Franchot Tone
Acting
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
Born: February 27, 1905
Place of Birth: Niagara Falls, New York, USA
Known For
The Twilight Zone
An anthology series containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.
Twelve Angry Men
Twelve Angry Men is a 1954 teleplay by Reginald Rose for the Studio One anthology television series. Initially staged as a CBS live production on 20 September 1954, the drama was later rewritten for the stage in 1955 under the same title and again for a feature film, 12 Angry Men (1957). The episode garnered three Emmy Awards for writer Rose, director Franklin Schaffner and Robert Cummings as Best Actor.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
A continuation of the anthology series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, hosted by the master of suspense and featuring thrillers and mysteries.
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such memorable films as Anatomy of a Murder, Exodus, Laura, Forever Amber, Advise and Consent, In Harm's Way, The Moon Is Blue, The Man with the Golden Arm, and many other movies made from the '30s through the '70s. Interviews with actors Frank Sinatra, Vincent Price, James Stewart, Michael Caine, and others who worked with the flamboyant and sometimes control-obsessed director add information and insight to the story.
Bonanza
The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community.
Joan Crawford: Always the Star
Glamorous and hugely popular Joan Crawford raised herself from brutal poverty to Academy Award-winning stardom by guts, determination and hard work. During her 50-year career, she made over 80 films. But her obsessive perfectionism led to the later caricature of coat-hanger-wielding harridan that even the adoration of fans could not counter. Still, she has endured as one of the most popular icons of the movies, an early role model to a million young women who aspired to her image of stylish magnetic power and unquestioned independence.
Mutiny on the Bounty
Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty. However, Bligh returns one year later, hell bent on revenge.
Three Comrades
A love story centered on the lives of three young German soldiers in the years following World War I. Their close friendship is strengthened by their shared love for the same woman who is dying of tuberculosis.
Run for Your Life
Run for Your Life is an American television drama series starring Ben Gazzara as a man with only a short time to live. It ran on NBC from 1965 to 1968. The series was created by Roy Huggins, who had previously explored the "man on the move" concept with The Fugitive.
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as actor 'Advise and 'Consent' (archive footage) (uncredited)
as (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Ambassador Townsend
as Barney Conners
as Rudy Lopp
as Judge Taliaferro Wilson
as CINCPAC I
as Baron Frood
as Gifford in 'Bombshell' (archive footage)
as John K. Montasy Jr
as Rudolph Bitzner
as Murdoch
as The President
as Daniel Freeland
as Your Host
as Col. Archie Taylor
as Denver McKee
as Candy Lombe
as Frank James
as Dr. Mikhail Lvovich Astroff
as Horace
as Hugh Strickland
as Oliver Mathews
as Mike Ramsay
as Henry Hutton
as Dr. Ken Jaynes
as Kurt Baumann / Scott Malone
as Juror #3
as Charles Proteus Steinmetz
as Wilbur Stanley
as Self
as Johann Radek
as Dennis Williams
as Howard Malloy
as Markheim
as Roger Sanford
as Juror #3
as Rev. Lockman
as Douglas Thompson
as Bill Gibson
as Self
as Stuart Bailey
as William Weldon
as David Flanner
as Johnny Gray
as Paul Taylor
as Paul Renaud
as Dr. George Grover
as Jim Hetherton
as John 'Jack' Marlow
as Fletcher Marvin
as Charles Gerard
as Self (segment 'Dangerous') (archive footage)
as George Braynor Collins
as Cpl. John J. Bramble / Paul Davos
as Christopher Reynolds
as John
as Robert Stevens
as Mark Willows
as Richard Calvert
as Kansas
as Joel Sloane
as Paul Wagner
as Robert 'Bob' Hanson
as Otto Koster
as Peter Lawrence
as Jimmy Kilmartin
as Giulio
as Self (archive footage)
as Allan Meighan
as James 'Jimmy' Davis
as Dr. Valentine Brown
as Barnabus Pells
as John H. Eaton
as Terry
as Emperor Franz Josef
as Sir Alan Dearden
as Dick Parton
as Don Bellows
as Roger Byam
as Jim 'Jimsy Boysie' Salston
as Robert 'Bob' Harrison Jr.
as Foxhall Ridgeway
as Forsythe
as Bob Bailey
as Benny
as T.R. Paige, Jr.
as Richard Girard - 1825 / Richard Girard - 1914
as Michael
as Douglas Hall
as Tod Newton
as Gifford Middleton
as Warren Foster
as Guy Crane
as Tom
as Hartley Beekman - Secretary to the President
as Ronnie Boyce-Smith
as Phil Long