Biography
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Ronald Colman (9 February, 1891 – 19 May, 1958) was an English actor. Born in Richmond, Surrey, England, Colman discovered acting while at school. He intended to attend Cambridge University to study engineering, but his father's death put an end to that. He served in World War I, where he was seriously wounded at the Battle of Messines.
Following the war, he began to appear on the London stage. In 1922, he appeared on Broadway in the hit play La Tendresse. Director Henry King saw him, and cast him in the 1923 film, The White Sister, opposite Lillian Gish. He became a very popular silent film star in both romantic and adventure films. He successfully made the transition to "talkies" because of his elegant and sonorous speaking voice. His first major talkie success was in 1930, when he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for two roles — Condemned and Bulldog Drummond. He appeared in The Prisoner of Zenda and Lost Horizon in 1937, If I Were King in 1938, and The Talk of the Town in 1941. He won the Oscar in 1948 for A Double Life.
Beginning in 1945, Colman made many guest appearances on The Jack Benny Program on radio, alongside his wife, Benita Hume. Their comedy work as Benny's next-door neighbors led to their own radio comedy, The Halls of Ivy from 1950 to 1952; the series transitioned to television in 1954. They had one daughter, Juliet.
Ronald Colman died on 19 May, 1958, aged 67, from a lung infection in Santa Barbara, California and was interred in the Santa Barbara Cemetery.
He has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for motion pictures at 6801 Hollywood Blvd. and one for television at 1625 Vine Street.
Academy Awards and Nominations
- 1947 Won for A Double Life
- 1943 Nominated for Random Harvest
- 1930 Nominated for Bulldog Drummond
- 1930 Nominated for Condemned
Filmography
- The Live Wire (1917)
- A Daughter of Eve (1919) uncredited
- Sheba (1919) uncredited
- Snow in the Desert (1919)
- The Toilers (1919)
- Anna the Adventuress (1920)
- A Son of David (1920)
- The Black Spider (1920)
- Handcuffs or Kisses (1921)
- The White Sister (1923)
- The Eternal City (1923) uncredited
- Twenty Dollars a Week (1923)
- Tarnish (1924)
- Her Night of Romance (1924)
- Ramola (1924)
- A Thief in Paradise (1925)
- His Supreme Moment (1925)
- The Sporting Venus (1925)
- Her Sister From Paris (1925)
- The Dark Angel (1925)
- Stella Dallas (1925)
- Lady Windermere's Fan (1925)
- Kiki (1926)
- Beau Geste (1926)
- The Winning of Barbara Worth (1926)
- The Night of Love (1927)
- The Magic Flame (1927)
- Two Lovers (1928)
- The Rescue (1929)
- Bulldog Drummond (1929)
- Condemned (1929)
- Raffles (1930)
- The Devil to Pay (1930)
- The Unholy Garden (1931)
- Arrowsmith (1931)
- Cynara (1932)
- The Masquerader (1933)
- Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (1934)
- Clive of India (1935)
- The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo (1935)
- A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
- Under Two Flags (1936)
- Lost Horizon (1937)
- The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
- If I Were King (1938)
- The Light That Failed (1939)
- Lucky Partners (1940)
- My Life With Caroline (1941)
- The Talk of the Town (1942)
- Random Harvest (1942)
- Kismet (1944)
- The Late George Apley (1947)
- A Double Life (1947)
- Champagne for Caesar (1950)
- Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)
- The Story of Mankind (1957)
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