Roland Winters
Biografia
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.
Filmografia
Filmy i seriale od najnowszych
You Can't Go Home Again
Film • 1979
jako Judge Bland
The Dain Curse
Serial • 1978
jako Hubert Collinson
Miracle on 34th Street
Film • 1973
jako Mr. Gimbel
Adam's Rib
Serial • 1973
jako Judge Ransom
Loving
Film • 1970
jako Plommie
Doc
Film • 1969
jako Watkins
The Carol Burnett Show
Serial • 1967
jako Various Characters
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
Serial • 1964
jako Dan Merrill
The Addams Family
Serial • 1964
jako Ralph J. Hulen
Ożeniłem się z czarownicą
Serial • 1964
jako McMann
Archie
Film • 1964
jako Mr. Weatherbee
Big Deal in Laredo
Film • 1962
jako Henry Drummond
The Lucy Show
Serial • 1962
jako Dean Bennett
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Serial • 1962
jako Ivar West
Doścignąć marzenie
Film • 1962
jako Judge
Everything's Ducky
Film • 1961
jako Capt. Bollinger
Błękitne Hawaje
Film • 1961
jako Fred Gates
The Defenders
Serial • 1961
jako Jeff Brubaker
A String of Beads
Film • 1961
The Iceman Cometh
Serial • 1960
jako The General (Piet Wetjoen)
Cash McCall
Film • 1960
jako Gen. Andrew Danvers
The Computer Comes to Marketing
Film • 1960
jako Ned
Play of the Week
Serial • 1959
Startime
Serial • 1959
jako Fannington
Never Steal Anything Small
Film • 1959
jako Doctor
Pilot odrzutowców
Film • 1957
jako Col. Sokolov
Perry Mason
Serial • 1957
jako Archer Bryant
Top Secret Affair
Film • 1957
jako Sen. Burdick
Bigger Than Life
Film • 1956
jako Dr. Ruric
Broken Arrow
Serial • 1956
jako James Perry
So Big
Film • 1953
jako Klaas Pool
She's Working Her Way Through College
Film • 1952
jako Fred Copeland
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Serial • 1951
jako Boss
Follow the Sun
Film • 1951
jako Dr. Graham
Raton Pass
Film • 1951
jako Sheriff Perigord
Inside Straight
Film • 1951
jako Alexander Tomson
Sierra Passage
Film • 1950
jako Sam Cooper
The West Point Story
Film • 1950
jako Harry Eberhart
The Jack Benny Program
Serial • 1950
jako General Sneed #1
To Please a Lady
Film • 1950
jako Dwight Barrington
Lux Video Theatre
Serial • 1950
jako General Millet
Between Midnight and Dawn
Film • 1950
jako Leo Cusick
Convicted
Film • 1950
jako Vernon Bradley, Attorney
The Underworld Story
Film • 1950
jako Stanley Becker
Killer Shark
Film • 1950
jako Jeffrey White
Captain Carey, U.S.A.
Film • 1950
jako Manfredo Acuto
Guilty of Treason
Film • 1950
jako Soviet Comissar Belov
Malaya
Film • 1949
jako Bruno Gruber
A Dangerous Profession
Film • 1949
jako Jerry 'Mac' McKay
Once More, My Darling
Film • 1949
jako Col. Head
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
Film • 1949
jako T. Hanley Brooks
Sky Dragon
Film • 1949
jako Charlie Chan
Tuna Clipper
Film • 1949
jako E.J. Ransom
The Feathered Serpent
Film • 1948
jako Charlie Chan
Kidnapped
Film • 1948
jako Capt. Hoseason
The Return of October
Film • 1948
jako Colonel Wood
Cry of the City
Film • 1948
jako Ledbetter
The Golden Eye
Film • 1948
jako Charlie Chan
The Shanghai Chest
Film • 1948
jako Charlie Chan
Docks of New Orleans
Film • 1948
jako Charlie Chan
The Chinese Ring
Film • 1947
jako Charlie Chan
Kraft Television Theatre
Serial • 1947
Obywatel Kane
Film • 1941
jako Newspaperman at Trenton Town Hall (uncredited)