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.
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Acting History
1996
Joan Crawford: Always the Star as Self (archive footage)
1991Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker as actor 'Advise and 'Consent' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1989Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre as Self
1976That's Entertainment, Part II as (archive footage)
1972Hollywood: The Dream Factory as Self (archive footage)
1968Nobody Runs Forever as Ambassador Townsend
1968Shadow Over Elveron as Barney Conners
1965Mickey One as Rudy Lopp
1965Run for Your Life as Judge Taliaferro Wilson
1965In Harm's Way as CINCPAC I
1965The Making of A Movie as Self
1964See How They Run as Baron Frood
1964The Big Parade of Comedy as Gifford in 'Bombshell' (archive footage)
1964How to Make a French Dish as John K. Montasy Jr
1962The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Rudolph Bitzner
1962The Virginian as Murdoch
1962Advise & Consent as The President
1961Ben Casey as Daniel Freeland
1961Witchcraft: The Doll in Brambles as Your Host
1959The Twilight Zone as Col. Archie Taylor
1959Bonanza as Denver McKee
1958Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse as Candy Lombe
1958Bitter Heritage as Frank James
1957Uncle Vanya as Dr. Mikhail Lvovich Astroff
1956The Little Foxes as Horace
1956Rendezvous in Black as Hugh Strickland
1955Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Oliver Mathews
1955Too Old for Dolls as Mike Ramsay
1954Climax! as Henry Hutton
1954Climax! as Dr. Ken Jaynes
1954Climax! as Kurt Baumann / Scott Malone
1954Twelve Angry Men as Juror #3
1953General Electric Theater as Charles Proteus Steinmetz
1952Four Star Playhouse as Ben
1951Here Comes the Groom as Wilbur Stanley
1951Tales of Tomorrow
1950Lux Video Theatre as Meredith Whitehouse
1950The Colgate Comedy Hour as Self
1950Robert Montgomery Presents
1949The Man on the Eiffel Tower as Johann Radek
1949Without Honor as Dennis Williams
1949Lights Out
1949Jigsaw as Howard Malloy
1949Suspense as Markheim
1948Every Girl Should Be Married as Roger Sanford
1948Studio One as Juror #3
1948Studio One as Rev. Lockman
1948Studio One as Douglas Thompson
1948Studio One as Bill Gibson
1948Studio One
1948The Philco Television Playhouse
1948The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
1948I Love Trouble as Stuart Bailey
1947Her Husband's Affairs as William Weldon
1947Honeymoon as David Flanner
1947Lost Honeymoon as Johnny Gray
1946Because of Him as Paul Taylor
1945That Night with You as Paul Renaud
1944Dark Waters as Dr. George Grover
1944The Hour Before the Dawn as Jim Hetherton
1944Phantom Lady as John 'Jack' Marlow
1943True to Life as Fletcher Marvin
1943His Butler's Sister as Charles Gerard
1943The Voice That Thrilled the World as Self (segment 'Dangerous') (archive footage)
1943Pilot #5 as George Braynor Collins
1943Five Graves to Cairo as Cpl. John J. Bramble / Paul Davos
1942The Wife Takes a Flyer as Christopher Reynolds
1942Star Spangled Rhythm as John
1941This Woman Is Mine as Robert Stevens
1941She Knew All the Answers as Mark Willows
1941Nice Girl? as Richard Calvert
1940Trail of the Vigilantes as Kansas
1939Fast and Furious as Joel Sloane
1938The Girl Downstairs as Paul Wagner
1938Three Loves Has Nancy as Robert 'Bob' Hanson
1938Three Comrades as Otto Koster
1938Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 6 as Self
1938Love Is a Headache as Peter Lawrence
1938Man-Proof as Jimmy Kilmartin
1937The Bride Wore Red as Giulio
1937The Romance of Celluloid as Self (archive footage)
1937Between Two Women as Allan Meighan
1937They Gave Him a Gun as James 'Jimmy' Davis
1937Quality Street as Dr. Valentine Brown
1936Love on the Run as Barnabus Pells
1936The Gorgeous Hussy as John H. Eaton
1936Suzy as Terry
1936The King Steps Out as Emperor Franz Josef
1936The Unguarded Hour as Sir Alan Dearden
1936Exclusive Story as Dick Parton
1935Dangerous as Don Bellows
1935Mutiny on the Bounty as Roger Byam
1935No More Ladies as Jim 'Jimsy Boysie' Salston
1935Reckless as Robert 'Bob' Harrison Jr.
1935One New York Night as Foxhall Ridgeway
1935The Lives of a Bengal Lancer as Forsythe
1934Gentlemen Are Born as Bob Bailey
1934Straight Is the Way as Benny
1934The Girl from Missouri as T.R. Paige, Jr.
1934The World Moves On as Richard Girard - 1825 / Richard Girard - 1914
1934Sadie McKee as Michael
1934Moulin Rouge as Douglas Hall
1933Dancing Lady as Tod Newton
1933Bombshell as Gifford Middleton
1933Stage Mother as Warren Foster
1933The Stranger's Return as Guy Crane
1933Midnight Mary as Tom
1933Gabriel Over the White House as Hartley Beekman - Secretary to the President
1933Today We Live as Ronnie Boyce-Smith
1932The Wiser Sex as Phil Long