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Roland Winters (born Roland Winternitz; November 22, 1904 – October 22, 1989) 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.
Roland Winters was born on 22 November 1904 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Docks of New Orleans (1948), Blue Hawaii (1961) and The Chinese Ring (1947). He was married to Helen Lewis and Ada Carver Howe. He died on 22 October 1989 in Englewood, New Jersey, USA.
Roland Winters was born on November 22, 1904 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Docks of New Orleans (1948), Blue Hawaii (1961) and The Chinese Ring (1947). He was married to Helen Lewis and Ada Carver Howe. He died on October 22, 1989 in Englewood, New Jersey, USA.
Actor. He is best remembered for his recurring portrayal of the foreign sleuth Charlie Chan in several feature films during the 1940s. Born Roland Winternitz, he was raised in a family of wealth and position, the son of opera singer Antoinette Iverson and concert violinist Felix Winternitz.
At the age of 44, Winters was the youngest actor to tackle the role, and was actually several months younger than Keye Luke, who portrayed his "Number One Son" and assistant in the last two Chans. Winters made six Chan films, starting with The Chinese Ring in 1947 and ending with Charlie Chan and the Sky Dragon (also known as Sky Dragon) in 1949.
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.
Oct 27, 1989 · Roland Winters, the last and least known of the three film actors who regularly portrayed Charlie Chan, has died of a stroke at the Actors’ Fund Nursing Home in Englewood, N.J. The Boston native...
Oct 25, 1989 · Roland Winters, an actor whose film portrayals included Charlie Chan and Elvis Presley's father, died of a stroke on Sunday at the Actors' Fund Nursing Home in...
At the age of 43, Roland Winters, more than thirty years younger than the late Sidney Toler, and virtually the same age as Keye Luke, who would again appear as Chan’s Number One Son, Lee, opposite him in both The Feathered Serpent (1948) and The Sky Dragon (1949).
Jun 12, 2019 · Roland Winters starred in only the last six of the more than forty Charlie Chan movies made in Hollywood (the earlier ones featured Warner Oland and Sidney Toler, another Player), but his prominence as a Player was unquestionable.
