Editing Franchot Tone (section)

=== 1960–1968: Final films and television ===
In the early 1960s Tone was in episodes of ''[[Bonanza]]''<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hSIkCQAAQBAJ&q=franchot+tone+tv+episodes&pg=PA314|title=Jacques Tourneur: The Cinema of Nightfall|last=Fujiwara|first=Chris|date=May 3, 2011|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-6611-5|language=en}}</ref> and ''[[The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)|The Twilight Zone]]'' ("[[The Silence (The Twilight Zone)|The Silence]]") and appeared on Broadway in an adaptation of ''[[Mandingo (play)|Mandingo]]'' (1961). He then played the spent, dying president in the screen adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel ''[[Advise & Consent (film)|Advise & Consent]]'' (1962), an [[Otto Preminger]] film that the director had unsuccessfully lobbied [[Martin Luther King Jr.|Martin Luther King]] to portray a senator in, while two U.S. senators played extras on Capitol Hill locations previously used for ''[[Mr. Smith Goes to Washington]].''<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B5alnowvF3sC&q=franchot+tone+advise+and+consent+mlk&pg=PT24|title=Son of the 100 Best Movies You've Never Seen|last=Crouse|first=Richard|date=December 15, 2010|publisher=ECW Press|isbn=978-1-55490-330-6|language=en}}</ref>''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Hollywood_on_the_Hill.htm|title=U.S. Senate: Hollywood on the Hill|website=www.senate.gov|access-date=August 23, 2019}}</ref>''

On stage in 1963 he acted in a revival of O'Neill's ''[[Strange Interlude]]'', with [[Ben Gazzarra]] and [[Jane Fonda]], and ''Bicycle Ride to Nevada''. The next year he appeared in [[Lewis John Carlino]]'s ''Double Talk''.

He was cast in TV shows such as ''[[The Eleventh Hour (1962 TV series)|The Eleventh Hour]]'', ''[[Dupont Show of the Week]]'', ''[[The Reporter (TV series)|The Reporter]]'', ''[[Festival (Canadian TV series)|Festival]]'', ''[[The Alfred Hitchcock Hour]]'', and ''[[The Virginian (TV series)|The Virginian]]''. He appeared in what is possibly the first TV movie, ''[[See How They Run (1964 film)|See How They Run]]'' (1964).<ref name="los" />

In Europe, Tone made ''[[La bonne soupe]]'' (1965). He co-starred in the ''[[Ben Casey]]'' medical series from 1965 to 1966 as Casey's supervisor, Dr. Daniel Niles Freeland.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IMVADwAAQBAJ&q=franchot+tone+dr+freedland+ben+casey&pg=PA180|title=TV in the USA: A History of Icons, Idols, and Ideas [3 volumes]|last=LoBrutto|first=Vincent|date=January 4, 2018|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-4408-2973-4|language=en}}</ref>

He had roles in [[Otto Preminger]]'s film ''[[In Harm's Way]]'' (1965) in which he portrayed [[Admiral]] [[Husband E. Kimmel]] and Arthur Penn's ''[[Mickey One ]]''(1965), and an episode of ''[[Run for Your Life (TV series)|Run for Your Life]]''.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaoffi00mona|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaoffi00mona/page/537 537]|quote=the girl from missouri 1934 ny times.|title=The Encyclopedia of Film|last=Monaco|first=James|date=1991|publisher=Perigee Books|isbn=978-0-399-51604-7}}</ref> He appeared off-Broadway in ''Beyond Desire'' (1967) and his last roles were in ''[[Shadow Over Elveron]]'' (1968) and ''[[Nobody Runs Forever]]'' (1968), a British film originally titled ''The High Commissioner''.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yzPADT7BTRcC&q=franchot+tone+nobody+runs+forever&pg=PT1110|title=Leonard Maltin's 2013 Movie Guide: The Modern Era|last=Maltin|first=Leonard|date=September 4, 2012|publisher=Penguin|isbn=978-1-101-60463-2|language=en}}</ref>