Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

107

Gender

Male

Birthday

1905-02-27

Deathday

1968-09-18 (63 years old)

Place of Birth

Niagara Falls, New York, USA

Also Known As

Франшо Тоун
Фрэнчот Тоун
Stanislaus Pascal Franchot Tone

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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Known For

8.4%

The Twilight Zone

Oct 2, 1959

7.5%

Bonanza

Sep 12, 1959

7.3%

Mutiny on the Bounty

Nov 22, 1935

7.7%

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Oct 2, 1955

6.6%

In Harm's Way

Apr 6, 1965

7.0%

Five Graves to Cairo

May 26, 1943

7.0%

Phantom Lady

Jan 28, 1944

7.2%

Advise & Consent

Jun 6, 1962

7.8%

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

Sep 20, 1962

6.5%

Bombshell

Oct 13, 1933

6.7%

Dangerous

Dec 25, 1935

6.6%

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

Jan 11, 1935

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Acting

1996

Joan Crawford: Always the Star as Self (archive footage)

1991

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker as actor 'Advise and 'Consent' (archive footage) (uncredited)

1989

Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre as Self

1976

That's Entertainment, Part II as (archive footage)

1972

Hollywood: The Dream Factory as Self (archive footage)

1968		Nobody Runs Forever as Ambassador Townsend
1968		Shadow Over Elveron as Barney Conners

1965		Mickey One as Rudy Lopp
1965		Run for Your Life as Judge Taliaferro Wilson
1965		In Harm's Way as CINCPAC I

1964		See How They Run as Baron Frood
1964		The Big Parade of Comedy as Gifford in 'Bombshell' (archive footage)
1964		How to Make a French Dish as John K. Montasy Jr

1962		The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Rudolph Bitzner
1962		The Virginian as Murdoch
1962		Advise & Consent as The President

1961		Ben Casey as Dr. Daniel Niles Freeland
1961		Witchcraft: The Doll in Brambles as Your Host

1959		The Twilight Zone as Col. Archie Taylor
1959		Bonanza as Denver McKee

1958		Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse as Candy Lombe
1958		Bitter Heritage as Frank James

1957

Uncle Vanya as Dr. Mikhail Lvovich Astroff

1956

The Little Foxes as Horace

1955		Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Oliver Mathews
1955		Too Old for Dolls as Mike Ramsay

1954		Climax! as Henry Hutton
1954		Climax! as Dr. Ken Jaynes
1954		Climax! as Kurt Baumann / Scott Malone
1954		Twelve Angry Men as Juror #3

1953

General Electric Theater as Charles Proteus Steinmetz

1952

Four Star Playhouse as Ben

1951		Here Comes the Groom as Wilbur Stanley
1951		Tales of Tomorrow

1950		Lux Video Theatre as Meredith Whitehouse
1950		The Colgate Comedy Hour as Self
1950		Robert Montgomery Presents

1949		The Man on the Eiffel Tower as Johann Radek
1949		Without Honor as Dennis Williams
1949		Lights Out
1949		Jigsaw as Howard Malloy
1949		Suspense as Markheim

1948		Every Girl Should Be Married as Roger Sanford
1948		Studio One as Juror #3
1948		Studio One as Rev. Lockman
1948		Studio One as Douglas Thompson
1948		Studio One as Bill Gibson
1948		Studio One
1948		The Philco Television Playhouse
1948		The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
1948		I Love Trouble as Stuart Bailey

1947		Her Husband's Affairs as William Weldon
1947		Honeymoon as David Flanner
1947		Lost Honeymoon as Johnny Gray

1946

Because of Him as Paul Taylor

1945

That Night with You as Paul Renaud

1944		Dark Waters as Dr. George Grover
1944		The Hour Before the Dawn as Jim Hetherton
1944		Phantom Lady as John 'Jack' Marlow

1943		True to Life as Fletcher Marvin
1943		His Butler's Sister as Charles Gerard
1943		The Voice That Thrilled the World as Self (segment 'Dangerous') (archive footage)
1943		Pilot #5 as George Braynor Collins
1943		Five Graves to Cairo as Cpl. John J. Bramble / Paul Davos

1942		The Wife Takes a Flyer as Christopher Reynolds
1942		Star Spangled Rhythm as John

1941		This Woman Is Mine as Robert Stevens
1941		She Knew All the Answers as Mark Willows
1941		Nice Girl? as Richard Calvert

1940

Trail of the Vigilantes as Kansas

1939

Fast and Furious as Joel Sloane

1938		The Girl Downstairs as Paul Wagner
1938		Three Loves Has Nancy as Robert 'Bob' Hanson
1938		Three Comrades as Otto Koster
1938		Love Is a Headache as Peter Lawrence
1938		Man-Proof as Jimmy Kilmartin

1937		The Bride Wore Red as Giulio
1937		The Romance of Celluloid as Self (archive footage)
1937		Between Two Women as Allan Meighan
1937		They Gave Him a Gun as James 'Jimmy' Davis
1937		Quality Street as Dr. Valentine Brown

1936		Love on the Run as Barnabus Pells
1936		The Gorgeous Hussy as John H. Eaton
1936		Suzy as Terry
1936		The King Steps Out as Emperor Franz Josef
1936		The Unguarded Hour as Sir Alan Dearden
1936		Exclusive Story as Dick Parton

1935		Dangerous as Don Bellows
1935		Mutiny on the Bounty as Roger Byam
1935		No More Ladies as Jim 'Jimsy Boysie' Salston
1935		Reckless as Robert 'Bob' Harrison Jr.
1935		One New York Night as Foxhall Ridgeway
1935		The Lives of a Bengal Lancer as Forsythe

1934		Gentlemen Are Born as Bob Bailey
1934		Straight Is the Way as Benny
1934		The Girl from Missouri as T.R. Paige, Jr.
1934		The World Moves On as Richard Girard - 1825 / Richard Girard - 1914
1934		Sadie McKee as Michael
1934		Moulin Rouge as Douglas Hall

1933		Dancing Lady as Tod Newton
1933		Bombshell as Gifford Middleton
1933		Stage Mother as Warren Foster
1933		The Stranger's Return as Guy Crane
1933		Midnight Mary as Tom
1933		Gabriel Over the White House as Hartley Beekman - Secretary to the President
1933		Today We Live as Ronnie Boyce-Smith

1932

The Wiser Sex as Phil Long

Directing

1957

Uncle Vanya as Director

Production

1949

The Man on the Eiffel Tower as Producer