Franchot Tone
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Birthplace:
Niagara falls, New York, USA
He began acting while a college student, then became president of his school's Dramatic Club. In 1927 Tone began his professional stage career in stock, then soon made it to Broadway. He began appearing in films in 1932, going on to a busy screen career in which he was typecast as a debonair, tuxedo-wearing playboy or successful man-about-town. For his work in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) he received a Best Actor Oscar nomination. In the early '50s he gave up films to return to the stage; after appearing in an off-Broadway prouction of Uncle Vanya he returned to film in the play's screen version (1958), which he co-produced, co-directed, and starred in. He appeared in a handful of films in the '60s; meanwhile, onstage he got good reviews for his performance in the New York revival of Strange Interlude. In the mid '60s he costarred in the TV series "Ben Casey." He was married four times; his wives included actresses Joan Crawford, Jean Wallace, Barbara Payton, and Dolores Dorn-Heft.
Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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No Score Yet | The High Commissioner |
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— | 1968 |
71% | Mickey One |
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— | 1965 |
38% | In Harm's Way |
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— | 1965 |
75% | Advise and Consent |
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— | 1962 |
No Score Yet | Uncle Vanya |
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— | 1958 |
60% | Here Comes the Groom |
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— | 1951 |
No Score Yet | Every Girl Should Be Married |
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— | 1949 |
No Score Yet | Jigsaw |
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— | 1949 |
No Score Yet | The Man on the Eiffel Tower |
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— | 1949 |
No Score Yet | Her Husband's Affairs |
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— | 1947 |
No Score Yet | Honeymoon |
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— | 1947 |
No Score Yet | Lost Honeymoon |
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— | 1947 |
No Score Yet | Because of Him |
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— | 1946 |
No Score Yet | Dark Waters |
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— | 1944 |
89% | Phantom Lady |
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— | 1944 |
No Score Yet | His Butler's Sister |
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— | 1943 |
No Score Yet | Pilot No. 5 |
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— | 1943 |
100% | Five Graves to Cairo |
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— | 1943 |
No Score Yet | Star Spangled Rhythm |
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— | 1942 |
No Score Yet | Nice Girl? |
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— | 1941 |
No Score Yet | She Knew All the Answers |
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— | 1941 |
No Score Yet | Trail Of The Vigilantes |
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— | 1940 |
No Score Yet | Three Loves Has Nancy |
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— | 1938 |
100% | Three Comrades |
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— | 1938 |
No Score Yet | Man-Proof |
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— | 1938 |
No Score Yet | Love is a Headache |
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— | 1938 |
No Score Yet | They Gave Him a Gun |
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— | 1937 |
67% | Quality Street |
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— | 1937 |
No Score Yet | The Bride Wore Red |
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— | 1937 |
No Score Yet | Between Two Women |
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— | 1937 |
80% | Love on the Run |
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— | 1936 |
No Score Yet | The Gorgeous Hussy |
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— | 1936 |
No Score Yet | Suzy |
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— | 1936 |
No Score Yet | The Unguarded Hour |
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— | 1936 |
No Score Yet | Exclusive Story |
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— | 1936 |
No Score Yet | The King Steps Out |
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— | 1936 |
93% | Mutiny on the Bounty |
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— | 1935 |
No Score Yet | No More Ladies |
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— | 1935 |
100% | The Lives of a Bengal Lancer |
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— | 1935 |
86% | Dangerous |
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— | 1935 |
No Score Yet | Reckless |
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— | 1935 |
No Score Yet | The World Moves On |
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— | 1934 |
No Score Yet | Sadie McKee |
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— | 1934 |
No Score Yet | The Girl From Missouri (100 Per Cent Pure) (Born to Be Kissed) |
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— | 1934 |
80% | Dancing Lady |
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— | 1933 |
90% | Bombshell (Blonde Bombshell) |
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— | 1933 |
No Score Yet | Stage Mother |
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— | 1933 |
No Score Yet | Stranger's Return |
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— | 1933 |
20% | Today We Live |
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— | 1933 |
No Score Yet | Midnight Mary |
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— | 1933 |
80% | Gabriel over the White House |
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— | 1933 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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No Score Yet |
Ben Casey
1961-1966
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No Score Yet |
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962-1965
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82% |
The Twilight Zone
1959-1964
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No Score Yet |
Bonanza
1959-1973
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No Score Yet |
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955-1962
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No Score Yet |
Playhouse 90
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Quotes from Franchot Tone's Characters
Barbara Whitfield: | Trouble, really, am I a lot of trouble? |
Howard Malloy: | Women always are. Beautiful women anyway. |
Barbara Whitfield: | Of course, that's what men like. |
Howard Malloy: | Beauty. |
Barbara Whitfield: | The trouble. |
Otto Koster: | Play the limit: aim at the stars! |
Franz Breuer: | Koster, when you take a curve at high speeds do you use the brake? |
Otto Koster: | I just turn the wheel - and hope. |
Otto Koster: | I just turn the wheel and hope. |