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Philip Asheton Tonge (26 April 1897 – 28 January 1959) was an English actor. Born into a theatrical family, he was a child actor, making his stage debut at the age of five. Among the stars with whom he performed while he was a boy were
Henry Irving Sir Henry Irving (6 February 1838 – 13 October 1905), christened John Henry Brodribb, sometimes known as J. H. Irving, was an English stage actor in the Victorian era, known as an actor-manager because he took complete responsibility ( ...
,
Herbert Beerbohm Tree Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (17 December 1852 – 2 July 1917) was an English actor and theatre manager. Tree began performing in the 1870s. By 1887, he was managing the Haymarket Theatre in the West End, winning praise for adventurous progra ...
,
Ellen Terry Dame Alice Ellen Terry, (27 February 184721 July 1928), was a leading English actress of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born into a family of actors, Terry began performing as a child, acting in Shakespeare plays in London, and tour ...
and
Johnston Forbes-Robertson Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson (16 January 1853 – 6 November 1937''Sir Johnston Forbes Robertson, Beauty And Grace in Acting'', Obituaries, ''The Times'', 8 November 1937.) was an English actor and theatre manager and husband of actress Gertru ...
. His colleagues as child actors included
Hermione Gingold Hermione Ferdinanda Gingold (; 9 December 189724 May 1987) was an English actress known for her sharp-tongued, eccentric character. Her signature drawling, deep voice was a result of nodules on her vocal cords she developed in the 1920s and e ...
,
Mary Glynne Mary Glynne (born Mary Aitken; 25 January 1895 – 19 September 1954) was a British actress. Biography Glynne was born Mary Aitken in Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales. She started her career in 1908, in a stage play called ''The Da ...
,
Esmé Wynne-Tyson Esmé Wynne-Tyson (29 June 1898 – 17 January 1972) was an English actress, writer and philosopher. As a child she acted in West End plays, and became a close friend, confidante, and collaborator of Noël Coward. She left the stage in 1920 a ...
and
Noël Coward Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 189926 March 1973) was an English playwright, composer, director, actor, and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what ''Time'' magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and ...
. Tonge's adult acting career was in the US, where he and his parents settled after the
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. He made numerous appearances in
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productions, including nine Coward plays. Among his films were ''
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'' (1947), ''
Hans Christian Andersen Hans Christian Andersen ( , ; 2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875) was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his literary fairy tales. Andersen's fairy tales, consisti ...
'' (1952) and ''
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'' (1957).


Life and career


Early years

Tonge was born in
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, London, the son of the actor H. Asheton Tonge and his wife Lillian, ''née'' Brennard, an actressParker, p. 919–920 He made his first appearance on the stage at His Majesty's Theatre in October 1902, as Joseph in
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's ''The Eternal City''. In December of that year he took the part of Donald in ''A Little Un-Fairy Princess'' by
Frances Hodgson Burnett Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (24 November 1849 – 29 October 1924) was a British-American novelist and playwright. She is best known for the three children's novels ''Little Lord Fauntleroy'' (published in 1885–1886), '' A Little  ...
, in 1903 he played Ib in ''
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'' at
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and Egil in
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's '' The Vikings'' under
Ellen Terry Dame Alice Ellen Terry, (27 February 184721 July 1928), was a leading English actress of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born into a family of actors, Terry began performing as a child, acting in Shakespeare plays in London, and tour ...
's management at the
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. Other child roles included Cupid in a revival of
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's masque ''
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'' (1903), Geoffrey in
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's ''Becket'', starring
Henry Irving Sir Henry Irving (6 February 1838 – 13 October 1905), christened John Henry Brodribb, sometimes known as J. H. Irving, was an English stage actor in the Victorian era, known as an actor-manager because he took complete responsibility ( ...
and Eilif in ''
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'' starring
Herbert Beerbohm Tree Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (17 December 1852 – 2 July 1917) was an English actor and theatre manager. Tree began performing in the 1870s. By 1887, he was managing the Haymarket Theatre in the West End, winning praise for adventurous progra ...
(all 1905). In 1906 he had his first Shakespeare roles: Robin in ''
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'' and Mamillius in ''
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''; later in the year he went to
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to play Michael in ''
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''. On tour and in London he played Ptolemy in
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'' Caesar and Cleopatra'', starring
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(1907). In September 1908 Tonge was cast as Freddy in ''The Sway Boat'' at the Kingsway Theatre, London, and in December of the same year he had the important role of Tommy in Tree's Christmas family play, ''Pinkie and the Fairies''. The cast was headed by Ellen Terry, and included
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,
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Viola Tree Viola Tree (17 July 1884 – 15 November 1938) was an English actress, singer, playwright and author. Daughter of the actor Herbert Beerbohm Tree, she made many of her early appearances with his company at His Majesty's Theatre. Later she appe ...
and the young
Hermione Gingold Hermione Ferdinanda Gingold (; 9 December 189724 May 1987) was an English actress known for her sharp-tongued, eccentric character. Her signature drawling, deep voice was a result of nodules on her vocal cords she developed in the 1920s and e ...
. The following year he was in ''A Boy's Proposal'', a
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for
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's ''Strife'' at the Adelphi. The reviewer in ''
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'' called Tonge "a remarkable boy" and commented, "Nothing more natural and more accompllshed than this youngster in an Eton jacket could be imagined, and the piece is well worth seeing for his amusing performance alone." In 1911 Tonge and
Mary Glynne Mary Glynne (born Mary Aitken; 25 January 1895 – 19 September 1954) was a British actress. Biography Glynne was born Mary Aitken in Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales. She started her career in 1908, in a stage play called ''The Da ...
had the principal children's roles in a comic opera, ''The Love Mills'' at the
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. In December 1911 Tonge played Crispian Carey in ''
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''. The adult stars were
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as St George of England and
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as Crispian's mother. Other children in the cast included Gingold,
Esmé Wynne-Tyson Esmé Wynne-Tyson (29 June 1898 – 17 January 1972) was an English actress, writer and philosopher. As a child she acted in West End plays, and became a close friend, confidante, and collaborator of Noël Coward. She left the stage in 1920 a ...
and the twelve-year-old
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. Coward idolised Tonge, with whom he had his first sexual experience.Hoare, p. 25–26


Adult career

Tonge made his film debut in 1913 in the short ''The Still Voice'', and in the following year he made his first appearance on
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as Tommy Traddles in ''The Highway of Life'', a dramatisation of ''
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'' at
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. He and his parents moved permanently to the US, and he made his adult stage career in New York and on tour in a wide range of roles.Hoare, p. 172 In 1915 Tonge played
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in ''
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''. He gave further Broadway performances as Robert Langworthy in ''Gamblers All '' (1917), Murty in ''The Grasshopper'' (1917), Roger in ''The New Word'' (1917), Peter in ''Peter's Mother'' (1918), Willis Ainley in ''Smilin' Through '' (1919), Secretary in ''Bluebeard's Eighth Wife'' (1921) and Lord Kinlock in ''The Bunch and Judy'' (1922), His final Broadway appearances of the 1920s were as Al Lavery in a crime thriller, ''Interference'' (1927) and Frank Oakes in a comedy, ''In Love With Love'' (1928)."Philip Tonge"
Internet Broadway Database, retrieved 6 June 2014
During the 1930s Tonge appeared with
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in ''The Lady with a Lamp'' (1931) after which he was in a comedy, ''Clear All Wires'' (1932) and in 1933 was cast by Coward, now an international star, in the small role of Matthew Birbeck in the premiere of ''
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'' (1933), starring Coward,
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and
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, which ran for five months at the
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. After two dramas, ''Eight Bells'' (1933) and ''The Lake'' (1934), Tonge was in another Coward premiere, the melodramatic ''
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'', which ran for three months in 1935. Tonge's next three Broadway roles were in comedies, as Ludlow in Ivor Novello's ''Fresh Fields'' (1936), the pompous headmaster, the Rev Edmund Ovington, in
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's '' Bachelor Born'' (1938) and Herbert Soppitt in
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's ''
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'' (1939). After two short runs in unsuccessful new plays, he had a year and a half playing Dr Bradman in Coward's '' Blithe Spirit'', with
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,
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,
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and
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. In 1948 Coward once again cast Tonge in Broadway productions of his shows, this time in six of the short plays in the cycle '' Tonight at 8.30'' with
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and
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in the principal roles. Tonge played Murdoch in '' Ways and Means'', Mr Edwards in ''
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'', Burrows in '' Family Album'', George Cunningham in ''
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'', Mr Wadhurst in '' Hands Across the Sea'' and Henry Gow – Coward's own role in the first production – in ''
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''. Tonge appeared in five more Broadway productions between 1948 and 1951, none of which ran for more than two months; they included a six-week run as Sir Andrew Aguecheek in ''
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'' and a three-week run as Major Benjy in ''Make Way for Lucia'', an adaptation of E. F. Benson's novels. Among Tonge's cinema roles was Julian Shellhammer in the Christmas film ''
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'' (1947). He also appeared as Otto in ''
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'' (1952) and as Chief Inspector Hearne in ''
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'' (1957). On television, he played District Attorney Cortland in ''
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'', Dr Robert Means in '' Dr. Hudson's Secret Journal'' (1955–57) and General Amherst in ''
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'' (1958–59). Tonge died in
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,
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. He was survived by his wife, Lyda (1902–1984).


Partial filmography

*'' Still Waters'' (1915) - Jed Perkins *''
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'' (1933) - Leek Twin - Henry *''
Miracle on 34th Street ''Miracle on 34th Street'' (initially released as ''The Big Heart'' in the United Kingdom) is a 1947 American List of Christmas films, Christmas comedy-drama film released by 20th Century Fox, written and directed by George Seaton and based on ...
'' (1947) - Julian Shellhammer *'' Love from a Stranger'' (1947) - Dr. Horace Gribble *''
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'' (1952) - Man with Umbrella (segment "The Cop and the Anthem") (uncredited) *''
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'' (1952) - Otto *'' House of Wax'' (1953) - Bruce Allison (uncredited) *'' Small Town Girl'' (1953) - Hemmingway *''
Scandal at Scourie ''Scandal at Scourie'' is a 1953 American drama Technicolor film directed by Jean Negulesco, starring Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon "above the title", and co-starring Donna Corcoran. Garson and Pidgeon were together for the 8th and last time in t ...
'' (1953) - Fred Gogarty *''
Elephant Walk ''Elephant Walk'' is a 1954 American drama film produced by Paramount Pictures, directed by William Dieterle, and starring Elizabeth Taylor, Dana Andrews, Peter Finch and Abraham Sofaer.It is based upon the 1948 novel ''Elephant Walk'' by "Robe ...
'' (1954) - Planter John Ralph *'' Khyber Patrol'' (1954) - Col. A. Rivington *''
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'' (1954) - Mr. Webster *''
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'' (1954) - Pa Bridges *''
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'' (1954) - Ohad *''
The Prodigal ''The Prodigal'' is a 1955 Eastmancolor biblical epic CinemaScope film made by MGM starring Lana Turner and Edmund Purdom. It was based on the New Testament parable about a selfish son who leaves his family to pursue a life of pleasure. The f ...
'' (1955) - Barber-Surgeon *''
Desert Sands ''Desert Sands'' is a 1955 American adventure film directed by Lesley Selander and written by Danny Arnold, George W. George and George F. Slavin. The film stars Ralph Meeker, Marla English, J. Carrol Naish, John Carradine, Ron Randell, John Smit ...
'' (1955) - Cpl. Sandy McTosh *''
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'' (1956) - Mr. Baxter, Footman *'' The Peacemaker'' (1956) - Elijah Maddox *'' Les Girls'' (1957) - Associate Judge *''
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'' (1957) - Inspector Hearne *''
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'' (1958) - Prof. John Andrews *''
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'' (1958) - Jode Wetherby *''
Invisible Invaders ''Invisible Invaders'' is a 1959 science fiction film starring John Agar, Jean Byron, John Carradine and Philip Tonge. It was produced by Robert E. Kent, directed by Edward L. Cahn and written by Samuel Newman. The monster costume from 1958's ''It ...
'' (1959) - Dr. Adam Penner *'' This Earth Is Mine'' (1959) - Dr. Albert Stone (uncredited)


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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Tonge, Philip 1897 births 1959 deaths English male film actors English male stage actors English male television actors English male child actors Male actors from London 20th-century English male actors British expatriate male actors in the United States