Bonar Colleano

Bonar Colleano

Nacimiento : 1924-03-14, New York City, New York,

Muerte : 1958-08-07

Historia

American born British stage and film actor who tragically died in a car crash in Birkenhead aged just 34.

Perfil

Bonar Colleano

Películas

Death Over My Shoulder
Joe Longo
A private detective, desperate for money to pay for an operation on his small son, bargains with a protection gangster chief to have himself killed and gets his girl to collect the insurance money.
Conflicto íntimo
Martin Lomer
Varios grupos de aventureros van tras un diamante de incalculable valor que ha sido robado.
No hay tiempo para morir (Tank Force)
The Pole
Daniel Thatcher es un sargento americano que sirve en una compañía acorazada británica en el norte de África. Él y la mayoría de su unidad son capturados por los alemanes, quienes se dan cuenta de que fue el autor de un intento de asesinato contra Josef Goebbels, mano derecha de Hitler. La mujer de Thatcher es asesinada en un campo de concentración, y a él lo quieren llevar a Berlín como trofeo. Thatcher, como última opción, decide participar en una fuga.
Them Nice Americans
Joe
American airman loves English girl whose father refuses permission for their marriage out of hatred for all Yankees.
Fuego escondido
Lt. Sellers
Tony y Félix son los propietarios de un pequeño barco con el que navegan por el Caribe, haciendo pequeños trabajos. Aunque no tiene pasaporte, acceden a llevar en su barco a la hermosa Irena, pero durante la travesía se enamoran de ella, y su amistad se rompe. Tony deja el barco y acepta un trabajo en un carguero; pero, tras una colisión, el buque se incendia y él queda atrapado bajo la cubierta. Sólo Felix, a quien odia y ha jurado matar, acude en su auxilio.
Policía internacional
Amalio
Victor Mature es un agente de narcóticos que persigue a un peligroso traficante. Dada la dificultad de la empresa, cambia de táctica y decide centrarse en su atractiva cómplice para llegar hasta él. Todo un reto también pues la tendrá que seguir por medio mundo.
Stars in Your Eyes
David Laws
A group of feisty, talented young performers pool their resources and buy a dilapidated theatre to showcase their acts – but unscrupulous property developers also want the theatre and resort to dirty tricks to disrupt the first night's performance!
Zarak
Biri (Zarak's brother)
Cuando el audaz Zarak besa a la joven Salma, el padre de ésta ordena la muerte de aquel. Pero Zarak consigue huir, siendo perseguido implacablemente por un oficial británico. Entre ambos hombres surgirá un respeto mutuo en extremas circunstancias.
Joe Macbeth
Lennie
A gangster's wife drives him to kill as she pushes him to the top.
Time Is My Enemy
Roommate
A happily-married woman is blackmailed by her first husband, who she wrongly believed was killed in the Blitz.
The Sea Shall Not Have Them
Sgt Kirby
During autumn of 1944, an RAF Hudson carrying a VIP passenger in possession of highly secret information is shot down and ditches in the North Sea. Fighting the elements and trying to keep up morale, the occupants of the aircraft's dinghy talk about their lives awaiting the rescue they hope will come. The film's title reflects the motto of the RAF's Air Sea Rescue Service, one of whose high speed launches battles against its own mechanical problems, enemy action, time and the weather to locate and rescue the downed crew and the vital secret papers they carry.
Flame and the Flesh
Ciccio
Cuando a Madeline, una americana que vive en Nápoles, la echan de su apartamento, Ciccio, un compositor de buen corazón, la aloja en su casa. Madeline tiene una aventura amorosa con un amigo de Ciccio, un guapo cantante que, aunque está a punto de casarse, se fuga con Madeline poco antes de la boda.
Escape by Night
Tom Buchan
An Italian racketeer on the run in London holes up in a disused theatre with a hard-drinking journalist out to get the full story.
Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary?
Commander Laurence "Laurie" Vining
Based on a 1944 West End stage success with Ralph Lynn, this is a classic bedroom farce for those who like them that way -- its theatrical origins acknowledged in the credits and clearly apparent when most of the action takes place with characters popping in and out of a single-room set -- enlivened by a sex-pot performance by Diana Dors as blackmailing first wife Candy.
Eight Iron Men
Pvt. Collucci
During the World War II in Italy, Sergeant Joe Mooney is leading his small squad on the front-lines but is ordered to avoid rescuing a soldier trapped in no man's land.
A Tale of Five Cities
Bob Mitchell
An Englishman has been working in the US so long he now speaks with an American accent. He is drafted into the British Army during WWII but is injured and loses his memory. Because he talks like an American, the doctors repatriate him to the States where he is housed with a New York family. After the war they all travel throughout Europe, searching for the women he still remembers in the hope of restoring his lost memory
Pool of London
Dan MacDonald
Jewel thieves, murder and a manhunt swirl around a sailor (Bonar Colleano) off a cargo ship in London.
Dance Hall
Alec
Episodic tale of four factory girls and their various romances at the local dance hall in Chiswick, London. Unusual at the time, the film tells its story from a feminine perspective. Today, it is mainly recognised for its post-war London atmosphere, with bomb sites, trolleybuses and rationing.
Give Us This Day
Julio
Exiled from Hollywood due to the blacklist, director Edward Dmytryk briefly operated in England in the late 1940s. Though filmed in its entirety in London, Dmytryk's Give Us This Day is set in New York during the depression. Fellow blacklistee Sam Wanamaker is starred as the head of an Italian immigrant family struggling to survive the economic crisis.
Once a Jolly Swagman
Tommy Possey
A factory worke quits his job to become a motorcycle racer.
Coche cama a Trieste
Sergeant West
Un lujoso tren que viaja hacia Trieste es el escenario de este entretenido film de espionaje, en el que se tratará de dar con aquellos que robaron unos importantes documentos a un político durante una recepción de una embajada francesa.
Good-Time Girl
Micky Malone
Good Time Girl stars Jean Kent as incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen Rawlings. Sent to a home for "problem" girls, Gwen receives a crash course in petty crime. Back on the outside, she falls in with the usual bad crowd, and suffers spectacularly as a result.
One Night with You
Piero Santellini
Two strangers meet when they both miss their trains, and end up spending a penniless day and night together. An English version of 'It Happened One Night'.
Broken Journey
Reporter (uncredited)
Passengers and crew struggle to survive after their plane crashes in the Alps.
While the Sun Shines
Joe Mulvaney
Lady Elisabeth Randall is an English Air Force corporal during World War II. She is on her way to marry her fiancé when she finds herself being romanced by two different men.
A vida o muerte
An American Pilot
El aviador británico Peter Carter, en su avión en llamas y a punto de estrellarse se enamora de la voz femenina que contesta a su mensaje de socorro. Parece que se ha salvado milagrosamente y encuentra a su interlocutora. Pero un enviado del más allá le notifica que está entre la vida y la muerte y que si quiere sobrevivir, tendrá que defender su caso ante un tribunal celestial. Simultaneamente a esta situación sobrenatural, un equipo de médicos lucha en el quirófano para curar a Peter una lesión en el cerebro.
Wanted for Murder
Corporal Nick Mappolo
The son of a notorious hangman is gradually becoming insane and he finds himself unable to resist the urge to strangle women to death.
In the Zone
Adaptation of the Eugene O'neill play.
The Way to the Stars
Joe Friselli
Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Britain, to the arrival of the Americans, who join in the bomber offensive. The film centres around Pilot Officer Peter Penrose, fresh out of a training unit, who joins the squadron, and quickly discovers about life during war time. He falls for Iris, a young girl who lives at the local hotel, but he becomes disillusioned about marriage, when the squadron commander dies in a raid, and leaves his wife, the hotel manageress, with a young son to bring up. As the war progresses, Penross comes to terms that he has survived, while others have been killed.