Roland Winters
Birthday
1904/11/22
Day of death
1989/10/22 (84 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Also know as
Roland Winternitz
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 film...Read more
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) Between Midnight and Dawn
as Leo Cusick
(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) You Can't Go Home Again
as Judge Bland
(1957) Top Secret Affair
as Sen. Burdick
(1952) She's Working Her Way Through College
as Fred Copeland
(1950) To Please a Lady
as Dwight Barrington
(1948) The Return of October
as Colonel Wood
(1949) Once More, My Darling
as Col. Head
(1951) Raton Pass
as Sheriff Perigord
(1959) Never Steal Anything Small
as Doctor
(1949) Tuna Clipper
as E.J. Ransom
(1951) Follow the Sun
as Dr. Graham
(1961) Everything's Ducky
as Capt. Bollinger
(1961) A String of Beads
as ---
(1973) Miracle on 34th Street
as Mr. Gimbel
(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
(1960) The Computer Comes to Marketing
as Ned
(1950) Captain Carey, U.S.A.
as Manfredo Acuto
(1962) Follow That Dream
as Judge
(1949) Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
as T. Hanley Brooks
(1962) Big Deal in Laredo
as Henry Drummond
(1960) The Iceman Cometh
as The General (Piet Wetjoen)
(1969) Doc
as Watkins
(1964) Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
as Dan Merrill
(1959) Play of the Week
as ---
(1964) The Addams Family
as Ralph J. Hulen
(1961) The Defenders
as Jeff Brubaker
(1962) The Lucy Show
as Dean Bennett
(1973) Adam's Rib
as Judge Ransom
(1957) Perry Mason
as Archer Bryant
(1967) The Carol Burnett Show
as Various Characters
(1978) The Dain Curse
as Hubert Collinson
(1962) The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Ivar West
(1950) Lux Video Theatre
as General Millet
(1950) Lux Video Theatre
as Greenleaf
(1956) Broken Arrow
as James Perry
(1964) Bewitched
as McMann
(1947) Kraft Television Theatre
as ---