Franchot Tone

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1905-02-27 (63 years old)

Deathday

1968-09-18

Place of Birth

Niagara Falls, New York, USA

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

Acting

1949

Jigsaw

as Howard Malloy

1935

1965

Mickey One

as Rudy Lopp

1951

Here Comes the Groom

as Wilbur Stanley

1941

Nice Girl?

as Richard Calvert

1944

Dark Waters

as Dr. George Grover

1943

Five Graves to Cairo

as Cpl. John J. Bramble / Paul Davos

1948

1949

Without Honor

as Dennis Williams

1948

I Love Trouble

as Stuart Bailey

1933

Dancing Lady

as Tod Newton

1933

Bombshell

as Gifford Middleton

1944

Phantom Lady

as John 'Jack' Marlow

1936

Love on the Run

as Barnabus Pells

1934

Sadie McKee

as Michael

1946

Because of Him

as Paul Taylor

1943

His Butler's Sister

as Charles Gerard

1949

1962

Advise & Consent

as The President

1938

Three Loves Has Nancy

as Robert 'Bob' Hanson

1936

Suzy

as Terry

1935

Reckless

as Robert 'Bob' Harrison Jr.

1933

1935

Dangerous

as Don Bellows

1937

Quality Street

as Dr. Valentine Brown

1945

That Night with You

as Paul Renaud

1968

Nobody Runs Forever

as Ambassador Townsend

1947

Her Husband's Affairs

as William Weldon

1934

Moulin Rouge

as Douglas Hall

1933

Gabriel Over the White House

as Hartley Beekman - Secretary to the President

1943

Pilot #5

as George Braynor Collins

1934

Gentlemen Are Born

as Bob Bailey

1934

The Girl from Missouri

as T.R. Paige, Jr.

1933

Today We Live

as Ronnie Boyce-Smith

1972

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

as Self (archive footage)

1938

Three Comrades

as Otto Koster

1933

1937

They Gave Him a Gun

as James 'Jimmy' Davis

1936

The Gorgeous Hussy

as John H. Eaton

1937

1935

No More Ladies

as Jim 'Jimsy Boysie' Salston

1934

The World Moves On

as Richard Girard - 1825 / Richard Girard - 1914

1936

Exclusive Story

as Dick Parton

1939

Fast and Furious

as Joel Sloane

1936

The King Steps Out

as Emperor Franz Josef

1933

Stage Mother

as Warren Foster

1938

The Girl Downstairs

as Paul Wagner

1936

The Unguarded Hour

as Sir Alan Dearden

1938

Man-Proof

as Jimmy Kilmartin

1938

Love Is a Headache

as Peter Lawrence

1937

Between Two Women

as Allan Meighan

1957

Uncle Vanya

as Dr. Mikhail Lvovich Astroff

1935

One New York Night

as Foxhall Ridgeway

1943

True to Life

as Fletcher Marvin

1947

Lost Honeymoon

as Johnny Gray

1964

See How They Run

as Baron Frood

1947

Honeymoon

as David Flanner

1944

The Hour Before the Dawn

as Jim Hetherton

1942

The Wife Takes a Flyer

as Christopher Reynolds

1996

Joan Crawford: Always the Star

as Self (archive footage)

1941

1968

Shadow Over Elveron

as Barney Conners

1954

Twelve Angry Men

as Juror #3

1932

The Wiser Sex

as Phil Long

1941

This Woman Is Mine

as Robert Stevens

1958

Bitter Heritage

as Frank James

1956

1976

That's Entertainment, Part II

as (archive footage)

1937

The Romance of Celluloid

as Self (archive footage)

1964

How to Make a French Dish

as John K. Montasy Jr

1965

In Harm's Way

as CINCPAC I

1943

The Voice That Thrilled the World

as Self (segment 'Dangerous') (archive footage)

1964

The Big Parade of Comedy

as Gifford in 'Bombshell' (archive footage)

1991

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

as actor 'Advise and 'Consent' (archive footage) (uncredited)

1955

Too Old for Dolls

as Mike Ramsay

1956

Rendezvous in Black

as Hugh Strickland

Production

1957

Uncle Vanya

as Director

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