Franchot Tone

Franchot Tone has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6558 Hollywood Blvd. Shortly before his death from lung cancer, Williams was awarded a papal knighthood. His remains were cremated and his ashes were scattered. Both devout Christians (though from different denominations), theirs was one of the most successful showbiz marriages, and they worked together on several series of the sitcom, A Fine Romance, from 1981 onwards. He died in New York City. He married Judi Dench in 1971, and they had one daughter. He co-starred in the Ben Casey medical series from 1965 to 1966 as Casey's supervisor. His first film appearance was in 1962, and he subsequently appeared frequently on television (notably in Elizabeth R), and in British films such as Educating Rita (1983) and Henry V (1989).

In the 1950s he moved to television and returned to Broadway, where he had begun his career. Born to a Catholic family in Liverpool, he worked as an insurance assessor before going into the theatre as a career. He worked steadily through the 1940s without breaking through as a major star. Although best known as the husband of Judi Dench, Williams had a distinguished career of his own, as both a classical and a comedy actor. He married and divorced three more times: to fashion model turned actress Jean Wallace (1941-48, two sons; she next married Cornel Wilde), actress Barbara Peyton (1951-52), and actress Dolores Dorn (1956-59). Michael Leonard Williams (July 9, 1935 - January 11, 2001) was a well-loved British actor. He was married October 11, 1935 in New Jersey to actress Joan Crawford; they were divorced in 1939.

In 1935 he starred in Mutiny on the Bounty (for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor), The Lives of a Bengal Lancer and Dangerous opposite Bette Davis. President of the Dramatic Club at Cornell University, he went to Hollywood in 1932, achieving fame in 1933, when he made seven movies in a single year. Frank Jerome Tone, the president of the Carborundum Company, and his wife, Gertrude Franchot. He was born Stanislas Pascal Franchot Tone in Niagara Falls, New York, eldest son of Dr.

Franchot Tone (February 27, 1905 – September 18, 1968) was an American actor.