Ronald Colman — Actor (21)
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Beau Geste (1926) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Beau Geste
director: Herbert Brenon actor: Ronald Colman / Neil Hamilton …
other title: Blutsbrüderschaft
Brothers Beau, John and Digby Geste join the Foreign Legion, where they fall under the rule of tyrannical Sergeant Markoff. Beau and John are assigned to Fort Zinderneuf, where Markoff tries to break their spirit, aware of a dark family secret concerning a fabulous jewel one of them carries. As tensions rise, Arabs attack the fort and rivalries must be thrown aside in a desperate battle for life.
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The Unholy Garden (1931) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Unholy Garden
director: George Fitzmaurice actor: Ronald Colman / Fay Wray …
other title: El paraíso del mal
At a hotel in the middle of the Sahara, an old man and his daughter try to keep the location of a hidden treasure from a collection of thieves and criminals staying at the hotel who are determined to get it. A suave gentleman thief arrives at the hotel one day with his own plan to get the loot, but complications ensue when he begins to fall for the daughter.
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Raffles (1930) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Raffles
director: George Fitzmaurice / Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast actor: Ronald Colman / Kay Francis …
A distinguished English gentleman has a secret life--he is the notorious jewel thief the press has dubbed "The Amateur Cracksman". When he meets a woman and falls in love he decides to "retire" from that life, but an old friend comes to him with a predicament that entails him committing one last job.
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The Late George Apley (1947) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Late George Apley
director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz actor: Ronald Colman / Peggy Cummins …
other title: Schiavo del passato / Un mariage à Boston …
Bostonites George and Catherine Apley live a proper life in a social circle. However, their daughter Eleanor's love for Howard Boulton and their son John's union with Myrtle threatens their home.
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Kismet (1944) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Kismet
director: William Dieterle actor: Ronald Colman / Marlene Dietrich …
other title: El príncipe mendigo
Hafiz, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself.
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A Tale of Two Cities (1935) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
A Tale of Two Cities
director: Jack Conway actor: Ronald Colman / Elizabeth Allan …
other title: Le due città / Flucht aus Paris …
Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French doctor Alexandre Manette serves an 18-year imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, followed by his release to live in London with the daughter he has never met.
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Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (1934) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
director: Roy Del Ruth actor: Ronald Colman / Loretta Young …
other title: Bulldog Drummond schlägt zurück / Un aventurero audaz …
Bulldog Drummond finds himself immersed in another adventure when he stumbles upon a corpse in the mysterious London mansion of Prince Achmed. Enlisting the help of his old friend Algy and the beautiful Lola, Drummond uncovers a scheme to ship illegal cargo into the country. He must rely on his cunning to survive when the prince offers a reward for his capture.
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Bulldog Drummond (1929) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Bulldog Drummond
director: F. Richard Jones actor: Ronald Colman / Claud Allister …
other title: Cercasi avventura / El capitán Drummond …
Bulldog Drummond is a British WWI veteran who longs for some excitement after he returns to the humdrum existence of civilian life. He gets what he's looking for when a girl requests his help in freeing her uncle from a nursing home. She believes the home is just a front and that her uncle is really being held captive while the culprits try to extort his fortune from him.
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The Prisoner of Zenda (1937) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Prisoner of Zenda
director: John Cromwell actor: Ronald Colman / Madeleine Carroll …
other title: Il prigioniero di Zenda / Der Gefangene von Zenda …
A kingdom's ascending heir, marked for assassination, switches identities with a lookalike, who takes his place at the coronation. When the real king is kidnapped, his followers try to find him, while the stand-in falls in love with the king's intended bride, the beautiful Princess Flavia.
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The Talk of the Town (1942) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Talk of the Town
director: George Stevens actor: Cary Grant / Jean Arthur …
other title: Un evaso ha bussato alla porta / Zeuge der Anklage …
Hilarity ensues when a falsely accused fugitive from justice hides at the house of his childhood friend, which she has recently rented to a high-principled law teacher.
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The Magic Flame (1927) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Magic Flame
director: Henry King actor: Ronald Colman / Vilma Banky …
other title: La llama mágica / La Flamme d'amour …
The Magic Flame (1927) is a feature film directed by Henry King, produced by Samuel Goldwyn, and based on the play Konig Harlekin by Rudolph Lothar. George Barnes was nominated at the 1st Academy Awards for Best Cinematography. The film promoted itself as the Romeo and Juliet of the circus upon its release.
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Arrowsmith (1931) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Arrowsmith
director: John Ford actor: Ronald Colman / Helen Hayes …
other title: Un popolo muore / El doctor Arrowsmith …
A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine.
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Champagne for Caesar (1950) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Champagne for Caesar
director: Richard Whorf actor: Ronald Colman / Celeste Holm …
other title: Botta senza risposta / Champaña para César
When jobless genius Beauregard Bottomley interviews with Burnbridge Waters for a position at Waters' soap company, the owner rudely turns Bottomley down. As revenge, Bottomley enters a TV quiz show that Waters' company sponsors, with the goal of winning until he bankrupts the businessman. When Bottomley keeps acing the questions, becoming a media sensation, Waters desperately calls on vixen Flame O'Neal to uncover Bottomley's area of weakness.
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Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Around the World in Eighty Days
director: Michael Anderson actor: David Niven / Andy Devine …
other title: Il giro del mondo in 80 giorni / Jorden rundt i 80 dage …
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.
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Lost Horizon (1937) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Lost Horizon
director: Frank Capra actor: Ronald Colman / Jane Wyatt …
other title: Orizzonte perduto / Horizonte Perdido …
British diplomat Robert Conway and a small group of civilians crash land in the Himalayas, and are rescued by the people of the mysterious, Eden-like valley of Shangri-la. Protected by the mountains from the world outside, where the clouds of World War II are gathering, Shangri-la provides a seductive escape for the world-weary Conway.