Why weren't Chinese actors cast as Chinese detective Charlie Chan? Because the movies were made in Hollywood in a less enlightened time, when it wasn't deemed inappropriate for Edward G. Robinson or ...

Sidney Toler was nobody's fool. After playing Charlie Chan in 11 films for 20th Century Fox, he learned that the studio was phasing out its B-picture unit and with it the Chan series, so he bought the ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Writer Earl Derr Biggers created Charlie Chan, ...

Three Monogram titles with Sidney Toler (and the first with Roland Winters) as the Chinese-American detective are included in “The Charlie Chan Collection,” Warner Home Video’s first regular ...

Charlie Chan was a borderline case that straddled the lines of acceptability. On the one hand, he was a positive, self-determined Asian character long before such characters were normally visible. On ...

The detective becomes a more acerbic and aggressive personality, as Sidney Toler takes over the role from Warner Oland in four films, beginning with H. Bruce Humberstone's 1938 "Charlie Chan in ...

Roland Winters starred as Charlie Chan in the 1948 mystery 'The Docks of New Orleans,' which was set in New Orleans but shot almost entirely on a soundstage. As popular a figure as he was in the 1930s ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Writer Earl Derr Biggers created Charlie Chan, a fictional Chinese-American sleuth ...