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Birthday star ROLAND WINTERS ( – ) made six Charlie Chan films for Monogram, starting with The Chinese Ring in and ending with Charlie Chan and..
Roland Winters, as Charlie Chan, takes a powerful long time to solve a string of mystery killings while the murders keep happening, but he finally brings.
Roland Winters
American actor (1904–1989)
Roland Winters (born Roland Winternitz; November 22, 1904 – October 22, 1989)[1] 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.
Early years
Winters was born Roland Winternitz on November 22, 1904, in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Antoinette (Iversen) and Felix Winternitz, a violinist and composer who was teaching at New England Conservatory of Music.[2][3] His father was born in Austria and his mother in Germany.[4]
Charlie Chan films
Monogram Pictures selected Winters to replace Sidney Toler in the Charlie Chan film series after Toler's death just as Toler had been chosen to succeed Warner Oland after Oland's death.
Winters was 44 when he made the first of his six Chan films, The Chinese Ring in 1947. His other Chan films were Docks of New Orleans (1948