
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.
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The titles people know Roland from.
IMDb rating of each title on Cineora, by year.

as Judge Bland

as Hubert Collinson · 2 episodes
as Mr. Gimbel

as Judge Ransom · 1 episode
as Plommie

as Watkins
as Various Characters · 1 episode
as Dan Merrill · 1 episode
as Ralph J. Hulen · 1 episode
as McMann · 1 episode

as Mr. Weatherbee
as Henry Drummond
as Dean Bennett · 1 episode

1 episode

as Fannington · 1 episode

as Doctor
as Col. Sokolov
as Archer Bryant · 1 episode

as Sen. Burdick
as Dr. Ruric

as James Perry · 1 episode
as Bruno Gruber
as Jerry 'Mac' McKay

as Col. Head
as T. Hanley Brooks

as Charlie Chan

as E.J. Ransom
as Charlie Chan

as Capt. Hoseason
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