Franchot Tone
Blue-blood, stage-trained actor who made his film debut in 1932. Owing to his upper-class poise and polish, Tone was pigeonholed as a tuxedoed, cafe society sophisticate in a host of mostly MGM comedies and dramas. By 1937 the tall, handsome and sensitive actor was one of Hollywood's most prominent leading men, receiving recognition for his roles in "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1935), "The Lives of a Bengal Lancer" (1935) and "Three Comrades" (1938). Too often, though, he found himself stifled in standardized romantic leads, playing consort to dynamic star actresses, especially his then-wife Joan Crawford.
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Franchot Tone
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Shadow Over Elveron | Barney Conners (Character) | - | 1968 |
No Score Yet |
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Nobody Runs Forever | Ambassador Townsend (Character) | - | 1968 |
71% |
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Mickey One | Ruby Lapp (Character) | - | 1965 |
No Score Yet |
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See How They Run | Baron Frood (Character) | - | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | La Bonne Soupe | Montasi, Jr. (Character) | - | 1964 |
77% |
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Advise and Consent | The President (Character) | - | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Witchcraft: The Doll in Brambles | Your Host (Character) | - | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Uncle Vanya |
Dr. Mikhail Lvovich Astroff (Character), Director, Producer |
- | 1958 |
60% |
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Here Comes the Groom | Wilbur Stanley (Character) | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Without Honor | Dennis Williams (Character) | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet |
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The Man on the Eiffel Tower |
Johann Radek (Character), Producer |
- | 1949 |
No Score Yet |
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Jigsaw | Howard Malloy (Character) | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet |
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Every Girl Should Be Married | Roger Sanford (Character) | - | 1948 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I Love Trouble | Stuart Bailey (Character) | - | 1947 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Honeymoon | David Flanner (Character) | - | 1947 |
No Score Yet |
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Her Husband's Affairs | William Weldon (Character) | - | 1947 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lost Honeymoon | Johnny Gray (Character) | - | 1947 |
No Score Yet |
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Because of Him | Paul Taylor (Character) | - | 1946 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | That Night With You | Paul Renaud (Character) | - | 1945 |
No Score Yet |
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Dark Waters | Dr. George Grover (Character) | - | 1944 |
90% |
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Phantom Lady | Jack Marlow (Character) | - | 1944 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Hour Before the Dawn | Jim Hetherton (Character) | - | 1944 |
100% |
|
Five Graves to Cairo |
Cpl. John J. Bramble/ |
- | 1943 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | True to Life | Fletcher Marvin (Character) | - | 1943 |
No Score Yet |
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Pilot No. 5 | George Braynor Collins (Character) | - | 1943 |
No Score Yet |
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His Butler's Sister | Charles Gerard (Character) | - | 1943 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Wife Takes a Flyer | Christopher Reynolds (Character) | - | 1942 |
80% |
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Nice Girl? | Richard Calvert (Character) | - | 1941 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | She Knew All the Answers | Mark Willows (Character) | - | 1941 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | This Woman Is Mine | Robert Stevens (Character) | - | 1941 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Trail of the Vigilantes | Kansas (Character) | - | 1940 |
No Score Yet |
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Fast and Furious | Joel Sloane (Character) | - | 1939 |
No Score Yet |
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Three Loves Has Nancy | Robert `'Bob'` Hanson (Character) | - | 1938 |
100% |
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Three Comrades | Otto Koster (Character) | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Love Is a Headache | Peter Lawrence (Character) | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Girl Downstairs | Paul Wagner (Character) | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet |
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Man-Proof | Jimmy Kilmartin (Character) | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet |
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They Gave Him a Gun | James "Jimmy" Davis (Character) | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet |
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The Bride Wore Red | Giulio (Character) | - | 1937 |
67% |
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Quality Street | Dr. Valentine Brown (Character) | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Surrounded by Women | Allan Meighan (Character) | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Between Two Women | Allan Meighan (Character) | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Exclusive Story | Dick Barton (Character) | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Unguarded Hour | Sir Alan Dearden (Character) | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet |
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The Gorgeous Hussy | John Eaton (Character) | - | 1936 |
80% |
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Love on the Run | Barnabus Pells (Character) | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet |
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The King Steps Out | Emperor Franz Josef (Character) | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet |
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Suzy | Terry (Character) | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet |
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No More Ladies | Jim (Character) | - | 1935 |
86% |
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Dangerous | Don Bellows (Character) | - | 1935 |
96% |
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Mutiny on the Bounty | Byam (Character) | - | 1935 |
100% |
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The Lives of a Bengal Lancer | Lt. Forsythe (Character) | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet |
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Reckless | Robert "Bob" Harrison Jr. (Character) | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | One New York Night | Foxhall Ridgeway (Character) | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet |
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The Girl From Missouri | T.R. Paige Jr. (Character) | - | 1934 |
No Score Yet |
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The World Moves On |
Richard Griard, 1825/ |
- | 1934 |
No Score Yet |
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Sadie McKee | Michael Alderson (Character) | - | 1934 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Straight Is the Way | Benny (Character) | - | 1934 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Moulin Rouge | Douglas Hall (Character) | - | 1934 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gentlemen Are Born | Bob Bailey (Character) | - | 1934 |
80% |
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Dancing Lady | Tod Newton (Character) | - | 1933 |
75% |
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Gabriel Over the White House | Hartley "Beek" Beekman (Character) | - | 1933 |
20% |
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Today We Live | Ronnie (Character) | - | 1933 |
90% |
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Bombshell | Gifford Middleton (Character) | - | 1933 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Stage Mother | Warren Foster (Character) | - | 1933 |
No Score Yet |
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Midnight Mary | Thomas 'Tom' Mannering Jr. (Character) | - | 1933 |
No Score Yet |
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The Stranger's Return | Guy (Character) | - | 1933 |
TV
Credit | ||||
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ben Casey |
Robert Ashton (Character), Dr. Daniel Niles Freeland (Guest Star) |
1962 1965-1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Virginian | Murdock (Guest Star) | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alfred Hitchcock Hour | Unknown (Character) | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wagon Train | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1962 |
92% | 96% | The Twilight Zone | Col. Archie Taylor (Character) | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bonanza | Denver McKee (Guest Star) | 1960 |
No Score Yet | 87% | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Oliver Mathews (Character) | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Studio One | Unknown (Character) | 1950 1954 1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Climax! | Unknown (Character) | 1954-1955 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Alcoa Hour | Prince (Character) | 1956-1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The United States Steel Hour | Charles Burnett (Character) | 1954-1955 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Suspense | Unknown (Character) | 1950 1952 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tales of Tomorrow | Unknown (Character) | 1952 |