(Monica Almeida | The New York Times) Peter Fonda and his wife, Margaret, at the third annual Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Governors Awards in Los Angeles, Nov. 12, 2011. Fonda, the writer, director and actor best remembered for playing a motorcycle-riding avatar of the counterculture in "Easy Rider," an emblematic film of the 1960s that he helped write, died on Friday, Aug. 16, 2019 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 79.