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Peter Fonda: Father
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Fonda continued to be consigned to romantic leads until he appeared in Roger Corman's The Wild Angels in 1966. A motorcycle enthusiast whom Corman cast after the film's original star, George Maharis, demanded a stunt double, Fonda seemed a natural for the role of a motorcycle gang leader. The film, which cast actual Hell's Angels and co-starred Bruce Dern, was a violent, drug-addled affair that catalyzed Fonda's reputation as his father's delinquent spawn and direct antithesis. This reputation was furthered by his starring role in Corman's The Trip, a 1967 film about the healing powers of LSD. Co-starring Dern and featuring a screenplay written by Jack Nicholson, The Trip, with its emphasis on sex, drugs, and societal estrangement, provided a preview of the film that would give Fonda both fame and notoriety.
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Fonda, who appears in the current infomercials for the Time-Life CD series “Flower Power,” featuring hit sounds from the 1960s, has a special affection for Westerns. In addition to “The Hired Hand,” he directed and starred in the frontier tale “Wanda Nevada” (1979), which ... featured his father and Brooke Shields.
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His early career took shape under the specter of his famous father, with the young actor incurring comparisons to the elder Fonda with everything he did. His onstage success led to a Hollywood screen test for the part of John F. Kennedy in PT 109. The role in the 1963 film ultimately went to Cliff Robertson, but Fonda made his film debut that same year in the Sandra Dee vehicle Tammy and the Doctor. Fonda continued to be consigned to romantic leads until he appeared in Roger Corman's The Wild Angels in 1966.
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''It's certainly an homage to him,'' says Fonda, who is as loquacious and forthcoming as his father was low-key and reserved. ''But you know, a lot of it comes natural. I mean when I was a teen-ager, I would pick up the phone and say, 'Hello,' and someone would go: 'Listen, Hank, here's the deal I'm trying to make at the studio.' The voice, the walk, the rest of it - I come by it naturally.''
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