Personal Info
Ronald Charles Colman
Ronald Colman
Acting
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
Filmography
Movies
Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
as Self (archive footage)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
as Self (archive footage)
That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
The Story of Mankind
as The Spirit of Man
Around the World in 80 Days
as Railway Official
Champagne for Caesar
as Beauregard Bottomley
The Art Director
as Self - from 'Late George Apley' (archive footage) (uncredited)
A Double Life
as Anthony John
The Late George Apley
as George Apley
Kismet
as Hafiz
