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Sonny Tufts
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Sonny Tufts
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1911-07-16,Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Gender
Male
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.

Filmography

The Seven Year Itch

7.049

The Seven Year Itch
1955-06-03

Cat-Women of the Moon

4.13

Cat-Women of the Moon
1953-09-03

Here Come the Waves

5.333

Here Come the Waves
1944-12-18

The Crooked Way

6.227

The Crooked Way
1949-04-22

4.731

No Escape
1953-07-31

6.6

Gift Horse
1952-06-01

Government Girl

5.667

Government Girl
1943-11-05

Run for the Hills

6

Run for the Hills
1953-06-01

5.714

Easy Living
1949-10-08

6.208

The Virginian
1946-05-05

So Proudly We Hail

5.865

So Proudly We Hail
1943-09-09

6.455

Variety Girl
1947-08-29

The Parson and the Outlaw

4.625

The Parson and the Outlaw
1957-09-23

Cottonpickin' Chickenpickers

4.273

Cottonpickin' Chickenpickers
1967-01-01

3.833

Serpent Island
1954-01-01

Easy Come, Easy Go

7

Easy Come, Easy Go
1947-03-07

5.667

Blaze of Noon
1947-05-02

I Love a Soldier

6

I Love a Soldier
1944-07-12

Come Next Spring

5.875

Come Next Spring
1956-03-09

9

Cross My Heart
1946-12-18

Bring on the Girls

6.25

Bring on the Girls
1945-03-30

Miss Susie Slagle's

8.5

Miss Susie Slagle's
1946-03-04

6.818

Town Tamer
1965-07-07

The Well Groomed Bride

5.667

The Well Groomed Bride
1946-05-17

6.375

Duffy's Tavern
1945-09-28

The Untamed Breed

6.5

The Untamed Breed
1948-10-20

8

Swell Guy
1946-12-05

The Merv Griffin Show

6.6

The Merv Griffin Show
1962-10-01

The Ed Sullivan Show

6.848

The Ed Sullivan Show
1948-06-20

6.514

The Virginian
1962-09-19

My Mother the Car

4.8

My Mother the Car
1965-09-14

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

5.875

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963-10-04

6.25

The Loner
1965-09-18

10

Land's End
1968-04-21

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

6.714

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968-01-22