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Death. Tone, a chain smoker, died of lung cancer in New York City on September 18, 1968. He was cremated and his ashes kept on a shelf in his son's library, surrounded by the works of Shakespeare, until July 24, 2022, when they were interred in the Point Comfort Cemetery of Quebec, Canada.
HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 15 (A.A.P.).—Battered actor Franchot Tone, the loser in a fight over blonde actress Barbara Payton, was still in a state of semi-coma to-day. Tom Neal, the film ...
February 27, 1905 · Niagara Falls, New York, USA. Died. September 18, 1968 · New York City, New York, USA (lung cancer) Birth name. Stanislas Pascal Franchot Tone. Height. 5′ 10″ (1.78 m) Mini Bio.
Franchot Tone, the actor whose many Hollywood roles as a dashing care society sophisticate were often only a pale echo of his wild and elegant private life, died at his home here yesterday. He was ...
Stanislaus Pascal Franchot Tone 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. His acting crossed many genres including pre-Code romantic leads to noir layered roles and World War I films.
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.His film career, however, although long and prolific ...
Franchot Tone was an actor, producer and director who starred in films such as Dangerous, Mutiny on the Bounty and Advise & Consent. He died of lung cancer in 1968 at the age of 63.
