Peter Fonda

Peter Fonda (1940–2019, United States) was an American actor, director, and screenwriter renowned for his role in the counterculture film movement. He co-wrote, produced, and starred as Wyatt in Easy Rider (1969), a groundbreaking road movie that earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay and became a defining work of New Hollywood. The son of actor Henry Fonda and brother of Jane Fonda, he appeared in over 100 films and television projects, including Ulee’s Gold (1997), for which he received another Oscar nomination for Best Actor.