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Ronald Charles Colman (9 February 1891 – 19 May 1958) was an English-born actor, starting his career in theatre and silent film in his native country, then emigrating to the United States where he had a highly successful Hollywood film career. He starred in silent films and successfully transitioned to sound, aided by a distinctive, pleasing ...
Ronald Colman. Actor: Bulldog Drummond. 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 discovered amateur theatre.
Ronald Colman (born February 9, 1891, Richmond, Surrey, England—died May 19, 1958, Santa Barbara, California, U.S.) was a Hollywood film actor whose screen image embodied the archetypal English gentleman.
In Bulldog Drummond (1929), silent-film star Ronald Colman, playing an amateur detective in his first talkie, in tweeds and trench coat, virtually defined Hollywood’s idea of the suave and rugged gentleman hero. Before Clark Gable, Cary Grant, or Gary Cooper, Colman showed a generation of actors how to perform for the camera and microphone.
Ronald Colman was an Academy Award-winning British actor, known for his roles in movies like ‘A Double Life’, ‘Random Harvest’, ‘Bulldog Drummond’, and ‘Condemned.’.
In 1948, Colman won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in A Double Life. The filmography below lists all of Colman's films and is sub-divided into four sections: His British silent films, his American silents, his sound films, and a listing of short films in which he appeared as himself.
Ronald Colman. Actor: Bulldog Drummond. 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 discovered amateur theatre.
In an unprecedented career, Ronald Colman starred in high adventure, light comedy, delicate romance and intense drama. His acting was tempered by a lighthearted nature, an introspective sadness of the eyes, and the indefinable fragility of an exquisitely modulated voice.
Ronald Colman was the most famous male movie star in Hollywood in the 1930s. The possessor of one of the most beautiful speaking voices ever to have been heard on film, his career covered the theatre, silent films, talking pictures, radio and TV.
Suave, debonair, a gentleman hero with dashing good looks, Ronald Colman is the quintessential Hollywood-Englishman. One of the few stars of the silent era to maintain and even increase their popularity after the transition to sound, Colman was a leading man for more than 20 years, for in addition to his handsome grace, Colman possessed a ...