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Known for:	Mutiny on the Bounty, The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, Five Graves to Cairo
Birth name:	Stanislas Pascal Franchot Tone
Birthday:	27 February 1905, Niagara Falls, New York, USA
Height:	6' (1.83 m)

Ex-brother-in-law of Hal Le Sueur. His two sons with Jean Wallace are Pascal Franchot Tone and Thomas Jefferson Tone. He is responsible for the establishment of the Best Supporting Actor/Actress categories in the Academy Awards, due to his supporting performance (and subsequent Best Actor nomination) in Mutiny on the Bounty. His father was Dr. Frank J. Tone, a pioneer in the electro-chemistry field. He was once the president of the Carborundum Company of America. Franchot's brother, Frank Jerome "Jerry" Tone, Jr., also worked for Carborundum. His mother was Gertrude Franchot Tone. He is related to Theobald Wolfe Tone, a famous Irish patriot. He attended The Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, Cornell University (where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1927), and Rennes University in France. Is portrayed by Robert Hawkins in Will There Really Be a Morning? Following his Sept. 13, 1951, beating at the hands of Tom Neal over the affections of starlet Barbara Payton, Tone was hospitalized for almost a week and needed plastic surgery to repair his badly damaged face.

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