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Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
2001
as Self (archive footage)
Ronald Colman
Acting
Born:February 8, 1891
Died:May 19, 1958(aged 67)
Birthplace:Richmond, Surrey, England, UK
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CommunityBiography
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.
Filmography (53 movies)
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The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988
as Self (archive footage)
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Governor C.C. Young Hails Greater Talkie Season
1930
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The Prisoner of Zenda
1937
as Major Rudolf Rassendyll / The Prisoner of Zenda
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The Talk of the Town
1942
as Michael Lightcap
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Random Harvest
1942
as Charles Rainier
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Kiki
1926
as Victor Renal
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Stella Dallas
1925
as Stephen Dallas
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Champagne for Caesar
1950
as Beauregard Bottomley
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The White Sister
1923
as Capt. Giovanni Severi
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Lost Horizon
1937
as Robert " Bob " Conway
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Lady Windermere's Fan
1925
as Lord Darlington
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The Late George Apley
1947
as George Apley
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If I Were King
1938
as François Villon
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A Tale of Two Cities
1935
as Sydney Carton
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Around the World in Eighty Days
1956
as Railway Official
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Romola
1924
as Carlo Bucellini
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Arrowsmith
1931
as Dr. Martin Arrowsmith
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Her Night of Romance
1924
as Paul Menford
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The Sporting Venus
1925
as Donald MacAllan
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Bulldog Drummond
1929
as Captain Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond
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Condemned!
1929
as Michel
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The Winning of Barbara Worth
1926
as Willard Holmes
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The Unholy Garden
1931
as Barrington Hunt
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A Double Life
1947
as Anthony John
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The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
1935
as Paul Gaillard
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Raffles
1930
as A.J. Raffles
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Beau Geste
1926
as Michael 'Beau' Geste
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Her Sister from Paris
1925
as Joseph
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The Light That Failed
1939
as Dick Heldar
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The Toilers
1919
as Bob
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The Art Director
1949
as Self - from 'Late George Apley' (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Under Two Flags
1936
as Sgt. Victor
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Lucky Partners
1940
as David Grant
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The Rescue
1929
as Tom Lingard
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A Thief in Paradise
1925
as Maurice Blake
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The Devil to Pay!
1930
as Willie Hale
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My Life with Caroline
1941
as Anthony Mason
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Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
1934
as Captain Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond
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Kismet
1944
as Hafiz
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The Night of Love
1927
as Montero
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Clive of India
1935
as Robert Clive
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Cynara
1932
as James Warlock
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The Masquerader
1933
as Sir John Chilcote / John Loder
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The Magic Flame
1927
as Tito the Clown / The Count
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The Story of Mankind
1957
as The Spirit of Man
Terra Melophon Magazin Nr. 1
1930
His Supreme Moment
1925
as John Douglas
Anna the Adventuress
1920
as Brendan
Two Lovers
1928
as Mark van Rycke
Twenty Dollars a Week
1924
as Chester Reeves
Tarnish
1924
as Emmet Carr
The Dark Angel
1925
as Captain Alan Trent
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