Franchot Tone
Gender: Male
Born: 27th February 1905
Died: 18th September 1968
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: Ben Casey, Tales of Tomorrow
Movies: Bombshell, Mutiny on the Bounty, Phantom Lady, Sadie McKee, The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, Three Comrades, Five Graves to Cairo, Three Loves Has Nancy, The Guardsman, The Gorgeous Hussy, Pilot no. 5, In Harm's Way, The Girl from Missouri, Suzy, Dancing Lady, Jigsaw, Quality Street, Without Honor, Reckless, Dangerous, Today We Live, No More Ladies, The Bride Wore Red, Love on the Run, See How They Run, Every Girl Should Be Married, Dark Waters, The World Moves On, Midnight Mary, Advise and Consent, Lost Honeymoon, The Unguarded Hour, Gentlemen Are Born, I Love Trouble, She Knew All the Answers, Nice Girl?, The Wife Takes a Flyer, Uncle Vanya, Honeymoon, The Stranger's Return, Fast and Furious, The Hour Before the Dawn, The Wiser Sex, Gabriel Over the White House, Man-Proof, The Man on the Eiffel Tower, My Favorite Blonde, They Gave Him a Gun, Between Two Women, Love Is a Headache, The Girl Downstairs, Her Husband's Affairs
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.
He was born as Stanislaus Pascal Franchot Tone in Niagara Falls, New York, the youngest son of Dr. Frank Jerome Tone, the wealthy president of the Carborundum Company, and his socially-prominent wife, Gertrude Van Vrancken Franchot. Tone was a distant relative of Wolfe Tone: his great-great-great-great-grandfather John was a first cousin of Peter Tone, whose eldest son was Theobald Wolfe Tone. Tone was of French Canadian, Irish, English and Basque ancestry.
Tone attended The Hill School in Pottstown, PA and Cornell University, where he was President of the drama club and was elected to the Sphinx Head Society. He also joined Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. He gave up the family business to pursue an acting career in the theatre. After graduating, he moved to Greenwich Village, New York, and got his first major Broadway role in the 1929 Katharine Cornell production of
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