Profile
Franchot Tone
Actor
Male
Born
Feb 27, 1905
Hometown
Niagara Falls, Ne...
Died
Sep 18, 1968
Death Place
New York City
Other Names
Tone, Stanislas P...
Franchot Tone 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… Read More
Romance
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Juli RedingDated 1960
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Dolores DornMarried 1956 - 1959
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Lisa FerradayDated 1954
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Joan TylerFling 1952
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Betty UnderwoodFling
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Mona KnoxDated
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Jo MorrowDated
Family
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Franchot Tone
d.1968
parents
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Dr. Frank Jerome ToneFather
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Gertrude FranchotMother
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Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1905
Birth
Born on February 27, 1905.
TWENTIES
1929
24 Years Old
After graduating, he moved to Greenwich Village, New York, and got his first major Broadway role in the 1929 Katharine Cornell production of The Age of Innocence.
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1931
26 Years Old
These were intense and productive years for him: among the productions of the Group he acted in were 1931 (1931) and Success Story (1932).
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1932
27 Years Old
Tone's screen debut was in the 1932 movie The Wiser Sex.
1933
28 Years Old
He achieved fame in 1933, when he made seven movies that year, including Today We Live, written by William Faulkner, Bombshell, with Jean Harlow (with whom he co-starred in three other movies), and the smash hit Dancing Lady, again with then-wife Joan Crawford and Clark Gable.
THIRTIES
In 1935, he starred in Mutiny on the Bounty (for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor), The Lives of a Bengal Lancer and Dangerous opposite Bette Davis.
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FORTIES
1949
44 Years Old
In 1949 he produced and starred in The Man on the Eiffel Tower, a troubled production whose reputation has benefited from restorations in the 2000s that have coincided with theatrical showings and vastly improved DVD releases.
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1951
46 Years Old
In 1951, Tone's relationship with actress Barbara Payton made headlines when he suffered numerous facial injuries and fell into a coma for 18 hours following a fistfight with actor Tom Neal, a rival for Payton's attention.
1952
47 Years Old
Plastic surgery nearly restored his broken nose and cheek, and Tone subsequently married Payton, divorcing her in 1952 after obtaining incriminating photographs proving she had continued her relationship with Neal.
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FIFTIES
1957
52 Years Old
He also returned to Broadway, notably appearing in A Moon for the Misbegotten with Wendy Hiller in 1957.
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1962
57 Years Old
On film, he received acclaim as the charismatic, dying president in Otto Preminger's 1962 film version of Advise & Consent.
LATE ADULTHOOD
1965
60 Years Old
His final movie appearances were cameos in Preminger's 1965 film In Harm's Way (in which he portrayed Admiral Husband E. Kimmel) and Nobody Runs Forever (1968).
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