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Image:Peterfondaeasyrider.jpg|thumb|150 px|Peter
Fonda
Peter Henry Fonda (born February 23, 1940
according to his autobiography) is an American
actor.  Born in New York City, he is the son of
actor Henry Fonda, the brother of actress Jane
Fonda and the father of actress Bridget Fonda. 
His mother, Frances Ford Seymour, committed
suicide in 1950 when Peter was 11 years old. 
Peter Fonda studied acting in Omaha, Nebraska, his
father's home town.  He attended the University of
Omaha and joined the Omaha Community Playhouse,
where many famous actors (including his father and
Marlon Brando) got their starts.  Soon he was back
in New York, then went to Hollywood to make
movies.

Fonda tried out for the part of the young John F.
Kennedy in PT 109, but didn't get the role. 
Instead, he appeared in such teen fare as Tammy
and the Bachelor.  His first serious role was in
the 1966 motorcycle film The Wild Angels (nowadays
perhaps best known for its dialogue sampled by the
Primal Scream recording Loaded).  It was at this
point that he began to experiment with
hallucinogenic drugs.  John Lennon wrote the song
"She Said She Said" about Fonda, who told him "I
know what it's like to be dead" following an LSD
trip.  This experience shows in Fonda's 1967 film
The Trip, which is about taking LSD.

It was in 1969 that Fonda made the cult movie for
which he is still known, Easy Rider.  He co-wrote
the film with Dennis Hopper and Terry Southern,
and the trio was nominated for the Academy Award
for Academy Award for Writing Original
Screenplay|Best Writing, Story and Screenplay
Based on Material Not Previously Published or
Produced.

Fonda's career has not been particularly fruitful
in the ensuing years.  He has appeared in such
movies as Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry (1974), Race
With The Devil and  92 In the Shade (both 1975)
The Cannonball Run (1981), Najda (1997), and
Ulee's Gold (1997), for which he was nominated for
the Academy Award for Best Actor.  Fonda's movie
career is made the more interesting for the
extreme contrast between the wide-eyed and
questing (though possibly amoral, certainly
drug-dealing) rebel motorcyclist in Easy Rider and
the upright war-veteran father (played by Fonda
nearly three decades later, in Ulee's Gold) who
tries to share his wisdom about integrity with his
wayward son and saves his drug-addict
daughter-in-law's bacon.

He has also directed movies Wanda Nevada and Idaho
Transfer.

In 2000 he co-starred in the movie Thomas and the
Magic Railroad.

In 2004 he did a character voice-over for the
character The Truth (character)|The Truth in the
video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. 

==See also==
*"Don't Tell Dad" autobiography by Peter Fonda
(1998)
The title song of Easy Rider, "The Ballad of Easy
Rider" was written and performed by the Byrds,
with whom Fonda had a close relation.

==External links==
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