Question: Ronald Colman, English actor popular during the 1930s and 1940s, starred in a film noir which told the story of an actor whose mind becomes affected by the character he portrays in what year?

Context articles: Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (1934 film)
Neo-noir
My Favorite Brunette
Ronald Colman
A Double Life (1947 film)
Film noir
Raffles (1930 film)
Splendid Fellows
Ronald Colman filmography
Bulldog Drummond's Revenge

Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back is a 1934 American comedy-mystery-adventure film directed by Roy Del Ruth.
 The film stars Ronald Colman and Loretta Young.
 It was a loose sequel to the 1929 film "Bulldog Drummond" which had also starred Colman.
Neo-noir is a modern or contemporary motion picture rendition of "film noir".
 The term "film noir" (a term popularised by two French critics, namely, and Etienne Chaumeton in 1955), when translated from French to English, reads "dark movie", indicating a sense of something sinister and shadowy.
 The film-noir genre includes stylish Hollywood crime dramas, neo-noir being the same, but with updated themes, content, style, visual elements or media that were absent in the films of the "film noir" period from the 1940s and 1950s.
My Favorite Brunette is a 1947 American romantic comedy film and film noir parody, directed by Elliott Nugent and starring Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour.
 Written by Edmund Beloin and Jack Rose, the film is about a baby photographer on death row in San Quentin State Prison who tells reporters his history.
 While taking care of his private-eye neighbor's office, he is asked by an irresistible baroness to find a missing baron, which initiates a series of confusing but sinister events in a gloomy mansion and a private sanatorium.
 Spoofing movie detectives and the film noir style, the film features Lon Chaney, Jr. playing Willie, a character based on his "Of Mice and Men" role Lennie; Peter Lorre as Kismet, a comic take on his many film noir roles; and cameo appearances by film noir regular Alan Ladd and Hope partner Bing Crosby.
 Sequences were filmed in San Francisco and Pebble Beach, California.
Ronald Charles Colman (9 February 1891 – 19 May 1958) was an English actor, popular during the 1930s and 1940s.
 He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for "A Double Life" (1947) and received nominations for "Random Harvest" (1942), "Bulldog Drummond" (1929) and "Condemned" (1929).
 Colman starred in several classic films, including "A Tale of Two Cities" (1935), "Lost Horizon" (1937) and "The Prisoner of Zenda" (1937).
 He also played the starring role in the Technicolor classic "Kismet" (1944), with Marlene Dietrich, which was nominated for four Academy Awards.
A Double Life is a 1947 film noir which tells the story of an actor whose mind becomes affected by the character he portrays.
 The movie starred Ronald Colman and Signe Hasso.
 It was directed by George Cukor and written for the screen by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin.
 Ronald Colman won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in this film.
Film noir ( ; ] ) is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly such that emphasize cynical attitudes and sexual motivations. Hollywood's classical film noir period is generally regarded as extending from the early 1940s to the late 1950s.
 Film noir of this era is associated with a low-key, black-and-white visual style that has roots in German Expressionist cinematography.
 Many of the prototypical stories and much of the attitude of classic noir derive from the hardboiled school of crime fiction that emerged in the United States during the Great Depression.
Raffles is a 1930 American Pre-Code comedy-mystery film produced by Samuel Goldwyn.
 It stars Ronald Colman as the title character, a proper English gentleman who moonlights as a notorious jewel thief, and Kay Francis as his love interest.
 It is based on the 1906 play "Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman" by E. W. Hornung and Eugene Wiley Presbrey, which was in turn adapted from the 1899 novel of the same name by Hornung.
Splendid Fellows is a 1934 Australian film from director Beaumont Smith about an Englishman (Frank Leighton) who comes to Australia.
 The cast includes Eric Colman, brother of Ronald Colman, and Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith, who has a cameo as himself.
 This was Smith's last film.
Ronald Colman began his career as an actor on the stage following his service in the British Army during World War I.
 He made his film debut in an unreleased two-reeler titled "The Live Wire" (1917).
 After achieving minor success on the stage and in British films, he immigrated to the United States in 1920.
 There he continued his acting with only moderate success until he was offered the lead opposite Lillian Gish in "The White Sister" (1923).
 The film's popularity and critical acclaim led to Colman becoming a major star and also a romantic idol of the silent cinema.
 As a contract player for Samuel Goldwyn, Colman was cast (frequently on loan-out) as leading man to many of the top actress as the silent era.
 In five of his silents he formed a romantic team with Hungarian actress Vilma Bánky.
Bulldog Drummond's Revenge is a 1937 black-and-white detective film directed by Louis King, produced by Stuart Walker, written by Edward T. Lowe Jr. and Herman C. McNeile (novel), and featuring John Barrymore.
 The picture stars John Howard in his second appearance as Bulldog Drummond; Howard previously appeared as Ronald Colman's (who had made the first talkie "Bulldog Drummond") brother in "Lost Horizon".
 Top-billed John Barrymore portrays his friend Colonel Nielsen.