Franchot Tone(1905-1968)

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Advise & Consent (1962)

President of the Dramatic Club at Cornell University, Franchot Tone gave up the family business for acting, making his Broadway debut in "The Age of Innocence".

Tone then went into movies for MGM, making his film debut (at Paramount Pictures) in The Wiser Sex (1932). With his theatrical background, Tone became one of the most talented movie actors in Hollywood.

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Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 1 win & 1 nomination total

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Known for

Dangerous

6.8

Don Bellows

1935

Mutiny on the Bounty

7.6

Roger Byam

1935

I Love Trouble

6.7

Stuart Bailey

1948

Suzy

6.4

Terry Moore

1936

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Actor

The High Commissioner
6.0
- Ambassador Townsend
- 1968
Shadow Over Elveron
6.7
TV Movie
- Barney Conners
- 1968
Run for Your Life
7.6
TV Series
- Judge Taliaferro Wilson
- 1967
Ben Casey
7.1
TV Series
- Dr. Daniel Niles Freeland
- Robert Ashton
- 1962–1966
Mickey One
6.3
- Ruby Lapp
- 1965
In Harm's Way
7.3
- CINCPAC I
- 1965
The Virginian
7.6
TV Series
- Murdock
- 1965
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
8.5
TV Series
- Rudolph Bitzner
- 1965
Festival
8.0
TV Series
- Solness
- 1964
The Reporter
7.4
TV Series
- Jay Jay Jordan
- 1964
See How They Run
8.2
TV Movie
- Baron Frood
- 1964
The DuPont Show of the Week
6.2
TV Series
- Sen. Grady Lyons
- Inspector
- 1962–1964
La bonne soupe
5.9
- John K. Montasy Jr
- 1964
The Eleventh Hour
7.7
TV Series
- Leo Haynes
- 1962
Advise & Consent
7.7
- The President
- 1962

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Height
- 5′ 10″ (1.78 m)
Born
- February 27, 1905
- Niagara Falls, New York, USA
Died
- September 18, 1968
- New York City, New York, USA(lung cancer)
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Other works
Stage: Appeared (as "Bunner"; Broadway debut) in "The Belt" on Broadway. Written by Paul Sifton. Directed by Edward Massey. New Playwrights Theatre: 19 Oct 1927-Nov 1927 (closing date unknown/29 performances). Cast: Herman Bandes, Jane Barry, Herbert Bergman, Lawrence Bolton, Edward Buckman, Gail De Hart, Lionel Ferrend, Moss Fleisig, Murray Franklin, Eduard Franz (credited as Edward Franz), Ross Matthews, Benjamin Osipow, George N. Price, Irwin Swerdlow, Charles P. Thompson, Parker Totten, Willard Williams.
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Trivia
Following his Sept. 13, 1951, beating at the hands of Tom Neal over the affections of starlet Barbara Payton, Tone was hospitalized for almost a week and needed plastic surgery to repair his badly damaged face.