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:
- 91
- 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 | The Big Parade of Comedy | Gifford in 'Bombshell' (archive footage) | 1964-09-02 |
| Movie | See How They Run | Baron Frood | 1964-10-07 |
| Movie | Advise & Consent | The President | 1962-06-06 |
| Series | The Virginian | Murdoch | 1962-09-19 |
| Series | Ben Casey | Dr. Daniel Niles 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 | 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 | The Colgate Comedy Hour | Unknown | 1950-09-10 |
| Series | Suspense | Unknown | 1949-01-06 |
| Movie | Jigsaw | Howard Malloy | 1949-03-11 |
| Movie | The Man on the Eiffel Tower | Johann Radek | 1949-12-12 |
| Movie | Without Honor | Dennis Williams | 1949-10-26 |
| Series | Studio One | Unknown | 1948-11-07 |
| Movie | I Love Trouble | Stuart Bailey | 1948-01-15 |
| 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 | Dark Waters | Dr. George Grover | 1944-11-21 |
| Movie | Phantom Lady | John 'Jack' Marlow | 1944-01-28 |
| Movie | The Hour Before the Dawn | Jim Hetherton | 1944-05-10 |
| Movie | Pilot #5 | George Braynor Collins | 1943-06-24 |
| Movie | Five Graves to Cairo | Cpl. John J. Bramble / Paul Davos | 1943-05-26 |
| Movie | The Voice That Thrilled the World | Self (segment 'Dangerous') (archive footage) | 1943-10-16 |
| Movie | His Butler's Sister | Charles Gerard | 1943-11-26 |
| Movie | True to Life | Fletcher Marvin | 1943-12-24 |
| 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 | She Knew All the Answers | Mark Willows | 1941-05-13 |
| Movie | This Woman Is Mine | Robert Stevens | 1941-08-22 |
| 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 | Man-Proof | Jimmy Kilmartin | 1938-01-07 |
| Movie | Three Loves Has Nancy | Robert 'Bob' Hanson | 1938-09-02 |
| Movie | Three Comrades | Otto Koster | 1938-06-02 |
| Movie | The Girl Downstairs | Paul Wagner | 1938-12-23 |
| 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 | Exclusive Story | Dick Parton | 1936-01-17 |
| Movie | The King Steps Out | Emperor Franz Josef | 1936-05-27 |
| Movie | Suzy | Terry | 1936-07-20 |
| Movie | Love on the Run | Barnabus Pells | 1936-11-20 |
| Movie | The Gorgeous Hussy | John H. Eaton | 1936-08-28 |
| Movie | One New York Night | Foxhall Ridgeway | 1935-03-08 |
| Movie | The Lives of a Bengal Lancer | Forsythe | 1935-01-11 |
| Movie | Reckless | Robert 'Bob' Harrison Jr. | 1935-04-19 |
| Movie | No More Ladies | Jim 'Jimsy Boysie' Salston | 1935-06-14 |
| Movie | Dangerous | Don Bellows | 1935-12-25 |
| Movie | Mutiny on the Bounty | Roger Byam | 1935-11-22 |
| 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 |