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.

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.

Government Girl

Government Girl · 1943

Government Girl

MovieComedyRomance

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Movies

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.

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.

Government Girl

Government Girl · 1943

Government Girl

MovieComedyRomance

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Easy Living

Easy Living · 1949

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

No Escape

No Escape · 1953

MovieCrimeDrama

When the available evidence in a murder case points to a young woman as the main suspect, her boyfriend, a police detective, arranges for a struggling songwriter who is playing piano in a bar to be blamed for the crime. The girl, knowing that neither she nor the piano player committed the murder, helps him to escape from the police dragnet and try to find the real killer.

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.

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.

TV Shows

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.

The Merv Griffin Show

The Merv Griffin Show · 1962

The Merv Griffin Show

The Ed Sullivan Show

The Ed Sullivan Show · 1948

The Ed Sullivan Show

The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In · 1968

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

An American sketch comedy television program hosted by comedians Dan Rowan and Dick Martin.

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.