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Ronald Colman
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Actor Born: February 9, 1891 in Richmond, Surrey, England, UK Death: May 19, 1958 in Santa Barbara, CA Biography:Born to middle-class British parents (his father was an import merchant), actor "Ronald Colman" was raised to be as much a gentleman as any "high born" Englishman, and strove to maintain that standard both on and off screen all his life. Acting was merely a hobby to Colman while he attended the Hadley School at Littlehampton, Sussex, but after a few years' drudgery as a bookkeeper with the British Steamship Company, the theatre seemed a more alluring (if not more lucrative) life's goal. After a brief service in WWI (during which he was wounded and then discharged), Colman eventually went into acting full-time, making his debut in a tiny role in the play The Maharanee of Arakan (1916). A subsequent better role in a production of "Damaged Goods" led to Colman's being hired to star in a two-reel film drama, "The Live Wire". The film was never released, which is why Colman's "official" debut is often... Full Biography
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