Franchot Tone

Franchot Tone was an American stage, film, and television actor, star of many successful films and television series throughout his career, such as Bonanza, Wagon Train, The Twilight Zone, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, and The Lives of a Bengal Lancer. He is perhaps best known for his role as Midshipman Roger Byam in Mutiny on the Bounty , starring alongside Clark Gable and Charles Laughton.

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 sociallyprominent wife, Gertrude Van Vrancken Franchot. His maternal greatgrandfather was congressman Richard Franchot. Tone was a distant relative of Wolfe Tone his greatgreatgreatgreatgrandfather John was a first cousin of Peter Tone, whose eldest son was Wolfe Tone. Tone was of French Canadian, Irish, English, and Basque ancestry.

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