Biography ronald colman
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COLMAN, Ronald Charles (1891-1958), actor, was born in Richmond, Surrey, on 9th February, 1891, the second son and fourth child in the family of two sons and three daughters of Charles Colman, a silk merchant, and his wife, Marjory Read Fraser. He was educated at a boarding-school in Littlehampton, Sussex, but had to leave abruptly at the age of sixteen for financial reasons when his father died suddenly of pneumonia. He started work as a clerk in the British Steamship Company in the City, and he joined the London Scottish regiment as a territorial soldier in 1909. Colman's regiment was the first of the territorials to serve with the regular army in France after the outbreak of the First World War. He was severely wounded bygd shrapnel in the leg fighting in the trenches in France at the Battle of Messines. Duly decorated, he was invalided out of the army in 1915. Feeling at a bit of a loss, Colman began to take up the acting career which had fascinated him since amateur skådespel
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Ronald Colman Was the Original Hollywood 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. Born in Richmond, Surrey, England in 1891, it was his expressed desire, after active service in World War I, to pursue a Hollywood career.
Colman drew on a rich tradition of writing about the gentleman from Samuel Richardson to Lord Chesterfield to Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson. After becoming a star, Colman stocked their books in his impressive Hollywood library and perfected a persona that was the outcome of more than 200 years of writing about the gentleman, a figure who dominated the screen until the advent of the antiheroes in the 1940s and 1950s, when leading men such as Humphrey B
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Ronald Colman
Ronald Charles Colman | |
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Colman in c. 1930s | |
| Born | 9 February 1891 |
| Died | 19 May 1958 |
Ronald Charles Colman (9 February 1891 – 19 May 1958) was an English actor. He won an Academy Award for his role in A Double Life.
Biography
[change | change source]Colman was born on 9 February 1891 in Richmond, Surrey, England. He studied at Cambridge University.
Colman was married to Thelma Raye from 1920 until they divorced in 1934. Then he was married to Benita Hume from 1938 until his death in 1958. They had one daughter. Colman died on 19 May 1958 in Santa Barbara, California from emphysema, aged 67.