Ronald Colman

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1891-02-08 (67 years old)

Deathday

1958-05-19

Place of Birth

Richmond, Surrey, England, UK

Ronald Colman

Biography

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...

Acting

1937

Lost Horizon

as Robert " Bob " Conway

1956

1942

The Talk of the Town

as Michael Lightcap

1942

Random Harvest

as Charles Rainier

1950

Champagne for Caesar

as Beauregard Bottomley

1947

A Double Life

as Anthony John

1957

The Story of Mankind

as The Spirit of Man

1944

Kismet

as Hafiz

1937

The Prisoner of Zenda

as Major Rudolf Rassendyll / The Prisoner of Zenda

1935

A Tale of Two Cities

as Sydney Carton

1941

My Life with Caroline

as Anthony Mason

1929

Bulldog Drummond

as Captain Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond

1923

The White Sister

as Capt. Giovanni Severi

1924

Romola

as Carlo Bucellini

1931

Arrowsmith

as Dr. Martin Arrowsmith

1936

Under Two Flags

as Sgt. Victor

1931

The Unholy Garden

as Barrington Hunt

1926

1930

The Devil to Pay!

as Willie Hale

1935

Clive of India

as Robert Clive

1925

Lady Windermere's Fan

as Lord Darlington

1929

Condemned!

as Michel

1930

Raffles

as A.J. Raffles

1925

Stella Dallas

as Stephen Dallas

1938

If I Were King

as François Villon

1940

Lucky Partners

as David Grant

1947

The Late George Apley

as George Apley

1932

Cynara

as James Warlock

1934

Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back

as Captain Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond

1927

The Magic Flame

as Tito the Clown / The Count

1924

Her Night of Romance

as Paul Menford

1926

Beau Geste

as Michael 'Beau' Geste

1939

The Light That Failed

as Dick Heldar

1933

The Masquerader

as Sir John Chilcote / John Loder

1929

The Rescue

as Tom Lingard

1928

Two Lovers

as Mark van Rycke

1926

Kiki

as Victor Renal

1961

Hollywood: The Selznick Years

as 'A Tale of Two Cities' (archive footage) (uncredited)

1925

A Thief in Paradise

as Maurice Blake

1927

2001

Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies

as Self (archive footage)

1920

1925

The Sporting Venus

as Donald MacAllan

1925

The Dark Angel

as Captain Alan Trent

1925

His Supreme Moment

as John Douglas

1976

That's Entertainment, Part II

as (archive footage)

1988

1949

The Art Director

as Self - from 'Late George Apley' (archive footage) (uncredited)

1919

1924

Twenty Dollars a Week

as Chester Reeves

1924

Tarnish

as Emmet Carr

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