Person
Franchot Tone
Born 27 February 1905 Died 18 September 1968, aged 63 Niagara Falls, New York, USA TMDB ↗
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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27age in their first credit on record (1932)
59years on screen and counting
8credits in 1948, their busiest year
102dated credits on record
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Movie credits
Age: 86 Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991as actor 'Advise and 'Consent' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Age: 63 Nobody Runs Forever
1968as Ambassador Townsend
Age: 63 Shadow Over Elveron
1968as Barney Conners
Age: 60 Mickey One
1965as Rudy Lopp
Age: 60 In Harm's Way
1965as CINCPAC I
Age: 59 See How They Run
1964as Baron Frood
Age: 59 The Big Parade of Comedy
1964as Gifford in 'Bombshell' (archive footage)
Age: 58 How to Make a French Dish
1964as John K. Montasy Jr
Age: 57 Advise & Consent
1962as The President
Age: 55 Witchcraft: The Doll in Brambles
1961as Your Host
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Age: 55 The Shape of the River
1960as Mark Twain
Age: 53 Bitter Heritage
1958as Frank James
Age: 52 Uncle Vanya
1957as Dr. Mikhail Lvovich Astroff
Age: 51 The Little Foxes
1956as Horace
Age: 51 Rendezvous in Black
1956as Hugh Strickland
Age: 49 Too Old for Dolls
1955as Mike Ramsay
Age: 49 Twelve Angry Men
1954as Juror #3
Age: 46 Here Comes the Groom
1951as Wilbur Stanley
Age: 44 The Man on the Eiffel Tower
1949as Johann Radek
Age: 44 Without Honor
1949as Dennis Williams
Age: 44 Jigsaw
1949as Howard Malloy
Age: 43 Every Girl Should Be Married
1948as Roger Sanford
Age: 42 I Love Trouble
1948as Stuart Bailey
Age: 42 Her Husband's Affairs
1947as William Weldon
Age: 42 Honeymoon
1947as David Flanner
Age: 42 Lost Honeymoon
1947as Johnny Gray
Age: 40 Because of Him
1946as Paul Taylor
Age: 40 That Night with You
1945as Paul Renaud
Age: 39 Dark Waters
1944as Dr. George Grover
Age: 39 The Hour Before the Dawn
1944as Jim Hetherton
Age: 38 Phantom Lady
1944as John 'Jack' Marlow
Age: 38 True to Life
1943as Fletcher Marvin
Age: 38 His Butler's Sister
1943as Charles Gerard
Age: 38 Pilot #5
1943as George Braynor Collins
Age: 38 Five Graves to Cairo
1943as Cpl. John J. Bramble / Paul Davos
Age: 37 The Wife Takes a Flyer
1942as Christopher Reynolds
Age: 37 Star Spangled Rhythm
1942as John
Age: 36 This Woman Is Mine
1941as Robert Stevens
Age: 36 She Knew All the Answers
1941as Mark Willows
Age: 35 Nice Girl?
1941as Richard Calvert
Age: 35 Trail of the Vigilantes
1940as Kansas
Age: 34 Fast and Furious
1939as Joel Sloane
Age: 33 The Girl Downstairs
1938as Paul Wagner
Age: 33 Three Loves Has Nancy
1938as Robert 'Bob' Hanson
Age: 33 Three Comrades
1938as Otto Koster
Age: 32 Love Is a Headache
1938as Peter Lawrence
Age: 32 Man-Proof
1938as Jimmy Kilmartin
Age: 32 The Bride Wore Red
1937as Giulio
Age: 32 Between Two Women
1937as Allan Meighan
Age: 32 They Gave Him a Gun
1937as James 'Jimmy' Davis
Age: 32 Quality Street
1937as Dr. Valentine Brown
Age: 31 Love on the Run
1936as Barnabus Pells
Age: 31 The Gorgeous Hussy
1936as John H. Eaton
Age: 31 Suzy
1936as Terry
Age: 31 The King Steps Out
1936as Emperor Franz Josef
Age: 31 The Unguarded Hour
1936as Sir Alan Dearden
Age: 30 Exclusive Story
1936as Dick Parton
Age: 30 Dangerous
1935as Don Bellows
Age: 30 Mutiny on the Bounty
1935as Roger Byam
Age: 30 No More Ladies
1935as Jim 'Jimsy Boysie' Salston
Age: 30 Reckless
1935as Robert 'Bob' Harrison Jr.
Age: 30 One New York Night
1935as Foxhall Ridgeway
Age: 29 The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
1935as Forsythe
Age: 29 Gentlemen Are Born
1934as Bob Bailey
Age: 29 Straight Is the Way
1934as Benny
Age: 29 The Girl from Missouri
1934as T.R. Paige, Jr.
Age: 29 The World Moves On
1934as Richard Girard - 1825 / Richard Girard - 1914
Age: 29 Sadie McKee
1934as Michael
Age: 28 Moulin Rouge
1934as Douglas Hall
Age: 28 Dancing Lady
1933as Tod Newton
Age: 28 Bombshell
1933as Gifford Middleton
Age: 28 Stage Mother
1933as Warren Foster
Age: 28 The Stranger's Return
1933as Guy Crane
Age: 28 Midnight Mary
1933as Tom
Age: 28 Gabriel Over the White House
1933as Hartley Beekman - Secretary to the President
Age: 28 Today We Live
1933as Ronnie Boyce-Smith
Age: 27 The Wiser Sex
1932as Phil Long
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TV credits
Age: 60 Run for Your Life
1965as Judge Taliaferro Wilson
Age: 57 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962as Rudolph Bitzner
Age: 57 The Virginian
1962as Murdoch
Age: 56 Ben Casey
1961as Daniel Freeland
Age: 54 The Twilight Zone
1959as Col. Archie Taylor
Age: 54 Bonanza
1959as Denver McKee
Age: 53 Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958as Candy Lombe
Age: 51 Armchair Theatre
1956as Joe
Age: 50 Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955as Oliver Mathews
Age: 49 Climax!
1954as Henry Hutton
Age: 49 Climax!
1954as Dr. Ken Jaynes
Age: 49 Climax!
1954as Kurt Baumann / Scott Malone
Age: 47 General Electric Theater
1953as Charles Proteus Steinmetz
Age: 47 Four Star Playhouse
1952as Ben
Age: 46 Tales of Tomorrow
1951No poster
Age: 45 Lux Video Theatre
1950as Meredith Whitehouse
Age: 44 Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
Age: 44 Lights Out
1949
Age: 43 Suspense
1949as Markheim
Age: 43 Studio One
1948as Juror #3
Age: 43 Studio One
1948as Rev. Lockman
Age: 43 Studio One
1948as Douglas Thompson
Age: 43 Studio One
1948as Bill Gibson
Age: 43 Studio One
1948
Age: 43