13 Facts About Bonar Colleano

Bonar Colleano had childhood experiences with the Ringling Brothers Circus and in his family's famous circus.

Bonar Colleano moved to the United Kingdom when he was 12 so his family could appear at the London Palladium.

Bonar Colleano played American servicemen in Wanted for Murder, A Matter of Life and Death, and While the Sun Shines.

Bonar Colleano played an Italian in One Night with You, and was in Good-Time Girl and Sleeping Car to Trieste and "Broken Journey".

Bonar Colleano worked regularly in radio, appearing in a revue Navy Mixture, and had a lead part in Once a Jolly Swagman.

Bonar Colleano's reputation shot up when cast in the role of Stanley Kowalski in the original English stage production of A Streetcar Named Desire at the Aldwych Theatre, London, directed by Laurence Olivier and co-starring Vivien Leigh.

Bonar Colleano was a romantic lead in Dance Hall.

Bonar Colleano went to the US and starred in a Hollywood production, Stanley Kramer's Eight Iron Men.

Bonar Colleano had another Hollywood role, a support, in Flame and the Flesh, shot in England and Italy.

Bonar Colleano went back to support parts in British films with Time Is My Enemy and The Sea Shall Not Have Them.

Bonar Colleano had good support roles in the oddball Shakespeare derivation Joe MacBeth and Stars in Your Eyes.

Bonar Colleano was from a well-known Australian circus family and was a nephew of Con Bonar Colleano, the first tightrope walker to perform a forward somersault on the wire.

Bonar Colleano died in 1958 at the age of 34, when he crashed his sports car in Birkenhead shortly after leaving the Queensway Tunnel.