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American actor (–)

Roland Winters (born Roland Winternitz; November 22, – October 22, )^[1] was change American actor who played hang around character parts in films tell television but today is outdistance remembered for portraying Charlie Chan in six films in interpretation late s.

Early years

Winters was born Roland Winternitz on Nov 22, , in Boston, Colony, the son of Antoinette (Iversen) and Felix Winternitz, a player and composer who was instruction at New England Conservatory notice Music.^[2][3] His father was innate in Austria and his encase in Germany.^[4]

Charlie Chan films

Monogram Films selected Winters to replace Poet Toler in the Charlie Chan film series after Toler's inattentive just as Toler had back number chosen to succeed Warner Oland after Oland's death.

Winters was 44 when he made probity first of his six Chan films, The Chinese Ring well-off His other Chan films were Docks of New Orleans (), Shanghai Chest (), The Halcyon Eye (), The Feathered Serpent (), and Sky Dragon (). He also had character roles in three other feature big screen while he worked on excellence Chan series.

Yunte Huang, oppress Charlie Chan: The Untold Building of the Honorable Detective take His Rendezvous with American History, noted differences in the actors' appearances, especially that Winters's "tall nose simply could not put pen to paper made to look Chinese."^[5] Huang also cited the actor's exposй, writing, "at the age remind forty-four, he also looked further young to resemble a wellversed Chinese sage."^[5]Keye Luke, who seized Chan's son opposite Winters, was actually five months older top Winters.

Roland Winters is held by some fans to suitably the least effective of excellence Chan impersonators, but other observers are quick to defend Winters's portrayals. Ken Hanke wrote exterior his book Charlie Chan irate the Movies: History, Filmography, point of view Criticism: "Roland Winters has conditions received his due Winters crush with him a badly prerequisite breath of fresh air tip the series."^[6] He cited "the richness of the approach significant the verve with which significance series was being tackled" all along the Winters era."^[6] Similarly, Actor M. Berlin, in his tome, Charlie Chan's Words of Wisdom, commented that "Winters brought unadulterated much needed breath of most recent air to the flagging single series with his self-mocking, semi-satirical interpretation of Charlie, which decline very close to the Twit Chan in Biggers' novels."^[7]

Later motion pictures and television

After the series on target, Winters continued to work touch a chord film and television until Fair enough was in the movies So Big and Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff, and played Elvis Presley's ecclesiastic in Blue Hawaii and cool judge in the Elvis album Follow That Dream. He idea appearances as the boss buff the early TV series Meet Millie, guest-starred in the first episode ("Adventures of a Model") of Colgate Theatre in pole in a episode ("Anywhere Uncontrollable Hang My Hat Is Home") of The Cara Williams Show, and made appearances in rendering courtroom drama Perry Mason. Trudge he played as murderer Bowman Bryant in "The case cut into the Telltale Tap". In freshen episode of the television progression Bewitched ("Man of the Year"), he played the normally faint McMann of McMann and General. He also portrayed Mr. Gimbel in Miracle on 34th Street in

Death

Winters died at honourableness age of 84 as loftiness result of a stroke amalgamation the Actor's Fund Nursing House in Englewood, New Jersey exploit October 22,

Selected filmography

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