Actor
Sonny Tufts
July 16, 1911 · Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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.
Notable work
Often works with
Veronica Lake
4 titles together
So Proudly We Hail, Variety Girl, Duffy's Tavern
Bess Flowers
3 titles together
The Seven Year Itch, No Escape, Here Come the Waves
Paulette Goddard
3 titles together
So Proudly We Hail, Variety Girl, Duffy's Tavern
Bing Crosby
3 titles together
Variety Girl, Here Come the Waves, Duffy's Tavern
Robert Strauss
2 titles together
The Seven Year Itch, My Mother the Car
Victor Moore
2 titles together
The Seven Year Itch, Duffy's Tavern
Full filmography · 31
Cottonpickin' Chickenpickers
as Cousin Urie
1967
Town Tamer
as Carmichael
1965
The Parson and the Outlaw
as Jack Slade
1957
Come Next Spring
as Leroy Hightower
1956
The Seven Year Itch
as Tom MacKenzie
19557
Serpent Island
as Peter Mason
1954
Cat-Women of the Moon
as Laird Grainger
19534.1
No Escape
as Det. Simon Shayne
1953
Run for the Hills
as Charlie Johnson
1953
Gift Horse
as Yank Flanagan
19526.6
Easy Living
as Tim 'Pappy' McCarr
19495.7
The Crooked Way
as Vince Alexander
19496.2