Sonny Tufts

Sonny Tufts

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.

  • Title : Sonny Tufts
  • Popularity : 2.891
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1911-07-16
  • Place of Birth : Boston, Massachusetts, USA
  • Homepage :
  • Also Known As : Bowen Charlton "Sonny" Tufts III, Bowen Charlton Tufts III
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Sonny Tufts Movies

  • 1955
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    The Seven Year Itch

    The Seven Year Itch

    7 1955 HD

    With his family away for their annual summer holiday, a publishing executive decides to live a bachelor's life. The beautiful but ditzy blonde from...

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  • 1953
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    Cat-Women of the Moon

    Cat-Women of the Moon

    4.1 1953 HD

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

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  • 1944
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    Here Come the Waves

    Here Come the Waves

    5 1944 HD

    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...

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  • 1949
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    The Crooked Way

    The Crooked Way

    6.4 1949 HD

    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...

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  • 1953
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    No Escape

    No Escape

    4.5 1953 HD

    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...

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  • 1952
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    Gift Horse

    Gift Horse

    6.6 1952 HD

    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...

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  • 1943
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    Government Girl

    Government Girl

    5.2 1943 HD

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

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  • 1949
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    Easy Living

    Easy Living

    5.944 1949 HD

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

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  • 1953
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    Run for the Hills

    Run for the Hills

    1 1953 HD

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

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  • 1946
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    The Virginian

    The Virginian

    6.1 1946 HD

    Arriving at Medicine Bow, eastern schoolteacher Molly Woods meets two cowboys, irresponsible Steve and the "Virginian," who gets off on the wrong...

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  • 1943
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    So Proudly We Hail

    So Proudly We Hail

    5.5 1943 HD

    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...

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  • 1947
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    Variety Girl

    Variety Girl

    6.1 1947 HD

    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...

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  • 1957
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    The Parson and the Outlaw

    The Parson and the Outlaw

    4.1 1957 HD

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

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  • 1967
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    Cottonpickin' Chickenpickers

    Cottonpickin' Chickenpickers

    4 1967 HD

    Darby Clyde Fenster and Jerry Martin are a pair of penniless nincompoop-drifters who hop a freight train on their way to Florida. Our intrepid heroes...

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  • 1954
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    Serpent Island

    Serpent Island

    3.5 1954 HD

    On the trail of a million-dollar gold treasure, an Eastern gal hires a California dockside bum to accompany her to the Caribbean where one of her...

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  • 1947
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    Easy Come, Easy Go

    Easy Come, Easy Go

    1 1947 HD

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

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  • 1947
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    Blaze of Noon

    Blaze of Noon

    4 1947 HD

    In this aerial melodrama, four brothers working as stunt pilots for a flying circus leave their jobs to become mail pilots. Because their job...

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  • 1944
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    I Love a Soldier

    I Love a Soldier

    4 1944 HD

    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...

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  • 1956
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    Come Next Spring

    Come Next Spring

    6 1956 HD

    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...

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  • 1946
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    Cross My Heart

    Cross My Heart

    1 1946 HD

    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.

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  • 1946
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    Miss Susie Slagle's

    Miss Susie Slagle's

    10 1946 HD

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

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  • 1945
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    Bring on the Girls

    Bring on the Girls

    6.1 1945 HD

    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...

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  • 1965
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    Town Tamer

    Town Tamer

    6.4 1965 HD

    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,...

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  • 1946
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    The Well Groomed Bride

    The Well Groomed Bride

    4 1946 HD

    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...

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  • 1945
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    Duffy's Tavern

    Duffy's Tavern

    6.1 1945 HD

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

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  • 1948
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    The Untamed Breed

    The Untamed Breed

    5 1948 HD

    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...

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  • 1946
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    Swell Guy

    Swell Guy

    1 1946 HD

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

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  • 1962
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    The Merv Griffin Show

    The Merv Griffin Show

    5.6 1962 HD

    The Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran from October 1, 1962 to March 29, 1963 on NBC,...

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  • 1948
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    The Ed Sullivan Show

    The Ed Sullivan Show

    6.632 1948 HD

    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...

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  • 1962
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    The Virginian

    The Virginian

    6.4 1962 HD

    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...

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  • 1967
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    Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

    Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

    6.4 1967 HD

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

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  • 1965
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    My Mother the Car

    My Mother the Car

    3.6 1965 HD

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

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  • 1963
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    Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

    Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

    5.5 1963 HD

    Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre is an American anthology series, sponsored by Chrysler Corporation, which ran on NBC from 1963 through 1967....

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  • 1965
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    The Loner

    The Loner

    5.7 1965 HD

    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...

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  • 1968
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    Land's End

    Land's End

    1 1968 HD

    The owner of a small Mexican hotel and the local sheriff assist travelers and natives in trouble.

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