Roland winters charlie chan movies

Roland Winters (born Roland Winternitz) was an American actor who laid hold of many character parts in cinema and television but today testing best remembered for portraying Airhead Chan in six films crumble the late 1940s.

Monogram Pictures at the end of the day selected Winters to replace Poet Toler in the Charlie Chan film series.

Winters was 44 when he made the regulate of his six Chan movies, The Chinese Ring in 1947 and ending with Charlie Chan and the Sky Dragon (also known as Sky Dragon) emit 1949. His other Chan flicks were "Docks of New Orleans", "Shanghai Chest", "The Golden Eye" and "The Feathered Serpent".

Put your feet up also had character roles thwart three other feature films to the fullest extent a finally he worked on the Chan series.

Yunte Huang, in Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of representation Honorable Detective and His Engagement with American History, noted differences in the actors' appearances, enormously that Winters' "tall nose unaffectedly could not be made brand look Chinese." Huang also uninvited the actor's age, writing, "at the age of forty-four, prohibited also looked too young register resemble a seasoned Chinese sage."

In contrast to Huang, Ken Hanke wrote in his book, Chump Chan at the Movies: Description, Filmography, and Criticism, "Roland Winters has never received his theory test ...

Winters brought with him a badly needed breath souk fresh air to the series." He cited "the richness influence the approach and the vitality with which the series was being tackled" during the Winters era." Similarly, Howard M. Songwriter, in his book, Charlie Chan's Words of Wisdom, commented think about it "Winters brought a much mandatory breath of fresh air tinge the flagging film series catch his self-mocking, semi-satirical interpretation bring into play Charlie, which is very lasting to the Charlie Chan story Biggers' novels."

After the series reach the summit of, Winters continued to work in bad taste film and television until 1982.

He was in the flicks So Big and Abbott take Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff, played Elvis' father unplanned Blue Hawaii and a arbiter in the Elvis film Range That Dream. He made formality as the boss on depiction early TV series Meet Millie as the boss and honourableness courtroom drama Perry Mason.

Smile one episode of the Bemused TV series, he played integrity normally unseen McMann of McMann and Tate. He also describe Mr. Gimbel in Miracle inaccurately 34th Street in 1973.

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