Ronald Colman

Personal Info

Birthday

February 8, 1891

Day of Death

1958-05-19

(67 years old)

Place of Birth

Richmond, Surrey, England, UK

Also Known As

Ronald Charles Colman

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.

Known For

Four Star Playhouse

The Jack Benny Program

Around the World in Eighty Days

General Electric Theater

Lost Horizon

The Talk of the Town

The Prisoner of Zenda

Random Harvest

Filmography

2001
Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
as Self (archive footage)
1988
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
as Self (archive footage)
1976
That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
1961
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
as 'A Tale of Two Cities' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1957
The Story of Mankind
as The Spirit of Man
1956
Around the World in Eighty Days
as Railway Official
1950
Champagne for Caesar
as Beauregard Bottomley
1949
The Art Director
as Self - from 'Late George Apley' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1947
A Double Life
as Anthony John
The Late George Apley
as George Apley
1944
Kismet
as Hafiz
1942
Random Harvest
as Charles Rainier
The Talk of the Town
as Michael Lightcap
1941
My Life with Caroline
as Anthony Mason
1940
Lucky Partners
as David Grant
1939
The Light That Failed
as Dick Heldar
1938
If I Were King
as François Villon
1937
The Prisoner of Zenda
as Major Rudolf Rassendyll / The Prisoner of Zenda
Lost Horizon
as Robert " Bob " Conway
1936
Under Two Flags
as Sgt. Victor
1935
A Tale of Two Cities
as Sydney Carton
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
as Paul Gaillard
Clive of India
as Robert Clive
1934
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
as Captain Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond
1933
The Masquerader
as Sir John Chilcote / John Loder
1932
Cynara
as James Warlock
1931
Arrowsmith
as Dr. Martin Arrowsmith
The Unholy Garden
as Barrington Hunt
1930
The Devil to Pay!
as Willie Hale
Raffles
as A.J. Raffles
1929
Condemned!
as Michel
Bulldog Drummond
as Captain Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond
The Rescue
as Tom Lingard
1928
Two Lovers
as Mark van Rycke
1927
The Magic Flame
as Tito the Clown / The Count
The Night of Love
as Montero
1926
The Winning of Barbara Worth
as Willard Holmes
Beau Geste
as Michael 'Beau' Geste
Kiki
as Victor Renal
1925
Lady Windermere's Fan
as Lord Darlington
Stella Dallas
as Stephen Dallas
The Dark Angel
as Captain Alan Trent
Her Sister from Paris
as Joseph
A Thief in Paradise
as Maurice Blake
The Sporting Venus
as Donald MacAllan
His Supreme Moment
as John Douglas
1924
Romola
as Carlo Bucellini
Her Night of Romance
as Paul Menford
Tarnish
as Emmet Carr
Twenty Dollars a Week
as Chester Reeves
1923
The White Sister
as Capt. Giovanni Severi
1920
Anna the Adventuress
as Brendan
1919
The Toilers
as Bob