Franchot Tone Franchot Tone Stanislaus Pascal Franchot Tone (February 27, 1905 – September 18, 1968) was an American stage, film and television actor. He was Oscar-nominated for his role as Midshipman Roger Byam in "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1935), starring alongside Clark Gable and Charles Laughton. He was a leading man in many films and appeared as a guest star in episodes of several television series, including "The Twilight Zone" and "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour". Stanislaus Pascal Franchot Tone was born in Niagara Falls, New York, the youngest son of Dr. Frank Jerome Tone, the wealthy president of the Carborundum Company, and
William Stack legal drama "A Free Soul", in a small role. The film stars Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, Lionel Barrymore, and Clark Gable. 1932 would see him in another small role, that of a doctor in "Payment Deferred", starring Charles Laughton and Maureen O'Sullivan. In "Charlie Chan's Greatest Case" (1933), starring Warner Oland in the title role, Stack had the minor part of Jack Eagan. Small roles followed in the 1934 films "The Fountain", starring Ann Harding, "Manhattan Melodrama", starring Clark Gable, William Powell, and Myrna Loy, "Wonder Bar", starring Al Jolson, and "Chained", starring Gable and Joan Crawford. Before he appeared