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Roland Winters
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Roland Winters
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1904-11-22,Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Gender
Male
Biography
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 not be made to look Chinese." Huang also cited the actor's age, writing, "at the age of forty-four, he also looked too young to resemble a seasoned Chinese sage." In contrast to Huang, Ken Hanke wrote in his book, Charlie Chan at the Movies: History, Filmography, and Criticism, "Roland Winters has never received his due ... Winters brought with him a badly needed breath of fresh air to the series." He cited "the richness of the approach and the verve with which the series was being tackled" during the Winters era." Similarly, Howard M. Berlin, in his book, Charlie Chan's Words of Wisdom, commented that "Winters brought a much needed breath of fresh air to the flagging film series with his self-mocking, semi-satirical interpretation of Charlie, which is very close to the Charlie Chan in Biggers' novels." After the series finished, Winters continued to work in film and television until 1982. He was in the movies So Big and Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff, played Elvis' father in Blue Hawaii and a judge in the Elvis film Follow That Dream. He made appearances as the boss on the early TV series Meet Millie as the boss and the courtroom drama Perry Mason. In one episode of the Bewitched TV series, he played the normally unseen McMann of McMann and Tate. He also portrayed Mr. Gimbel in Miracle on 34th Street in 1973.

Filmography

Cry of the City

6.74

Cry of the City
1948-09-29

Bigger Than Life

7.2

Bigger Than Life
1956-11-20

The Underworld Story

6.3

The Underworld Story
1950-07-26

6.167

Convicted
1950-08-01

Between Midnight and Dawn

5.717

Between Midnight and Dawn
1950-10-01

6.933

Malaya
1949-12-27

6

Blue Hawaii
1961-11-22

A Dangerous Profession

5.7

A Dangerous Profession
1949-12-10

Docks of New Orleans

6.071

Docks of New Orleans
1948-03-21

5.462

So Big
1953-10-31

The West Point Story

5.773

The West Point Story
1950-11-25

The Chinese Ring

5.118

The Chinese Ring
1947-12-06

5.5

Jet Pilot
1957-10-11

8

Sky Dragon
1949-04-27

The Feathered Serpent

6.077

The Feathered Serpent
1948-12-19

The Shanghai Chest

6.583

The Shanghai Chest
1948-07-11

5.567

The Golden Eye
1948-08-29

6.4

Killer Shark
1950-03-19

You Can't Go Home Again

3

You Can't Go Home Again
1979-04-25

Top Secret Affair

4.857

Top Secret Affair
1957-01-30

She's Working Her Way Through College

5.375

She's Working Her Way Through College
1952-07-09

To Please a Lady

6.5

To Please a Lady
1950-10-13

The Return of October

6.4

The Return of October
1948-10-26

Once More, My Darling

6.5

Once More, My Darling
1949-09-10

4.885

Raton Pass
1951-04-07

Never Steal Anything Small

8.2

Never Steal Anything Small
1959-02-11

7.75

Tuna Clipper
1949-04-11

6.25

Follow the Sun
1951-05-22

Everything's Ducky

6.5

Everything's Ducky
1961-12-20

A String of Beads

8

A String of Beads
1961-02-07

Miracle on 34th Street

7

Miracle on 34th Street
1973-12-14

Inside Straight

4.875

Inside Straight
1951-03-01

6.667

Kidnapped
1948-11-28

Guilty of Treason

6.333

Guilty of Treason
1950-02-20

5.974

Loving
1970-03-04

6.333

Cash McCall
1960-01-20

7.969

Citizen Kane
1941-04-17

7.5

Sierra Passage
1950-12-31

The Computer Comes to Marketing

0

The Computer Comes to Marketing
1960-01-01

Captain Carey, U.S.A.

5.778

Captain Carey, U.S.A.
1950-02-21

Follow That Dream

6.115

Follow That Dream
1962-04-11

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff

6.619

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
1949-05-26

Big Deal in Laredo

0

Big Deal in Laredo
1962-10-07

The Iceman Cometh

7.4

The Iceman Cometh
1960-11-14

8

Doc
1969-07-28

0

Archie
1964-01-01

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.

7.129

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
1964-09-25

Play of the Week

8

Play of the Week
1959-10-12

The Addams Family

7.974

The Addams Family
1964-09-18

6.273

The Defenders
1961-09-16

7.048

The Lucy Show
1962-10-01

7.5

Adam's Rib
1973-09-14

7.71

Perry Mason
1957-09-21

The Carol Burnett Show

7.721

The Carol Burnett Show
1967-09-11

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

7.851

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962-09-20

Lux Video Theatre

6.714

Lux Video Theatre
1950-10-02

Lux Video Theatre

6.714

Lux Video Theatre
1950-10-02

6.5

Broken Arrow
1956-09-25

7.866

Bewitched
1964-09-17

Kraft Television Theatre

7.8

Kraft Television Theatre
1947-05-07

The Iceman Cometh

0

The Iceman Cometh
1960-11-14

6.5

The Dain Curse
1978-05-22

6.75

Startime
1959-10-06

The Jack Benny Program

7.8

The Jack Benny Program
1950-10-28