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Sonny Tufts‌

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Birthday

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Popularity

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Sonny Tufts

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Sonny Tufts

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Gender

Male

Birthday

calendar1911-07-16

Popularity

star4.2

Biography

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 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. He attained some fame during World War II, principally because, due to an old college football injury, he was one of the few handsome male actors not serving overseas in the war. He was married to Spanish dancer Barbara Dare from 1938 to 1953. In the 1980s he was best known as one of the semi-random people and places that TV host Johnny Carson used in his jokes. Tufts died of pneumonia at age 58 in Santa Monica, California, on June 4, 1970. Tufts is the subject of an urban legend. The legend holds that he had been selected to host a well-known radio show as a last-minute replacement for a better known celebrity. The week before Tufts's episode was scheduled, the previous host introduced him with a combination of surprise and outrage, shocked that a relatively unknown actor would succeed him as host. There is no evidence, however, that such an incident occurred. Tufts himself parodied this legend in frequent appearances on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In: seated in a director's chair with his name printed on it, he would turn around to face the camera and utter a word or phrase relevant to the previous bit, in mock contempt. Sonny Tufts was related to Charles Tufts, for whom Tufts University is named. In a non sequitur on the cartoon show Rocky and His Friends, in the Jet Fuel Formula story arc, Bullwinkle J. Moose becomes very upset when Boris Badenov steals his autographed picture of Sonny Tufts. Also, Tufts is mentioned in the last sentence of the third sketch of the 48th show of the second season of the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show (also featuring Wailing Whale episodes 5 & 6), which was first released on May 13, 1961. In an episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show, Rob sees a flying saucer that makes a noise "Uhny Uftz", which Rob mis-hears as "Sonny Tufts" In Episode 12, Season 1 of the TV sitcom "My Mother The Car", titled "And Leave The Drive-In To Us," the mother wants to go to a drive-in to see Sonny Tufts for her birthday. He makes an appearance at the very end of the episode, much to the appreciation of the car! Sonny Tufts was a brother of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity (Phi chapter). Description above from the Wikipedia article Sonny Tufts, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Movie Credits

The Seven Year Itch

The Seven Year Itch‌
star7.1
calendar 1955

Cat-Women of the Moon

Cat-Women of the Moon‌
star4.1
calendar 1953

Here Come the Waves

Here Come the Waves‌
star5.0
calendar 1944

The Crooked Way

The Crooked Way‌
star6.3
calendar 1949

No Escape

No Escape‌
star4.5
calendar 1953

Gift Horse

Gift Horse‌
star6.6
calendar 1952

Government Girl

Government Girl‌
star5.2
calendar 1943

Easy Living

Easy Living‌
star5.9
calendar 1949

Run for the Hills

Run for the Hills‌
star0.0
calendar 1953

The Virginian

The Virginian‌
star6.1
calendar 1946

So Proudly We Hail

So Proudly We Hail‌
star5.5
calendar 1943

Variety Girl

Variety Girl‌
star6.1
calendar 1947

The Parson and the Outlaw

The Parson and the Outlaw‌
star4.1
calendar 1957

Cottonpickin' Chickenpickers

Cottonpickin' Chickenpickers‌
star4.0
calendar 1967

Serpent Island

Serpent Island‌
star4.0
calendar 1954

Easy Come, Easy Go

Easy Come, Easy Go‌
star0.0
calendar 1947

Blaze of Noon

Blaze of Noon‌
star5.0
calendar 1947

I Love a Soldier

I Love a Soldier‌
star4.0
calendar 1944

Come Next Spring

Come Next Spring‌
star6.0
calendar 1956

Cross My Heart

Cross My Heart‌
star0.0
calendar 1946

Miss Susie Slagle's

Miss Susie Slagle's‌
star10.0
calendar 1946

Bring on the Girls

Bring on the Girls‌
star6.1
calendar 1945

Town Tamer

Town Tamer‌
star6.4
calendar 1965

The Well Groomed Bride

The Well Groomed Bride‌
star4.0
calendar 1946

Duffy's Tavern

Duffy's Tavern‌
star6.1
calendar 1945

The Untamed Breed

The Untamed Breed‌
star5.0
calendar 1948

Swell Guy

Swell Guy‌
star0.0
calendar 1946

Tv Credits

The Merv Griffin Show

The Merv Griffin Show‌
star5.3
calendar 1962

The Ed Sullivan Show

The Ed Sullivan Show‌
star6.5
calendar 1948

The Virginian

The Virginian‌
star6.4
calendar 1962

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In‌
star6.4
calendar 1967

My Mother the Car

My Mother the Car‌
star3.6
calendar 1965

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre‌
star5.2
calendar 1963

The Loner

The Loner‌
star5.7
calendar 1965

Land's End

Land's End‌
star0.0
calendar 1968