Franchot Tone

ActorDirectorProducer Feb 27 (died age 63) Niagara Falls, New York, USA 1932–1996 (64 year career)

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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

Film

Mutiny on the Bounty

Roger Byam

Film

Five Graves to Cairo

Cpl. John J. Bramble / Paul Davos

Film

Phantom Lady

John 'Jack' Marlow

Film

Advise & Consent

The President

Film

In Harm's Way

CINCPAC I

Film

Twelve Angry Men

Juror #3

Film

Dangerous

Don Bellows

Film

Bombshell

Gifford Middleton

Filmography

Acting (106)

Movies (85)

Joan Crawford: Always the Star

1996

as Self (archive footage)

7.5

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

1991

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

7.7

Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre

1989

as Self

That's Entertainment, Part II

1976

as (archive footage)

6.9

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

1972

as Self (archive footage)

6.0

Brasileiros em Hollywood

1970

as Self (archive footage)

Nobody Runs Forever

1968

as Ambassador Townsend

Shadow Over Elveron

as Barney Conners

In Harm's Way

as CINCPAC I

The Making of A Movie

1965

as Self

Mickey One

as Rudy Lopp

See How They Run

as Baron Frood

The Big Parade of Comedy

1964

as Gifford in 'Bombshell' (archive footage)

6.3

How to Make a French Dish

1964

as John K. Montasy Jr

4.5

Advise & Consent

1962

as The President

7.1

Witchcraft: The Doll in Brambles

1961

as Your Host

6.0

Bitter Heritage

1958

as Frank James

Uncle Vanya

1957

as Dr. Mikhail Lvovich Astroff

6.0

Rendezvous in Black

1956

as Hugh Strickland

The Little Foxes

1956

as Horace

Too Old for Dolls

1955

as Mike Ramsay

Twelve Angry Men

as Juror #3

Here Comes the Groom

as Wilbur Stanley

The Man on the Eiffel Tower

as Johann Radek

Jigsaw

as Howard Malloy

Without Honor

as Dennis Williams

I Love Trouble

as Stuart Bailey

Every Girl Should Be Married

as Roger Sanford

Honeymoon

as David Flanner

Her Husband's Affairs

as William Weldon

Lost Honeymoon

as Johnny Gray

Because of Him

as Paul Taylor

That Night with You

as Paul Renaud

The Hour Before the Dawn

1944

as Jim Hetherton

5.5

Phantom Lady

1944

as John 'Jack' Marlow

Dark Waters

as Dr. George Grover

Five Graves to Cairo

as Cpl. John J. Bramble / Paul Davos

His Butler's Sister

as Charles Gerard

True to Life

as Fletcher Marvin

The Voice That Thrilled the World

1943

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

5.3

Pilot #5

1943

as George Braynor Collins

5.8

Star Spangled Rhythm

1942

as John

6.0

The Wife Takes a Flyer

1942

as Christopher Reynolds

4.5

She Knew All the Answers

as Mark Willows

This Woman Is Mine

as Robert Stevens

Nice Girl?

as Richard Calvert

Trail of the Vigilantes

1940

as Kansas

Fast and Furious

as Joel Sloane

Love Is a Headache

as Peter Lawrence

Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 6

1938

as Self

Man-Proof

1938

as Jimmy Kilmartin

4.3

Three Loves Has Nancy

1938

as Robert 'Bob' Hanson

The Girl Downstairs

as Paul Wagner

Three Comrades

as Otto Koster

Quality Street

as Dr. Valentine Brown

Between Two Women

as Allan Meighan

They Gave Him a Gun

as James 'Jimmy' Davis

6.2

The Bride Wore Red

1937

as Giulio

6.7

The Romance of Celluloid

1937

as Self (archive footage)

The Unguarded Hour

as Sir Alan Dearden

Love on the Run

as Barnabus Pells

The King Steps Out

as Emperor Franz Josef

The Gorgeous Hussy

as John H. Eaton

Suzy

as Terry

Exclusive Story

as Dick Parton

Mutiny on the Bounty

as Roger Byam

Dangerous

as Don Bellows

Reckless

as Robert 'Bob' Harrison Jr.

5.0

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

1935

as Forsythe

6.6

No More Ladies

1935

as Jim 'Jimsy Boysie' Salston

4.6

One New York Night

1935

as Foxhall Ridgeway

The World Moves On

1934

as Richard Girard - 1825 / Richard Girard - 1914

Sadie McKee

as Michael

Gentlemen Are Born

as Bob Bailey

The Girl from Missouri

as T.R. Paige, Jr.

Moulin Rouge

as Douglas Hall

Straight Is the Way

as Benny

Bombshell

as Gifford Middleton

Midnight Mary

as Tom

Today We Live

as Ronnie Boyce-Smith

6.2

Gabriel Over the White House

1933

as Hartley Beekman - Secretary to the President

Dancing Lady

as Tod Newton

Stage Mother

as Warren Foster

The Stranger's Return

as Guy Crane

The Wiser Sex

as Phil Long

Television (21)

Run for Your Life

1965

as Judge Taliaferro Wilson

7.2

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

as Rudolph Bitzner

The Virginian

as Murdoch

Ben Casey

as Daniel Freeland

Bonanza

as Denver McKee

The Twilight Zone

as Col. Archie Taylor

8.5

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

as Candy Lombe

Armchair Theatre

as Joe

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Oliver Mathews

Climax!

as Henry Hutton

General Electric Theater

1953

as Charles Proteus Steinmetz

Four Star Playhouse

as Ben

Tales of Tomorrow

Robert Montgomery Presents

1950

5.6

The Colgate Comedy Hour

1950

as Self

6.8

Lux Video Theatre

1950

as Meredith Whitehouse

Suspense

as Markheim

Lights Out

The Philco Television Playhouse

Studio One

The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self

Crew (3)

Movies (3)

Uncle Vanya

Director

Uncle Vanya

Producer

The Man on the Eiffel Tower

1949

Producer

5.1