stanwyck in The Lady Eve (1941), and was acclaimed for his role in The Ox-Bow Incident, but he then enlisted in the Navy to fight in World War II , saying, "I don't want to be in a fake war in a studio" ( ). Previously, he and Stewart had helped raise funds for the defense of Britain from the Nazis ( ).

Fonda served for three years, initially as a Quartermaster 3rd Class on the destroyer USS Satterlee; he was later commissioned as a Lieutenant Junior Grade in Air Combat Intelligence in the Central Pacific and won a Presidential Citation and the Bronze Star ( , ). Post-war career After the war, Fonda appeared in the film Fort Apache ( 1948), and his contract with Fox expired. 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. He won a 1948 Tony Award for the part, and later reprised his performance in the national tour and the 1955 film version opposite James Cagney, continuing a pattern of bringing his acclaimed stage roles to life on the big screen. On the set of Mister Roberts, Fonda came to blows with John Ford and vowed never to work for him again. He never did. Career in the 1950s and 1960s After a six-year break from Hollywood, Fonda returned in the critically acclaimed Mister Roberts, as Lt. Douglas Roberts, a role he had originated in the play.

He followed this with Paramount Pictures's production of the Leo Tolstoy epic War and Peace , in which Fonda played Pierre Bezukhov opposite Audrey Hepburn. Fonda worked with Alfred Hitchcock in 1956, playing a man falsely accused of murder in The Wrong Man. In 1957, Fonda made his first foray into production with 12 Angry Men, based on a script by Reginald Rose and directed by Sidney Lumet. The intense film about twelve jurors deciding the fate of a young man accused of murder was well-received by critics worldwide. Fonda shared the Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations with co-producer Reginald Rose and won the 1958 BAFTA Award for Best Actor for his performance as the logical "Juror #8". Fonda vowed that he would never ever produce a movie again. After a series of ordinary western movies, Fonda returned to the production seat for the NBC western television series The Deputy (1959-1961), in which he also starred.

The 1960s saw Fonda perform in a number of war and western epics, including 1962's The Longest Day and How the West Was Won, 1965's In Harm's Way and Battle of the Bulge, and the suspense film Fail-Safe ( 1964), about possible nuclear holocaust. He also returned to more light-hearted cinema in Spencer's Mountain ( 1963) with actors Kym Karath and Veronica Cartwright, which was the inspiration for the TV series, The Waltons. He appeared against type as the villain "Frank" in 1968's Once Upon a Time in the West. After initially turning down the role, he was convinced to accept it by the actor Eli Wallach and director Sergio Leone, who flew from Italy to the United States to persuade him to play the part. Fonda had planned on wearing a pair of brown-colored contact lenses, but Leone had worked important close-up shots of Fonda's blue eyes into the film. Fonda's relationship with Jimmy Stewart survived their disagreements over politics — Fonda was a liberal Democrat, and Stewart a conservative Republican. After a heated argument, they avoided talking politics with each other.

In 1970, Fonda and Stewart costarred in the western The Cheyenne Social Club, a minor film in which the two humorously argued politics. They had first appeared together on film in On Our Merry Way ( 1948), a comedy which also starred William Demarest and Fred MacMurray and featured a grown-up Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer (see ). Marriages and children Henry Fonda was married five times. His marriage to Margaret Brooke Sullavan in 1931 soon ended in separation, which was finalized in a 1933 divorce. In 1936, he married Frances Ford Seymour. They had two children, Peter and Jane . In 1950, Seymour committed suicide. Fonda married in 1950 Susan Blanchard, the stepdaughter of Oscar Hammerstein II. Together, they adopted a daughter, Amy (born 1953) ( ), but divorced three years later. In 1957 Fonda married Italian Countess Afdera Franchetti ( ). They remained married until 1961.

Soon after, Fonda married Shirlee Mae Adams and remained with her until his death in 1982. His relationship with his children has been described as "emotionally distant". In Peter Fonda's 1998 autobiography Don't Tell Dad, he described how he was never sure how his father felt about him, and that he did not tell his father he loved him until his father was elderly and he finally heard the words, "I love you, son" ( ). His daughter, Jane, rejected her father's friendships with right-wingers such as Republican actors such as John Wayne, and as a result, their relationship was extremely strained. Jane Fonda also reported feeling detached from her father, especially during her early acting career. Henry Fonda introduced her to Lee Strasberg, who became her acting teacher, and as she developed as an actress using the techniques of " The Method," she found herself frustrated and unable to understand her father's effortless acting style.

In the late 1950s, when she asked him how he prepared before going on stage, he baffled her by answering, "I don’t know, I stand there, I think about my wife, Afdera, I don't know." Writer Al Aronowitz, while working on a profile of Jane Fonda for The Saturday Evening Post in the 1960s, asked Henry Fonda about Method acting: "I can't articulate about the Method," he told me, "because I never studied it. I don't mean to suggest that I have any feelings one way or the other about it...I don't know what the Method is and I don’t care what the Method is. Everybody's got a method. Everybody can’t articulate about their method, and I can't, if I have a method—and Jane sometimes says that I use the Method, that is, the capital letter Method, without being aware of it. Maybe I do, it doesn’t matter." Fonda's daughter shared this view: "My father can't articulate the way he works." Jane said. "He just can't do it.

He's not even conscious of what he does, and it made him nervous for me to try to articulate what I was trying to do. And I sensed that immediately, so we did very little talking about it...he said, 'Shut up, I don't want to hear about it.’ He didn’t want me to tell him about it, you know. He wanted to make fun of it." Late career Despite approaching his seventies, Henry Fonda continued to work in both television and film through the 1970s. In 1970 Fonda appeared in three films, the most successful of these ventures being The Cheyenne Social Club. The other two films were Too Late the Hero, in which Fonda played a secondary role, and There Was a Crooked Man, about Paris Pitman Jr. (played by Kirk Douglas) trying to escape from an Arizona prison. Fonda made a return to both foreign and television productions, which provided career sustenance through a decade in which many aging screen actors suffered waning careers. He starred in the ABC television series The Smith Family between 1971 and 1972.

1973's TV-movie The Red Pony, an adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel, earned Fonda an Emmy nomination. After the unsuccessful Hollywood melodrama, Ash Wednesday, he filmed three Italian productions released in 1973 and 1974. The most successful of these, Il Mio nome è Nessuno (My Name Is Nobody), presented Fonda in a rare comedic performance as an old gunslinger whose plans to retire are dampened by a "fan" of sorts. Henry Fonda continued stage acting throughout his last years, including several demanding roles in Broadway plays. He returned to Broadway in 1974 for the biographical drama, Clarence Darrow, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award. Fonda's health had been deteriorating for years, but his first outward symptoms occurred after a performance of the play in April 1974, when he collapsed from exhaustion. After the appearance of a heart arrhythmia, a pacemaker was installed and Fonda returned to the play in 1975.

After the run of a 1978 play, First Monday of October, he took the advice of his doctors and quit plays, though he continued to star in films and television. 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. After an appearance in the acclaimed Showtime broadcast of Almos' a Man, based on a story by Richard Wright, he starred in the epic NBC miniseries Captains and Kings, based on Taylor Caldwell's novel. Three years later, he appeared in ABC's Roots: The Next Generations, but the miniseries was overshadowed by its predecessor, Roots. Also in 1976, Fonda starred in the World War II blockbuster Midway. Fonda finished the 1970s in a number of disaster films. The first of these was the 1977 Italian killer octopus thriller Tentacoli (Tentacles) and the mediocre Rollercoaster, in which Fonda appeared with Richard Widmark and a young Helen Hunt.

He performed once again with Widmark, Olivia de Havilland, Fred MacMurray, and José Ferrer in the killer bee action film The Swarm. He also acted in the global disaster film Meteor, with Natalie Wood and Martin Landau, and then the Canadian production City on Fire, which also featured Shelley Winters and Ava Gardner. As Fonda's health continued to suffer and he took longer breaks between filming, critics began to take notice of his extensive body of work. In 1979, the Tony Awards committee gave Fonda a special award for his achievements on Broadway. Lifetime Achievement awards from the Golden Globes and Academy Awards followed in 1980 and 1981, respectively. 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. These television works included the critically acclaimed live performance of Preston Jones' The Oldest Living Graduate, the Emmy nominated Gideon's Trumpet (co-starring Fay Wray in her last performance), and 1981's Summer Solstice, which teamed Fonda with the legendary Myrna Loy for the first time.

This is the last film on which Henry Fonda worked, and work began on it following the release of On Golden Pond, an adaptation of Ernest Thompson's On Golden Pond. The film, directed by Mark Rydell, provided unprecedented collaborations between Fonda, Katharine Hepburn, and Fonda's daughter, Jane . When premiered in December 1981, the film was well received by critics, and after a limited release on December 4 On Golden Pond developed enough of an audience to be widely released on January 22. With eleven Academy Award nominations, the film earned nearly $120 million at the box office, becoming an unexpected blockbuster. In addition to wins for Hepburn (Best Actress), and Thompson (Screenplay), On Golden Pond brought Fonda his only Oscar for Best Actor (it also earned him a Golden Globe Best Actor award). After Fonda's death, some film critics called this performance "his last and greatest role". Death and legacy Fonda died at his Los Angeles home on August 12, 1982, at the age of 77 from heart disease. Fonda's wife Shirlee and daughter Jane were at his side when he died.

He also suffered from prostate cancer , but this did not directly cause his death and was only mentioned as a concurrent ailment on his death certificate. In the years since his death, his career has been held in even higher regard than during his life. He is widely recognized as one of the Hollywood greats of the classic era. On the centenary of his birth, May 16, 2005, Turner Classic Movies honored him with a marathon of his films. Also in May 2005, the United States Post Office released a thirty-seven-cent postage stamp with an artist's drawing of Fonda as part of their "Hollywood legends" series (see ). Filmography From the beginning of Henry Fonda's career in 1935 through his last projects in 1981, Fonda appeared in 106 films, television programs, and shorts. Through the course of his career he appeared in many critically acclaimed films, including such classics as 12 Angry Men and The Ox-Bow Incident. His roles in 1940's The Grapes of Wrath and 1981's On Golden Pond earned him Academy Award nominations (he won for the latter).

Fonda made his mark in westerns and war films, and made frequent appearances in both television and foreign productions late in his career. Broadway stage performances The Game of Love and Death (Nov. 1929–Jan. 1930) I Loved You, Wednesday (Oct.–Dec. 1932) New Faces of 1934 (Revue; Mar.–Jul. 1934) The Farmer Takes a Wife (Oct. 1934–Jan. 1935) Blow Ye Winds (Sep.–Oct. 1937) Mister Roberts (Feb. 1948–Jan. 1951) Point of No Return (Dec. 1951–Nov. 1952) The Caine Mutiny (Jan. 1954–Jan. 1955) Two for the Seesaw (Jan. 1958–Oct. 1959) Silent Night, Lonely Night (Dec. 1959–Mar. 1960) Critic's Choice (Dec. 1960–May 1961) A Gift of Time (Feb.–May 1962) Generation (Oct.

1965–Jun. 1966) Our Town (Nov.–Dec. 1969) Clarence Darrow (Mar.–Apr. 1974; Mar. 1975) First Monday in October (Oct.–Dec. 1978) They Call Me Nobody W/Terence Hill (1973) Awards

Question: Who produced the film "12 Angry Men", which was scripted by Reginald Rose, starred Henry Fonda and was directed by Sidney Lumet?
Answer: Henry Fonda