Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1904-11-22 (85 years old)
Deathday
1989-10-22
Place of Birth
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Also known As
Roland Winternitz
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...
1948
as Ledbetter
1956
as Dr. Ruric
1950
as Stanley Becker
1950
as Vernon Bradley, Attorney
1950
as Leo Cusick
1949
as Bruno Gruber
1961
as Fred Gates
1949
as Jerry 'Mac' McKay
1948
as Charlie Chan
1953
as Klaas Pool
1950
as Harry Eberhart
1947
as Charlie Chan
1957
as Col. Sokolov
1949
as Charlie Chan
1948
as Charlie Chan
1948
as Charlie Chan
1948
as Charlie Chan
1950
as Jeffrey White
1979
as Judge Bland
1957
as Sen. Burdick
1952
as Fred Copeland
1950
as Dwight Barrington
1948
as Colonel Wood
1949
as Col. Head
1951
as Sheriff Perigord
1959
as Doctor
1949
as E.J. Ransom
1951
as Dr. Graham
1961
as Capt. Bollinger
1973
as Mr. Gimbel
1951
as Alexander Tomson
1948
as Capt. Hoseason
1950
as Soviet Comissar Belov
1970
as Plommie
1960
as Gen. Andrew Danvers
1941
as Newspaperman at Trenton Town Hall (uncredited)
1950
as Sam Cooper
1960
1950
as Manfredo Acuto
1962
as Judge
1949
as T. Hanley Brooks
1962
as Henry Drummond
1960
as The General (Piet Wetjoen)
1969
as Watkins
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