Franchot Tone

Franchot Tone has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6558 Hollywood Blvd. One of Chaim Topol's best known roles in an Israeli production was in the controversial Salah Shabati by Ephraim Kishon - a play, later adapted for film, depicting the hardships of a new Sephardi Jewish family in Israel of the early 1950s. His remains were cremated and his ashes were scattered. Some of his other notable appearances were in Galileo (1975), Flash Gordon (1980), Cast a Giant Shadow and the James Bond movie For Your Eyes Only. He died in New York City. Topol is best known for his performance as Tevye the Milkman in the film version of Fiddler on the Roof (1971), for which he received a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination in 1972. He co-starred in the Ben Casey medical series from 1965 to 1966 as Casey's supervisor. Chaim Topol (born September 9, 1935 in Tel Aviv), often billed simply as Topol, is one of the most famous of Israeli actors.

In the 1950s he moved to television and returned to Broadway, where he had begun his career. He worked steadily through the 1940s without breaking through as a major star. 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). 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.