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Ronald Charles Colman was a Famous English actor, prominent during the years 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for A Double Life for the year 1947 and earned recommendations for Random Harvest for the year 1942, Bulldog Drummond for the year 1929 and Condemned for the year 1929. Colman was carpeted in numerous typical films, counting A Tale of Two Cities (1935), Lost Horizon (1937) and The Prisoner of Zenda (1937). Ronald Colman was proposed for four Academy Awards by the starring role performance in the Technicolor classic Kismet (1944), with Marlene Dietrich.

Colman was born as the second son and fourth child of Charles Colman and his wife Marjory Read Fraser at Richmond, Surrey, England. His siblings counting were three and they are Eric, Edith and Marjorie. He did his schooling at a boarding school in Little Hampton, where he invented that he relished acting, against his shyness. He expected to study Engineering at Cambridge, but due to his father's sudden death from pneumonia in 1907 made it financially impossible.

He became an outstanding aspirant actor and was a representative of the West Middlesex Dramatic Society from 1908 to 1909. He made his first presence on the competent stage in the year 1914.

Ronald Colman joined the London Scottish Regiment while working as a clerk at the British Steamship Company in the City of London. As a Territory Army Soldier and mobilized at the disruption of the Second World War, navigated the English Channel to France in the year 1914, to be a part of the fighting on the Western Front. Colman was severely injured by shrapnel in his ankle on 31^st October 1914. This gave him a tuck away for his acting career. As fallout he was cramped out of the British Army in the Year 1915.

Ronald Colman’s successful career path

Theatre

London Colesium è 19^th June 1916
Misleading Lay play è Court theatre in 1917
The Little Brother play è Ambassadors Theatre in February 1918
The Bubble è 1918
The Dauntless Three and The East is West è 1920
The Green Goddess è The William Archer’s play è Booth Theatre in New York in January 1921
The Nightcap è 39^th street Theatre in August 1921
La Tendresse è Empire Theatre (in New York city) in September 1922

Film

The White Sister è 1923
The Dark Angel è 1925
Stella Dallas è 1926
Beau Geste è 1927
The Winning of Barbara Worth è 1926
Raffles è 1930
The Masquerader è 1933
Clive of India and A Tale of Two Cities è 1935
Under Two Flags, The Prisoner of Zenda nd Lost Horizon è 1937
If I were King è 1938
Random Harvest and the Talk of the Town è 1942
A Double Life è 1948
Champagne of Caesar è 1950’s
Village of the Damned è at the time of Colman’s death

Fame è Ronald Colman was mentioned in many novels especially because of his charming and renowned voice. One of such novel is Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man
Radio and Television

The Jack Benny Program è Guest Appearances on radio
Own Radio Comedy è The Halls of Ivy from 1950 to 1952
The Goya Bequest è January 24^th 1951
Favorite Story è 1946 to 1949

Ronald Colman died due to acute emphysema in Santa Barbara, California on 19^th May 1958 at the age of 67. He had a girl daughter named Juliet Benita through his second wife Benita Hume born in 1944.

Awards winning seconds

Academy Award for Best Actor è nominated 3 times
Third Academy Awards è Received single nomination for the film’s Bulldog Drummond (1929) and Condemned (1929) and Random Harvest (1942)
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor è 1947
“Ronald Colman: a VERY Private Person” è Biography written by his daughter Juliet Benita Colman
Colman has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to