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Bowen Charlton "Sonny" Tufts III
Bowen Charlton Tufts III
Sonny Tufts
Acting
Biography
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Sonny Tufts (born Bowen Charlton Tufts III, July 16, 1911, Boston, Massachusetts - June 4, 1970, Santa Monica, California) was a United States film actor.
Tufts was born into a prominent banking family, whose patriarch had supposedly sailed to America from England in 1683. He broke with the family banking tradition by studying opera at Yale, where he was a member of Skull and Bones. After graduating from college in 1935, he auditioned with the Metropolitan Opera in New York but eventually worked on the Broadway stage. In 1942, Tufts went to Hollywood. H…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Cottonpickin' Chickenpickers
as Cousin Urie
Town Tamer
as Carmichael
The Parson and the Outlaw
as Jack Slade
Come Next Spring
as Leroy Hightower
The Seven Year Itch
as Tom MacKenzie
Serpent Island
as Peter Mason
No Escape
as Det. Simon Shayne
Cat-Women of the Moon
as Laird Grainger
Run for the Hills
as Charlie Johnson
Gift Horse
as Yank Flanagan
TV Shows
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
as Self (uncredited) · 6 ep.
Land's End
as Hal · 1 ep.
The Loner
1 ep.
My Mother the Car
1 ep.
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1 ep.
The Virginian
as Frank Trampas · 1 ep.
The Merv Griffin Show
as Self · 1 ep.
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self · 1 ep.