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A Double Life

as Anthony John

1947
Kismet

as Hafiz

1944
Random Harvest

as Charles Rainier

1942
The Talk of the Town

as Professor Michael Lightcap

1942
My Life with Caroline

as Anthony Mason

1941
Lucky Partners

as David Grant

1940
If I Were King

as François Villon

1938
Lost Horizon

as Robert " Bob " Conway

1937
The Prisoner of Zenda

as Major Rudolf Rassendyll / The Prisoner of Zenda

1937
Under Two Flags

as Sgt. Victor

1936
A Tale of Two Cities

as Sydney Carton

1935
Clive of India

as Robert Clive

1935
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back

as Captain Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond

1934
Cynara

as James Warlock

1932
The Unholy Garden

as Barrington Hunt

1931
Arrowsmith

as Dr. Martin Arrowsmith

1931
Raffles

as A.J. Raffles

1930
Bulldog Drummond

as Captain Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond

1929
Condemned

as Michel

1929
The Rescue

as Tom Lingard

1929
Two Lovers

as Mark van Rycke

1928
The Night of Love

as Montero

1927
The Winning of Barbara Worth

as Willard Holmes

1926
Kiki

as Victor Renal

1926
Romola

as Carlo Bucellini

1924
Her Night of Romance

as Paul Menford

1924
Ronald Colman Ronald Colman

Birthday

1891-02-09

Place of Birth

Richmond, Surrey, England, UK

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 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.
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