Franchot Tone

Personal Info

Birthday

February 27, 1905

Day of Death

1968-09-18

(63 years old)

Place of Birth

Niagara Falls, New York, USA

Also Known As

Франшо Тоун

Фрэнчот Тоун

Stanislaus Pascal Franchot Tone

Franchot Tone

Biography

Franchot Tone (February 27, 1905 – September 18, 1968) was an American stage, film, and television actor, star of Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) and many other films through the 1960s. In the early 1960s Tone appeared in character roles on TV dramas like Bonanza, Wagon Train, The Twilight Zone, and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. Description above from the Wikipedia article Franchot Tone, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Known For

Bonanza

The Twilight Zone

Four Star Playhouse

Climax!

Ben Casey

The Virginian

Studio One

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

Filmography

1996
Joan Crawford: Always the Star
as Self (archive footage)
1991
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
as actor 'Advise and 'Consent' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1989
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
as Self
1976
That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
1972
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
as Self (archive footage)
1968
Nobody Runs Forever
as Ambassador Townsend
Shadow Over Elveron
as Barney Conners
1965
Mickey One
as Rudy Lopp
In Harm's Way
as CINCPAC I
The Making of A Movie
as Self
1964
See How They Run
as Baron Frood
The Big Parade of Comedy
as Gifford in 'Bombshell' (archive footage)
How to Make a French Dish
as John K. Montasy Jr
1962
Advise & Consent
as The President
1961
Witchcraft: The Doll in Brambles
as Your Host
1958
Bitter Heritage
as Frank James
1957
Uncle Vanya
as Dr. Mikhail Lvovich Astroff
1956
The Little Foxes
as Horace
Rendezvous in Black
as Hugh Strickland
1955
Too Old for Dolls
as Mike Ramsay
1954
Twelve Angry Men
as Juror #3
1951
Here Comes the Groom
as Wilbur Stanley
1949
The Man on the Eiffel Tower
as Johann Radek
Without Honor
as Dennis Williams
Jigsaw
as Howard Malloy
1948
Every Girl Should Be Married
as Roger Sanford
I Love Trouble
as Stuart Bailey
1947
Her Husband's Affairs
as William Weldon
Honeymoon
as David Flanner
Lost Honeymoon
as Johnny Gray
1946
Because of Him
as Paul Taylor
1945
That Night with You
as Paul Renaud
1944
Dark Waters
as Dr. George Grover
The Hour Before the Dawn
as Jim Hetherton
Phantom Lady
as John 'Jack' Marlow
1943
True to Life
as Fletcher Marvin
His Butler's Sister
as Charles Gerard
The Voice That Thrilled the World
as Self (segment 'Dangerous') (archive footage)
Pilot #5
as George Braynor Collins
Five Graves to Cairo
as Cpl. John J. Bramble / Paul Davos
1942
The Wife Takes a Flyer
as Christopher Reynolds
Star Spangled Rhythm
as John
1941
This Woman Is Mine
as Robert Stevens
She Knew All the Answers
as Mark Willows
Nice Girl?
as Richard Calvert
1940
Trail of the Vigilantes
as Kansas
1939
Fast and Furious
as Joel Sloane
1938
The Girl Downstairs
as Paul Wagner
Three Loves Has Nancy
as Robert 'Bob' Hanson
Three Comrades
as Otto Koster
Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 6
as Self
Love Is a Headache
as Peter Lawrence
Man-Proof
as Jimmy Kilmartin
1937
The Bride Wore Red
as Giulio
The Romance of Celluloid
as Self (archive footage)
Between Two Women
as Allan Meighan
They Gave Him a Gun
as James 'Jimmy' Davis
Quality Street
as Dr. Valentine Brown
1936
Love on the Run
as Barnabus Pells
The Gorgeous Hussy
as John H. Eaton
Suzy
as Terry
The King Steps Out
as Emperor Franz Josef
The Unguarded Hour
as Sir Alan Dearden
Exclusive Story
as Dick Parton
1935
Dangerous
as Don Bellows
Mutiny on the Bounty
as Roger Byam
No More Ladies
as Jim 'Jimsy Boysie' Salston
Reckless
as Robert 'Bob' Harrison Jr.
One New York Night
as Foxhall Ridgeway
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
as Forsythe
1934
Gentlemen Are Born
as Bob Bailey
Straight Is the Way
as Benny
The Girl from Missouri
as T.R. Paige, Jr.
The World Moves On
as Richard Girard - 1825 / Richard Girard - 1914
Sadie McKee
as Michael
Moulin Rouge
as Douglas Hall
1933
Dancing Lady
as Tod Newton
Bombshell
as Gifford Middleton
Stage Mother
as Warren Foster
The Stranger's Return
as Guy Crane
Midnight Mary
as Tom
Gabriel Over the White House
as Hartley Beekman - Secretary to the President
Today We Live
as Ronnie Boyce-Smith
1932
The Wiser Sex
as Phil Long