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Acting

Franchot Tone

Career: Active from 1932 to 1968, busiest in 1933 with 7 main titles.

Leading roles: 59
top three billing

Average score: 63/100

Highest rated: Five Graves to Cairo
87/100

Awards

Reported results for this person. Coverage is incomplete; these results don't establish award totals.

Academy Awards · Actor in a Leading Role
1936 · Nominated · 8th Academy Awards
Mutiny on the Bounty
Source: Wikidata

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 51 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Franchot Tone Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
2.9, average 5.4
Violence
2.6, average 4.1
Adrenaline
3.6, average 4.8
Scare
1.5, average 2.6

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Classic Hollywood 7
Historical Setting 5
Character-Driven 4
Lighthearted 3
Classic Romantic Comedy 3
Character Study 3
Social Commentary 3
Period Piece 2
Classic Film Noir 2
Social Realism 2
Melodramatic 2
Melancholic Tone 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

98

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

1990s

1 title

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

as actor 'Advise and 'Consent' (archive footage) (uncredited)

1970s

1 title · average score 70

That's Entertainment, Part II

70

as (archive footage)

1960s

14 titles · average score 64

Shadow Over Elveron

as Barney Conners

Nobody Runs Forever

55

as Ambassador Townsend

Mickey One

63

as Rudy Lopp

Run for Your Life

73

TV show · as Judge Taliaferro Wilson

In Harm's Way

54

as CINCPAC I

See How They Run

as Baron Frood

The Big Parade of Comedy

65

as Gifford in 'Bombshell' (archive footage)

Advise & Consent

78

as The President

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

54

TV show · as Rudolph Bitzner

The Virginian

70

TV show · as Murdoch

Ben Casey

65

TV show · as Daniel Freeland

Witchcraft: The Doll in Brambles

as Your Host

1950s

19 titles · average score 69

The Twilight Zone

91

TV show · as Col. Archie Taylor

Bonanza

73

TV show · as Denver McKee

Bitter Heritage

as Frank James

Uncle Vanya

as Dr. Mikhail Lvovich Astroff

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

86

TV show · as Oliver Mathews

Twelve Angry Men

76

as Juror #3

Climax!

51

TV show · as Dr. Ken Jaynes / Henry Hutton

Four Star Playhouse

71

TV show · as Ben

Here Comes the Groom

60

as Wilbur Stanley

Tales of Tomorrow

44

TV show

Robert Montgomery Presents

TV show

Lux Video Theatre

TV show · as Meredith Whitehouse

1940s

27 titles · average score 62

The Man on the Eiffel Tower

55

as Johann Radek

Jigsaw

53

as Howard Malloy

I Love Trouble

66

as Stuart Bailey

Every Girl Should Be Married

61

as Roger Sanford

Her Husband's Affairs

53

as William Weldon

Because of Him

58

as Paul Taylor

Phantom Lady

82

as John 'Jack' Marlow

Dark Waters

55

as Dr. George Grover

The Hour Before the Dawn

60

as Jim Hetherton

Five Graves to Cairo

87

as Cpl. John J. Bramble / Paul Davos

His Butler's Sister

67

as Charles Gerard

Nice Girl?

72

as Richard Calvert

1930s

36 titles · average score 63

Three Loves Has Nancy

55

as Robert 'Bob' Hanson

Three Comrades

84

as Otto Koster

Quality Street

60

as Dr. Valentine Brown

They Gave Him a Gun

51

as James 'Jimmy' Davis

The Bride Wore Red

65

as Giulio

Love on the Run

71

as Barnabus Pells

Mutiny on the Bounty

83

as Roger Byam

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

84

as Forsythe

Dangerous

77

as Don Bellows

Sadie McKee

69

as Michael

The Girl from Missouri

70

as T.R. Paige, Jr.

Dancing Lady

74

as Tod Newton