Bowen Charlton "Sonny" Tufts III (July , â€" June , ) was an American
stage, film, and television actor. He is best known for the films he
made as a contract star at Paramount in the s, including So Proudly We
Hail!. He also starred in the cult classic Cat-Women of the Moon.Bowen
Charlton Tufts III (some sources give "Charleston") (nicknamed
"Sonny") was born in Boston into a prominent banking family. The Tufts
family patriarch, Peter Tufts, sailed to America from Wilby, Norfolk,
England in . His granduncle was businessman and philanthropist Charles
Tufts, for whom Tufts University is named.Tufts attended the Phillips
Exeter Academy, He later broke with the family banking tradition by
not studying business at Harvard, choosing instead to study opera at
Yale University, where he was an editor of campus humor magazine The
Yale Record. He was a member of the Skull and Bones society and played
for the Yale football team. Tufts also performed in a musical group,
the Whiffenpoofs, and toured with the group in Europe.While touring in
Naples, Tufts decided to study opera. He studied opera in Paris for a
year and in the United States for three.
stage, film, and television actor. He is best known for the films he
made as a contract star at Paramount in the s, including So Proudly We
Hail!. He also starred in the cult classic Cat-Women of the Moon.Bowen
Charlton Tufts III (some sources give "Charleston") (nicknamed
"Sonny") was born in Boston into a prominent banking family. The Tufts
family patriarch, Peter Tufts, sailed to America from Wilby, Norfolk,
England in . His granduncle was businessman and philanthropist Charles
Tufts, for whom Tufts University is named.Tufts attended the Phillips
Exeter Academy, He later broke with the family banking tradition by
not studying business at Harvard, choosing instead to study opera at
Yale University, where he was an editor of campus humor magazine The
Yale Record. He was a member of the Skull and Bones society and played
for the Yale football team. Tufts also performed in a musical group,
the Whiffenpoofs, and toured with the group in Europe.While touring in
Naples, Tufts decided to study opera. He studied opera in Paris for a
year and in the United States for three.
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