Background
Colman was born in Portland, Oregon.
Colman was born in Portland, Oregon.
He attended the Universities of Washington and Michigan.
In his later years he played older authority figures such as doctors and lawyers. Colman appeared in films since 1952, when he appeared uncredited in The Big Sky directed by Howard Hawks. As a child actor in local productions became active in local radio.
After Army service during World World War II he went to New York and in 1944 began a long career in Broadway theater, first appearing in a production of Irwin Shaw"s war drama The Assassin.
He was soon invited to join Maurice Evans" acting company, where he continued to act on stage and later in films. He appeared dozens of times on prime-time television dramas and comedies.
In 1964 he appeared in two episodes of Perry Mason, one as a doctor in police investigations and the other as a prosecuting attorney. Other televisions appearances include Frasier, Gilligan"s Island, McCloud and The Monkees.
Films include"Them! 1953", Norma Rae, The Manitoba Who Wasn"t There and Intolerable Cruelty.
In 1983 he portrayed the kindly scientist Professor Hector Jerrold in the American Broadcasting Company daytime melodrama General Hospital. In the six episodes in which he appeared, he even wore the same costume that Evans wore in Planet of the Apes and Beneath the Planet of the Apes. Colman played Scrooge hundreds of times on stage in A Christmas Carol at the Meadow Brook Theatre in the Detroit area.
He died in Los Angeles at the age of 91 on December 15, 2014.