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Acting · Born 1911-07-16 · Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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.

Also known as: Bowen Charlton "Sonny" Tufts III, Bowen Charlton Tufts III

Filmography

• The Seven Year Itch (1955) as Tom MacKenzie — rated 7.0/10
• Cat-Women of the Moon (1953) as Laird Grainger — rated 4.1/10
• Here Come the Waves (1944) as Windy 'Pinetop' Windhurst — rated 5.3/10
• The Crooked Way (1949) as Vince Alexander — rated 6.2/10
• No Escape (1953) as Det. Simon Shayne — rated 4.4/10
• Gift Horse (1952) as Yank Flanagan — rated 6.6/10
• Government Girl (1943) as E.H. 'Ed' Browne — rated 5.7/10
• Easy Living (1949) as Tim 'Pappy' McCarr — rated 5.7/10
• Run for the Hills (1953) as Charlie Johnson — rated 6.0/10
• The Virginian (1946) as Steve Andrews — rated 6.0/10
• So Proudly We Hail (1943) as Kansas — rated 5.7/10
• Variety Girl (1947) as Sonny Tufts — rated 6.5/10
• The Parson and the Outlaw (1957) as Jack Slade — rated 4.6/10
• Cottonpickin' Chickenpickers (1967) as Cousin Urie — rated 4.3/10
• Serpent Island (1954) as Peter Mason — rated 3.8/10
• Easy Come, Easy Go (1947) as Kevin O'Connor — rated 7.0/10
• Blaze of Noon (1947) as Roland McDonald — rated 5.7/10
• I Love a Soldier (1944) as Dan Kilgore — rated 6.0/10
• Come Next Spring (1956) as Leroy Hightower — rated 5.9/10
• Cross My Heart (1946) as Oliver Clarke — rated 9.0/10

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