- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- November 22, 1904
- Place of Birth
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Died
- October 22, 1989
Roland Winters
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 …
Filmography
movieYou Can't Go Home Again
1979 · Judge Bland
tvThe Dain Curse
1978 · Hubert Collinson
movieMiracle on 34th Street
1973 · Mr. Gimbel
tvAdam's Rib
1973 · Judge Ransom
movieLoving
1970 · Plommie
movieDoc
1969 · Watkins
tvThe Carol Burnett Show
1967 · Various Characters
tvGomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
1964 · Dan Merrill
tvThe Addams Family
1964 · Ralph J. Hulen
tvBewitched
1964 · McMann
movieArchie
1964 · Mr. Weatherbee
Big Deal in Laredo
movieBig Deal in Laredo
1962 · Henry Drummond
tvThe Lucy Show
1962 · Dean Bennett
tvThe Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962 · Ivar West
movieFollow That Dream
1962 · Judge
movieEverything's Ducky
1961 · Capt. Bollinger
movieBlue Hawaii
1961 · Fred Gates
tvThe Defenders
1961 · Jeff Brubaker
movieA String of Beads
1961
movieThe Iceman Cometh
1960 · The General (Piet Wetjoen)
tvThe Iceman Cometh
1960 · The General (Piet Wetjoen)
movieCash McCall
1960 · Gen. Andrew Danvers
The Computer Comes to Marketing
movieThe Computer Comes to Marketing
1960 · Ned
tvPlay of the Week
1959
tvStartime
1959 · Fannington
movieNever Steal Anything Small
1959 · Doctor
movieJet Pilot
1957 · Col. Sokolov
tvPerry Mason
1957 · Archer Bryant
movieTop Secret Affair
1957 · Sen. Burdick
movieBigger Than Life
1956 · Dr. Ruric
Broken Arrow
tvBroken Arrow
1956 · James Perry
movieSo Big
1953 · Klaas Pool
movieShe's Working Her Way Through College
1952 · Fred Copeland
movieFollow the Sun
1951 · Dr. Graham
movieRaton Pass
1951 · Sheriff Perigord
movieInside Straight
1951 · Alexander Tomson
movieSierra Passage
1950 · Sam Cooper
movieThe West Point Story
1950 · Harry Eberhart
movieTo Please a Lady
1950 · Dwight Barrington
Lux Video Theatre
tvLux Video Theatre
1950 · General Millet, Greenleaf
movieBetween Midnight and Dawn
1950 · Leo Cusick
movieConvicted
1950 · Vernon Bradley, Attorney
movieThe Underworld Story
1950 · Stanley Becker
movieKiller Shark
1950 · Jeffrey White
movieCaptain Carey, U.S.A.
1950 · Manfredo Acuto
movieGuilty of Treason
1950 · Soviet Comissar Belov
movieMalaya
1949 · Bruno Gruber
movieA Dangerous Profession
1949 · Jerry 'Mac' McKay
movieOnce More, My Darling
1949 · Col. Head
movieBud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
1949 · T. Hanley Brooks
movieSky Dragon
1949 · Charlie Chan
movieTuna Clipper
1949 · E.J. Ransom
movieThe Feathered Serpent
1948 · Charlie Chan
movieKidnapped
1948 · Capt. Hoseason
movieThe Return of October
1948 · Colonel Wood
movieCry of the City
1948 · Ledbetter
movieThe Golden Eye
1948 · Charlie Chan
movieThe Shanghai Chest
1948 · Charlie Chan
movieDocks of New Orleans
1948 · Charlie Chan
movieThe Chinese Ring
1947 · Charlie Chan
tvKraft Television Theatre
1947
movieCitizen Kane
1941 · Newspaperman at Trenton Town Hall (uncredited)