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
Charles Laughton plain bad?" On the other hand, Bosley Crowther of "The New York Times" declared that "Forever and a Day" boasted "superb performances". C. A. Lejeune, wrote Callow, was "shocked" by the poor quality of Laughton's work of that period: "One of the most painful screen phenomena of latter years", she wrote in "The Observer", "has been the decline and fall of Charles Laughton." On the other hand, David Shipman, in his book "The Great Movie Stars: The Golden Years", said "Laughton was a total actor. His range was wide". Laughton played a cowardly schoolmaster in occupied France in "This Land