Ronald Colman
Birthday
1891/02/08
Day of death
1958/05/19 (67 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Richmond, Surrey, England, UK
Also know as
Ronald Charles 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 ga...Read more
Acting
(1930) Governor C.C. Young Hails Greater Talkie Season
as ---
(1937) Lost Horizon
as Robert " Bob " Conway
(1956) Around the World in Eighty Days
as Railway Official
(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) The Winning of Barbara Worth
as Willard Holmes
(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
(1935) The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
as Paul Gaillard
(1927) The Magic Flame
as Tito the Clown / The Count
(1925) Her Sister from Paris
as Joseph
(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) The Night of Love
as Montero
(1930) Terra Melophon Magazin Nr. 1
as ---
(2001) Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
as Self (archive footage)
(1920) Anna the Adventuress
as Brendan
(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) The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
as Self (archive footage)
(1949) The Art Director
as Self - from 'Late George Apley' (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1924) Twenty Dollars a Week
as Chester Reeves
(1924) Tarnish
as Emmet Carr
(1919) The Toilers
as Bob
(1953) General Electric Theater
as Graham
(1954) The Halls of Ivy
as ---
(1952) Four Star Playhouse
as Caller
(1952) Four Star Playhouse
as Dr. Bosanquent
(1952) Four Star Playhouse
as Cameron
(1952) Four Star Playhouse
as Narrator
(1948) The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
(1950) The Jack Benny Program
as Ronald Colman