Acting

Sonny Tufts

Born July 16, 1911 · Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Died June 4, 1970 · aged 58

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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 …

Known For

The Seven Year Itch

The Seven Year Itch · 1955

The Seven Year Itch

MovieComedyRomance

When his family goes away for summer vacation, a hitherto faithful publishing executive with an overactive imagination is tempted by an attractive new neighbor.

The Virginian

The Virginian · 1946

Arriving at Medicine Bow, eastern schoolteacher Molly Woods meets two cowboys, irresponsible Steve and the "Virginian," who gets off on the wrong foot with her. To add to his troubles, the Virginian finds that his old pal Steve is mixed up with black-hatted Trampas and his rustlers...then finds himself at the head of a posse after said rustlers; and Molly hates the violent side of frontier life.

So Proudly We Hail

So Proudly We Hail · 1943

So Proudly We Hail

During the start of the Pacific campaign in World War II, Lieutenant Janet Davidson is the head of a group of U.S. military nurses who are trapped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Davidson tries to keep up the spirits of her staff, which includes Lieutenants Joan O'Doul and Olivia D'Arcy. They all seek to maintain a sense of normal life, including dating, while under constant danger as they tend to wounded soldiers.

The Crooked Way

The Crooked Way · 1949

The Crooked Way

MovieCrimeDrama

A war veteran suffering from amnesia, returns to Los Angeles from a San Francisco veterans hospital hoping to learn who he is and discovers his criminal past.

Government Girl

Government Girl · 1943

Government Girl

MovieComedyRomance

An aviation engineer and a government secretary are thrown together by the war effort.

Variety Girl

Variety Girl · 1947

MovieMusicComedy

Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful young ladies who come to Hollywood, exchange identities, and cause comic confusion (with slapstick interludes) throughout the Paramount studio.

Gift Horse

Gift Horse · 1952

MovieAdventureWar

Compton Bennett's war drama The Gift Horse follows the fortunes of ageing destroyer The Ballantrae and her crew from the time they come together in 1940 until the climactic raid on occupied St Nazaire in 1942. Trevor Howard plays Lt Cmdr Hugh Alginon Fraser, the newly appointed captain, back in service after having left the navy following a court martial.

Town Tamer

Town Tamer · 1965

MovieWesternAction

A gunfighter is hired to clean up a wild frontier town, but there are forces afoot who want to keep the town as wide-open as it is. Lyle Bettger, Bruce Cabot and Richard Jaeckel co-star as the lawless bad guys in this Western based on a novel by Frank Gruber.

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The Seven Year Itch

The Seven Year Itch · 1955

The Seven Year Itch

MovieComedyRomance

When his family goes away for summer vacation, a hitherto faithful publishing executive with an overactive imagination is tempted by an attractive new neighbor.

Tom MacKenzie

The Virginian

The Virginian · 1946

Arriving at Medicine Bow, eastern schoolteacher Molly Woods meets two cowboys, irresponsible Steve and the "Virginian," who gets off on the wrong foot with her. To add to his troubles, the Virginian finds that his old pal Steve is mixed up with black-hatted Trampas and his rustlers...then finds himself at the head of a posse after said rustlers; and Molly hates the violent side of frontier life.

Steve Andrews

So Proudly We Hail

So Proudly We Hail · 1943

So Proudly We Hail

During the start of the Pacific campaign in World War II, Lieutenant Janet Davidson is the head of a group of U.S. military nurses who are trapped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Davidson tries to keep up the spirits of her staff, which includes Lieutenants Joan O'Doul and Olivia D'Arcy. They all seek to maintain a sense of normal life, including dating, while under constant danger as they tend to wounded soldiers.

Kansas

The Crooked Way

The Crooked Way · 1949

The Crooked Way

MovieCrimeDrama

A war veteran suffering from amnesia, returns to Los Angeles from a San Francisco veterans hospital hoping to learn who he is and discovers his criminal past.

Vince Alexander

Government Girl

Government Girl · 1943

Government Girl

MovieComedyRomance

An aviation engineer and a government secretary are thrown together by the war effort.

E.H. 'Ed' Browne

Variety Girl

Variety Girl · 1947

MovieMusicComedy

Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful young ladies who come to Hollywood, exchange identities, and cause comic confusion (with slapstick interludes) throughout the Paramount studio.

Sonny Tufts

Gift Horse

Gift Horse · 1952

MovieAdventureWar

Compton Bennett's war drama The Gift Horse follows the fortunes of ageing destroyer The Ballantrae and her crew from the time they come together in 1940 until the climactic raid on occupied St Nazaire in 1942. Trevor Howard plays Lt Cmdr Hugh Alginon Fraser, the newly appointed captain, back in service after having left the navy following a court martial.

Yank Flanagan

Town Tamer

Town Tamer · 1965

MovieWesternAction

A gunfighter is hired to clean up a wild frontier town, but there are forces afoot who want to keep the town as wide-open as it is. Lyle Bettger, Bruce Cabot and Richard Jaeckel co-star as the lawless bad guys in this Western based on a novel by Frank Gruber.

Carmichael

Cat-Women of the Moon

Cat-Women of the Moon · 1953

Cat-Women of the Moon

MovieScience Fiction

Astronauts travel to the moon where they discover it is inhabited by attractive young women in black tights.

Laird Grainger

I Love a Soldier

I Love a Soldier · 1944

I Love a Soldier

During World War II in San Francisco, Eve Morgan and her single girlfriends spend their days welding ships and their nights dancing with soldiers and sailors shipping out that night. Eve is determined to avoid any romantic entanglements until the war is over she refuses to spend her days and nights worrying about getting bad news about a man she has fallen for. But she doesn't count on meeting a soldier who is determined to change her mind.

Dan Kilgore

The Well Groomed Bride

The Well Groomed Bride · 1946

The Well Groomed Bride

MovieComedyRomance

A man and a woman fight over the last bottle of champagne left in San Francisco--she wants it for a wedding, and he wants to use it to christen a ship.

Torchy McNeil

Cross My Heart

Cross My Heart · 1946

MovieComedyMusic

A compulsive liar admits to a killing she didn't commit so her husband, a lawyer, can clear her and build a reputation for himself.

Oliver Clarke

Miss Susie Slagle's

Miss Susie Slagle's · 1946

Miss Susie Slagle's

A student nurse falls in love with a young intern in 1910 Baltimore, but tragedy ensues when he contracts a fatal disease.

Pug Prentiss

Here Come the Waves

Here Come the Waves · 1944

Here Come the Waves

MovieMusicComedy

Show business twin sisters Rosemary and Susie, one serious and the other a scatterbrain, join the WAVES and both fall in love with crooner Johnny Cabot.

Windy 'Pinetop' Windhurst

Blaze of Noon

Blaze of Noon · 1947

MovieDramaAction

In this aerial melodrama, four brothers working as stunt pilots for a flying circus leave their jobs to become mail pilots. Because their job requires that they constantly travel, they are advised to not settle down with wives and kids. Still, one pilot falls in love and marries. Unfortunately, the woman dislikes his brothers and constantly worries that he will be killed during a flight. Her fears are not unfounded and much tragedy ensues as the story unfolds.

Roland McDonald

Run for the Hills

Run for the Hills · 1953

Run for the Hills

Fearing nuclear war, an insurance man moves to a cave with his wife and family.

Charlie Johnson

Easy Living

Easy Living · 1949

A football halfback has a heart condition, a nagging wife and a team secretary who loves him.

Tim 'Pappy' McCarr

The Parson and the Outlaw

The Parson and the Outlaw · 1957

The Parson and the Outlaw

Billy the Kid fakes his own death at the hands of Pat Garrett, but is forced to come out of hiding to stop a ruthless cattle baron from destroying a small frontier community.

Jack Slade

Come Next Spring

Come Next Spring · 1956

Come Next Spring

Matt Ballot has returned home after 12 years of hard-drinking in all 48 states. His wife has managed to raise their 14-year-old daughter and 12-year-old son nicely without his help. Matt is considered a disgrace to the town he came from and now he finds himself trying to win the love of his children, his wife, and the respect of the townspeople. Set in Arkansas in the 1920s.

Leroy Hightower

Duffy's Tavern

Duffy's Tavern · 1945

The staff of a record factory drown their sorrows at Duffy's Tavern, while the company owner faces threats of bankruptcy.

Sonny Tufts

Easy Come, Easy Go

Easy Come, Easy Go · 1947

Easy Come, Easy Go

MovieComedyDrama

Comedy about an Irish father, who enjoys betting on horses, who keeps interfering with his daughter's romance with a serviceman.

Kevin O'Connor

Swell Guy

Swell Guy · 1946

Perception vs. reality in a tale of a scoundrel and user whose jovial manner masks his true nature until a climatic redemption.

Jim Duncan

The Untamed Breed

The Untamed Breed · 1948

The Untamed Breed

A cowboy sets out to capture an escaped Brahma bull that is terrorizing local ranchers. Based on a story by Eli Colter that appeared in The Saturday Evening Post.

Tom Kilpatrick

Bring on the Girls

Bring on the Girls · 1945

Bring on the Girls

MovieComedyMusic

A millionaire joins the Navy hoping to find a girl who'll marry him for himself, not for his money. A beautiful gold-digger who works at a resort hotel sets out to get him.

Phil North

The Virginian

The Virginian · 1962

SeriesWesternDrama

The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Colonel Alan MacKenzie. It is the setting for a variety of stories, many more based on character and relationships than the usual western.

Frank Trampas

The Loner

The Loner · 1965

The Loner is an American western series that ran for less than one season on CBS from 1965 to 1966, under the alternate sponsorship of Philip Morris and Procter & Gamble.

My Mother the Car

My Mother the Car · 1965

My Mother the Car

SeriesComedySci-Fi & Fantasy

The story of the relationship between a man and his mother, the latter having been reincarnated as a 1928 Porter automobile.