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Warner Oland

Ur. 03 października 1879Zm. 06 sierpnia 1938Nyby, Västerbottens län, Sweden

Biografia

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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Filmografia

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Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood

Before Dawn

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How to Break 90 #3: Hip Action

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The Son-Daughter

Film • 1932

jako Fen Sha

A Passport to Hell

Film • 1932

jako Baron von Sydow, Police Commandant

Shanghai Express

Film • 1932

jako Mr. Henry Chang

Charlie Chan's Chance

Film • 1932

jako Charlie Chan

Daughter of the Dragon

Film • 1931

jako Fu Manchu

The Big Gamble

Film • 1931

jako Andrew North

The Black Camel

Film • 1931

jako Charlie Chan

Charlie Chan Carries On

Film • 1931

jako Charlie Chan

Dishonored

Film • 1931

jako Colonel von Hindau

The Drums of Jeopardy

Film • 1931

jako Dr. Boris Karlov

Powrót Fu Manchu

Film • 1930

jako Dr. Fu Manchu

Paramount on Parade

Film • 1930

jako Fu Manchu (Murder Will Out)

The Vagabond King

Film • 1930

jako Thibault

Dangerous Paradise

Film • 1930

jako Schomberg

The Mighty

Film • 1929

jako Sterky

The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu

Film • 1929

jako Dr. Fu Manchu

The Studio Murder Mystery

Film • 1929

jako Rupert Borka

Chinatown Nights

Film • 1929

jako "Boston Charley" Wu

The Faker

Film • 1929

jako Hadrian

Dream of Love

Film • 1928

jako The Duke

The Scarlet Lady

Film • 1928

jako Ivan Zaneriff

Wheel of Chance

Film • 1928

jako Mosher Turkeltaub

Stand and Deliver

Film • 1928

jako Ghika - the Bandit Leader

Good Time Charley

Film • 1927

jako Good Time Charley Keene

Sailor Izzy Murphy

Film • 1927

jako Perfume Manufacturer

Śpiewak jazzbandu

Film • 1927

jako Cantor Rabinowitz

Old San Francisco

Film • 1927

jako Chris Buckwell

When a Man Loves

Film • 1927

jako André Lescaut

What Happened To Father

Film • 1927

jako W. Bradberry, Father

A Million Bid

Film • 1927

jako Geoffrey Marsh

Man of the Forest

Film • 1926

jako Clint Beasley

Tell It to the Marines

Film • 1926

jako Chinese Bandit Chief

Twinkletoes

Film • 1926

jako Roseleaf

The Marriage Clause

Film • 1926

jako Max Ravenal

The Mystery Club

Film • 1926

jako Eli Sinsabaugh

Don Juan

Film • 1926

jako Cesare Borgia

Infatuation

Film • 1925

jako Osman Pasha

The Winding Stair

Film • 1925

jako Petras

Flower of Night

Film • 1925

jako Luke Rand

Don Q Son of Zorro

Film • 1925

jako The Archduke Paul

Riders of the Purple Sage

Film • 1925

jako Lew Walters aka Judge Dyer

Curlytop

Film • 1924

jako Shanghai Dan

So This Is Marriage?

Film • 1924

jako King David

The Fighting American

Film • 1924

jako Fu Shing

His Children's Children

Film • 1923

jako Dr. Dahl

The Pride of Palomar

Film • 1922

jako Okada

East Is West

Film • 1922

jako Charley Yong

Hurricane Hutch

Film • 1921

jako Clifton Marlow

The Yellow Arm

Film • 1921

jako Joel Bain

The Phantom Foe

Film • 1920

jako Uncle Leo Sealkirk

The Third Eye

Film • 1920

jako Curtis Steele / Malcolm Graw

The Witness for the Defense

Film • 1919

jako Captain Ballantyne

The Avalanche

Film • 1919

jako Nick Delano

The Twin Pawns

Film • 1919

jako John Bent

Mandarin's Gold

Film • 1919

jako Li Hsun

The Lightning Raider

Film • 1919

jako Wu Fang

The Yellow Ticket

Film • 1918

jako Baron Andrey

The Naulahka

Film • 1918

jako Maharajah

The Cigarette Girl

Film • 1917

jako Mr. Wilson

The Fatal Ring

Film • 1917

jako Richard Carslake

Patria

Film • 1917

jako Baron Huroki

The Rise of Susan

Film • 1916

jako Sinclair La Salle

Beatrice Fairfax

Film • 1916

jako Detective

The Eternal Question

Film • 1916

jako Pierre Felix

The Eternal Sapho

Film • 1916

jako H. Coudal

The Reapers

Film • 1916

jako James Shaw

Destruction

Film • 1915

jako Mr. Deleveau

Sin

Film • 1915

jako Pietro

The Romance of Elaine

Film • 1915

Pilgrim's Progress

Film • 1912

jako John Bunyon