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Roland Winters (born Roland Winternitz) was an American actor who played many character parts in films and television but today is best remembered for portraying Charlie Chan in six films in the late 1940s. Monogram Pictures eventually selected Winters to replace Sidney Toler in the Charlie Chan film series. Winters was 44 when he made the first of his six Chan films, The Chinese Ring in 1947 and ending with Charlie Chan and the Sky Dragon (also known as Sky Dragon) in 1949. His other Chan films were "Docks of New Orleans", "Shanghai Chest", "The Golden Eye" and "The Feathered Serpent". He also had character roles in three other feature films while he worked on the Chan series. Yunte Huang, in Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History, noted differences in the actors' appearances, especially that Winters' "tall nose simply could...
Known for
Perry MasonSeries • 1957
BewitchedSeries • 1964
The Alfred Hitchcock HourSeries • 1962
The Carol Burnett ShowSeries • 1967
The Lucy ShowSeries • 1962
The DefendersSeries • 1961
The Addams FamilySeries • 1964
The Jack Benny ProgramSeries • 1950
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.Series • 1964
Kraft Television TheatreSeries • 1947
Citizen KaneMovie • 1941
StartimeSeries • 1959
Broken ArrowSeries • 1956
Lux Video TheatreSeries • 1950
Play of the WeekSeries • 1959
Blue HawaiiMovie • 1961
Cry of the CityMovie • 1948
Jet PilotMovie • 1957
Follow That DreamMovie • 1962
Bigger Than LifeMovie • 1956
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris KarloffMovie • 1949
The Underworld StoryMovie • 1950
Between Midnight and DawnMovie • 1950
ConvictedMovie • 1950