Franchot Tone
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
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- Born:
- Feb 27, 1905 In Niagara Falls, New York, USA
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 99
- First Appeared:
- In the movie The Wiser Sex 1932-03-14
- Latest Project:
- Movie Joan Crawford: Always the Star 1996-09-30
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Joan Crawford: Always the Star | Self (archive footage) | 1996-09-30 |
| Movie | Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker | actor 'Advise and 'Consent' (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1991-10-28 |
| Movie | Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre | Self | 1989-06-26 |
| Movie | That's Entertainment, Part II | (archive footage) | 1976-05-16 |
| Movie | Hollywood: The Dream Factory | Self (archive footage) | 1972-01-10 |
| Movie | Shadow Over Elveron | Barney Conners | 1968-03-05 |
| Movie | Nobody Runs Forever | Ambassador Townsend | 1968-08-22 |
| Movie | In Harm's Way | CINCPAC I | 1965-04-06 |
| Series | Run for Your Life | Judge Taliaferro Wilson | 1965-09-13 |
| Movie | Mickey One | Rudy Lopp | 1965-09-27 |
| Movie | How to Make a French Dish | John K. Montasy Jr | 1964-01-29 |
| Movie | See How They Run | Baron Frood | 1964-10-07 |
| Movie | The Big Parade of Comedy | Gifford in 'Bombshell' (archive footage) | 1964-09-02 |
| Movie | Advise & Consent | The President | 1962-06-06 |
| Series | The Virginian | Murdoch | 1962-09-19 |
| Movie | Witchcraft: The Doll in Brambles | Your Host | 1961-01-01 |
| Series | Ben Casey | Daniel Freeland | 1961-10-02 |
| Series | The Twilight Zone | Col. Archie Taylor | 1959-10-02 |
| Movie | Bitter Heritage | Frank James | 1958-08-07 |
| Series | Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse | Candy Lombe | 1958-10-06 |
| Movie | Uncle Vanya | Dr. Mikhail Lvovich Astroff | 1957-12-13 |
| Movie | Rendezvous in Black | Hugh Strickland | 1956-10-25 |
| Movie | Sizeman and Son | Self - Announcing Next Week's Show | 1956-10-18 |
| Movie | The Little Foxes | Horace | 1956-12-16 |
| Series | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Oliver Mathews | 1955-10-02 |
| Movie | Twelve Angry Men | Juror #3 | 1954-09-20 |
| Series | Climax! | Unknown | 1954-10-07 |
| Series | General Electric Theater | Charles Proteus Steinmetz | 1953-02-01 |
| Series | Tales of Tomorrow | Unknown | 1951-08-03 |
| Movie | Here Comes the Groom | Wilbur Stanley | 1951-09-20 |
| Series | Lux Video Theatre | Meredith Whitehouse | 1950-10-02 |
| Series | Robert Montgomery Presents | Unknown | 1950-01-30 |
| Series | The Colgate Comedy Hour | Unknown | 1950-09-10 |
| Series | Suspense | Unknown | 1949-01-06 |
| Movie | Jigsaw | Howard Malloy | 1949-03-11 |
| Series | Lights Out | Unknown | 1949-07-19 |
| Movie | The Man on the Eiffel Tower | Johann Radek | 1949-12-12 |
| Movie | Without Honor | Dennis Williams | 1949-10-26 |
| Series | The Philco Television Playhouse | Unknown | 1948-10-03 |
| Movie | I Love Trouble | Stuart Bailey | 1948-01-15 |
| Series | Studio One | Unknown | 1948-11-07 |
| Movie | Every Girl Should Be Married | Roger Sanford | 1948-12-25 |
| Movie | Lost Honeymoon | Johnny Gray | 1947-03-29 |
| Movie | Honeymoon | David Flanner | 1947-05-17 |
| Movie | Her Husband's Affairs | William Weldon | 1947-11-12 |
| Movie | Because of Him | Paul Taylor | 1946-01-18 |
| Movie | That Night with You | Paul Renaud | 1945-09-28 |
| Movie | The Hour Before the Dawn | Jim Hetherton | 1944-05-10 |
| Movie | Phantom Lady | John 'Jack' Marlow | 1944-01-28 |
| Movie | Dark Waters | Dr. George Grover | 1944-11-21 |
| Movie | Five Graves to Cairo | Cpl. John J. Bramble / Paul Davos | 1943-05-26 |
| Movie | Pilot #5 | George Braynor Collins | 1943-06-24 |
| Movie | His Butler's Sister | Charles Gerard | 1943-11-26 |
| Movie | True to Life | Fletcher Marvin | 1943-12-24 |
| Movie | The Voice That Thrilled the World | Self (segment 'Dangerous') (archive footage) | 1943-10-16 |
| Movie | Star Spangled Rhythm | John | 1942-03-05 |
| Movie | The Wife Takes a Flyer | Christopher Reynolds | 1942-04-28 |
| Movie | Nice Girl? | Richard Calvert | 1941-02-21 |
| Movie | This Woman Is Mine | Robert Stevens | 1941-08-22 |
| Movie | She Knew All the Answers | Mark Willows | 1941-05-13 |
| Movie | Trail of the Vigilantes | Kansas | 1940-12-13 |
| Movie | Fast and Furious | Joel Sloane | 1939-10-06 |
| Movie | Love Is a Headache | Peter Lawrence | 1938-01-14 |
| Movie | Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 6 | Self | 1938-02-04 |
| Movie | Man-Proof | Jimmy Kilmartin | 1938-01-07 |
| Movie | The Girl Downstairs | Paul Wagner | 1938-12-23 |
| Movie | Three Comrades | Otto Koster | 1938-06-02 |
| Movie | Three Loves Has Nancy | Robert 'Bob' Hanson | 1938-09-02 |
| Movie | They Gave Him a Gun | James 'Jimmy' Davis | 1937-05-07 |
| Movie | Quality Street | Dr. Valentine Brown | 1937-03-26 |
| Movie | Between Two Women | Allan Meighan | 1937-07-09 |
| Movie | The Romance of Celluloid | Self (archive footage) | 1937-08-27 |
| Movie | The Bride Wore Red | Giulio | 1937-10-08 |
| Movie | The Unguarded Hour | Sir Alan Dearden | 1936-04-10 |
| Movie | The King Steps Out | Emperor Franz Josef | 1936-05-27 |
| Movie | Exclusive Story | Dick Parton | 1936-01-17 |
| Movie | Love on the Run | Barnabus Pells | 1936-11-20 |
| Movie | Suzy | Terry | 1936-07-20 |
| Movie | The Gorgeous Hussy | John H. Eaton | 1936-08-28 |
| Movie | The Lives of a Bengal Lancer | Forsythe | 1935-01-11 |
| Movie | One New York Night | Foxhall Ridgeway | 1935-03-08 |
| Movie | Reckless | Robert 'Bob' Harrison Jr. | 1935-04-19 |
| Movie | Dangerous | Don Bellows | 1935-12-25 |
| Movie | Mutiny on the Bounty | Roger Byam | 1935-11-22 |
| Movie | No More Ladies | Jim 'Jimsy Boysie' Salston | 1935-06-14 |
| Movie | Sadie McKee | Michael | 1934-05-09 |
| Movie | Moulin Rouge | Douglas Hall | 1934-01-10 |
| Movie | The World Moves On | Richard Girard - 1825 / Richard Girard - 1914 | 1934-06-27 |
| Movie | The Girl from Missouri | T.R. Paige, Jr. | 1934-08-03 |
| Movie | Straight Is the Way | Benny | 1934-08-10 |
| Movie | Gentlemen Are Born | Bob Bailey | 1934-11-17 |
| Movie | Gabriel Over the White House | Hartley Beekman - Secretary to the President | 1933-03-31 |
| Movie | Today We Live | Ronnie Boyce-Smith | 1933-03-03 |
| Movie | Midnight Mary | Tom | 1933-06-30 |
| Movie | Stage Mother | Warren Foster | 1933-09-29 |
| Movie | Dancing Lady | Tod Newton | 1933-11-24 |
| Movie | Bombshell | Gifford Middleton | 1933-10-13 |
| Movie | The Stranger's Return | Guy Crane | 1933-07-28 |
| Movie | The Wiser Sex | Phil Long | 1932-03-14 |