He was one of the - unnamed - cameramen, the magnificent aerial views of the Howard Hughes produced war film Hell's Angels.
After performing military service in World War II, he continued to work with films Frontier Gal (1945), Walk a Crooked Mile (1948), and Joan of Arc (1948).
[5] Disney also utilized Colman's talents in motion pictures; beginning with the lavish live action film 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) under the direction of Richard Fleischer.
After Colman had worked as a shooter on five episodes of The Mickey Mouse Club television series in 1955, Walt Disney finally offered him the photographic direction of The Shaggy Dog in 1959 with Fred MacMurray.
Colman benefited from the knowledge he had acquired in Great Britain before the war in the implementation of the numerous special effects for which the film that was shot in black and white.
Travers' Stories, starring Julie Andrews in the title role, earned Colman another Academy Award nomination in 1965.
[7] He appeared in cameo in the Disneyland episode "Back Stage Party" (1961) and at the end of the filming of Babes in Toyland, he can be seen once in the picture.