Roland Winters

Roland Winters

Acting 1904-11-22 Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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.

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1979 Judge Bland
1978 Hubert Collinson
1973 Mr. Gimbel
1973 Judge Ransom
1970 Plommie
Doc
1969 Watkins
1967 Various Characters
1964 Dan Merrill
1964 Ralph J. Hulen
1964 McMann
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1962 Judge
1962 Henry Drummond
1962 Dean Bennett
1962 Ivar West
1961 Fred Gates
1961 Capt. Bollinger
1961 Jeff Brubaker
1960 Gen. Andrew Danvers
1960 The General (Piet Wetjoen)
1959 Doctor
1957 Col. Sokolov
1957 Sen. Burdick
1957 Archer Bryant
1956 Dr. Ruric
1956 James Perry
1953 Klaas Pool
1951 Sheriff Perigord
1951 Dr. Graham
1951 Alexander Tomson
1950 Stanley Becker
1950 Vernon Bradley, Attorney
1950 Leo Cusick
1950 Harry Eberhart
1950 Jeffrey White
1950 Dwight Barrington
1950 Soviet Comissar Belov
1950 Sam Cooper
1950 Manfredo Acuto
1950 General Millet
1950 Greenleaf
1949 Bruno Gruber
1949 Jerry 'Mac' McKay
1949 Charlie Chan
1949 Col. Head
1949 E.J. Ransom
1949 T. Hanley Brooks
1948 Ledbetter
1948 Charlie Chan
1948 Charlie Chan
1948 Charlie Chan
1948 Charlie Chan
1948 Colonel Wood
1948 Capt. Hoseason
1947 Charlie Chan
1941 Newspaperman at Trenton Town Hall (uncredited)