Mound Street, to which he added a tennis court on top of a three-car garage which was cut out of the hillside in 1927
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Ronald Colman
Ronald Charles Colman was an English actor who started his career in theatre and silent film in his native country, then emigrated to the United States, where he had a highly successful Hollywood film career. Colman starred in silent films and successfully transitioned to sound, aided by his distinctive, pleasing voice. He was most popular during the 1930s and 1940s. Colman received Oscar nominati…
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entertainment · British and American actor (1891–1958) · stage actor · film actor · screenwriter · television actor · actor · also Ronald Colman, Ronald Charles Colman, Colman
Born 9 February 1891 · Died 19 May 1958 · Q181786
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s School and to have taken singing lessons for one year at Guildhall School of Music, but his name is not in the student registers of either school. References Bibliography Colman, Juliet Benita. Ronald Colman. A Very Private Person. New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1975. Fowler, Simon, Spencer, William, Tamblin, Stuart. Army Service Records of the First World War (Public Record Office Readers Guide No. 19). London: PRO Publications, 1997 Parker, John, editor, Who
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“had the decidedly unpleasant experience of being buried alive by the explosion of a shell”
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Colman's Oscar statuette was sold at auction by Christie's for US$174,500
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1975· 1 entry
“s School and to have taken singing lessons for one year at Guildhall School of Music, but his name is not in the student registers of either school. References Bibliography Colman, Juliet Benita. Ronald Colman. A Very Private Person. New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1975. Fowler, Simon, Spencer, William, Tamblin, Stuart. Army Service Records of the First World War (Public Record Office Readers Guide No. 19). London: PRO Publications, 1997 Parker, John, editor, Who”
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1958· 1 entry
Died 1958-05-19.
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1957· 1 entry
Colman underwent surgery for a lung infection, and began suffering from ill health afterwards
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1951· 1 entry
Wrote two episodes for the radio show The Halls of Ivy, "The Goya Bequest" and "Halloween"
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1948· 2 entries
Awarded Academy Award for Best Actor for A Double Life (1948).
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for A Double Life (1948).
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1947· 1 entry
Won an Academy Award for Best Actor and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for his performance in the film A Double Life
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1945· 1 entry
Colman made many guest appearances on The Jack Benny Program on radio, alongside his second wife, stage and screen actress Benita Hume, whom he married in 1938
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1933· 1 entry
“, Irish Independent, 25 November 1933, p. 19.”
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1930· 2 entries
When he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performances in Condemned and Bulldog Drummond
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Clive of India and A Tale of Two Cities in 1935, Under Two Flags in 1936, The Prisoner of Zenda and Lost Horizon in 1937, If I Were King in 1938, and Random Harvest and The Talk of the Town in 1942
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1928· 1 entry
Colman was made an honorary life member of the London Scottish
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1922· 1 entry
When he was looking for work in New York, he wrote a script called "The Amazing Experiment"
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1918· 1 entry
Toured the UK as David Goldsmith in The Bubble and as Wilfred Carpenter in The Live Wire
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1915· 1 entry
“No longer fit physically for war service”
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1912· 1 entry
While on the Isle of Wight, Colman and some friends formed the Mad Medicos, who performed under his direction
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1911· 2 entries
Appeared in the farcical comedy Jane and in the next year as Samson Quayle in A Tight Corner
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And 1914, the family is recorded at 27 Denbigh Road
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1906· 1 entry
Sold his valuable stamp collection, which included a Twelve Penny Black, for nearly £2000 (today about £160,000)
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1899· 1 entry
Which was averted, the firm was liquidated in 1904
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1892· 1 entry
By Sir Squire Bancroft and performed mainly at the King's Hall Theatre on the premises of the National Sporting Club in Covent Garden
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1891· 1 entry
Born 1891-02-09.
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1890· 1 entry
Was Secretary of the committee which organised the London Philatelic Exhibition 1890
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1885· 1 entry
And in 1891 the partnership between Charles Colman and Charles Alexandre de Sélincourt was dissolved by mutual consent
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1880· 1 entry
Joined his father's firm Selincourt, Colman and Son which had been founded in 1857
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