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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
February 27, 1905
Place of Birth:
Niagara Falls, New York, USA
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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.
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Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Joan Crawford: Always the Star | Self (archive footage) |
| 1991 | Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker | actor 'Advise and 'Consent' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1989 | Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre | Self |
| 1976 | That's Entertainment, Part II | (archive footage) |
| 1972 | Hollywood: The Dream Factory | Self (archive footage) |
| 1968 | Nobody Runs Forever | Ambassador Townsend |
| 1968 | Shadow Over Elveron | Barney Conners |
| 1965 | Mickey One | Rudy Lopp |
| 1965 | In Harm's Way | CINCPAC I |
| 1964 | See How They Run | Baron Frood |
| 1964 | How to Make a French Dish | John K. Montasy Jr |
| 1964 | The Big Parade of Comedy | Gifford in 'Bombshell' (archive footage) |
| 1962 | Advise & Consent | The President |
| 1961 | Witchcraft: The Doll in Brambles | Your Host |
| 1958 | Bitter Heritage | Frank James |
| 1957 | Uncle Vanya | Dr. Mikhail Lvovich Astroff |
| 1956 | The Little Foxes | Horace |
| 1955 | Too Old for Dolls | Mike Ramsay |
| 1954 | Twelve Angry Men | Juror #3 |
| 1951 | Here Comes the Groom | Wilbur Stanley |
| 1949 | Jigsaw | Howard Malloy |
| 1949 | Without Honor | Dennis Williams |
| 1949 | The Man on the Eiffel Tower | Johann Radek |
| 1948 | Every Girl Should Be Married | Roger Sanford |
| 1948 | I Love Trouble | Stuart Bailey |
| 1947 | Her Husband's Affairs | William Weldon |
| 1947 | Lost Honeymoon | Johnny Gray |
| 1947 | Honeymoon | David Flanner |
| 1946 | Because of Him | Paul Taylor |
| 1945 | That Night with You | Paul Renaud |
| 1944 | Dark Waters | Dr. George Grover |
| 1944 | Phantom Lady | John 'Jack' Marlow |
| 1944 | The Hour Before the Dawn | Jim Hetherton |
| 1943 | Five Graves to Cairo | Cpl. John J. Bramble / Paul Davos |
| 1943 | His Butler's Sister | Charles Gerard |
| 1943 | Pilot #5 | George Braynor Collins |
| 1943 | True to Life | Fletcher Marvin |
| 1943 | The Voice That Thrilled the World | Self (segment 'Dangerous') (archive footage) |
| 1942 | Star Spangled Rhythm | John |
| 1942 | The Wife Takes a Flyer | Christopher Reynolds |
| 1941 | Nice Girl? | Richard Calvert |
| 1941 | She Knew All the Answers | Mark Willows |
| 1941 | This Woman Is Mine | Robert Stevens |
| 1940 | Trail of the Vigilantes | Kansas |
| 1939 | Fast and Furious | Joel Sloane |
| 1938 | Three Loves Has Nancy | Robert 'Bob' Hanson |
| 1938 | Three Comrades | Otto Koster |
| 1938 | The Girl Downstairs | Paul Wagner |
| 1938 | Man-Proof | Jimmy Kilmartin |
| 1938 | Love Is a Headache | Peter Lawrence |
| 1938 | Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 6 | Self |
| 1937 | Quality Street | Dr. Valentine Brown |
| 1937 | They Gave Him a Gun | James 'Jimmy' Davis |
| 1937 | The Bride Wore Red | Giulio |
| 1937 | Between Two Women | Allan Meighan |
| 1937 | The Romance of Celluloid | Self (archive footage) |
| 1936 | Love on the Run | Barnabus Pells |
| 1936 | Suzy | Terry |
| 1936 | The Gorgeous Hussy | John H. Eaton |
| 1936 | Exclusive Story | Dick Parton |
| 1936 | The King Steps Out | Emperor Franz Josef |
| 1936 | The Unguarded Hour | Sir Alan Dearden |
| 1935 | Mutiny on the Bounty | Roger Byam |
| 1935 | The Lives of a Bengal Lancer | Forsythe |
| 1935 | Reckless | Robert 'Bob' Harrison Jr. |
| 1935 | Dangerous | Don Bellows |
| 1935 | No More Ladies | Jim 'Jimsy Boysie' Salston |
| 1935 | One New York Night | Foxhall Ridgeway |
| 1934 | Sadie McKee | Michael |
| 1934 | Moulin Rouge | Douglas Hall |
| 1934 | Gentlemen Are Born | Bob Bailey |
| 1934 | The Girl from Missouri | T.R. Paige, Jr. |
| 1934 | The World Moves On | Richard Girard - 1825 / Richard Girard - 1914 |
| 1934 | Straight Is the Way | Benny |
| 1933 | Bombshell | Gifford Middleton |
| 1933 | Dancing Lady | Tod Newton |
| 1933 | Midnight Mary | Tom |
| 1933 | Gabriel Over the White House | Hartley Beekman - Secretary to the President |
| 1933 | Today We Live | Ronnie Boyce-Smith |
| 1933 | The Stranger's Return | Guy Crane |
| 1933 | Stage Mother | Warren Foster |
| 1932 | The Wiser Sex | Phil Long |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1965 | Run for Your Life | Judge Taliaferro Wilson |
| 1962 | The Virginian | Murdoch |
| 1962 | The Alfred Hitchcock Hour | Rudolph Bitzner |
| 1961 | Ben Casey | Dr. Daniel Niles Freeland |
| 1959 | The Twilight Zone | Col. Archie Taylor |
| 1959 | Bonanza | Denver McKee |
| 1958 | Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse | Candy Lombe |
| 1955 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Oliver Mathews |
| 1954 | Climax! | Henry Hutton |
| 1954 | Climax! | Dr. Ken Jaynes |
| 1954 | Climax! | Kurt Baumann / Scott Malone |
| 1953 | General Electric Theater | Charles Proteus Steinmetz |
| 1952 | Four Star Playhouse | Ben |
| 1951 | Tales of Tomorrow | |
| 1950 | Lux Video Theatre | Meredith Whitehouse |
| 1950 | The Colgate Comedy Hour | Self |
| 1950 | Robert Montgomery Presents | |
| 1949 | Lights Out | |
| 1949 | Suspense | Markheim |
| 1948 | The Philco Television Playhouse | |
| 1948 | Studio One | Juror #3 |
| 1948 | The Ed Sullivan Show | Self |
| 1948 | Studio One | Rev. Lockman |
| 1948 | Studio One | Douglas Thompson |
| 1948 | Studio One | Bill Gibson |
| 1948 | Studio One |