Ronald Colman (February 9, 1891 – May 19, 1958) was an English actor. Innate within Richmond, Surrey, England, Colman discovered acting piece at school. He meant to attend Cambridge University to study engineering, but his father's demise put an prevent thereto. He served inside World War I, where he was seriously maimed at a Battle of Messines. As a result a war, he began to pop up on the London stage. Within 1922, he appeared on Broadway in the hit play La Tendresse.

Director Henry King saw him, and cast him in the 1923 film The White Sister, opposite Lillian Gish. He became the super popular silent film star in each romantic & risky venture films. He with success produce a transition to talking picture because of his elegant & heavy speaking voice.

His number one major talking picture profits was inside 1930, when he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for two roles — Condemned and Bulldog Drummond. He appeared in The Prisoner of Zenda and Lost Horizon in 1937, If I Were King in 1938, and The Talk of the Town (1941). He won a Oscar in 1948 for A Double Life.

Beginning inside 1945, Colman made numbers of guest appearances on The Jack Benny Program on radio, alongside his wife, Benita Hume. Their comedy operate when Benny's next-door neighbors led to their have radio comedy, The Halls of Ivy from 1950 to 1952;, the series transitioned to television in 1954. It got of these girl, Juliet.

Oscar & Nominations 1948 Won A Double Life 1943 Nominated Random Harvest 1930 Nominated Bulldog Drummond 1930 Nominated Condemned

He has ii stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for motion pictures at 6801 Hollywood Blvd. & 1 for television at 1625 Vine Street.

Ronald Colman died in May 19, 1958 from a lung illness around Santa Barbara, California and was interred in the Santa Barbara Cemetery.