Bonar Colleano

Bonar Colleano

Born: March 14, 1924
Died: August 7, 1958
in New York City, New York, USA
Bonar Colleano was an American born British stage and film actor who tragically died in a car crash in Birkenhead aged just 34.

Movies for Bonar Colleano...

Death Over My Shoulder
Title: Death Over My Shoulder
Character: Joe Longo
Released: December 31, 1958
Type: Movie
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.
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The Man Inside
Title: The Man Inside
Character: Martin Lomer
Released: September 7, 1958
Type: Movie
A detective tracking a stolen gem begins to suspect there's more to the case than just theft.
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Tank Force!
Title: Tank Force!
Character: The Pole
Released: April 22, 1958
Type: Movie
During World War II, members of a British tank unit in northern Africa are captured and held prisoners by Germans.
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The Nice Americans
Title: The Nice Americans
Character: Joe
Released: January 1, 1958
Type: Movie
American airman loves English girl whose father refuses permission for their marriage out of hatred for all Yankees.
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Fire Down Below
Title: Fire Down Below
Character: Lt. Sellers
Released: May 30, 1957
Type: Movie
Tony and Felix own a tramp boat, and sail around the Caribbean doing odd jobs and drinking a lot. They agree to ferry the beautiful but passportless Irena to another island. They both fall for her, leading to betrayal and a break-up of their partnership. Tony takes a job on a cargo ship. After a collision he finds himself trapped below deck with time running out (the ship is aflame), and only Felix, whom he hates and has sworn to kill, left to save him.
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Interpol
Title: Interpol
Character: Amalio
Released: April 2, 1957
Type: Movie
Spurred on by the death of his drug-addicted sister at the hands of ruthless narcotics kingpin Frank McNally, U.S. drug enforcement agent Charles Sturgis embarks on an investigation that takes him from New York to London, Lisbon, Rome, Naples and finally Athens in pursuit of McNally's shapely associate, Gina Broger.
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Stars in Your Eyes
Title: Stars in Your Eyes
Character: David Laws
Released: December 6, 1956
Type: Movie
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!
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Zarak
Title: Zarak
Character: Biri (Zarak's brother)
Released: December 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A notorious bandit develops a grudging respect for the English military man assigned to capture him.
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Joe Macbeth
Title: Joe Macbeth
Character: Lennie
Released: October 18, 1955
Type: Movie
A gangster's wife drives him to kill as she pushes him to the top.
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Time Is My Enemy
Title: Time Is My Enemy
Character: Roommate
Released: September 1, 1954
Type: Movie
A happily-married woman is blackmailed by her first husband, who she wrongly believed was killed in the Blitz.
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The Sea Shall Not Have Them
Title: The Sea Shall Not Have Them
Character: Sgt Kirby
Released: June 1, 1954
Type: Movie
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.
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Flame and the Flesh
Title: Flame and the Flesh
Character: Ciccio
Released: May 5, 1954
Type: Movie
American woman in Europe romanced by local gigolo; problems ensue.
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Escape by Night
Title: Escape by Night
Character: Tom Buchan
Released: December 1, 1953
Type: Movie
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.
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Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary?
Title: Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary?
Character: Commander Laurence "Laurie" Vining
Released: September 22, 1953
Type: Movie
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.
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Eight Iron Men
Title: Eight Iron Men
Character: Pvt. Collucci
Released: December 1, 1952
Type: Movie
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.
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A Tale of Five Cities
Title: A Tale of Five Cities
Character: Bob Mitchell
Released: March 1, 1951
Type: Movie
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
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Pool of London
Title: Pool of London
Character: Dan MacDonald
Released: February 20, 1951
Type: Movie
Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.
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Dance Hall
Title: Dance Hall
Character: Alec
Released: June 8, 1950
Type: Movie
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.
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Give Us This Day
Title: Give Us This Day
Character: Julio
Released: October 14, 1949
Type: Movie
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.
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Once a Jolly Swagman
Title: Once a Jolly Swagman
Character: Tommy Possey
Released: February 2, 1949
Type: Movie
A factory worke quits his job to become a motorcycle racer.
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Sleeping Car to Trieste
Title: Sleeping Car to Trieste
Character: Sergeant West
Released: October 6, 1948
Type: Movie
Spies pursue a stolen diary aboard the Orient Express.
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Good-Time Girl
Title: Good-Time Girl
Character: Micky Malone
Released: April 28, 1948
Type: Movie
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.
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One Night with You
Title: One Night with You
Character: Piero Santellini
Released: April 25, 1948
Type: Movie
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'.
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Broken Journey
Title: Broken Journey
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: April 14, 1948
Type: Movie
A plane flying over the Swiss Alps develops engine trouble and is forced to crash-land on a glacier. Unable to radio for help because of damaged batteries and with limited food supplies, the survivors must come to a decision -- whether to stay and wait for help they believe is coming or to leave the shelter of the wrecked plane and set out in bad weather to try to reach civilization.
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While the Sun Shines
Title: While the Sun Shines
Character: Joe Mulvaney
Released: February 1, 1947
Type: Movie
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.
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A Matter of Life and Death
Title: A Matter of Life and Death
Character: An American Pilot
Released: December 15, 1946
Type: Movie
When a young RAF pilot miraculously survives bailing out of his aeroplane without a parachute, he falls in love with an American radio operator. But the officials in the other world realise their mistake and dispatch an angel to collect him.
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Wanted for Murder
Title: Wanted for Murder
Character: Corporal Nick Mappolo
Released: June 17, 1946
Type: Movie
The son of a notorious hangman is gradually becoming insane and he finds himself unable to resist the urge to strangle women to death.
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In the Zone
Title: In the Zone
Released: January 2, 1946
Type: Movie
Adaptation of the Eugene O'neill play.
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Starlight Serenade
Title: Starlight Serenade
Released: January 1, 1946
Type: Movie
Brian Michie introduces various musical and comedy acts in the form of a dress rehearsal for a stage review, interspersed with comedy routines featuring Bonar Colleano.
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The Way to the Stars
Title: The Way to the Stars
Character: Joe Friselli
Released: June 16, 1945
Type: Movie
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.