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Roland Winters

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Roland Winters
Roland Winters in A Dangerous Profession (1949) trailer
Born
Roland Winternitz

(1904-11-22)November 22, 1904
DiedOctober 22, 1989(1989-10-22) (aged 84)
OccupationActor
Years active1924–1982
SpouseAda Howe

Roland Winters (born Roland Winternitz; November 22, 1904 – October 22, 1989)[1] 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.

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Early years

Winters was born Roland Winternitz on November 22, 1904, in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Antoinette (Iversen) and Felix Winternitz, a violinist and composer who was teaching at New England Conservatory of Music.[2][3] His father was born in Austria and his mother in Germany.[4]

Charlie Chan films

Roddy McDowall and Roland Winters in Killer Shark (1950)

Monogram Pictures 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. His other Chan films were Docks of New Orleans (1948), Shanghai Chest (1948), The Golden Eye (1948), The Feathered Serpent (1948), and Sky Dragon (1949). 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's "tall nose simply could not be made to look Chinese."[5] 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."[5] Keye Luke, who played Chan's son opposite Winters, was actually five months older than Winters.

Roland Winters is considered by some fans to be the least effective of the Chan impersonators, but other observers are quick to defend Winters's portrayals. 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."[6] He cited "the richness of the approach and the verve with which the series was being tackled" during the Winters era."[6] 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."[7]

Later films and television

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, and played Elvis Presley's 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, guest-starred in the premiere episode ("Adventures of a Model") of Colgate Theatre in 1958 and in a 1965 episode ("Anywhere I Hang My Hat Is Home") of The Cara Williams Show, and made appearances in the courtroom drama Perry Mason. In 1965 he played as murderer Archer Bryant in "The case of the Telltale Tap". In one 1968 episode of the television series Bewitched ("Man of the Year"), he played the normally unseen McMann of McMann and Tate. He also portrayed Mr. Gimbel in Miracle on 34th Street in 1973.

Death

Winters died at the age of 84 as the result of a stroke at the Actor's Fund Nursing Home in Englewood, New Jersey on October 22, 1989.

Selected filmography

References

  1. ^ DeLong, Thomas A. (1996). Radio Stars: An Illustrated Biographical Dictionary of 953 Performers, 1920 through 1960. McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0-7864-2834-2. P. 287.
  2. ^ "FamilySearch.org". Retrieved December 14, 2023.
  3. ^ "FamilySearch.org". Retrieved December 14, 2023.
  4. ^ "FamilySearch.org". Retrieved December 14, 2023.
  5. ^ a b Huang, Yunte (2011). Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History. W. W. Norton & Company. p. 264. ISBN 9780393340396. Retrieved September 21, 2016.
  6. ^ a b Hanke, Ken (1990). Charlie Chan at the Movies: History, Filmography, and Criticism. McFarland. pp. 220–221. ISBN 9780786486618. Retrieved September 21, 2016.
  7. ^ Berlin, Howard M. (2001). Charlie Chan's Words of Wisdom. Wildside Press LLC. p. 85. ISBN 9781587154690. Retrieved September 21, 2016.
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