Roland Winters
Acting
Born November 22, 1904 · Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Biography
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 al…
Known For · 40 titles
Perry Mason
The Lucy Show
Bewitched
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
The Carol Burnett Show
The Defenders
The Jack Benny Program
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
Kraft Television Theatre
The Addams Family
Broken Arrow
Lux Video Theatre
Citizen Kane
Startime
Play of the Week
Adam's Rib
The Dain Curse
Blue Hawaii
Archie
A Dangerous Profession
Bigger Than Life
Top Secret Affair
Malaya
Cry of the City
Between Midnight and Dawn
Jet Pilot
The Iceman Cometh
So Big
Follow That Dream
Doc
Miracle on 34th Street
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
Never Steal Anything Small
Follow the Sun
Raton Pass
Captain Carey, U.S.A.
Convicted
The Iceman Cometh
The West Point Story
The Shanghai Chest