Ronald Colman

Ronald Colman

British leading man of primarily American films, one of the great stars of the Golden Age. Raised in Ealing, the son of a successful silk merchant, he attended boarding school in Sussex, where he first discovered amateur theatre. He intended to attend Cambridge and become an engineer, but his father's death cost him the financial support necessary. He joined the London Scottish Regionals and at the outbreak of World War I was sent to France. Seriously wounded at the battle of Messines--he was gassed--he was invalided out of service scarcely two months after shipping out for France. Upon his recovery he tried to enter the consular service, but a chance encounter got him a small role in a London play. He dropped other plans and concentrated on the theatre, and was rewarded with a succession of increasingly prominent parts. He made extra money appearing in a few minor films, and in 1920 set out for New York in hopes of finding greater fortune there than in war-depressed England. After two years of impoverishment he was cast in a Broadway hit, "La Tendresse". Director Henry King spotted him in the show and cast him as Lillian Gish's leading man in The White Sister (1923). His success in the film led to a contract with Samuel Goldwyn, and his career as a Hollywood leading man was underway. He became a vastly popular star of silent films, in romances as well as adventure films. The coming of sound made his extraordinarily beautiful speaking voice even more important to the film industry. He played sophisticated, thoughtful characters of integrity with enormous aplomb, and swashbuckled expertly when called to do so in films like The Prisoner of Zenda (1937). A decade later he received an Academy Award for his splendid portrayal of a tormented actor in A Double Life (1947). Much of his later career was devoted to "The Halls of Ivy", a radio show that later was transferred to television "The Halls of Ivy" (1954). He continued to work until nearly the end of his life, which came in 1958 after a brief lung illness. He was survived by his second wife, actress Benita Hume, and their daughter Juliet Benita Colman.
Known For: Acting
Birthday: 1891-02-08
Place of Birth: Richmond, Surrey, England, UK
Also Known As: Ronald Charles Colman

Movies List of Ronald Colman

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Lost Horizon

1937 Movie
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The Talk of the Town

1942 Movie
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Random Harvest

1942 Movie
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Champagne for Caesar

1950 Movie
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A Double Life

1947 Movie
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The Story of Mankind

1957 Movie
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Kismet

1944 Movie
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The Prisoner of Zenda

1937 Movie
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A Tale of Two Cities

1935 Movie
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My Life with Caroline

1941 Movie
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Bulldog Drummond

1929 Movie
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The White Sister

1923 Movie
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Romola

1924 Movie
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Arrowsmith

1931 Movie
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Under Two Flags

1936 Movie
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The Unholy Garden

1931 Movie
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The Devil to Pay!

1930 Movie
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Clive of India

1935 Movie
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Lady Windermere's Fan

1925 Movie
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Condemned!

1929 Movie
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Raffles

1930 Movie
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Stella Dallas

1925 Movie
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If I Were King

1938 Movie
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Lucky Partners

1940 Movie
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The Late George Apley

1947 Movie
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Cynara

1932 Movie
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The Magic Flame

1927 Movie
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Her Sister from Paris

1925 Movie
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Her Night of Romance

1924 Movie
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Beau Geste

1926 Movie
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The Light That Failed

1939 Movie
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The Masquerader

1933 Movie
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The Rescue

1929 Movie
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Two Lovers

1928 Movie
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Kiki

1926 Movie
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A Thief in Paradise

1925 Movie
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The Night of Love

1927 Movie
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Anna the Adventuress

1920 Movie
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The Sporting Venus

1925 Movie
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The Dark Angel

1925 Movie
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His Supreme Moment

1925 Movie
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The Art Director

1949 Movie
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The Toilers

1919 Movie
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Twenty Dollars a Week

1924 Movie
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Tarnish

1924 Movie