Roland Winters actor
- All known tv series 11
- Total known movies 45
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 actors 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 Chans 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.
Dr. Ruric
Movie 1956
Stanley Becker
Movie 1950
Leo Cusick
Movie 1950
Jerry McKay
Movie 1949
Charlie Chan
Movie 1948
Klaas Pool
Movie 1953
Harry Eberhart
Movie 1950
Charlie Chan
Movie 1947
Col. Sokolov
Movie 1957
Charlie Chan
Movie 1948
Charlie Chan
Movie 1949
Charlie Chan
Movie 1948
Jeffrey White
Movie 1950
Judge Bland
Movie 1979
Sen. Burdick
Movie 1957
Fred Copeland
Movie 1952
Dwight Barrington
Movie 1950
Col. Head
Movie 1949
Sheriff Perigord
Movie 1951
Doctor
Movie 1959
E.J. Ransom
Movie 1949
Dr. Graham
Movie 1951
Capt. Bollinger
Movie 1961
Movie 1961
Mr. Gimbel
Movie 1973
Alexander Tomson
Movie 1951
Capt. Hoseason
Movie 1948
Soviet Comissar Belov
Movie 1950
Gen. Andrew Danvers
Movie 1960
Newspaperman at Trenton Town Hall (uncredited)
Movie 1941
Sam Cooper
Movie 1950
Ned
Movie
Henry Drummond
Movie 1962
The General (Piet Wetjoen)
Movie 1960
Watkins
Movie 1969
Tv 1964
Tv 1964
Tv 1959
Ralph J. Hulen
Tv 1964
Jeff Brubaker
Tv 1961
Dean Bennett
Tv 1962
Judge Ransom
Tv 1973
Archer Bryant
Tv 1957
Hubert Collinson
Tv 1978
Ivar West
Tv 1962
