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, ...
Citizen Kane
1941
Raton Pass
1951
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
1949
The Iceman Cometh
1960
Malaya
1949
Doc
1969
Blue Hawaii
1961
So Big
1953
Convicted
1950
Loving
1970
Bigger Than Life
1956
Between Midnight and Dawn
1950
A Dangerous Profession
1949
Miracle on 34th Street
1973
The West Point Story
1950
Killer Shark
1950
Cry of the City
1948
The Feathered Serpent
1948
Jet Pilot
1957
Cash McCall
1960
Kidnapped
1948
To Please a Lady
1950
The Chinese Ring
1947
Captain Carey, U.S.A.
1950
The Golden Eye
1948
Never Steal Anything Small
1959
The Shanghai Chest
1948
Follow That Dream
1962
You Can't Go Home Again
1979
Sierra Passage
1950
The Underworld Story
1950
Follow the Sun
1951
Top Secret Affair
1957
The Return of October
1948
She's Working Her Way Through College
1952
Everything's Ducky
1961
Sky Dragon
1949
Docks of New Orleans
1948
Once More, My Darling
1949
Tuna Clipper
1949