Arrowsmith 1931  N/R, 108 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Ford
Cast: Ronald Colman, Helen Hayes, A.E. Anson, Myrna Loy, Claude King, Beulah Bondi, Russell Hopton, John Qualen, Richard Bennett, DeWitt Jennings
When Dr. Martin Arrowsmith (Ronald Colman) changes his career from physician to research scientist, everything in his life is affected. In true Sinclair Lewis style, the author reveals the commercial aspect of medicine and how quickly money and social status lead to tragedy for those who get wrapped up in the trappings. The film was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
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Beau Geste 1926  N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Adventure / Action / Drama
Director: Herbert Brenon
Cast: Ronald Colman, Neil Hamilton, Ralph Forbes, Alice Joyce, Mary Brian, Noah Beery, Norman Trevor, William Powell, George Regas, Bernard Siegel, Victor McLaglen, Donald Stuart, Ram Singh, Redmond Finlay, Paul McAllister
After his aunt, Lady Brandon (Alice Joyce) steals valuable jewelry, Beau Geste (Ronald Colman) takes the blame and then flees the country with his brothers, Digby (Neil Hamilton) and John (Ralph Forbes). They join the French Foreign Legion, and Beau and John end up under the leadership of brutal Sergeant Lejaune (Noah Beery) who, unbeknownst to the brothers, is aware that Beau is wanted by the police. Lejaune plots to get the jewels that are rumored to be in Beau's possession, but Arab forces attack, and Beau is killed. More tragedies ensue before John is the sole surviving brother, and he heads home to his fiancee Isobel (Mary Brian). An exellent silent film.
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Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back 1934  N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Roy Del Ruth
Cast: Ronald Colman, Loretta Young, Warner Oland, Charles Butterworth, Una Merkel, C. Aubrey Smith, E.E. Clive, Mischa Auer, Halliwell Hobbes, Creighton Hale
Retired British military officer Bulldog Drummond (Ronald Colman) uncovers the deception of a woman pretending to be an heiress.
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Champagne for Caesar 1950 N/R, 99 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Richard Whorf
Cast: Ronald Colman, Celeste Holm, Vincent Price, Barbara Britton, Art Linkletter, Byron Foulger, Mel Blanc, Peter Brocco, Douglas Evans, John Eldredge
Professor Beauregard Bottomley (Ronald Colman) makes a fortune as a contestant on a quiz show while sponsors stop at almost nothing to break his winning streak.
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A Double Life 1947 N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: George Cukor
Cast: Ronald Colman, Signe Hasso, Edmond O'Brien, Shelley Winters, Ray Collins, Philip Loeb, Millard Mitchell, Joe Sawyer, Whit Bissell, Charles La Torre
Shakespearean actor Tony John (Ronald Colman) imitates his roles off-stage. In this case, while playing Othello, he murders a waitress (Shelley Winters). Finally, completely insane, he almost murders Desdemona (Signe Hasso) on stage. Colman won a Best Actor Oscar for this powerful performance.
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If I Were King 1938 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Frank Lloyd
Cast: Ronald Colman, Basil Rathbone, Frances Dee, Ellen Drew, Henry Wilcoxon, Sidney Toler, Paul Harvey, Heather Thatcher, Stanley Ridges, Walter Kingsford
Poet Francois Villon (Ronald Colman) and Louis XI (Basil Rathbone) match wits as Louis grants Villon one week as a grand constable before enacting his sentence of death.
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Kismet 1944  N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Adventure / Fantasy
aka: Oriental Dream
Director: William Dieterle
Cast: Ronald Colman, Marlene Dietrich, Edward Arnold, Florence Bates, James Craig, Joy Page, Harry Davenport, Hugh Herbert, Hobart Cavanaugh, Robert Warwick, Morris Ankrum, Harry Cording, Yvonne De Carlo, Victor Kilian, Pedro de Cordoba
In this Arabian Nights tale, the Baghdad "King of Beggars" Hafiz (Ronald Colman) disguises himself as a prince and romances the queen of the castle, Jamilla (Marlene Dietrich). Meanwhile, his daughter Marsinah (Joy Page) is interested in a gardener who is really the Caliph (James Craig). By story's end, fate steps in–Hafiz finds true love with Jamilla, and Caliph and Marsinah live happily ever after. Remade in 1955 as a musical.
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The Late George Apley 1947 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast: Ronald Colman, Peggy Cummins, Vanessa Brown, Richard Haydn, Charles Russell, Richard Ney, Mildred Natwick, Edna Best, Paul Harvey, Nydia Westman
Ronald Colman is excellent in his portrayal of the stuffy, autocratic Bostonian who is determined to rule his roost and maintain his family's social status.
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The Light That Failed 1939 N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William A. Wellman
Cast: Ronald Colman, Walter Huston, Muriel Angelus, Ida Lupino, Dudley Digges, Ernest Cossart, Pedro de Cordoba, Halliwell Hobbes, Francis McDonald, George Chandler
Based on the Rudyard Kipling story, this film is about a painter, Dick Heldor (Ronald Colman), who races to finish his masterpiece–a portrait of Bessie Broke (Ida Lupino)–before blindness overtakes him.
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 Lost Horizon 1937  N/R, 138 min.
Genre: Fantasy / Adventure / Drama / Mystery
Director: Frank Capra
Cast: Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, Edward Everett Horton, Sam Jaffe, John Howard, Thomas Mitchell, Margo, Isabel Jewell, H.B. Warner, George Chan, David Torrence, Carl Stockdale, Hugh Buckler, Wyrley Birch, Darby Clark
British diplomat Robert Conway (Ronald Colman) and his brother George (John Howard) help British citizens–Henry Bernard (Thomas Mitchell), Gloria (Isabel Jewell), and "Lovey" Lovett (Edward Everett Horton)–evacuate from China during a revolution. Their plane crashes in Tibet, and a rescue team, led by Chang (H.B. Warner), leads them to Shangri-La where they discover a tranquility that they have never before experienced. This wonderful city is ruled by an aging 200 year-old High Lama (Sam Jaffe) who is impressed with Robert and wants him to succeed him after his death. Now, Robert is torn between leaving for England or remaining in Shangri-La with his new-found love Sondra (Jane Wyatt). A winner of two Academy Awards (Best Art Direction and Film Editing), it also received five nominations, including Best Picture and Supporting Actor (Warner).
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The Masquerader 1933 N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Wallace
Cast: Ronald Colman, Elissa Landi, Halliwell Hobbes, Helen Jerome Eddy, Juliette Compton, David Torrence, Creighton Hale, Eric Wilton, C. Montague Shaw, Claude King
Ronald Colman takes on two roles in this film: a drug addict member of Parliament and his look-alike journalist cousin who takes his place.
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 The Prisoner of Zenda 1937 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama / Romance
Director: John Cromwell
Cast: Ronald Colman, Madeleine Carroll, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Mary Astor, C. Aubrey Smith, Raymond Massey, David Niven, Montagu Love, Byron Foulger, Spencer Charters, Wilhelm von Brincken, Philip Sleeman, Eleanor Wesselhoeft, Charles Halton, Torben Meyer
This is an excellent version of the classic story of an Englishman Rudolph Rassendyll (Ronald Colman) who travels to a mythical European country where he is a distant cousin of Prince Rudolf V (also played by Colman). The cousins greatly resemble each other, and Captain Fritz von Tarlenheim (David Niven) and Colonel Zapt (C. Aubrey Smith) take Rudolph to the Prince's hunting lodge where they meet. The next day, it is discovered that the Prince has been kidnapped, and now Rudolph becomes involved in palace intrigue and romance–with the Prince's fiancee Princess Flavia (Madeleine Carroll)–when he is asked to impersonate the Prince.
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Raffles 1930 N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Harry d'Abbadie D'Arrast
Cast: Ronald Colman, Kay Francis, Bramwell Fletcher, Frances Dade, David Torrence, Alison Skipworth, John Rogers, Wilson Benge, Virginia Bruce
Based on E.W. Hornung's story of an ex-policeman (Ronald Colman) who finds thievery more profitable than that of his former profession, this is an entertaining film.
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Random Harvest 1942 N/R, 125 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: Ronald Colman, Greer Garson, Philip Dorn, Susan Peters, Henry Travers, Reginald Owen, Rhys Williams, Una O'Connor, Alan Napier, Elisabeth Risdon
Star-crossed lovers (Ronald Colman and Greer Garson) fall in love and marry only to discover that he had amnesia and has now regained his memory–but not of recent events, including his wife. But she remains devoted to him hoping that he will resume his love for her. An excellent film which received seven Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Actor (Colman), Supporting Actress (Susan Peters) and Director.
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Stella Dallas 1925 N/R, 108 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Henry King
Cast: Belle Bennett, Ronald Colman, Lois Moran, Alice Joyce, Jean Hersholt, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Beatrix Pryor, Vera Lewis, Maurice Murphy, Jack Murphy
Having given up legal rights to her daughter, Laurel (Lois Moran), Stella (Belle Bennett) must stay on the sidelines and watch her daughter from afar.
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The Story of Mankind 1957  N/R, 99 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Irwin Allen
Cast: Ronald Colman, Hedy Lamarr, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Virginia Mayo, Cedric Hardwicke, Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Charles Coburn
This film is a mini-view of moments in the history of the world. Filled with stars, events are presented in scenes where the actors are there for the impact of recognizing who they are as they represent characters of history.
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A Tale of Two Cities 1935 N/R, 121 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jack Conway
Cast: Ronald Colman, Elizabeth Allan, Edna May Oliver, Reginald Owen, Basil Rathbone, Blanche Yurka, Henry B. Walthall, Donald Woods, Walter Catlett, Fritz Leiber, H.B. Warner, Mitchell Lewis, Claude Gillingwater, Billy Bevan, Lucille La Verne
This is the best film version of Charles Dickens' story of love and death during the Reign of Terror following the French Revolution. Ronald Colman takes on the role of weary London lawyer Sydney Carton who selflessly saves Charles Darnay (Donald Woods) from the guillotine by taking his place and allowing him to return to Lucie (Elizabeth Allan)–the woman who both men love. An Academy Award nomination was received for Best Picture.
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The Talk of the Town 1942 N/R, 118 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: George Stevens
Cast: Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Ronald Colman, Edgar Buchanan, Glenda Farrell, Charles Dingle, Emma Dunn, Rex Ingram, Leonid Kinskey, Tom Tyler
Nora Shelley (Jean Arthur) convinces attorney Michael Lightrap (Ronald Colman) to defend Leopold Dilg (Cary Grant) who is a murder suspect in this excellent comedy about civil rights. There were seven Academy Award nominations, one of which was for Best Picture.
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Unholy Garden 1931 N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Action
Director: George Fitzmaurice
Cast: Ronald Colman, Fay Wray, Estelle Taylor, Tully Marshall, Warren Hymer, Henry Armetta, Mischa Auer, Ullrich Haupt, Lawrence Grant, Henry Kolker
Professional thief Barrington Hunt (Ronald Colman) gets mixed up in intrigue in Algeria where he plots to pit one thief against the other.
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| Oscar: Best Actor for A Double Life (1947) |
1. Arrowsmith (1931)
2. Beau Geste (1926)
3. Bulldog Drummond (1929)
4. Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (1934)
5. Champagne for Caesar (1950)
6. Condemned (1929)
7. Cynara (1932)
8. The Dark Angel (1925)
9. The Devil to Pay (1930)
10. A Double Life (1947)
11. If I Were King (1938)
12. Kismet (1944)
aka: Oriental Dream
13. The Late George Apley (1947)
14. The Light That Failed (1939)
15. Lost Horizon (1937)
16. The Masquerader (1933)
17. The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
18. Raffles (1930)
19. Random Harvest (1942)
20. Stella Dallas (1925)
21. The Story of Mankind (1957)
22. A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
23. The Talk of the Town (1942)
24. Unholy Garden (1931)
25. The Winning of Barbara Worth (1926)
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