Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
7/16/1911
Place of Birth
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Also Known As
Bowen Charlton "Sonny" Tufts IIIBowen Charlton Tufts III
Sonny Tufts
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. H...
Known For
The Virginian
as Steve Andrews
Gift Horse
as Yank Flanagan
Town Tamer
as Carmichael
The Seven Year Itch
as Tom MacKenzie
Easy Living
as Tim 'Pappy' McCarr
Duffy's Tavern
as Sonny Tufts
Variety Girl
as Sonny Tufts
No Escape
as Det. Simon Shayne
The Crooked Way
as Vince Alexander
So Proudly We Hail
as Kansas
Cat-Women of the Moon
as Laird Grainger
The Well Groomed Bride
as Torchy McNeil
Government Girl
as E.H. 'Ed' Browne
Easy Come, Easy Go
as Kevin O'Connor
Come Next Spring
as Leroy Hightower
Blaze of Noon
as Roland McDonald
The Untamed Breed
as Tom Kilpatrick
Swell Guy
as Jim Duncan
Run for the Hills
as Charlie Johnson
Here Come the Waves
as Windy 'Pinetop' Windhurst