Roland Winters 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.
Roland Winters in A Dangerous Profession (1949) trailer
Roddy McDowall and Roland Winters in Killer Shark (1950)
Charlie Chan is a fictional Honolulu police detective created by author Earl Derr Biggers for a series of mystery novels. Biggers loosely based Chan on Hawaiian detective Chang Apana. The benevolent and heroic Chan was conceived as an alternative to Yellow Peril stereotypes and villains like Fu Manchu. Many stories feature Chan traveling the world beyond Hawaii as he investigates mysteries and solves crimes.
Warner Oland as Charlie Chan
Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan in Dangerous Money (1946)
Alfred Andriola's Charlie Chan (6 June 1940)