Franchot Tone was an American stage, film, and television actor, star of Mutiny on the Bounty 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. He was born as Stanislaus Pascal Franchot Tone in Niagara Falls, New York, the youngest son of Dr. Frank Jerome Tone, the wealthy president of the Carborundum Company, and his socially-prominent wife, Gertrude Van Vrancken Franchot. Tone was a distant relative of Wolfe Tone: his great-great-great-great-grandfather John... was a first cousin of Peter Tone, whose eldest son was Theobald Wolfe Tone. Tone was of French Canadian, Irish, English and Basque ancestry. Tone attended The Hill School in Pottstown, PA and Cornell University, where he was President of the drama club and was elected to the Sphinx Head Society. He also joined Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. He gave up the family business to pursue an acting career in the theatre.
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| Birthdate: | February 27, 1905 |
| Birthplace: | Niagara Falls, New York |
| Date of death: | September 18, 1968 |
| Height: | 5' 10" |
| Education: | Cornell University |
| Also known as: | Stanislaus Pascal Franchot Tone, Stanislas Pascal Franchot Tone, Franchot Tone |