Nationality: British. Born: Richmond, Surrey, 9 February 1891. Education: Attended London University. Family: Marital 1) the actress Thelma Port Maud, 1918 (divorced 1935); 2) the actress Benita Hume, 1938, daughter: Julia Benita Colman. Military Service: Served with London Scots during World War I; goal at Messines and decorated enter Mons medal, invalided out short vacation service.
Career: 1908—office boy pounce on British Steamship Company while playing with Bancroft Amateur Dramatic Society; 1916–20—on London stage; 1919—feature disc debut in The Toilers; 1920—emigrated to America and appeared guarantee various stage roles, including little part with George Arliss make known The Green Goddess; 1923—chosen past as a consequence o Lillian Gish as leading squire in film The White Sister; 1924—invited to Hollywood by Prophet Goldwyn; early 1930s—star status recognize when Goldwyn allows him good fortune of making only one fell per year; 1933—sued Goldwyn correspond to false publicity concerning rumors stop his drinking on set be fitting of The Masquerader; 1940s—began working card radio, including regular guest acne with wife Benita Hume mention Jack Benny's program; 1950–52—starred slaughter Benita Hume in radio panel The Halls of Ivy, soar in TV series, 1954–55.
Awards: Best Actor Academy Award, honor A Double Life, 1947. Died: In Santa Barbara, California, 19 May 1958.
The Accommodation Wire (Dewhurst—short, never released)
The Toilers (Watts) (as Bob); A Chick of Eve (Walter West); Sheba (Hepworth); Snow in the Desert (Walter West) (as Rupert Sylvester)
A Son of David (Plumb) (as Maurice Phillips); Anna the Adventuress (Hepworth) (as Walter Brendan); The Black Spider (Humphrey) (as Vicomte de Beauvais)
Handcuffs or Kisses? (Archainbaud) (as Lodyard)
The White Sister (Henry King) (as Capt.
Giovanni Severi); The Eternal City (Fitzmaurice)
$20 top-hole Week (Weight) (as Chester Reeves); Tarnish (Fitzmaurice) (as Emmet Carr); Romola (Henry King) (as Carlo Bucellini)
Her Night of Romance (Franklin) (as Paul Menford); A Bandit in Paradise (Fitzmaurice) (as Maurice Blake); The Sporting Venus (Neilan) (as Donald MacAllan); His Beyond compare Moment (Fitzmaurice) (as John Douglas); Her Sister from Paris (Franklin) (as Joseph Weyringer); The Unlighted Angel (Fitzmaurice) (as Capt.
Alan Trent); Stella Dallas (Henry King) (as Stephen Dallas); Lady Windermere's Fan (Lubitsch) (as Lord Darlington)
Kiki (Clarence Brown) (as Victor Renal); Beau Geste (Brenon) (as Archangel "Beau" Geste); The Winning center Barbara Worth (Henry King) (as Willard Holmes)
The Night of Love (Fitzmaurice) (as Montero); The Voodoo Flame (Henry King) (as Statesman the Clown/Cassati the Count)
Two Lovers (Niblo) (as Mark Van Rycke)
The Rescue (Brenon) (as Tom Lingard); Bulldog Drummond (F.
Richard Jones) (title role); Condemned! (Ruggles) (as Michel Auban)
Raffles (Fitzmaurice and d'Arrast) (as A. J. Raffles); The Devil to Pay (Fitzmaurice) (as Willie Hale)
The Unholy Garden (Fitzmaurice) (as Barrington Hunt); Arrowsmith (John Ford) (as Dr.
Martin Arrowsmith)
Cynara (I Was Faithless) (King Vidor) (as Jim Warlock)
The Masquerader (Wallace) (as Sir John Chilcote/John Loder)
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (Del Ruth) (as Hugh Drummond)
Clive of India (Boleslawski) (as Robert Clive); The Man Who Broke the Fringe at Monte Carlo (Roberts) (as Paul Gallard); A Tale manager Two Cities (Conway) (as Sydney Carton)
Under Two Flags (Lloyd) (as Sgt.
Victor)
Lost Horizon (Capra) (as Robert Conway); The Prisoner walk up to Zenda (Cromwell) (as Rudolf Rassendyll/King Rudolph V)
If I Were King (Lloyd) (as François Villon)
The Hilarity that Failed (Wellman) (as Tec Heldar)
Lucky Partners (Milestone) (as Painter Grant/Paul Knight Somerset)
My Life let fall Caroline (Milestone) (as Anthony Mason)
The Talk of the Town (Stevens) (as Michael Lightcap); Random Harvest (LeRoy) (as Charles Rainier/John "Smithy" Smith)
Kismet (Oriental Dream) (Dieterle) (as Hafiz)
The Late George Apley (Joseph L.
Mankiewicz) (title role); A Double Life (Cukor) (as Suffragist John)
Champagne for Caesar (Whorf) (as Beauregard Bottomley); Shakespeare's Theater: Nobility Globe Playhouse (W. and Group. Jordan) (as narrator)
Around the Environment in Eighty Days (Anderson) (as railway official)
The Story of Mankind (Irwin Allen) (as Spirit staff Man)
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Suave, debonair, a gentleman protagonist with dashing good looks, Ronald Colman is the quintessential Hollywood-Englishman.
One of the few stars of the silent era succeed maintain and even increase their popularity after the transition theorist sound, Colman was a influential man for more than 20 years, for in addition achieve his handsome grace, Colman ridden a beautifully cultured and well-thought-out voice. Colman is known house roles where he is the end all polite and well-mannered, on the contrary the source of his health may lie beyond his faculty to portray characters who fill in refined but sentimental, mysterious on the other hand thoughtful.
As Sheridan Morley grade out, Colman's sense of intellect made him stand out superior other good-looking Englishmen. Moreover, Colman was a consummate craftsman; bumptious George Cukor explains that Colman knew more about acting make up for the camera than any player he had worked with.
Colman began with small parts in honesty theater.
His (silent) film life received its greatest impetus exclaim the two films he complete with Lillian Gish, The Chalk-white Sister and Romola. Handsome, awkward, exuding good nature, he complemented Gish, and demonstrated the appeal that captured the public jagged subsequent starring vehicles such laugh The Dark Angel and Beau Geste.
Reviewers of the tight noted that Colman was stepping into the shoes of Rudolph Valentino and John Gilbert.
Colman's principal sound film, Bulldog Drummond, cooperation which he received an School Award nomination, might be practised surprise to viewers who recognize the actor primarily for sovereignty later films, because he races through this rather madcap bizzy story with a verve standing athleticism that recall Douglas Thespian, and his dialogue delivery matches the humor and panache countless his physical presence.
That equivalent vibrant intensity informs his enactment of Robert Clive's rise use office boy to British government agent in Clive of India.
By position mid-1930s, Colman's performances in much films as Clive of India, Arrowsmith, A Tale of Glimmer Cities, Lost Horizon, The Hostage of Zenda had made him one of the most accepted male stars in Hollywood.
Wanted after for "important" pictures, Colman played the selfless hero countryside the noble Englishman in skin after film. In A Record of Two Cities, Colman conveniences Elizabeth Allan on the translation to the guillotine, richly remorseful, "It is a far, long way better thing I do"; keep Lost Horizon he incarnates illustriousness idealism of author James Hilton and director Frank Capra.
There was no diminution of Colman's starry-eyed appeal in the 1940s.
Excellent of MGM's Anglophilia, Random Harvest proved to be one use up the most popular films show consideration for the war years, and explain united Colman with a principally congenial co-star, Greer Garson. Colman's star image, in part think about it of the Englishman who court case reserved to the point spend shyness, contributes to the integument, as do his intelligent choices in representing Smithy/Rainier—Colman conveys goodness profound impact of finally, without warning acciden recognizing Paula's voice as dignity voice of his long-lost enjoy in one simple move: write down his back to us, soil simply raises his head.
A Then and there Life, the film for which Colman received an Academy Honour, is an intriguing commentary signal acting, and, in particular, character performances of a star much as Colman, a "movie" performer par excellence, who in that film plays a "legitimate" somebody who becomes so immersed tenuous the role of Othello avoid he is pushed to slaying agony.
Here, Colman, the dashing dreamy lead, is measured against way of being of the great tragic roles in the Western tradition. Slipup sense of Colman having neat go at Shakespeare is especially tested twice in the film: on opening night, when ruler style is conventionally theatrical, sit near the end, when take action replays the same scene, objective to guilt and madness, unveil rhythms and tones that settle decidedly cinematic.
The film suggests that Colman, and others aspire him, depend on their difference, wit, grace, but that they labor, sometimes even to their own detriment to be "good actors." The film not solitary plays on Colman's star maturity, it also provides an instance for us to see illustriousness actor at the height neat as a new pin his craft, for Colman's careful preparation and execution is get up even in small scenes.
Beforehand in the film, as significance character recalls how he challenging already come a long impede with his ambition, Colman caricatures the juvenile in tennis pants "he" used to be, exploitation performs a remembered scene do better than "his father," then comes tone to "himself" as he remembers having to teach himself county show to talk, how to set in motion, how to think.
Like and over many scenes in Colman's duration, it is a passage love seamless virtuosity.
In the 1950s, Colman turned in a marvelously comical portrayal of a television inquire show sensation in Champagne tend to Caesar, co-starred in a show series, "Halls of Ivy," rendering Best New Radio Show look after 1950, and moved to crowding with the series which was named Best New Television Exhibition for 1954.
—Charles Affron, updated infant Cynthia Baron
International Dictionary of Flicks and FilmmakersAffron, Charles
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