Ronald Colman
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Colman in 1930
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| Born |
Ronald Charles Colman 9 February 1891 Richmond, Surrey, England, UK |
| Died | 19 May 1958 (aged 67) Santa Barbara, California, US |
| Cause of death | Emphysema |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1914–57 |
| Spouse(s) | Thelma Raye (1920–1934) Benita Hume (1938–1958; his death) |
| Children | 1 daughter |
Ronald Charles Colman (9 February 1891 – 19 May 1958) was an English actor, popular during the 1930s and 1940s. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for A Double Life (1947) and received nominations for Random Harvest (1942), Bulldog Drummond and Condemned (1929, nominated for his work in both). Colman starred in several classic films, including A Tale of Two Cities (1935), Lost Horizon (1937) and The Prisoner of Zenda (1937). He also played the starring role in the Technicolor classic Kismet (1944), with Marlene Dietrich, which film was nominated for four Academy Awards.
Colman has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to motion pictures and television making him one of fewer than a hundred male actors in Hollywood history to receive both an Academy Award and induction into the Walk of Fame.
He was born in Richmond, Surrey, England, as Ronald Charles Colman, the second son and fourth child of Charles Colman and his wife Marjory Read Fraser. His siblings included Eric, Edith and Marjorie. He was educated at boarding school in Littlehampton, where he discovered that he enjoyed acting, despite his shyness. He intended to study engineering at Cambridge, but his father's sudden death from pneumonia in 1907 made it financially impossible.
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