Ronald Colman (February 9 1891 - May 19 1958) was an Oscar and Golden Globe-winning English actor.

Born Richmond, Surrey, England on February 9, 1891. Height 5 feet 11 inches; dark brown hair and eyes; weight 158 pounds. Father: Charles Colman, not in the business. Educated at Littlehampton, Sussex, England. Hobbies: Tennis, motoring, reading and swiming. He was in the British Army during World War I. Two years on stage in England, UK

British leading man of primarily American films, one of the great stars of the Golden Age. Raised in Ealing, the son of a successful silk merchant, he attended boarding school in Sussex, where he first discovered amateur theatre. He intended to attend Cambridge and become an engineer, but his father's death cost him the financil support necessary. He joined the London Scottish Regionals and at the outbreak of World War I was sent to France. Seriously wounded at the battle of Messines, he was invalided out of service scarcely two months after shipping out for France. Upon his recovery, tried to enter the consular service, but a chance encounter got him a small role in a London play. He dropped other plans and concentrated on the theatre and was rewarded with a succession of increasingly prominent parts. He made extra money appearing in a few minor films, and in 1920 set out for New York in hopes of finding greater fortune there than in war- depressed England. After two years of impoverishment, he was cast in a Broadway hit, La Tendresse. Director 'Henry King' spotted him in the show and cast him as Lillian Gish's leading man in his film White Sister, The (1923). His success in the film led to a contract with Samuel Goldwyn, and career as a Hollywood leading man was underway. He became a vastly popular star of silent films, in romances as well as adventure films. With the coming of sound, his extraordinarily beautiful speaking voice made him even more important to the film industry. He played sophisticated thoughtful characters of integrity with enormous aplomb, and swashbuckled expertly when called to do so in films like Prisoner of Zenda, The (1937). A decade later he received an Academy Award for his splendid portrayal of a tormented actor in Double Life, A (1947). Much of his later career was devoted to 'The Halls of Ivy', a radio show that later was transferred to television. He continued to work until nearly the end of his life, which came in 1958 after a brief lung illness. He was survived by his second wife, actress Benita Hume, and their daughter Juliet.