- The son of a prominent banker, his great-uncle, Charles Tufts, was founder of Tufts College in Boston.
- First studied at Phillips-Exeter then broke from the banking tradition of his family by going to Yale instead of Harvard and studying opera.
- In 1959, after a year of staying sober in order to stay in contention for a prime role in John Wayne's epic The Alamo (1960), he lost the role of Jim Bowie.
- In 1950 he was sued by two women who claimed he bit them both on the thigh.
- 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' "Golden Turkey Awards" to himself: Worst Performance by Sonny Tufts. The winning film was Government Girl (1943), probably because of the prominence of his female lead, Olivia de Havilland.
- Ex-wife Barbara Dare was a Spanish dancer.
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