Colin Clive Filmography

Born:: January 20, 1898 in St. Malo, France
Occupation:: Actor
Birth name:: Clive Greig
Biography:: Leading man Colin Clive was born in France to a British colonel and his wife. Clive's own military career was cut short by a knee injury, which fortunately did not prevent him from becoming an actor. Clive was brought to Hollywood on the strength of his stage performance in Journey's End, duly...Read More

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History is Made at Night

Actors: Charles Boyer, Jean Arthur, Leo Carrillo, Colin Clive, Ivan Lebedeff

Synopsis: History is Made at Night has been described as a romantic tragedy, which it indeed is, up to a point. The film begins deceptively in screwball-comedy fashion with socialite Jean Arthur and handsome head waiter Charles Boyer "meeting cute." But there's nothing cute about Arthur's estranged husband Read More

1937
The Woman I Love

Actors: Paul Muni, Miriam Hopkins, Louis Hayward, Colin Clive, Minor Watson

Synopsis: Director Anatole Litvak's first Hollywood film was a remake of his French success L'Equipage, itself based on a novel by Joseph Kessel. Paul Muni stars as Maury, an unorthodox, abrasive WWI fighter-pilot whose skill in the air is compromised by his inability to get along with his colleagues and Read More

1937
The Widow from Monte Carlo

Actors: Warren William, Dolores Del Rio, Louise Fazenda, Colin Clive, Herbert Mundin

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, an aspiring socialite heads for a vacation in Monte Carlo where she befriends a wealthy widowed duchess and then begins blackmailing her after she steals a scandalous letter. This letter could destroy her upcoming nuptials to a stuffy Englishman. The duchess enlists the Read More

1936
Clive of India

Actors: Ronald Colman, Loretta Young, Colin Clive, Francis Lister, C. Aubrey Smith

Synopsis: Ronald Colman plays Robert Clive, a true-life 18th century Britisher who works up the ranks to become leader of Britain's military forces in India. Though produced on a superficially lavish scale, the film inexpensively sidesteps several of Clive's more famous battles with Indian insurrectionists Read More

1935
The Girl From Tenth Avenue

Actors: Bette Davis, Ian Hunter, Colin Clive, Alison Skipworth, John Eldredge

Synopsis: The fourth screen version of Hubert Henry Davies' 1914 play Outcast, this comedy-drama stars Bette Davis as Miriam Brady, a shop girl offered 100 dollars to keep drunken socialite Geoffrey Sherwood (Ian Hunter) out of trouble. The next morning, alas, Miriam discovers that she has become Mrs. Read More

1935
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo

Actors: Ronald Colman, Joan Bennett, Colin Clive, Nigel Bruce, Montagu Love

Synopsis: The old British musical-hall ditty "The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo" provides the title for this lightweight Ronald Colman vehicle. Colman, playing a refugee Russian prince, is the "man" in question, and the owners of the "broken bank"--that is, the proprietors of the Monte Carlo casino Read More

1935
The Bride of Frankenstein

Actors: Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson, Elsa Lanchester, Ernst Thesiger, Dwight Frye

Synopsis: This greatest of all Frankenstein movies begins during a raging thunderstorm. Warm and cozy inside their palatial villa, Lord Byron (Gavin Gordon), Percy Shelley (Douglas Walton), and Shelley's wife Mary (Elsa Lanchester) engage in morbidly sparkling conversation. The wicked Byron mockingly Read More

1935
The Right to Live

Actors: Josephine Hutchinson, George Brent, Colin Clive, Peggy Wood, Henrietta Crosman

Synopsis: The Right to Live was the second film version of Somerset Maugham's The Sacred Flame (the first, produced in 1929, starred Conrad Nagel), which in its original form posed the question "Can there truly be such a thing as a mercy killing?" Put simply, it is the tragic tale of two brothers: Colin Read More

1935
Mad Love

Actors: Peter Lorre, Frances Drake, Colin Clive, Ted Healy, Sara Haden

Synopsis: In his first American film, Peter Lorre portrays egg-bald Dr. Gogol. A brilliant and highly respected surgeon, Gogol would give up everything he has in life for the love of Yvonne Orlac (Frances Drake), star of the Parisian Horror Theatre. But Yvonne is deeply in love with her husband, concert Read More

1935
One More River

Actors: Diana Wynyard, Frank Lawton, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Jane Wyatt, Colin Clive

Synopsis: A woman may be forced back into a dangerous relationship in order to save her good name in this drama from director James Whale. Lady Clare Corven (Diana Wynyard) is the wife of Sir Gerald Corven (Colin Clive), and by all appearances they're a happy upper-class British couple. But Lady Clare is Read More

1934
The Key

Actors: William Powell, Edna Best, Colin Clive, Hobart Cavanaugh, Halliwell Hobbes

Synopsis: The Key is a story of the Irish "troubles" which avoids taking sides, but spends most of its screen time with the British occupation troops. William Powell stars as a soldier for hire who works on behalf of the British in the Dublin of the early 1920s. Powell is as celebrated for his boudoir Read More

1934
Jane Eyre

Actors: Virginia Bruce, Colin Clive, Beryl Mercer, Jameson Thomas, Aileen Pringle

Synopsis: This version of the Charlotte Bronte classic is the first to use sound. The story closely follows the book as it chronicles the romantic travails of a troubled orphan girl who grows up to be a governess in love with her employer who returns her affections. She has finally found happiness. Alas Read More

1934
Christopher Strong

Actors: Katharine Hepburn, Colin Clive, Billie Burke, Helen Chandler, Ralph Forbes

Synopsis: A prize-winning aviator (Katharine Hepburn) falls for the title character (Colin Clive), a British politician who is happily married. Both fall into a tempestuous affair, but are able to resist their urges. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

1933
Looking Forward

Actors: Lionel Barrymore, Benita Hume, Elizabeth Allan, Phillips Holmes

Synopsis: A shopkeeper suffers after he is laid off during the Depression in this drama adapted from the English play Service. He had worked at that shop for over 40 years. It was a family tradition to work at that shop. But now, his boss is selling the shop to a lower-priced rival, and the poor man and his Read More

1933
Lily Christine

Actors: Corinne Griffith, Colin Clive, Margaret Bannerman, Miles Mander, Jack Trevor

Synopsis: Corinne Griffith, the stunningly attractive "orchid lady" of the silent screen, originally intended to retire when talkies came in. The wisdom of this decision was demonstrated in her handful of sound-picture appearances, of which Lily Christine is among the least memorable. While driving along in Read More

1932
Frankenstein

Actors: Colin Clive, Boris Karloff, Mae Clarke, John Boles, Dwight Frye, Edward Van Sloan

Synopsis: Still regarded as the definitive film version of Mary Shelley's classic tale of tragedy and horror, Frankenstein made unknown character actor Boris Karloff a star and created a new icon of terror. Along with the highly successful Dracula, released earlier the same year, it launched Universal Read More

1931
The Stronger Sex

Synopsis: In this drama, a man gives up his own life to keep his philandering wife's lover from being killed in a mining accident. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1931
Journey's End

Actors: Colin Clive, David Manners, Ian MacLaren, Anthony Bushell, Thomas Whiteley

Synopsis: R.C. Sherriff's forceful drama about men at war, a long running hit in London as well as New York, is brought to the screen in this film adaptation. Capt. Denis Stanhope (Colin Clive) is the commander of a military unit during World War I; constantly bombarded by enemy fire and hemmed in by his Read More

1930