Franchot Tone
Acting1905Niagara Falls, New York, USA
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.
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Known For
Acting History
1996
Joan Crawford: Always the Star
as Self (archive footage)
1991
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
as actor 'Advise and 'Consent' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1976
That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
1972
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
as Self (archive footage)
1970
Brasileiros em Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
1968
The High Commissioner
as Ambassador Townsend
Shadow Over Elveron
as Barney Conners
1967
Run for Your Life
TVas Judge Taliaferro Wilson• 1 eps
1965
Mickey One
as Rudy Lopp
In Harm's Way
as CINCPAC I
The Making of A Movie
as Self
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
TVas Rudolph Bitzner• 1 eps
Ben Casey
TVas Daniel Freeland• 26 eps
The Virginian
TVas Murdoch• 1 eps
1964
See How They Run
as Baron Frood
The Big Parade of Comedy
as Gifford in 'Bombshell' (archive footage)
How to Make a French Dish
as John K. Montasy Jr
1962
Advise & Consent
as The President
1961
Witchcraft: The Doll in Brambles
as Your Host
The Twilight Zone
TVas Col. Archie Taylor• 1 eps
1960
The Shape of the River
as Mark Twain
Bonanza
TVas Denver McKee• 1 eps
1959
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TVas Oliver Mathews• 1 eps
1958
Bitter Heritage
as Frank James
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
TVas Candy Lombe• 1 eps
1957
Uncle Vanya
as Dr. Mikhail Lvovich Astroff
Climax!
TVas Kurt Baumann / Scott Malone• 1 eps
Uncle Vanya
Director
Uncle Vanya
Producer
1956
Rendezvous in Black
as Hugh Strickland
The Little Foxes
as Horace
1955
Too Old for Dolls
as Mike Ramsay
The Colgate Comedy Hour
TVas Self• 1 eps
Four Star Playhouse
TVas Ben• 1 eps
1954
Twelve Angry Men
as Juror #3
1953
General Electric Theater
TVas Charles Proteus Steinmetz
1952
1951
Here Comes the Groom
as Wilbur Stanley
1950
1949
Without Honor
as Dennis Williams
Jigsaw
as Howard Malloy
The Man on the Eiffel Tower
as Johann Radek
The Man on the Eiffel Tower
Producer
1948
Every Girl Should Be Married
as Roger Sanford
I Love Trouble
as Stuart Bailey
The Ed Sullivan Show
TVas Self
1947
1946
Because of Him
as Paul Taylor
1945
That Night with You
as Paul Renaud
1944
Phantom Lady
as John 'Jack' Marlow
The Hour Before the Dawn
as Jim Hetherton
Dark Waters
as Dr. George Grover
1943
The Voice That Thrilled the World
as Self (segment 'Dangerous') (archive footage)
Five Graves to Cairo
as Cpl. John J. Bramble / Paul Davos
His Butler's Sister
as Charles Gerard
Pilot #5
as George Braynor Collins
True to Life
as Fletcher Marvin
1942
Star Spangled Rhythm
as John
The Wife Takes a Flyer
as Christopher Reynolds
1941
This Woman Is Mine
as Robert Stevens
She Knew All the Answers
as Mark Willows
Nice Girl?
as Richard Calvert
1940
Trail of the Vigilantes
as Kansas
1939
Fast and Furious
as Joel Sloane
1938
Man-Proof
as Jimmy Kilmartin
Three Loves Has Nancy
as Robert 'Bob' Hanson
Three Comrades
as Otto Koster
The Girl Downstairs
as Paul Wagner
Love Is a Headache
as Peter Lawrence
1937
The Bride Wore Red
as Giulio
Quality Street
as Dr. Valentine Brown
Between Two Women
as Allan Meighan
They Gave Him a Gun
as James 'Jimmy' Davis
The Romance of Celluloid
as Self (archive footage)
1936
Love on the Run
as Barnabus Pells
Suzy
as Terry
The Unguarded Hour
as Sir Alan Dearden
The King Steps Out
as Emperor Franz Josef
The Gorgeous Hussy
as John H. Eaton
Exclusive Story
as Dick Parton
1935
Dangerous
as Don Bellows
Reckless
as Robert 'Bob' Harrison Jr.
One New York Night
as Foxhall Ridgeway
Mutiny on the Bounty
as Roger Byam
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
as Forsythe
No More Ladies
as Jim 'Jimsy Boysie' Salston
1934
Sadie McKee
as Michael
Moulin Rouge
as Douglas Hall
The World Moves On
as Richard Girard - 1825 / Richard Girard - 1914
The Girl from Missouri
as T.R. Paige, Jr.
Gentlemen Are Born
as Bob Bailey
Straight Is the Way
as Benny
1933
Today We Live
as Ronnie Boyce-Smith
Bombshell
as Gifford Middleton
Dancing Lady
as Tod Newton
Midnight Mary
as Tom
The Stranger's Return
as Guy Crane
Gabriel Over the White House
as Hartley Beekman - Secretary to the President
Stage Mother
as Warren Foster
1932
The Wiser Sex
as Phil Long