The Biggest Movies and TV Coming in September

"The Gentlemen" and "Slow Horses" return this fall, while the "Reacher" spin-off series "Neagley" makes its debut. See our guide of the biggest Fall TV and streaming releases.

2026 Fall TV and Streaming Watch Guide

&quot;The Gentlemen&quot; and &quot;Slow Horses&quot; return this fall, while the &quot;Reacher&quot; spin-off series &quot;Neagley&quot; makes its debut. See our guide of the biggest Fall TV and streaming releases.

Get a closer look at these actors from their many TV and streaming series roles.

Streaming Stars, Then and Now

Born into a prominent Boston family of bankers whose patriarch was said to have arrived in America from England in 1683, Sonny Tufts would end his career as a Hollywood "bad boy," immersed in drink and scandal.

Tufts was graduated from Yale in 1935 and began pursuing a career in opera, eventually auditioning with the Metropolitan Opera in New York. But he drifted into the world of pop music and soon found himself on the Broadway stage. He went to Hollywood in 1942 and for most of the 1940's appeared in supporting roles or as second leads in light comedies produced by Paramount Pictures. An old college football injury had disqualified him for military duty, and so, with many of Hollywood's younger leading men serving overseas in World War II, this tall, blond, blue-eyed actor became something of a star, if only by default. But by the turn of the decade he had found his name in print on account of his off-screen activities. In 1949 he had been found drunk on a Hollywood sidewalk. In 1950 he was sued by two women for allegedly biting each of them in the thigh. In 1951 his wife had him jailed for drunkenness. The name Sonny Tufts itself became a joke. Thereafter he made few films, but could be found in occasional guest appearances on inconsequential TV shows. He died of pneumonia at age 58.

The son of a prominent banker, his great-uncle, Charles Tufts, was
founder of Tufts College in Boston.

In 1959, after a year of staying sober in order to stay in contention
for a prime role in <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0000078/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">John Wayne</a>&#39;s epic <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0053580/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">The Alamo (1960)</a>, he lost the role of Jim
Bowie.

In 1950 he was sued by two women who claimed he bit them both on the
thigh.

First studied at Phillips-Exeter then broke from the banking tradition
of his family by going to Yale instead of Harvard and studying opera.

Newspapers reported that on August 18, 1946, Tufts was bitten by a black widow spider while asleep on the patio of his home in Beverly Hills.

Had a whole chapter of the Medved Brothers&#39; &quot;Golden Turkey Awards&quot; to
himself: Worst Performance by Sonny Tufts. The winning film was
<a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0035952/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Government Girl (1943)</a>, probably because of the prominence of his female lead,
<a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0000014/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Olivia de Havilland</a>.

Ex-wife Barbara Dare was a Spanish dancer.

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