Want to know the best Ronald Colman movies? How about the worst Ronald Colman movies? Curious about Ronald Colman’s box office grosses or which Ronald Colman movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Ronald Colman movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which got the worst reviews? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.
Ronald Colman (1891-1958) was an English Oscar® winning actor who was a major star from the 1920s to the 1940s. Colman was one of the few top silent actors to become an even bigger “talkie” star. His IMDb page shows 62 acting credits from 1917-1957. This page ranks 36 Ronald Colman movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, shorts, cameos, and some of his silent movies were not included in the rankings.
Drivel part of the page: This Colman page was a fairly new request from Laurent. So how did it get to the top of the requests? Well….part of our movie research involves going to not so close libraries. Our last trip to the College of William and Mary’s library ended up with us borrowing 13 movie books. Well we are heading back there in a couple of weeks….so those books will be going back. Since we are about to lose those books…those book subjects need their UMR (Ultimate Movie Rankings) movie pages to be finished. So that meant we had to research and publish this Ronald Colman page. It also means Søren and Flora‘s request for Joan Fontaine will be coming soon.
Ronald Colman Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
- Sort Ronald Colman movies by co-stars of his movies.
- Sort Ronald Colman movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Ronald Colman movies by domestic yearly box office rank
- Sort Ronald Colman movies how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations each Ronald Colman movie received and how many Oscar® wins each Ronald Colman movie won.
- Sort Ronald Colman movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
Stats and Possibly Interesting Things From The Above Ronald Colmanl Table
- Nineteen Ronald Colman movies crossed the magical $100 million domestic gross mark. That is a percentage of 52.78% of his movies listed. Random Harvest (1942) was his biggest box office hit.
- An average Ronald Colman movie grossed $111.20 million in adjusted box office gross.
- Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter. 29 Ronald Colman movies are rated as good movies…or 80.55% of his movies. Random Harvest (1942) is his highest rated movie while The Story of Mankind (1957) is his lowest rated movie.
- Thirteen Ronald Colman movies received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 36.11% of his movies.
- Two Ronald Colman movie won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 5.55% of his movies.
- An average Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score is 39.86. 29 Ronald Colman movies scored higher that average….or 80.55 of his movies. Random Harvest (1942) got the the highest UMR Score while The Story of Mankind (1957) got the lowest UMR Score.
Possibly Interesting Facts About Ronald Colman
1. Ronald Charles Colman was born in Richmond, Surrey, England in 1891.
2. Ronald Colman joined the London Scottish Regiment and was seriously wounded while serving at the Western Front during World War I. The injury to his ankle resulted in a life long limp that Colman tried hide throughout the rest of his acting career. Other actors that saw service with the London Scottish Regiment during World War 1 included: Claude Rains, Herbert Marshall, Cedric Hardwicke and Basil Rathbone.
3. Ronald Colman’s path to stardom: 1. Made professional stage in 1914. 2. Appeared in a few English silent films from 1917 to 1919. 3. Headed to America in 1920. 4. Appeared in a few Hollywood silent films in 1920 and 1923. 5. Lillian Gish requested Colman for her 1923 movie The White Sister. 6. Colman became of the biggest silent movie stars from 1923 to 1928. 7. Talkies arrived…and Coleman’s voice helped him become an even bigger star in the 1930s and 1940s.
4. Ronald Colman was nominated for 4 Academy Awards®: 1929’s Bulldog Drummond, 1929’s Condemned, 1942’s Random Harvest and 1947’s A Double Life. He won the Best Actor Oscar® for A Double Life
5. Ronald Colman got nominated and won 1 Golden Globe® award: 1947’s A Double Life.
6. Ronald Colman was married 2 times. His first marriage was Thelma Raye from 1920 to 1934. His second marriage was to Benita Hume from 1938 until his death in 1958. They had one daughter, Juliet Benita Colman.
7. Ronald Colman appeared in dual roles many times throughout his career. The most famous: If I Were King (1938), Random Harvest (1942), A Double Life (1947) and The Prisoner of Zenda (1937).
8. Check out Ronald Colman‘s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
Want more stats? Well here are adjusted worldwide box office grosses on 8 Ronald Colman Movies
- Bulldog Drummond (1929) $120.30 million adjusted worldwide gross
- Kismet (1944) $334.30 million adjusted worldwide gross
- Lucky Partners (1940) $119.70 million adjusted worldwide gross
- My Life With Caroline (1941) $81.50 million adjusted worldwide gross
- Random Harvest (1942) $678.50 million adjusted worldwide gross
- The Story of Mankind (1957) $17.50 million adjusted worldwide gross
- A Tale Of Two Cities, A (1935) $230.50 million adjusted worldwide gross
- The Talk of the Town, The (1942) $126.40 million adjusted worldwide gross
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Two of his best films have been omitted “ goodbye Mr Chips “ and “ The 39 Steps”
Ray h b.
Hey Ray….thanks for stopping by. Goodbye Mr. Chips and The 39 Steps starred Robert Donat. I think many people have confused those two English actors. Those movies are ranked in many places on UMR…but both are on our Robert Donat page. https://www.ultimatemovierankings.com/robert-donat-movies/
Ronald Colman is quite simply the greatest movie actor of all time. In his talking movies he continued to utilized many of the silent movies acting techniques, particularly with his face and eyes. He was a consummate professional and makes today’s actors and acting styles look amateurish in comparison. No modern actor could give Lost Horizon or Prisoner of Zenda the panache that Colman cultivated.
Hey Trout….great comment on Ronald Colman. I agree with you 100% about modern actors struggling to match his panache. Glad a Colman fan found our Ronald tribute page. Good stuff.
My top five:
Lost Horizon
Tale of Two Cities
Random Harvest
If I Were King
A Double Life
White Sister
Hey Anonymous….thanks for sharing your Top 6…..they did pretty well in our ranking system.
Lost Horizon…..2nd place
Tale of Two Cities…9th place
Random Harvest…..1st place
If I Were King….11th place
A Double Life….13th place
White Sister….8th place
Hey Flora. With as many pages as we now have, it is very understandable when one escapes like this one. So you are now 25 Colman movies watched….that is fives times my total of 5. But I have seen 4 of your Top 5. So I am guessing I have seen the right ones. Only Raffles has escaped me. Thanks for the Colman update.
Not sure why I forgot you had done a Ronald Colman page. With TCM doing a Star of the Month tribute to him, I have increased my total of Colman films. I have now seen 25 of his movies.
My top 5 movies are:
Random Harvest
Lost Horizon
The Prisoner of Zenda
Raffles
A Double Life