Roland Winters
Actor
Born November 22, 1904 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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.
Filmography
You Can't Go Home Again
Judge Bland
The Dain Curse
Hubert Collinson
Miracle on 34th Street
Mr. Gimbel
Adam's Rib
Judge Ransom
Loving
Plommie
Doc
Watkins
The Carol Burnett Show
Various Characters
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
Dan Merrill
The Addams Family
Ralph J. Hulen
Bewitched
McMann
Archie
Mr. Weatherbee
The Lucy Show
Dean Bennett
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Ivar West
Follow That Dream
Judge
Everything's Ducky
Capt. Bollinger
Blue Hawaii
Fred Gates
The Defenders
Jeff Brubaker
A String of Beads
The Iceman Cometh
The General (Piet Wetjoen)
The Iceman Cometh
The General (Piet Wetjoen)
Cash McCall
Gen. Andrew Danvers
Play of the Week
Startime
Fannington
Never Steal Anything Small
Doctor
Jet Pilot
Col. Sokolov
Perry Mason
Archer Bryant
Top Secret Affair
Sen. Burdick
Bigger Than Life
Dr. Ruric
So Big
Klaas Pool
She's Working Her Way Through College
Fred Copeland
Follow the Sun
Dr. Graham
Raton Pass
Sheriff Perigord
Inside Straight
Alexander Tomson
Sierra Passage
Sam Cooper
The West Point Story
Harry Eberhart
To Please a Lady
Dwight Barrington
Between Midnight and Dawn
Leo Cusick
Convicted
Vernon Bradley, Attorney
The Underworld Story
Stanley Becker
Killer Shark
Jeffrey White
Captain Carey, U.S.A.
Manfredo Acuto
Guilty of Treason
Soviet Comissar Belov
Malaya
Bruno Gruber
A Dangerous Profession
Jerry 'Mac' McKay
Once More, My Darling
Col. Head
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
T. Hanley Brooks
Sky Dragon
Charlie Chan
Tuna Clipper
E.J. Ransom
The Feathered Serpent
Charlie Chan
Kidnapped
Capt. Hoseason
The Return of October
Colonel Wood
Cry of the City
Ledbetter
The Golden Eye
Charlie Chan
The Shanghai Chest
Charlie Chan
Docks of New Orleans
Charlie Chan
The Chinese Ring
Charlie Chan
Kraft Television Theatre
Citizen Kane
Newspaperman at Trenton Town Hall (uncredited)