Ronald Colman

1891-1958

Biography: life and films

Ronald Colman was an English actor. He was born in Richmond, Surrey, England on 9th February 1891 and died in Santa Barbara, California, USA on 19th May 1958, aged 67.

His best films as an actor include Sidney Franklin's comedy Her Night of Romance (1924), Herbert Brenon's Beau Geste (1926), Frank Capra's Lost Horizon (1937), George Stevens's comedy-thriller The Talk of the Town (1942) and George Cukor's crime-thriller A Double Life (1947).

Ronald Colman appeared in 59 films.

He has most frequently worked with the following directors: George Fitzmaurice (9 films), Henry King (5), Walter West (2), Sidney Franklin (2), Lewis Milestone (2), Herbert Brenon (2), Frank Lloyd (2) and Cecil M. Hepworth (2).

His most frequent genres include: drama (34 films), romance (12), comedy (10), comedy-romance (5), history (4), comedy-drama (4), War (4), Thriller (4), Fantasy (3), crime-thriller (2) and Documentary (2).

Our average rating for Ronald Colman over all films is: 2.8

Filmography

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A Daughter of Eve (1919) [a]

Sheba (1919) [a]

Snow in the Desert (1919) [a]

The Toilers (1919) [a]

A Son of David (1920) [a]

Anna the Adventuress (1920) [a]

The Black Spider (1920) [a]

Handcuffs or Kisses (1921) [a]

The Eternal City (1923) [a]

The White Sister (1923) [a]

Her Night of Romance (1924) [a]

Romola (1924) [a]

Tarnish (1924) [a]

Twenty Dollars a Week (1924) [a]

A Thief in Paradise (1925) [a]

Her Sister from Paris (1925) [a]

His Supreme Moment (1925) [a]

Lady Windermere's Fan (1925) [a]

Stella Dallas (1925) [a]

The Dark Angel (1925) [a]

The Sporting Venus (1925) [a]

Beau Geste (1926) [a]

Kiki (1926) [a]

The Winning of Barbara Worth (1926) [a]

The Magic Flame (1927) [a]

The Night of Love (1927) [a]

Two Lovers (1928) [a]

Bulldog Drummond (1929) [a]

Condemned (1929) [a]

The Rescue (1929) [a]

Raffles (1930) [a]

The Devil to Pay! (1930) [a]

Arrowsmith (1931) [a]

The Unholy Garden (1931) [a]

Cynara (1932) [a]

The Masquerader (1933) [a]

Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (1934) [a]

A Tale of Two Cities (1935) [a]

Clive of India (1935) [a]

The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo (1935) [a]

Under Two Flags (1936) [a]

Lost Horizon (1937) [a]

The Prisoner of Zenda (1937) [a]

If I Were King (1938) [a]

The Light That Failed (1939) [a]

Lucky Partners (1940) [a]

My Life with Caroline (1941) [a]

Random Harvest (1942) [a]

The Talk of the Town (1942) [a]

Kismet (1944) [a]

A Double Life (1947) [a]

The Late George Apley (1947) [a]

Champagne for Caesar (1950) [a]

Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) [a]

The Story of Mankind (1957) [a]

That's Entertainment, Part II (1976) [a]

Entertaining the Troops (1994) [a]



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