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Pascal Franchot is an American film and television producer and director . Personal life. Franchot was born in Los Angeles on June 21, 1962, the son of actress Jill Andre Franchot and filmmaker Richard Franchot. He grew up in Los Angeles with his father and moved to New York City with his mother where she acted in Broadway theater . Education.
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Franchot Tone. Stanislaus Pascal Franchot Tone (February 27,...
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Stanislas Pascal Franchot Tone (* 27. Februar 1905 in Niagara Falls, New York; † 18. September 1968 in New York City) war ein US-amerikanischer Film-, Theater- und Fernsehschauspieler, der insbesondere in den 1930er- und 1940er-Jahren größere Bekanntheit erlangte.
Franchot Tone. Stanislaus Pascal Franchot Tone (February 27, 1905 – September 18, 1968) was an American actor, producer, and director of stage, film and television. He was a leading man in the 1930s and early 1940s, and at the height of his career was known for his gentlemanly sophisticate roles, with supporting roles by the 1950s.
(Actor) Stanislaus Pascal Franchot Tone was an American actor who portrayed lead roles in the 1930s and 1940s, the pre-Code era. He was nominated for an Oscar for his performance as Midshipman Roger Byam in 'Mutiny on the Bounty'.
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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 in The Wiser Sex (1932). With his theatrical background, Tone became one of the most talented movie actors in Hollywood. Tone was...
Franchot Tone was born into a well-to-do upstate New York family. Tone traveled the world with his parents and attended various schools, including The Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, from which he was dismissed \"for being a subtle influence for disorder throughout the fall term.\" He entered Cornell University, studying romance languages w...
He was loaned to Warner Bros. for Dangerous (1935) with 'Bette Davis'. Davis also became romantically interested in him, and her incipient rivalry with Crawford made her all the more incensed with Crawford on finding out that she was engaged to Tone. Davis was envious and ashamed of her advances toward Tone, and the incident is believed by many sou...
Tone had stimulating enough roles while with MGM until 1944, particularly the World War II adventure Five Graves to Cairo (1943) which Cary Grant turned down because he didn't want to spend the summer in the Arizona desert, where it was being shot. Thereafter Tone worked to beat Hollywood at its own game. He freelanced at other studios and concentr...
He did not give up on the silver screen in his last decade. He turned in a memorable performance as the president in Advise & Consent (1962), directed by Otto Preminger. Though he had planned on retiring from acting at the beginning of the '60s, he in fact was working into the year of his death. Along with co-buying Theater Four in New York to laun...
- February 27, 1905
- September 18, 1968
Tone, Franchot (1905-1968) In the succinct words of David Thomson, "Tone was perhaps all that Franchot had—that and Joan Crawford," the first of his four wives. Born the son of a wealthy industrialist in Niagara, New York, and educated at Cornell, Franchot Tone had a distinguished stage career, working with the Group Theater among others.
Franchot Tone. Actor: Dangerous. 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 ...
