Roland Winters

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1904-11-22 (85 years old)

Deathday

1989-10-22

Place of Birth

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Roland Winters

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 also had character roles in three other feature film...

Acting

1948

Cry of the City

as Ledbetter

1956

Bigger Than Life

as Dr. Ruric

1950

The Underworld Story

as Stanley Becker

1950

Convicted

as Vernon Bradley, Attorney

1950

1949

Malaya

as Bruno Gruber

1961

Blue Hawaii

as Fred Gates

1949

A Dangerous Profession

as Jerry 'Mac' McKay

1948

Docks of New Orleans

as Charlie Chan

1953

So Big

as Klaas Pool

1950

The West Point Story

as Harry Eberhart

1947

The Chinese Ring

as Charlie Chan

1957

Jet Pilot

as Col. Sokolov

1949

Sky Dragon

as Charlie Chan

1948

The Feathered Serpent

as Charlie Chan

1948

The Shanghai Chest

as Charlie Chan

1948

The Golden Eye

as Charlie Chan

1950

Killer Shark

as Jeffrey White

1979

1957

Top Secret Affair

as Sen. Burdick

1950

To Please a Lady

as Dwight Barrington

1948

The Return of October

as Colonel Wood

1949

1951

Raton Pass

as Sheriff Perigord

1949

Tuna Clipper

as E.J. Ransom

1951

Follow the Sun

as Dr. Graham

1961

Everything's Ducky

as Capt. Bollinger

1973

1951

Inside Straight

as Alexander Tomson

1948

Kidnapped

as Capt. Hoseason

1950

Guilty of Treason

as Soviet Comissar Belov

1970

Loving

as Plommie

1960

Cash McCall

as Gen. Andrew Danvers

1941

Citizen Kane

as Newspaperman at Trenton Town Hall (uncredited)

1950

Sierra Passage

as Sam Cooper

1950

Captain Carey, U.S.A.

as Manfredo Acuto

1962

1962

Big Deal in Laredo

as Henry Drummond

1960

The Iceman Cometh

as The General (Piet Wetjoen)

1969

Doc

as Watkins

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