Roland Winters

Actor Nov 22 (died age 84) Boston, Massachusetts, USA 1941–1979 (38 year career)

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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…

Known For

Film

Citizen Kane

Newspaperman at Trenton Town Hall (uncredited)

Film

Bigger Than Life

Dr. Ruric

Film

Blue Hawaii

Fred Gates

Film

Cry of the City

Ledbetter

Film

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff

T. Hanley Brooks

Film

Follow That Dream

Judge

Film

Convicted

Vernon Bradley, Attorney

Film

Jet Pilot

Col. Sokolov

Filmography

Acting (60)

Movies (45)

You Can't Go Home Again

1979

as Judge Bland

1.0

Miracle on 34th Street

as Mr. Gimbel

Loving

as Plommie

Doc

as Watkins

Big Deal in Laredo

1962

as Henry Drummond

Follow That Dream

as Judge

Blue Hawaii

as Fred Gates

Everything's Ducky

as Capt. Bollinger

A String of Beads

Cash McCall

as Gen. Andrew Danvers

6.2

The Iceman Cometh

1960

as The General (Piet Wetjoen)

7.1

The Computer Comes to Marketing

1960

as Ned

Never Steal Anything Small

as Doctor

Jet Pilot

as Col. Sokolov

Top Secret Affair

as Sen. Burdick

Bigger Than Life

as Dr. Ruric

So Big

as Klaas Pool

She's Working Her Way Through College

as Fred Copeland

Raton Pass

as Sheriff Perigord

Follow the Sun

as Dr. Graham

Inside Straight

as Alexander Tomson

The Underworld Story

as Stanley Becker

Guilty of Treason

as Soviet Comissar Belov

6.0

Convicted

1950

as Vernon Bradley, Attorney

6.1

Between Midnight and Dawn

as Leo Cusick

To Please a Lady

as Dwight Barrington

The West Point Story

as Harry Eberhart

Killer Shark

as Jeffrey White

Captain Carey, U.S.A.

as Manfredo Acuto

Sierra Passage

as Sam Cooper

Malaya

as Bruno Gruber

Once More, My Darling

as Col. Head

Sky Dragon

as Charlie Chan

A Dangerous Profession

1949

as Jerry 'Mac' McKay

5.6

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff

as T. Hanley Brooks

Tuna Clipper

as E.J. Ransom

The Feathered Serpent

as Charlie Chan

Cry of the City

as Ledbetter

The Return of October

as Colonel Wood

The Golden Eye

as Charlie Chan

Kidnapped

as Capt. Hoseason

The Shanghai Chest

as Charlie Chan

Docks of New Orleans

as Charlie Chan

The Chinese Ring

as Charlie Chan

Citizen Kane

as Newspaperman at Trenton Town Hall (uncredited)

8.0

Television (15)

The Dain Curse

as Hubert Collinson

Adam's Rib

as Judge Ransom

The Carol Burnett Show

1967

as Various Characters

Bewitched

as McMann

The Addams Family

as Ralph J. Hulen

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.

as Dan Merrill

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

as Ivar West

The Lucy Show

as Dean Bennett

The Defenders

as Jeff Brubaker

The Iceman Cometh

as The General (Piet Wetjoen)

Play of the Week

Perry Mason

as Archer Bryant

Broken Arrow

as James Perry

Lux Video Theatre

as General Millet

Kraft Television Theatre

1947

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