Ronald Colman
Biografia
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.
Filmografia
Filmy i seriale od najnowszych
Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
Film • 2001
jako Self (archive footage)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Film • 1988
jako Self (archive footage)
That's Entertainment, Part II
Film • 1976
jako (archive footage)
The Story of Mankind
Film • 1957
jako The Spirit of Man
W 80 dni dookoła świata
Film • 1956
jako Railway Official
The Halls of Ivy
Serial • 1954
General Electric Theater
Serial • 1953
jako Graham
Four Star Playhouse
Serial • 1952
jako Caller
The Jack Benny Program
Serial • 1950
jako Ronald Colman
Champagne for Caesar
Film • 1950
jako Beauregard Bottomley
The Art Director
Film • 1949
jako Self - from 'Late George Apley' (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Ed Sullivan Show
Serial • 1948
jako Self
Podwójne życie
Film • 1947
jako Anthony John
The Late George Apley
Film • 1947
jako George Apley
Kismet
Film • 1944
jako Hafiz
Random Harvest
Film • 1942
jako Charles Rainier
The Talk of the Town
Film • 1942
jako Michael Lightcap
My Life with Caroline
Film • 1941
jako Anthony Mason
Lucky Partners
Film • 1940
jako David Grant
The Light That Failed
Film • 1939
jako Dick Heldar
If I Were King
Film • 1938
jako François Villon
The Prisoner of Zenda
Film • 1937
jako Major Rudolf Rassendyll / The Prisoner of Zenda
Lost Horizon
Film • 1937
jako Robert " Bob " Conway
Pod dwiema flagami
Film • 1936
jako Sgt. Victor
A Tale of Two Cities
Film • 1935
jako Sydney Carton
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
Film • 1935
jako Paul Gaillard
Clive of India
Film • 1935
jako Robert Clive
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
Film • 1934
jako Captain Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond
The Masquerader
Film • 1933
jako Sir John Chilcote / John Loder
Cynara
Film • 1932
jako James Warlock
Arrowsmith
Film • 1931
jako Dr. Martin Arrowsmith
The Unholy Garden
Film • 1931
jako Barrington Hunt
Governor C.C. Young Hails Greater Talkie Season
Film • 1930
Miłosna awantura
Film • 1930
jako Willie Hale
Terra Melophon Magazin Nr. 1
Film • 1930
Raffles
Film • 1930
jako A.J. Raffles
Condemned!
Film • 1929
jako Michel
Bulldog Drummond
Film • 1929
jako Captain Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond
The Rescue
Film • 1929
jako Tom Lingard
Two Lovers
Film • 1928
jako Mark van Rycke
The Magic Flame
Film • 1927
jako Tito the Clown / The Count
The Night of Love
Film • 1927
jako Montero
The Winning of Barbara Worth
Film • 1926
jako Willard Holmes
Beau Geste
Film • 1926
jako Michael 'Beau' Geste
Kiki
Film • 1926
jako Victor Renal
Lady Windermere's Fan
Film • 1925
jako Lord Darlington
Stella Dallas
Film • 1925
jako Stephen Dallas
The Dark Angel
Film • 1925
jako Captain Alan Trent
Her Sister from Paris
Film • 1925
jako Joseph
A Thief in Paradise
Film • 1925
jako Maurice Blake
The Sporting Venus
Film • 1925
jako Donald MacAllan
His Supreme Moment
Film • 1925
jako John Douglas
Romola
Film • 1924
jako Carlo Bucellini
Her Night of Romance
Film • 1924
jako Paul Menford
Tarnish
Film • 1924
jako Emmet Carr
Twenty Dollars a Week
Film • 1924
jako Chester Reeves
The White Sister
Film • 1923
jako Capt. Giovanni Severi
Handcuffs or Kisses
Film • 1921
jako Lodyard
The Black Spider
Film • 1920
jako Vicomte de Beaurais
Anna the Adventuress
Film • 1920
jako Brendan
The Toilers
Film • 1919
jako Bob