Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
2/8/1891
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. Upon his re...
Known For
Stella Dallas
as Stephen Dallas
Around the World in 80 Days
as Railway Official
The Rescue
as Tom Lingard
Lost Horizon
as Robert " Bob " Conway
Arrowsmith
as Dr. Martin Arrowsmith
Bulldog Drummond
as Captain Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond
The Masquerader
as Sir John Chilcote / John Loder
The Talk of the Town
as Michael Lightcap
The Light That Failed
as Dick Heldar
Random Harvest
as Charles Rainier
Kismet
as Hafiz
The Late George Apley
as George Apley
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
as Captain Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond
Beau Geste
as Michael 'Beau' Geste
The Prisoner of Zenda
as Major Rudolf Rassendyll / The Prisoner of Zenda
A Tale of Two Cities
as Sydney Carton
If I Were King
as François Villon
The Winning of Barbara Worth
as Willard Holmes
Lucky Partners
as David Grant
Raffles
as A.J. Raffles