Warner Oland

Warner Oland

Acting 1879-10-03 Nyby, Västerbottens län, Sweden

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Warner Oland (born Johan Verner Ölund, October 3, 1879 – August 6, 1938) was a Swedish-American actor most remembered for playing several Chinese and Chinese-American characters: the Honolulu Police detective, Lieutenant Charlie Chan; Dr. Fu Manchu; and Henry Chang in Shanghai Express. His family emigrated to the United States when he was 13. He pursued a film career that would include time on Broadway and dozens of film appearances, including 16 Charlie Chan films. After several years in theater, including appearances on Broadway as Warner Oland, in 1912 he made his silent film debut in Pilgrim's Progress, a film based on the John Bunyan novel. As a result of his training as a Shakespearean actor and his easy adoption of a sinister look, he was much in demand as a villain and in ethnic roles. Over the next 15 years, he appeared in more than 30 films, including a major role in The Jazz Singer (1927), one of the first talkies produced. Oland's normal appearance fit the Hollywood expectation of caricatured Asianness of the time, despite his having no definitively proven Asian cultural background. Oland portrayed a variety of Asian characters in several movies before being offered the leading role in the 1929 film, The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu. It was the first onscreen portrayal of the Fu Manchu character in film. Oland continued to appear onscreen as an Asian, probably more often than any other white actor in the history of cinema. In Old San Francisco, Oland played an Asian unsuccessfully impersonating a white man. Oland was the first actor to play a werewolf in a major Hollywood film, biting the protagonist, played by Henry Hull, in Werewolf of London (1935). Once again, Oland's character was Asian. A box office success, The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu made Oland a star, and during the next two years he portrayed the evil Dr. Fu Manchu in three more films (although the second one was purely a cameo appearance). Firmly locked into such roles, he was cast as Charlie Chan in the international detective mystery film Charlie Chan Carries On (1931) and then in director Josef von Sternberg's 1932 classic film Shanghai Express opposite Marlene Dietrich and Anna May Wong. The enormous worldwide box office success of his Charlie Chan film led to more, with Oland starring in 16 Chan films in total. The series, Jill Lepore later wrote, "kept Fox afloat" during the 1930s, while earning Oland $40,000 per movie. Oland took his role seriously, studying the Chinese language and calligraphy.

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2019 Charlie Chan (archive footage)
2006 Charlie Chan (archive footage)
2003 Self (archive footage)
1979 (archive footage)
1961 Self (archive footage)
1942 Self (archive footage)
1937 Charlie Chan
1937 Charlie Chan
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1936 Charlie Chan
1936 Charlie Chan
1936 Charlie Chan
1936 Charlie Chan
1935 Charlie Chan
1935 Charlie Chan
1935 Charlie Chan
1935 Dr. Yogami
1935 Ambassador Lun Sing
1935 Charlie Chan (uncredited)
1934 Charlie Chan
1934 Hippolitus Lomi
1934 General Yu
1934 Prince Achmed
1934 Nick
1934 Charlie Chan
1933 Dr. Paul Cornelius
1933 Charlie Chan
1932 Mr. Henry Chang
1932 Fen Sha
1932 Charlie Chan
1932 Baron von Sydow, Police Commandant
1931 Andrew North
1931 Charlie Chan
1931 Colonel von Hindau
1931 Fu Manchu
1931 Dr. Boris Karlov
1931 Charlie Chan
1930 Dr. Fu Manchu
1930 Schomberg
1930 Thibault
1930 Fu Manchu (Murder Will Out)
1929 Dr. Fu Manchu
1929 Rupert Borka
1929 Hadrian
1929 "Boston Charley" Wu
1929 Sterky
1928 Ghika - the Bandit Leader
1928 Mosher Turkeltaub
1928 The Duke
1928 Ivan Zaneriff
1927 Cantor Rabinowitz
1927 Perfume Manufacturer
1927 André Lescaut
1927 Chris Buckwell
1927 Good Time Charley Keene
1927 Geoffrey Marsh
1927 W. Bradberry, Father
1926 Clint Beasley
1926 Cesare Borgia
1926 Chinese Bandit Chief
1926 Max Ravenal
1926 Roseleaf
1926 Eli Sinsabaugh
1925 Petras
1925 The Archduke Paul
1925 Lew Walters aka Judge Dyer
1925 Luke Rand
1925 Osman Pasha
1924 Shanghai Dan
1924 Fu Shing
1924 King David
1923 Dr. Dahl
1922 Charley Yong
1922 Okada
1921 Clifton Marlow
1921 Joel Bain
1920 Curtis Steele / Malcolm Graw
1920 Uncle Leo Sealkirk
1919 Nick Delano
1919 Wu Fang
1919 John Bent
1919 Captain Ballantyne
1919 Li Hsun
1918 Maharajah
1918 Baron Andrey
1917 Richard Carslake
1917 Baron Huroki
1917 Mr. Wilson
1916 James Shaw
1916 Sinclair La Salle
1916 H. Coudal
1916 Detective
1916 Pierre Felix
1915 Mr. Deleveau
Sin
1915 Pietro
1912 John Bunyon