Person Details

Birthday: 1905-02-27 20:12:28

Death: 1968-09-18 20:12:28

Aliases: Франшо Тоун

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Niagara Falls, New York, USA

Homepage:

Movie Involvements: 50

TV Involvements: 17


Most Famous Work

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Franchot Tone, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Most Famous Work

Bonanza
Average
8

Bonanza

(1959) Denver McKee
The Virginian
Average
7

The Virginian

(1962) Murdoch
The Twilight Zone
Average
8

The Twilight Zone

(1959) Col. Archie Taylor
Lux Video Theatre
Average
3

Lux Video Theatre

(1950) Meredith Whitehouse
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
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8

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

(1955) Oliver Mathews
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
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8

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

(1962) Rudolph Bitzner
Ben Casey
Average
6

Ben Casey

(1961) Dr. Daniel Niles Freeland
Climax!
Average
3

Climax!

(1954) Kurt Baumann / Scott Malone

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
1991 actor 'Advise and 'Consent' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1989 Self
1976 (archive footage)
1972 Self (archive footage)
1968 Ambassador Townsend
Barney Conners
1965 Rudy Lopp
Judge Taliaferro Wilson
CINCPAC I
1964 Baron Frood
(archive footage)
John K. Montasy Jr
1962 Rudolph Bitzner
Murdoch
The President
1961 Dr. Daniel Niles Freeland
Your Host
1959 Col. Archie Taylor
Denver McKee
1958 Candy Lombe
Frank James
1957 Dr. Mikhail Lvovich Astroff
1956 Horace
1955 Oliver Mathews
1954 Dr. Ken Jaynes
Kurt Baumann / Scott Malone
Henry Hutton
Juror #3
1953 Charles Proteus Steinmetz
1952 Ben
1951 Wilbur Stanley
N/A
1950 Meredith Whitehouse
Self
N/A
1949 Johann Radek
Dennis Williams
Howard Malloy
Markheim
1948 Roger Sanford
Juror #3
Bill Gibson
Douglas Thompson
N/A
Rev. Lockman
N/A
Self
Stuart Bailey
1947 William Weldon
David Flanner
Johnny Gray
1946 N/A
Paul Taylor
1945 Paul Renaud
1944 Dr. George Grover
Jim Hetherton
John 'Jack' Marlow
1943 Fletcher Marvin
Charles Gerard
Self (segment 'Dangerous') (archive footage)
George Braynor Collins
Cpl. John J. Bramble / Paul Davos
1942 Christopher Reynolds
John
1941 Robert Stevens
Mark Willows
Richard Calvert
1940 Kansas
1939 Joel Sloane
1938 Paul Wagner
Robert 'Bob' Hanson
Otto Koster
Peter Lawrence
Jimmy Kilmartin
1937 Giulio
Self (archive footage)
Allan Meighan
James 'Jimmy' Davis
Dr. Valentine Brown
1936 Barnabus Pells
John H. Eaton
Terry
Emperor Franz Josef
Sir Alan Dearden
Dick Parton
1935 Don Bellows
Roger Byam
Jim 'Jimsy Boysie' Salston
Robert 'Bob' Harrison Jr.
Foxhall Ridgeway
Forsythe
1934 Bob Bailey
Benny
T.R. Paige, Jr.
Richard Girard - 1825 / Richard Girard - 1914
Michael Alderson
Douglas Hall
1933 Tod Newton
Gifford Middleton
Warren Foster
Guy Crane
Thomas 'Tom' Mannering Jr.
Hartley Beekman - Secretary to the President
Ronnie Boyce-Smith
1932 Phil Long
Year Character Movie/Tv

Directing

Year Role Movie/Tv
1957 Director
Year Role Movie/Tv

Production

Year Role Movie/Tv
1949 Producer
Year Role Movie/Tv

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