Stanislaus Pascal Franchot Tone

 Stanislaus Pascal Franchot Tone, known as Franchot Tone (February 27, 1905 – September 18, 1968)

He was the 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 Oscar nominated role as Midshipman Roger Byam in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), starring alongside Clark Gable and Charles Laughton. Tone's screen debut was in the 1932 movie The Wiser Sex. He achieved fame in 1933. He made six movies that year, including Today We Live, written by William Faulkner, Bombshell, with Jean Harlow (with whom he co-starred in three other movies), and the smash hit Dancing Lady, with his future wife Joan Crawford and Clark Gable. Tone worked steadily through the 1940s, but he often played second leads or love interests in films that focused on a major female star. Frequently typecast as the wealthy cafe-society playboy, he notably played against type in films like Five Graves to Cairo, a World War II espionage story directed by Billy Wilder, and Phantom Lady, an early film noir thriller. He played the heroic lead in the 1940 Western comedy Trail of the Vigilantes featuring Warren William, Broderick Crawford and Andy Devine. In 1949 he produced and starred in The Man on the Eiffel Tower, a troubled production whose reputation has benefited from restorations in the 2000s that have coincided with theatrical showings and vastly improved DVD releases. Tone's tour de force role as a manic depressive sociopath included performing many of his own stunts on the Paris landmark.In the 1950s, he found parts in New York City-based live television, including the original production of Twelve Angry Men.

He received acclaim as the charismatic, dying president in Otto Preminger's 1962 film version of Advise & Consent. His final movie appearances were cameos in Preminger's 1965 film In Harm's Way and Nobody Runs Forever (1968). In 1935, Tone married actress Joan Crawford. They were divorced in 1939. He married three more times, but all of his marriages ended in divorce. Tone, a chain smoker, died of lung cancer in New York City on September 18, 1968.